passed a car fully engulfed by flames on my way home just now! :O .. against the dark background of the night, it burned strong and bright as a funerary offering..very surreal... the incident must have just happened and the fire trucks were not there yet so there was only a small crowd in a distance .. however, my shock sooned turned to frustration as i realised i didn't have any film in my lomo camera and my digital camera was on my study table!! grr... it's really frustrating how things like that happen just when you are totally unprepared to record them down even though you are right at the scene! have promised myself never to be in a situation like that again and not have any one of my numerous cameras.. sigh.. :(

fretfully eventful day, though not altogether pleasant... found to our worst fears that the laptop that had gone missing from our shop had really been stolen. watched the cctv recording in the morning and watched (helplessly of course) this indian/malay guy in striped polo shirt (literary) walking into our office and walking out with it wrapped in a white plastic bag.. grr... that was friday night, and of the two staff who were on duty that night, one was at the cashier counter and the other on dinner break.. this guy was definitely opportunistic and we did capture lots of images of him in our video but not sure if the police will be able to do much.. they were not the last two times we reported thefts (of handphones) with video recordings of the culprits.. let's see how it goes..