Another Encounter with Barbarians

as you see above, my previous encounter with this barbarian was at my post in Dec. now, on dearest feb 14, my groupmates n i encounter another bunch of barbarians. barbarian because i seem to cant find any other words to describe them.

it was on last saturday that my group were on shooting in butterworth, nearby bagan ajam tol there at Pantai Bersih to shoot scenes of Penang Island seeing Komtar as our documentary is on Komtar. We wanted to make a timelapse of Komtar fr dawn till morning. so hours of recording is needed to make the timelapse successful. 

but an hour into our recording when all of us we surrounded by the camera, the unexpected happenned. 

out of sudden, a man came from behind us (all five of us couldnt hear any footsteps at all) and pointing a knife to all of us and shouted Tikam, Tikam and Tikam. 5 of us was stunt and shocked and i think we froze there for few seconds before reacting to the situatian. When only we begin to react, he ran away with the video cam and the tripod as well. He was running really fast jumping across the divider into another road while his frens were seating in the car waiting for him. I gave chase halfway until my fren shouted at me to stop as we could not catch them anymore. sigh. 

we were trembling at that time and not knowing the place very much, we stumbled on how to go to the nearest police station. We finally found our way and make the way there. I was a bit dissapointed as well as i think the police could quickly deploy the patrolling police to quickly find that culprit. but he slowly type our report, calling one officer and another. after we calm down, we called our lecturer and dean to inform them. mind u, that the lost was estimated at RM 24K. how could we afford to pay wor. haihs. terrible, it was after an hour the officer managed to finish typing the report while at that time came another 2 ppl  to report after their belongings was snatch by snacth thieves as well. is butterworth area really not that safe? 

then we were told to go to the butterworth police station to meet the Sjn as he will assist us to do another report. Another sjn tat time try to find the car plate number that we remembered. Apparently the car was stolen in Kamunting there on friday and now that thieves is already in Penang. how fast but how come the police still cant do anything to it. haihs.. after hours in police station, we finally return to the island and went straight to school to meet our lecturer and the sch's technician. we were told to report to the USM security office, which we did and on monday we went to the security office and again to make the report and answer questions and questions. 

all of us lost hope that the police will find the camera. now just let and hope that all of the property of USM that we lost could be covered with insurance else i dunno how we have to pay or any other disciplinary action will be taken against five of us. 

i hated the fact that while our own security is threaten, the politicians are as busy as usual to bring each other down. please la, wake up.. ppl are suffering with the economic slowdown, more ppl are losing their jobs, cant they do anything??? but to create more stupic idiotic political scene. Its so memalukan you know.. malaysia is like an idiot to ourself. so much as i love my country but nothing could be done.. stupid. stupid politics!!!!!! i will stop here for now.. 

enuff said for this time. even going out now is a traumatic experience for me.. when unknown men walking towards me i will freak out.