We are victims to a theft

I'm telling you we don't believe our very own eyes. Eric had just lost his father's car nearby at a five star hotel (Four Point by Sheraton) in Kuching. The car was confirmed lost by us at 9.30 pm on 21 May 2009. Yes, that's right! We were so damn unlucky. It was a very unfortunate incident that the stupid thief decided to pick our car. Why not pick others? Bad karma.

It is our human nature to double confirm with our partner or the person who sits next to you in the car whether we have parked our car at the wrong side. Maybe we have forgotten about it. Or maybe we have not. Maybe we were having some illusion that the car is just parked right there. Sadly, that's not the case here.

Eric was pretty sure that he parked right there when he kept on pressing his car remote control I was pretty sure too. But I tried to ignore the fact that it was lost and tried to look for the car at every possible alley. Damn, I seriously could not believe that our car got stolen. Even if Eric forgot to lock his car which is an unlikely case here, there's still auto-lock! And how come the alarm doesn't go off?

It was not exactly a dark alley where we parked the car (seen as above). Both of us were just few footsteps away from the car. And do you know that the thief was so bloody brave to steal the car where there were few kitchen-staffs behind the kopitiam washing the plates? And right towards the end of this alley, it's "Siang Siang Corner" and it was crowded that night.

We believe that our case was a car theft syndicate and hopefully they will get busted as soon as possible. Coincidently, Eric's friends and acquaitances car also got stolen at the same place (so far as we have known - total four cars).

Kuching is not a safe town anymore. Just a friendly reminder: Do not simply park your car and left it unguarded. Best if just hang out at the place where you can catch a glimpse of your car.

Editor: Elie