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Someone has been through your stuff

Today, I was visiting RangeFinderForum and read about this guy in Hong Kong whose flat had been broken into.

The robbers made off with his Bessa L, a couple of lenses, his MacBook, Panasonic Lumix, watches and other stuff.

In one of the comments, a user posted “Sorry that you were violated and your property stolen…”

That word “violated” jumped at me and took me back to a time in Thailand.

I was about 13 years old or so. My family and I had joined one of these AA organised driving tours from Singapore to Thailand.

There are a few things that stay stuck in my memory on that trip.

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Are you ready for 6.5mil people?

Yesterday, my dad was on the MRT at around 4pm. The train was packed.

He got whacked in the face and stomach – supposedly accidental – prompting him to wonder to my mother why the MRT was packed at non-peak hour.

After he got off the MRT and was crossing the road to get the car, he was talking about how wonderful it was to be in safe Singapore. In other countries, they’d be pickpocketed.

And at that very moment, he felt for his pockets and realised that his mobile phone had been taken.

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