On Guard

Early last year, there was a spate of break-in at Taman Setia, forcing the residence to band together and employ the local RELA troupe to act as security guard full time. As a result, the entrance were blockers and card were issued with stickers and those without them were given visitors pass to come in. Since then, the number of break-in has been cut down to a big fat nil, even though somebody did try to jack our car parked outside last months. Luckily, the alarm went off and the thieve we're sent scampering.

However a couple of weeks after that, my brother's house at Taman Cemerlang which was right next to ours, was broken into. He was away overseas and we did not actually stay there. As a result, a lot of things went missing, and we only realized that the property were entered a few days after. In the weekend following that, the neighbours reported suspicious activities going on around the area especially during weekends. Last week, we got a cousin of ours to stay there until we got a permanent solution.

We decided in the end to employ security guards for both houses, and the contract started tonight. We spent half an hour orientating the guards about what to do, as well as giving them a set of keys for the gate. We were hoping that they would be no more attempts from now on, as we still have some stuffs, mainly our old clothes and things from the UK still at the house. Even though they were not that expensive, but the thought of somebody entering your properties never rested easy on my mind.