No not HuaiBin

But the actual 6th Sense

We humans only have 5 senses as all of you know
Sight
Hearing
Smell
Touch
Taste

Sixth sense...according to Wikipedia means:

Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire
information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any
other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc).

Have you ever had that sense
In which you felt that something would happen
But didn't care about it
Because you thought that it's just a *feeling*

AND it really does happen after that??!!!
It's scary isnt it

Like the time before I went back for Winter Holidays
My roomie and her friends haven't got their metro pass and their bus pass yet

So since bus passes are on a monthly basis
I have no problem giving it to them
Because I'll only be back the following month
Even if she loses it, it'll be her loss
Not mine

But Metro pass...that's different!
It's a card with a microchip inside
Something like a credit card
And everymonth, all we have to do is to reload them at the counter
So losing it will be a hassle
Cos we will then have to pay fine, apply this, apply that
bla bla bla....

SO! When I handed my bus pass to my roomie
I thought to myself "Hmm...maybe I could lend them my Metro pass too..you know since I've already reloaded it for this month. Why waste right?"

But something inside me reminded myself
"What if it got lost!! That will be hell..."

But I brushed that little feeling I had away
And told my roomie
"Okla, I lend you my bus pass, but MAKE SURE you don't lose it ok!!"

My roomie reassured me by telling me that it wouldn't be a problem
That she herself will use my Metro pass, and lend hers to her friend, Stephanie
*boy, do I know a lot of Stephanie-s...*

I felt...relieved at that time
Cos I thought,
Since I've already warned her bout it
And after 2 and a half years here,
I've never lost it before!
So she shouldn't either

Was back in Penang happily enjoying my holiday
When one day......
"New email message from Steph Wong" with the title "Something to tell you..."

I thought to myself...who IS Steph Wong???
And what does she have to tell me about?
Is it a spam maybe?

I clicked on it and read the 1st few lines...

This is Stephanie. Susan's friend. I've some bad news to tell you.

I KNEW IT!!!!
I just knew it! She lost my Metro pass!
I don't even need to read the following passages to know that
SHE LOST MY METRO PASS!!!!
But of course I read on,
Curious on how she lost it
I mean she deserves to at least have the chance to explain herself

I was furious really
But then serves me right for not "listening" to my *Sixth Sense*

If I hadn't borrowed her the card in the 1st place
It wouldn't have got lost


*~*~*~*~*

And then there was the day I lost my purse

It was the beginning of the month
We are going out to do some marketing in Auchan

I normally put my purse in my backpack
Which I will carry
We reach the metro station and I took out my purse to take some money to reload my metro pass
After which I put back my purse containing some 2800 rubles into my backpack again

I have a feeling that told me
"What if someone had been observing me and where I had kept my purse?"
The person might pickpocket the purse right out of my bag without me knowing
So I zipped every compartment of my bag

And held on tight to my bag all the way to the free bus station

It was cold, and the wait was quite long
So there I were, standing and talking to BChye
I sling my bag to the back and kept my hands warm by sliding it into my jacket pocket
I think we waited for like...20minutes or so in the cold

All the while when we were standing there
I was kinda "worried" for my purse
But I ignored it anyways

By the time the bus came
There were a lot of people already
And of course, the bus was packed like sandwich

And since I was so worried about my purse
I held my backpack in front of me
All the way from the bus stop to our destination

Phewww...
I thought the worse is over
We are no longer in a crowded place where I might get pick-pocketed

We went to Ikea
And when I was to take out my purse from the bag before giving the backpack to the place where they keep our bags *cos we weren't allowed to bring big bags into Ikea*
I found that it was GONE
My Elle Purse with 2800 rubles!!
And my Citibank Platinum Credit Card!
And my HSBC Mastercard!
And my BSN Atm card!
And the gold-plated KuanYin blessing *pai* that my daddy bought for me from China!

Wah....disasterous...
Panicked and sms my dad to cancel all the credit cards....

It was not a cheap lesson
If only I had listened to my inner feelings
And had kept my purse in my jeans maybe
Then it might not have been stolen

I CURSE you idiot who stole my purse to rot in hell!


So far that's the only example I can think of right now although I know there are more
Do you believe we have sixth sense?