Bisdak Babbles

Since Saturday I had this fever, colds, cough, and muscular pains - probably the effects of dropping temperature, or information overloading? ^-^ I spent the whole weekend inside the apartment lying down, sleeping, drinking lukewarm water and hot tea, and from time to time, browsing the internet. When I woke up this morning, I was still not feeling well and for fear of getting worse, I decided to be absent from work and went back to sleep.

At around 11AM, I decided to get up, ate brunch, took my medicines and vitamins, then started browsing the internet.

At around 12 noon, I heard someone unlock the door and I wondered why would Jet (my flatmate) get out of the office so early? So I called out but she did not answer. I called again twice and still heard no answer. I decided to drag myself out of my room and take a look at the door. I was so horrified to find out that it was not Jet in the doorway but rather a Japanese guy, around 40 years old! I did not know what to do and the guy was also as surpised to see me. He asked me first why I was in the apartment and I asked him back why he has a key to our apartment. He told me he lived in our unit! When he blurted out that answer, I couldn’t help thinking, was he a ghost? Ok… I had to stop thinking of scary stuff… so I composed myself and tried to converse with him with my limited Japanese and at the same time thinking of any weapon that was within my reach in case he attacks me. Shouting would have been useless because the apartment was sound-proof. I nearly gave in to my fears when he finally gave up trying to speak to me, stepped out and locked the door using his key! I then immediately put the chain lock in place.

I then called our manager and reported the incident. He then called the broker and have the lock replaced. Up to now, we don’t know why that guy has a key to our apartment so we just fabricated a story that the Japanese intruder was a boyfriend of the previous occupant and he was given a key. They broke up and he had no idea that his ex-girlfriend moved out and that there were new occupants to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment.

Thank God I was sick that I had to stay home and found out that there was at least one ‘unauthorized’ person who could easily enter our apartment without breaking his way in.