It has been about one month since the burglary. I'm thankful the burglars came in while no one was in the house. Things could have been worse. Many people has far worse experience then me but that doesn't mean it did not affected my life in some way. It did.
I don't feel as safe as before. I rarely bring my office laptop back nowadays so I don't often go online at night. I have to think carefully whether I'm going to make any stop before I reach home. If I really have to bring my laptop along and leave it in the car to get something, I will use the laptop lock. The lock is not theft-proof but it gives me a little bit more peace of mind.
I even lock it when I'm at home. I have nothing big and heavy that I can tie it to except to my iSqueez. But, come to think of it, if they can cut the grill, what's stopping them from cutting the laptop lock isn't it? I just hope it will not be as easy to the burglars if it happen again but please God, don't let it happen again.
A good thing about not going online at night, I have more time to read. I bought a lot of magazines every month and sometimes I only have time to flip through the pages. Now, I even started buying books again... and read them. I stopped buying books when I felt I have no time to read. I still read many materials online, I have a lot of e-books but it is still not the same like a real book.
Putting a book on the shelf and knowing you have read them is different than having many e-books and articles in a folder, some you have read, some not (hoping you'll eventually read them in the future). I can easily recall a book content from which book as compared to an e-book so maybe the extra senses of touching the book still make some difference than reading it from the computer.
The landlady still did not fix the grill. While I understand her husband can't drive do to his eyesight problem (they're over 60) and has to depend on the children, but I did pay the rent every month and my safety is of concern here. They sure don't want a murdered single lady in their apartment so I hope they'll do something about it.
I do have the option of moving out but its not very practical right now because I'll have to move again in the near future. Ben is also looking for an apartment now, when she find it I might stay with her for a while if I have to.
Sunflower gives the connotation of cheerfulness, bright, jolly, merry... you get the idea! However, if any content in this blog didn't fit the cheerfulness implied by its name, look at it this way... I'm putting down all the wretchedness, gloom, melancholy feeling in here so I can continue living up to the expectation of making the association to the sunflower.
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