Uh huh, i lost my wallet today. All i can do is just to let out a big sigh. SIGH.
Let me see if i can relate the event... but the fact is that i seriously do not know how and when it happened.
Mom and i were packing our luggage last night (she is staying at my rented place for these two days). I recall that the last time i saw my wallet was at around 10pm+, when i was thinking to pass my Easi-Link card to my mom. At the end it was not needed and i THINK i then put the wallet back to my purse as i always do.
(I may have a habit of placing my glasses or mobile phones anywhere, but not my wallet. I always put it back to my purse after i'm done using it.)
This morning i called a cab to work. After i have received the confirmation of the booking on my phone, i put the phone back into my purse and then went down to the HDB block to wait for the cab. During the entire time, i did not really look into my purse and hence i do not know if the wallet was in the purse at that time or not.
When i've arrived at the office tower, i opened my purse and noticed that the pocket where i place my wallet was empty. My immediate thought was that i've left the wallet at "home" and then i called the IT Manager down to pay for the cab fare for me.
After i got into the office, i called my mom and asked her to check the room to see if my wallet was there. My mom said she could not see it and would help to look for it. Then, my landlady's mother and my mom search everywhere (even underneath the mattress and inside the dustbin in my room) but the wallet was still no where to be found. Later in the afternoon, my SG aunt also went to my rented place and helped to hunt for it again but to no avail. SIGH.
When my aunt went into my room, she noticed that the sliding window was not locked even though it was closed. I always place my purse on top of the table near the window with the zip opened, but i will always ensure the window is closed and locked. I do not know who had unlocked the window in my room. They then suspected that a thief might have slided open the window last night and took the wallet away. It was kinda eerie to think that someone actually did that while i was fast asleep just beside the table. This means that a thief (if there was indeed one) might be staring at me last night while i was sleeping.
So, we had concluded that there are three possibilities of how the wallet was lost:
(1) It was stolen last night through the unlocked window
(2) It was dropped somewhere this morning between the HDB unit to the ground floor
(3) The cab driver stole it in the car (since i was sleeping in the car and i THINK my purse was not zipped up at that time)
When i returned "home" this evening, i searched the room again and really could not find the wallet. So we decided to report the lost wallet to the police. I limped my way to the police station but was told that i need not report to the lost since i could not be sure if there was indeed a crime involved. I just gotta take care of reporting all the lost cards to the banks and replacing all the lost ID cards. SIGH.
As for my Malaysian IC, since i require a police report to get a new IC, i could do self-service police report of lost items from the Singapore Police website. I did that and have gotten a soft copy of the police report in my email.
I've also called up DBS and UOB to cancel my credit cards and ATM cards. For the credit cards, i told them that i am going overseas on Wednesday and they will arrange the replacement cards to be couriered to me (to my uncle's place at Woodlands) by tomorrow evening. As for the ATM cards, i will have to go to any of the bank branches personally to get a new one.
I have a corporate AMEX card and i've called up to cancel it too. However, there is no urgency to replace that card. Then i also called Public Bank to cancel my ATM card, but the customer service was the worst i've encountered so far. He was very rude, even though i was told that the card was cancelled (but i think i better call again to confirm tomorrow). I will relate the conversation in another post.
Now the most troublesome and biggest headache is the three IDs - SG NRIC, MY IC, and SG driving license. I will have to go to the relevant government agencies to get those replaced, and it will be multiple trips since it takes time to get those done. For SG NRIC, i would also be fined SGD100 for 1st time lost of NRIC. I think i could only go do all these after i return from LA. This also means that i would not be able to get my international license tomorrow without my driving license. SIGH.
Now, i only hoped that it was not stolen. I'd rather it was dropped somewhere and a good and honest person has picked it up and surrendered it to the police. I don't really care about the few hundreds dollars that were lost so long as i could get the IDs back.
Well, to say that this (yet another) incident has no effect on me would be a lie. Of course i was upset about it, but i did not panic at all. I told myself that whatever happened has already happened and there is really no use in panicking. I would just have to do the necessary to minimise further losses. SIGH.
Alright, i have actually let out more than one big sigh. There seems to be obstacles to my LA trip, and i just gotta keep the faith to believe in God. HE will guide the way, and everything will work out to be fine.
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