I was at Jalan Song last night for a meeting at Borneo Chess Academy. It's just a few doors down from Chilax and Pizza Junction.

Anyway, we were just about to leave for the night when one of the Toastmasters came back up to tell us some cars were broken into. One of them was my car.

Well, we went down and I saw that my passenger window was gone. It wasn't shattered. It wasn't in a million pieces that I have to clean from my car. It was just gone! No sheet of glass, no debris, nothing.

Then I looked to see if anything was stolen. Well, it's not as if I keep a lot of stuff in my car anyway. The only things I have in my back seat were 2 jackets and my plush toy tiger (which thankfully was still there. Thieves really do have no sense of value!). What the thieves did try to steal was my car stereo. Between you and me, that piece of crap was lousy and if they had stolen it, I would be rolling on the floor laughing my eyes out at the justice of this universe we live in.

The stereo was still there although there is evidence of them trying to pry it out. They didn't succeed probably because the damn thing is heavy as hell, it's weirdly fixed to the car and they'd have to pull apart the entire gear shift to even budge it, much less remove it! So I was left with a disjointed stereo and the covering parts on my passenger seat.

I still have no idea where the glass went to.

Everyone, bless their souls, were so worried about me. I got an escort home, everyone walked me to my car and I'm allowed to take time off from Toastmasters work for the week, I think. Haha! I wish!

The other car was an SUV of some sort, I think and the CD player is either gone or partially pried out as well. I don't know. So while everyone was wondering why only these two cars, the conclusion was they were the two expensive looking cars around.

So my advice is don't bother with an expensive stereo system even if you do have a non-descript car. Just get a run-of-the-mill system and you're done.

Oh, the thieves did yank out my ashtray though. Which only had barely RM1's worth of change in it!. Yeah...nice expensive car driven by a cheap skate who has a fiancee who keeps telling her never to keep anything in her car! Unless it's a weapon. Or a poncho and some duct tape. And my mom always says neevr to keep bags in the car. See? I do listen when my mom grumbles. Never know what I might learn!

Oh, and I told Shook that I actually halalkan the stealing of my small change and the attempt on my stereo because I figured stupid thieves need all the 'help' they can get.