A Black Obejct Found

Okay. So my eight hours is a long eight hours. Anyway, let me tell you what happened on Sunday last.

Arriving at my dinner spot, I parked my car at the roadside and slowly strolling towards the eating place. Then I saw a dark, rectangular object on the tar road. So I picked it up and lo! It was a purse. Nice shiny, well kept, purse. I then looked around and saw no one nearby and decided to open it. In it was a few bucks but it has driving license, identity card and alot of other type of cards as well (discount cards and the likes). The owner is a lady by the name of Goh. No other information that I found that I could contact her. I tried to find some method to contact her but nothing. So I was wondering if I should :-

a. Give it to the police nearby.
b. Mail it to her.
c. Drive to her place and pass it to her.

Problem?

a. Do you think the police would be able to track her down and pass it to her on time? I mean I lost my wallet before and I was frantically calling banks and trying to get my documentation for my new license and identification cards, ATM cards, etc? By the time the police track her down, I think, she would have done all those tedious things herself.

b. Mail it to her? Sigh. Not possible.

c. I could do that. Problem is her address on her identity card states that she stays oh, I don't really know, two hundred kilometers away? So I could drive there, pass it to her relatives or some one who has her contact number and tell her that all her identification cards and everything inside her purse is okay.

Actually after careful digging, I found a business card. It wasn't her name. It belonged to another person, a man, that held a very high position in a company. So, it was a long shot, but what the heck. I called the guy and guess what? Bingo! He does know the girl. So after a few calls, he manage to pass Ms. Goh's phone number to me and I called her.

She didn't pick her cell phone up but after several times of trying, I got through. Sure enough she was stunned. I would be stunned too if I lost my wallet and a stranger calls me up and say, "Hello? Is this so and so? I believe you have lost something important right?". Those were my first lines of converstation. She was stunned and was not sure of what she was to say on her part. I continued on by saying that I found her purse and I demand some form of gratification (okay, I did not do the last bit....heheh). I did, however, told her that I found her purse at the location where I picked it up. I asked her for the identification card number just to be sure I got the right person. She recited the number without any hesitation and I said, "okay, shall we meet somewhere so that I could pass you your purse?". Then she mentioned the eating place near the parking lot where I found her purse. I went there, I called her and described my clothing so that she would be able to recognize me and then I pass it to her. She was still stunned but still able to talk. After a short chat, we parted.

Then while I was driving back, I decided to text message her introducing myself, and at the SAME time she text messaged me via my cellphone, "May I know your name"? I just laughed. I didn't even introduce myself when I handed her purse. So now, with proper introduction, she told me that she was too stunned to ask and I said, I know. It's okay. So that was that. Funny episode for me. Lesson to learn, keep your contact number in your purse, wallet.

Five Days Since

I have not written my blog since five days ago. This is the longest period that I have not updated my blog but here's the summary.

I have decided to move my blogs to www.mygrumblings.blogspot.com. The primary reason being because it has more space allocated for me and thus I can put more pictures up.

The GUI (Graphic User Interface) is DEFINATELY better than blogdrive. The HELP assistance is much better and easier to find than in blogdrive, etc.

I feel that blogspot is better initially but decided to give www.blogdrive.com a try but this is one of the regrets that I have in my life. So BLOGSPOT is in BLOGDRIVE is out.





2. My Esther is back! Woohoo! She bought some stuff from Nepal. She told me tons of stories about doing ministry in Nepal and she even bought me a khukuri knife. I've always wanted a khukuri knife ever since I read the book about Gurkhas. It isn't big but a legit and nice looking one with a nice scabbard (leather and wood material).

3. I found a purse (belonging to some one by the name of Ms. Goh) and manage to locate her and pass her the purse. It was interesting because...I think I'll write my personal experience in a separate blog because it's going to be long. This incident happened on Sunday evening last.

4. I bought new badminton shoes. Good because my last pair of badminton shoes has no grip. I nearly fell a quite a few times when I was wearing my old ones last time.

5. I got a parking ticket. Sigh. Total of my foolishness is a hundred bucks (Malaysian RM of course) but I have to go to the authorities and try to plea for a lesser fine (most of the time it is possible to reduce by 50%). So I have to put on my best "puppy" look in front of the officer and see if I can pull it off.

That's all folks for now. I'll try to write again in eight hours time. See you around people.