On Saturday, Claudia held a birthday party at De Coder’s Cafe with a bunch of her friends. The plan for some of us was to adjourn to PowerHouse@St James Power Station to party the night away and make Claudia drunk enough to strip and dance on the podium. Me and KuKuNehNeh had to leave earlier from the cafe as she needed to renew her membership card.
Molemole and her friend came along with the two of us and we cabbed to St James. We got into PowerHouse and I watched the seats as the 3 of them went for a toilet break. Like any time when I am alone like that, I will usually reach for my Nokia N95 phone and use the internet for I am an ADDICT and I am PROUD OF IT!
=P
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I reached for my right jeans pocket and it wasn’t there. I checked my right and it wasn’t there. I felt a gripping sense of fear as I checked my bag to find no trace of it. I frantically checked the plastic bag that held Claudia’s birthday card and IT WASN’T THERE AS WELL!!! I frantically went through all the possible places that my phone could be and if it wasn’t a public place, I would have stripped.
I MUST HAVE DROPPED IT IN THE CAB!!!
Time seems to slow to a crawl as I waited for the 3 of them to come back as I needed one of their phones to call my phone in hope that someone would pick it up. They soon came back and I gibberish-ed the situation to them as I stormed out into the quieter smoking area to make a call. In my head I was already thinking,
“It’s a bloody NOKIA N95 8GB HANDPHONE! It will take a miracle for someone to resist the temptation of just turning my handphone off and pulling out my sim card.”
As I reached the corner of the smoking area and dialled my number, I was already prepared to hear a busy tone which will probably end up with me cursing the fella’s dick to shrivel up and drop and if it’s a woman, to have her vagina close up and develop moss.
A connecting tone was what I heard and I immediately light up as the call connected.
A man’s voice: “Hello?”
I almost screamed with hope: “HELLO!! I AM THE OWNER OF THIS PHONE!”
“Hello! Yah. I picked up your phone in the cab.”
“Thanks for picking up my call!”
In short, there was a woman and a man in the cab who was heading to their home in Bukit Merah. There offered to keep the phone for me and have me collect it from them when able but I suggested for them to pass the phone to the cab driver to have him drive it back to St James with his meter on so that I could pay him.
I AM BLOODY LUCKY I TELL YOU!
But soon, an idiot will appear. I ended the call and wanted to turn back to the tables to tell them of the good news when a St James floor manager approached me.
Idiot: “You need to walk out of the smoking area and come in via the re-entry queue.”
Me: “Huh?”
“You need to go out and come in from the re-entry queue.”
“But WHY? I am IN the smoking area and I have not stepped out. Why should I do that?”
(and he starts to replay like a broken record)
“You need to go out and come in from the re-entry queue.”
(I got pretty pissed as this point and I raised my voice)
“LOOK! I said I DID NOT EXIT THE AREA. I was standing here and MAKING A CALL. WHY should I walk OUT and RE-QUEUE?”
(He seem to be hearing me for the 1st time and mumbled sometime before he quickly walked away)
“….cause you stepped across the line….”
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SERIOUSLY. WTF???
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Anyway, despite idiots like this who have WEIRD grasp of the rules in St James, I am happy enough to be thankful to the nice and kind couple who wasn’t greedy and the cab driver, Mr Quek, who drove my handphone back and accepted an $8 payment despite the $12 meter. (His cab doesn’t accept visa and I didn’t have enough cash)
I am seriously CARELESS and BLOODY LUCKY!
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dang you are lucky , i lost my phone, i called, “picks up” “HELLO HELLO MY PHONE” ” *Hangs up*
and my phone was gone on friday evening.
Dang, I should have been in that cab so that I can take your phone!
My beautiful 6681 (back then a 1.3 megapixel phone costs $532 - 2 years plan somemoar!!!) gotch lost 3 months after I bought it.
Drop it at work me think, I called.. it rang, someone hung it up, I tried again, stupid automated voice answered.
..you heng ass you!
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you lucky fellow.. mine was lost in nyp back then loh.. after using a few months only.. sad….
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The cab driver and that couple are nice folks. Glad we in Singapore have such people around.
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Heng ah!!
If not you sure moody whole night one! Heng these nice people saved the night!
Lucky lah you. It’s really rare to meet such kind souls. Buy lottery!!!
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I wonder why an idiot can be a floor manager..
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wah, so lucky!! Really really nice people.. My friend also lost her handphone in cab and the cab driver himself called. but the cab was in woodlands (and she was in school, which is like in the city) so yah.. can imagine how much is the meter.
lucky you, for getting the phone back and meeting a nice cab driver
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Write something for the driver at the driver’s taxi company’s site. I think there should be a place for complaints and compliments. Since people complain when unhappy, you should compliment him too. At least some encouragement will keep him happy for a day on the road.
Really lucky with your phone
Goes to show there are good people and cabbies, yea you should write to the taxi company and let them know.
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is idiot the only name you know how to call?
try mother fucker or asswipe?
or don’t even try?
see la, why never install bak2u…. hahaha… wah so amazing wor bak2u…. can retrieve back lost handphone…. thats if the idoit doesnt know how to re-init the phone to factory setting..
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“You need to go out and come in from the re-entry queue.”
“You need to go out and come in from the re-entry queue.”
“You need to go out and come in from the re-entry queue.”
Alright the Jedi Mind Trick doesn’t work on Krisandro.
Wahaha…
I totally understand ur fear man
I was robbed of my precious LG Prada phone….darn pissed
P.s. totally enjoy ur blogs…thanx for bringing more laughs and tots into my life…LOL
wow. you are REALLY lucky.
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yongwei> The person had the cheek to pick up the phone and steal it anyway? WOW!
Jawker> too bad for you and luckily for me!
ChaosDingo> Yes! I am a heng ass!
Jaschocolate> Did you curse them? Must use my curses!
Ian Timothy> Yah! Unfortunately, the bad ones get reported more often than the good ones.
claudia> Yap! My mood will surely be bad. HENG AH!
Jacelyn> I don’t buy leh, I should have gotten the number plate of the taxi and given it to u
Bernard> DUnno why. I am still wondering at the absurdity of it.
sylv> Whatever the cost it is, I am sure the contacts and info in the phone is priceless!
xinyun> I have to give the couple more credit though!
ignorantsoup & arzhou> Yup! Already done that!
max> I try to be civilized mah.. And I got back my phone, which makes me a happy man.
piakpiak> Wah… advertorial.. HAHAHAHAHA
Miss Loi> No it doesn’t. And don’t try to work it on me to vote for u. (Although I already did)
ahpia’s wifey> HellO! You must be another SECRET reader.. hehe. Glad tt you enjoy it.
malique> EXTREMELY LUCKY MAN!
it must be your lucky day.. and thankfully the couple were not greedy people
Nice couple and bad manager… He must be siao! Probably just discharged from IMH… =P