Yesterday was full of events. On Saturday I was asleep by 12.30am and was woke up at 6am even though I had wanted to sleep in since it is Sunday. Good thing I didn’t because mom suddenly popped up and dragged us out of the bed. We’re off to a road trip!

Oh yes… Mom was a happy bunny.

So by 8am everyone was prepared and ready to test the rickety Honda Civic Auto 81. No doubt the body needs a lot of patch job and needs to have a new weatherproofing installed, the engine was in tip top condition.

Anyway we travelled to Batu Pahat Gerisik Hot Spring. There were Singaporeans there! Wow… Anyway after some friendly chats and making new acquaitances with the locals and visitors there, I finally get my dip. Too bad for the rest of my family members, they didn’t remember to bring extra clothes so they had to remain on dry land while I get my soak.

It was heavenly on my aching back and my forever cold feet. The old car needs to get a new upholstery! The cushion forced me sit sideways and nearly twisted my spine. Grr… But at least it was able to send me to my hot spring. For that, you are forgiven my dear car… Hehehe..

I’m not sure if it was my poorly bad blood circulation of mine but after a long while of soaking and swimming around in the hot pool (yes, I was crzy enough to swim in a hot spring) I experienced a major blood rush to the point of dizzy and extreme breathing difficulty as if I’ve just done a few kilometers of running, when I step out of the hot spring. It took me a few long minutes to finally relax.

I’m not sure if I was the only rare case since everyone who dipped in didn’t look winded or cooked at all. Some elderly who went in earlier than me and came out after me didn’t even looked winded. What?! Oh well… I must be severly lacking in my physical training or medically wrong.

So anway we continued on our journey to Muar where my distant aunt stays. She has ducks now and I’m so excited about it! Hehehe.. I was happily collecting the eggs and then running off to their mini Cili Padi plantation. There were a total of 24 Cili Padi plants just at her backyard and all of them are healthy and bearing chilies! They were lots of other changes which I can’t keep track but too bad my favourite Ciku tree is no longer around.

Oh well..

I was too full with drinks to manage anything else into my stomach and passed out on dinner. I was dead tired when I finally reached home. But the fun didn’t stop there.

At 11pm when everyone was asleep, I heard a loud banging at the manufacturing department shutter. I had thought my cat was stuck at the gate again so I didn’t bother. (remember I do live in a factory for security sake) Then after a few minutes there was another loud banging and I heard loud shoutings.

Armed with a wooden stick and armored in just my bath robe (duh!) I went out into the manufacturing department to investigate. There was someone at the back of my factory and I climbed up to the back window to see who the burglar was. I was quite shock to find a black car and 2 police patrol men checking on it. I’m not afraid of the police but I was clueless about the strange car. I wasn’t even informed there was a car parked at the back of our factory. In fact no one in their right mind would ever want to park their cars where there is no light and a pathway for burglars. Furthermore, my place and my neighbouring factories has a history of being broken into.

Instead of opening the back shutter, I ran to alert my parents. When we checked again, the policemen were gone but the car was still there. So we rushed out of the factory in an attempt to meet the patrol guys to ask what’s the matter. Luckily a patrol car entered our street and we flagged it down. (like a taxi seh.. hehehe)

After asking the policemen for help in our matter, we were immediately advised to stay in our factory and not to open the roller shutter of our back exit until they had signalled a clear sign. While the men in blue drove off to check in our situation, my parents and I waited at the back of the factory.

After a few long minutes, the policemen knocked on our shutters and told us it was ok to open our back exit. True enough, there was a black modified proton wira at the back of our factory. The police checked on the car and found one 1.5m bamboo stick used for changkul handle, one baseball bat and other junks in the car.

The engine was still hot. While one of the officers checked with the HQ regarding the car, the other was professional in calming us down by cracking up jokes, making friendly chats while taking statements from us. Oh yeah, the car was suspected to be stolen. Oh dear.. Good thing we informed the police early. It would be a hassle explain to them later in the day when they find it by themselves.

Anyway it was almost midnight when all the statements and investigations ended. The officers were very professional and friendly and they handled the case from there. They were totally different from what Metro and other people says about them. Thanks officers!

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