dinner at village wok restaurant (2 pairs chopstick) along lor 3 geylang followed by durians and mangosteens in the cool breeze of the night with close friends... ahh... life... :) beats sitting in a smoky bar and drinking beer (though that's nice sometimes too :))

spent large part of morning in Orchard Neighbourhood Police Centre making police report for stolen laptop and found a pace of life that has long disappeared from the face of Singapore... everything moves so slowly in the police station that i felt a calm serenity....like a kampung feel... hahaha... actually, i'm really not kidding.. time seems to stand still here and i chatted with the a few policemen on duty there, asking them what's the silliest complaints they receive on a a regular day. Turns out to be noise pollution.. sigh... but this one guy did give a couple of good advice on protecting your personal property like handphones, laptops and pdas.. according to him, they get at least 20 to 30 reports of lost mobile phones in a single day at each police station... and an increasing number of reports of lost palms... wow... and usually they can't do much except take down the statement and file it. however, he advised that we take down the serial numbers for these things as they do sometimes manage to recover some of them when they raid shops in sim lim and so on..

ya, guess that may be where our laptop will eventually end up.. poor thing... :(

and he says that some people really don't work at all and just go around looking for opportunities like that... makes sense i suppose.. if you could nick a handphone, even a silly (now antiquated) Nokia 3210, in something like 5 seconds and sell it for even $50 in rochor road, that's pretty good money huh? :(