Monday, April 14, 2003

lost and found

guess what? after i wrote my last entry, i stopped at the ladies' before heading off to the chinese orchestra meeting...and left my handphone at the toilet! when i realised it was missing 10 minutes later and ran to the toilet to retrieve it...it was gone. shucks. half of me knew it was gone, but the other half was still hopeful. well, the hopeful me went to the office to see if anyone dropped it off, but nope. li li was most supportive and lent me her phone to call and see if the person who took it would be stupid enough to answer but nope. after the third time i called, it went straight to voice message. looks like i've underestimated the intelligence of the person who's taken my phone. sigh.

by then, i was rather gloomy. actually i was wallowing in pathetic self-pity for about an hour before i decided it wasn't worth it. so, just made a report at the office and went back to the chinese orchestra meeting. the orchestra isn't too bad, really, once you ignore the fact that they were sometimes out of beat, out of tune and were rather lacking in expression. still, i give them an A for effort.

i would love to say that some kind soul actually returned my phone. well, living in this world, miracles don't happen twice.

if you dunno what i mean...well, last year i collected money for the brownies we were selling for english lit week and left the whole stash in my bag. it was promptly stolen. i was so upset about it the entire day that i almost cried and everyone was feeling sorry for me, yada yada, but i was feeling most sorry for myself. it's an annoying habit of mine to feel sorry for myself, but i'm working very hard to overcome it. after all, i didn't dwell in self-pity last saturday when i lost my phone, did i?

back to the story. in other words, i was just really upset. especially since the money really belongs to fiona's mother. so, the following day i brought my own dosh to pay for fiona's losses and, to my surprise, there was the amount of money i lost the previous day! the funniest thing was that i lost the cash in mostly RM5 notes while the money was returned to me in RM10 notes. hmm...who would think thieves had a guilty conscience?

still, like i said, if i had hoped for an encore, it was obviously not gonna happen. rather than be moody for the entire day, i suspended my sim card, smsed my dad for his friend's telephone number (my account is under his name), called my mum, and went back to the hostel feeling rather calm. in fact, people were telling me that i was too calm. i even played monopoly that night. my dad's friend called me, and we went out to get my new sim card and phone yesterday morning.

so, here i am, with a brand new phone and a pretty empty pocket. haish. luckily my allowance shall be banked in soon. i hope. or else i'll be eating chee cheong fun for lunch for the next 3 days!

anyway, this friday's good friday. yippee! a three-day weekend! and my quarantine ends this thursday too! talk about luck! hopefully i'll be able to forget about that $300 i spent on my new phone.

there you have it. the lesson of the week. never leave your handphone in the school toilet. =)

lishun at 6:52 PM

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