When Thieves Come a-Calling

Today is that one day where me wish me could forget soonest possible and get on with me life. The day had started of normal enough as it was a weekend. Me was in Seremban together with me family enjoying the day doing sweet nothing at a shopping complex, browsing through things while waiting for me Along to come back from his "on-call" duty at the hospital.

At about noon, me received a phone call from me neighbor next door informing that me house may have been broken into the previous night as his wife had noticed that the back door's grille was ajar. Me wasn't panicky to hear the news, in fact, ironically, me was relieved as no one was at home and the worst that could happen was "things" in the house could get stolen and not me family members or meself got into some nasty fight or got injured or got into worse trouble with the intruders.

We managed to stay calm after the news but quickly bought some lunch and had our lunch at Along's house instead of at the Kenny Rogers' as planned before packing our things and scrambled back to Kuala Lunpur.

True enough, upon entering me home, the house was in shamble, on first count, four laptops and a Sony Bravia had vanished and "walked" away with the unwelcome visitors. The master bedroom and the other rooms upstairs were ransacked to the hilts, leaving clothing and other items strewn all over the place as if monkeys were having a wild party the night before.

Luckily, in their frenzy to find their bounties, the thieves had neglected to take our international passports and other important documents which were left untouched. They also missed the "jackpot" as me wife's jewelery was still safely tucked in its hiding place!

After making the customary police report at a nearby police station, some of the police inspectors came to the house to take some photos and take more notes of the situation before filing their investigation report. Obviously, typical of our neighbors, upon seeing some patrol cars in front of me house, they came out in drove looking aghast and alarmed not knowing what had had happened to me!. As usual, apart from the neighbor next door who first alerted me on the incident, others were dazzled in their ignorance and appeared surprised in not knowing that their neighbor had been robbed!

Such is the kind of society that we are having nowadays, things would have happened a lot worse before they even realized what had really happened!

Me not blaming anybody on what had befallen to me today except to ponder why it had happened in the first place. Of course, this is nothing new to me and the instances of houses being broken into were too numerous to even qualify me for a slot in the newspaper column.

Simply put, things happened for a reason, as far as me case is concerned, me don't have any reasons to put forth except to say that it has been fated and hopefully in future, steps were taken to avoid similar incidents by being more careful when leaving me home empty.

After all, the main thing is me family members are safe and sound and the "material" things that we lost today could easily be replaced in the coming days...InsyaAllah...