Monday, August 22, 2005

i am so sorry to say this.

but one of the things i can't stand about being in Singapore.. is that people are just plain dishonest.

too many times before, doodoo and i have accidentally and carelessly and absent-mindedly left our valuables on taxis, etc.

all my experiences except one have led me to conclude that surveys and tests done on Singaporeans can't be trusted!

some time ago, perhaps a year or two ago, there was this article on the Straits Times to state that Singapore is the SECOND most honest place in Asia. They left 10 wallets around each of the 10 countries in the region to see how many of them were returned. in singapore, 8 were returned if my memory didn't fail me.

i have lost my precious N3310 with modified white lights, a translucent white casing and a perfect orange Holeman hp dangle. i left it in a cab, and i never managed to get it back.

of course we did the necessary - calling the lost handphone, calling the cab company (but it was of no use because we didn't have the cabbie's cab number) and etc etc. but to no avail. we never got my first handphone back.

doodoo on the other hand, lost his HP on another cab. this time, we acted FASTER. as the cab dropped us off at the ground level of my place, we immediately ran into the guard house, borrowed the phone and called his HP. we were sure that the cabbie had not picked up another customer yet, as everything happened within split seconds. guess what the crappy cabby did! he SWITCHED OFF THE HP the moment he heard it ring! and NEVER returned it.

these phone models sound old, because we lost them like.. YEARS AGO. but they were precious to us secondary school students at that time. especially when we had phone covers that really rocked everyone's world - his was a black cover in some kind of rare texture that was NEVER brought into SG! the cover was authentic, and bought from overseas by his friend. even I agreed that it looked and felt terrific!

then, korkor lost his HP just some time earlier this year. he lost it at zouk, and was sure someone has STOLEN it because moments b4 he realised it was gone, he checked his pockets and it was there. best part was, he said it wasn't at the "common place" of zouk, but he was at the POSH area (which i believe is the velvet underground or sth?). of course tt clever thief switched off his phone before anyone could call.

anyway, then came the HONEST CABBY (for the first and ONLY time). with tons of treasured neocards of doodoo and i in doodoo's wallet, he was close to tears when he left his wallet in the cabby. he kept telling me that the $$ didn't matter, it was the neocards that mattered *awww*... but.. to our surprise.. the HONEST cabby returned the wallet to a Neighbourhood Police Post! :) wHee! we were so glad.. or perhaps even overwhelmed with joy! We called the cab company once again - but this time, to praise the cabby :)

And of course, my most unfortunate & LATEST incident of lost items which helped prove to me that 80% of Singaporeans are simply ignorant AND disdainfully DISHONEST! I left my brown paper bag with SIX library books on a train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in SINGAPORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and NOBODY suspected that its a suspicious article, nobody reported it to SMRT, and nobody called the police (this says A LOT ABOUT SINGAPOREANS BTW!), and someone simply brought it home and i don't know who! there are 4 books on parenting (these don't come cheap) and 2 storybooks for kiddies! I betcha it must've been a GREEDY FAMILY who picked the bag up! And also included in the bag is doodoo's New Paper! dated 21st august 2005! Today's COPY!!! Oh gawd. I am going to have to pay for the 6 EXPENSIVE BOOKS and i don't even get to keep them and everything that person picked up today is at MY EXPENSE!

That person must be one happy parent today. "Whee! i got free books on the train!". CHEAPO CHEAPO CHEAPO! What did your parents teach you? to be dishonest, greedy and *!@$(!@$*@!($!@*$!???? SHAME SHAME SHAME!

argh. i need those books back.

best part is, the helpful guy at the Boon Lay MRT station helped us to call the train driver or sth or god knows who.. but they said they couldn't find it in the first cabin of the train.

which shows.. THAT GREEDY PERSON WHO TOOK MY BAG OF 6 BOOKS AND TODAY's NEWSPAPER WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS FAST TO ACT! which means that person was KIASU! not only was he/she greedy, he/she was teaching his/her kids to be greedy and dishonest! to think the books in my bag touched on the value of HONESTY! doesn't she READ for God's sake?

well of course. if anyone returns me the bag of books and stuff by Tuesday, i'd be full of praises for him/her. and that would bring my percentage of dishonest singaporeans in my opinion down to 60%. :)

let's pray and hope for me. =)
bee at 12:07 PM