Sigh i’ve been having so much bad luck lately.
I was over in Malacca over the weekend for Pierre and Lay See’s wedding. (Will blog about their really sweet wedding in the next few days)
This morning we woke up early, had chicken rice balls then started our journey back to KL.
Kenny decided to tag along with
Princess and I too.
It was a rather fun ride. The 3 of us in the car always had plenty to talk about. Then just some 30 km away from KL, it started pouring heavily. The rain was so bad I could barely see ahead of me so I moved to the left lane and slowed down to follow the speed of the car ahead of me.
Suddenly though the car in front of me jammed its brakes. I jammed a second after only to feel my tires lose grip on the wet road and before I knew it, I had gone up the ass of the Myvi in front of me. I was the last car of a four car pile up.
I sat in the car for a while watching the rain drops on my windshield and waiting to regain my composure. I waited to see if the people in the cars ahead of me would start coming out of their cars and they eventually did after they moved their cars to the emergency lane on the side.
I restarted my engine which died on impact and then managed to just inch into the emergency lane before my engine died again. My dashboard had all sorts of lights popping up with all sorts of different symbols lighting up which all pretty much spelt “I’m fucked… call a tow truck”.
I called my Dad to tell him what happened and his reply was
“AGAIN?!!?”
That was when the depression began to sink in. I remembered the bad luck I’ve been having with cars lately. It’s not just the car accidents I’ve been having but other stupid things. Like just a week plus ago my neighbour’s apartment unit started leaking some kind of chemical water on to my car parked in its parking bay right below it. The water stained my car roof and I had to go have it polished to get it out.
After talking to my father on the phone I picked myself up and got out of the car to inspect the damage of my car.
Then I walked towards the other drivers who were already a little upset about the accident. I greeted them and immediately told them that we had to get a tow truck and make a police report.
I called AAM and ended up waiting 3 hours on the highway before they came. Then went to the police station and spent another 2 hours there making a police report
and getting an RM300 fine for banging someone in the back (no matter what the circumstances, if you hit someone in the back it’s your fault and you get a RM300 fine for it).
The accident happened at 2.20PM and it was almost 9.30PM by the time I had done all I needed to do and got my car towed to my workshop to be fixed tomorrow morning. I felt a little hurt when I saw my car being towed around by a tow truck. My uncle Danny came earlier just to be with me and he was so nice to stay on with me throughout the whole ordeal. I have such a great uncle.
Kenny had to rush for a meeting and catch a flight so he hailed a cab that took him to KL. He told me later on that just in front of us he saw a 17 car pile up. Can you imagine that? That’s 17 cars joined up in one long road accident.
When I eventually made the police report, the cop doing my report told me that on that very same road I was on, there were at least 30 cars involved in car accidents that afternoon. All thanks to the heavy rain. I guess I’m just one of the unlucky ones.
I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately. Why I’ve been having so much bad luck. My Dad believes that it’s a blessing though. He believes that everyone will have bad luck and it’s a good thing to have bad luck in all these small small instances rather than one really big one.
I guess when I look back at the recent years of my life, I’ve had a lot of good luck recently. Since I started driving 8 years ago up till this year I’ve never really been involved in any real car accidents that were my fault. At age 25, I’ve also got a job that I like with people I really enjoy working with.
Plus I’m in a relationship with a girl that I’m really happy to be with. Right after the accident she came over to give me a long hug to tell me that everything is going be ok. I was too distracted to respond but I told her later that the small little hug she gave me made me feel so much better.
I guess with all these other good things I’ve had, it would really be ungrateful of me to complain about this small streak of bad luck that I’ve been having lately.
Still just can’t help but feel a little depressed though. Sigh… I find out how much the damage is going to cost me tomorrow. The tow truck driver said that it’s going to cost me at least RM5,000 and my mechanic added that if my engine is damaged it’s going to cost me a lot more.
And no… it’s complicated… but I won’t be able to claim from insurance so I’m going to have to find the money to pay for this damage.
*sigh*
Good night everyone. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
I sat in the car for a while watching the rain drops on my windshield and waiting to regain my composure. I waited to see if the people in the cars ahead of me would start coming out of their cars and they eventually did after they moved their cars to the emergency lane on the side.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space
