300 - Act Of God

Not the usual news, but I would take time to explain what miracle has happened to me today.

Basically, I got a new wallet from the guys as my 18th birthday last year, and I have really liked using it. It has a fair share of compartments and it's neat and cool.

Yet unfortunately, because it has a certain bulk in the size, sometimes I will put it in the side pocket, which is more prone to drops due to a filled pocket of the handphone and keys. Sitting on it is fairly uncomfortable.

Today, while I was on the way to church, I took bus 143 after I left Joshua's place to go for music practice. I reached church at 2pm, had lunch, then realised my wallet was gone! I totally flipped, because I had my IC inside, and thank God for all the others with me, Junwei, Elaine, Wan Tian, Christina and the other boys who helped to search the place for me for my wallet. I ran out to the bus stop to backtrack, because I suspected it was most probably dropped in the bus or on the way, not before since I had to tap my card to board 143.

Within 20 frantic minutes, I was pretty stressed and calling POSB to suspend my debit card. I called SBS Transit which does not work on weekends, which is SO INEFFECTIVE actually, because how are people going to know their status, and be stuck in limbo for a day? I was redirected to the Toa Payoh bus terminal which 143 was heading to. Unfortunately, the operator was an unfriendly auntie who was barking and saying "No, cannot, the bus come then you call again. [hangs up]"

I just prayed for God to make something happen. I went for practice anyway, hoping to call Toa Payoh after practice to check on whether my wallet was found by a kind soul who returned to the driver. It had no money inside, it was more of the IC I was worried for.

After practice, as I was about to call Toa Payoh bus terminal again, my mum called to ask me if I had lost my wallet. I was surprised, and I asked her how she knew about it. Apparently, a man actually came to my house to return the wallet all the way from where he found it, outside Pasir Panjang (which is probably outside church, when I was crossing the road). She was also amazed at how this man would actually go through all the trouble just to return my wallet. My mum wanted to give him a small red packet as a token of thanks, and even invited him for tea, but he left rather quickly. She described him as a China man, staying along Pasir Panjang, who found the wallet and just came all the way to return, after checking the address on my IC.

Thank God for sending an angel. Thank God for him. An angel, indeed. :)