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You know Murphy's Law? The one where everything that could possibly go wrong must go wrong, and at the wrong time? Well, Murphy had a field day yesterday on my life. Here's what happened:

I was due to fly out to Penang for media training. The flight was scheduled for 10:45 a.m. I woke up at 9:30 a.m. Ouch! So I showered and got dressed in a record 7 minutes. Ran downstairs and convinced John to speed-drive me to KL Sentral and hopped onto the train as soon as I could. I reached the airport late, and missed the flight. So, out came the wallet and RM 75 to pay for the next flight.

Thankfully, I reached Penang pronto and was able to rush over to the clients place on time. Or so I thought. The cab driver didn't exactly know where the client's place was and we spent the better part of 30 minutes looking for the client's place. I got there late about 10 minutes.

Now comes the cool part: in my rush to get off the cab, I dropped my wallet in the cabbie. When the guard asked me for my IC, my fingers reached into my pocket and drew a blank. SHOCK!

By now, the cab had sped off and I'm left in the lurch without an IC.

Good thing I knew the people inside. I was let in after a call from "upstairs", but that didn't solve the wallet problem. But nevermind, client matters first. The training was midway and a wallet crisis wasn't exactly a great excuse to stop proceedings.

Now, media training involves a fair bit of camera work. Basically, you record the client in a mock interview, watch him goof off, and then point out his mistakes. I'd say on a scale of 1 - 10 for importance, the camera is rates a 10. That day, the camera died. Not good.

Fortunately, all bad things can be turned good. So, I take this opportunity to highlight the Nokia N80's camera video recording capabilities. Whipping out my slick N80, I set it on record mode and demonstrate why MP4 playback rocks.

So, media training taken care of. The last remaining problem is the wallet.

You've never been this screwed until you realise you have an option between lodging a police report and missing your flight or trying to board the plane without an IC, failing, and then missing your flight.

I chose option three. There's always this off chance God might smile on you and make things work out. It did. Whilst I was urgently trying to find out from the taxi company if any cabbie had returned a battered wallet. No luck. They hadn't seen anything. But just as I was turning to leave, this cabbie was runing frantically over.

"Were you the one who lost the wallet?" "Yes." "Here you go. This is yours."

Cannot believe it. Mei Ling (boss) was stunned. For me, this is just one of those perks having God on your side. Murphy's law may rule, but God's a lawyer who knows all the loopholes.

PS. Sorry that I took so long to relate this whole thing.