Please be careful with your belongings!

Just lost my wallet at Johannesburg, South Africa. Lazy to type the details cos I have repeated the story N times. Haha.

I can only say that things do happen, and as much as possible, we have to be really be careful with our personal belongings... There are many reasons one can lose their items. Misplace, dropped because item was not kept properly, carelessness, pickpockets etc. We cannot control a pickpocket's actions, but we definitely can control how we take care of our things.

This time, I am considered lucky that I did not lose important documents such as Identity Card and passport. I do not bring my IC overseas and my habit is to separate my Singapore wallet and overseas wallet. Even in Singapore, I do not keep my IC inside the wallet as well. I'm also lucky because my wallet is not a branded one, although it's new, it costs S$15 "only" so the situation is not worse off.

Cash is gone, credit card has been used as well. So, another important lesson learnt: Once a credit card has gone missing, report IMMEDIATELY. The warnings are there for a reason, and now I experienced it the hard way...
More experiences: Travel to airport alone in order to make a police report. Call the bank and report about the case.

These are really important lessons in life.

I lost my choir concert ticket sales during JC times and it cost me $100+. Since young I have a tendency to be careless, especially with monetary items. I thought I had learnt my lesson since then. Ever since I had never lose my handphone and wallet once. To think after 7 years, it happened to me again. Complacency? Too tired after a flight to be alert? Well...what happened has happened. I just hope that I'll not be so careless again.

So folks, be very careful with your belongings! :)