 Mereka sudah mendengar bahagian untuk Guam. Mereka akan sangat terkejut. Mereka tahu tentang Guam? Ya. Keluar. Okey, mari kita katakan bahawa Singapura ada di sini. Kalau Filipina ada di sini, Guam akan... Ia ada di Micronesia. Jadi, Singapura, Filipina, adalah Guam. Jadi, untuk berjalan ke Manila, ia mengambil sekitar 3.5 jam dan kemudian 3.5 jam untuk Guam. Jadi, ia di mana saya berada, mungkin 1-2 bulan lalu, apabila perkara ini berlaku. Okey, Guam adalah sebuah pulau. Sebenarnya, ia sangat popular daripada japan dan koreans. Ia adalah sebuah pulau yang sangat cantik. Ia sangat cantik. Saya pergi ke sana untuk membuat kawasan yang sedap. Sebelum ini berlaku, kawasan kawasan saya beritahu saya, kamu perlu periksa tempat kawasan ini. Ia sangat cantik dan sebagainya. Saya pergi ke sebelah hari. Untuk pergi ke kawasan ini, kita akan kata, ini adalah ruang terbentuk. Kamu perlu pergi ke ruang terbentuk untuk mengambil kecil-kecil sekitar 5-10 minit. Kemudian, kamu berjalan untuk beberapa minit lagi dan kemudian, kamu berjalan ke kawasan ini. Kawasan ini adalah kebiasaan yang besar, mungkin sekitar 2 cerita. Kemudian, kamu berjalan sedikit dan kemudian, kamu melihat sebuah platform. Mereka membuat sebuah platform di sana kerana ia adalah sebuah kawasan yang sangat popular di sebuah wang dan di lokasi. Di sana, di sebuah platform ia adalah sebuah ruang kecil terbentuk. Saya sangat bersedia. Saya membutuhkan kembali saya ke sini. Saya mengambil pukul saya, saya membutuhkan kembali saya, mengambil pukul saya, gopro saya, ranju di bawah air, dan kemudian, Ketempatan, kawal kawal, tetapi setelah itu, sangat cantik, sangat cantik. Terdapat sedikit iwi kerana ia cukup terdengar, tapi kawal kawal kawal. Jadi apabila Simei, Simei keluar sedikit, semuanya okey. Tak ada siapa-siapa, saya tak nampak seorang seorang seorang. Selepas sekitar sekitar 15 minit untuk menjelaskan, menjelaskan. Sangat hebat. Ketempatan ini... ...menjelaskan. Itu merupakan sebuah rasa yang teruk. Kenapa ia terlalu teruk? Sebab itulah apa yang ada di dalam. Jadi semuanya yang penting... ...sebelum saya berada di laptop saya, tetapi ia masih di bilik hotel. Tetapi perkara seperti... ...punyak, pasport, duit... ...sebenarnya semua. Jadi... ...kawal kawal kawal kawal kawal kawal kawal kawal kawal. Bukan saya yang teruk itu. Tapi... ...tidak di belakang. Tapi ia memegang dengan belakang. Hotel. Tapi yang itu... Ya, okey. Miner. Hotel. Kekas. Kekas. Wawal kawal 2 sebenarnya adalah perjalanan yang baik. Saya ada wawal dekoi. Jadi jika saya teruk, saya okey. Kerana saya akan berikan wawal dekoi saya... ...dengan kekurangan tempatan yang berlaku. Wawal kawal adalah sebahagian di U.S. So, part of my USD will be there. Some credit cards will be there. So, I'll just give it to them. And my real wallet... What else? I was swimming. What else? Can you think of? Car keys, my rental car. Shoes was outside the back and it wasn't stolen. Car keys, mobile, internet. There was a camera inside. Good question. Since you asked, when I travel, I often stay in the hostels. So, if you stay in a hostel, many times you don't... you just bring everything along. Also, I'm lazy. Okay, I'm coming along. Okay, there are a lot of other things I can't remember now. But yeah, these are some of the key things that were gone. So, when I discovered this was stolen, I was like horrified, shocked. Just whatever, yeah. I actually shouted out in horror and hoping to see someone running off so I can chase. But nothing happened. So, I ran off the cave and kind of cut my foot in the process because I was still bad. But then after limping, bagi where my shoes, and I realised that I got too bad. Everything is gone. With my shoes, then I ran to the car which was parked here. It was still there, thankfully. Even though the car keys were in the bag. The good thing about the bag is that it's a military style bag with around 30 over compartments in there. So, to find anything, it takes a while. So, they probably haven't discovered the car keys. So, then, what to do? Well, the car there, I didn't watch enough movies to know how to do the wire thing, right? That was my rental car, but the keys were gone. Okay, there was nobody there. Completely secluded. Let me secluded. For the late commerce. Okay, there might be someone hiding in the bushes, but he's probably not going to let me... He has my bag anyway. Okay, thankfully, I did a bit of research before going there. And when I went, it was a Saturday. So, let me just write it down. Saturday. So, I knew that locals visited that place during weekends. If it happened to me during a weekday, then I would be a bit deeper shit. But Saturday. So, I waited, actually, about maybe 45 minutes. Pick up truck with two locals came along and they were going there for a swim as well. So, I asked to borrow the phone. Then, they said... So, they kindly lend me the phone, but it was so secluded that there was no reception. So, they drove me to the main road and then managed to call the police. Then, drove me back here. Why? Waited for the police. Then, police came, maybe about 45 minutes later, took my statement and all that. And then, they said, okay, they'll help me call the car rental company. So, they drove off because no reception, right? They drove off and then helped me call the car rental company, which I waited for maybe another one hour before the car rental company came to pick me up. And then, one guy drove off the car. One guy brought me back to the hotel. So, that was part one, chapter one of my story. Stolen and how I got back to the hotel. During the drive back to the hotel, the guy asked me, why do you go there? Alone. This place has history. What history? He said, there's a lot of crime there. The locals who let me the phone, they told me, people's stuff get stolen, cars get broken into. And the guy who drove me, he said, recently some girl got raped there. So, okay. I'm glad I'm not a girl, but yeah. Anyway, so I made it safely back to the hotel. And, very happy for the moment. Okay, brother. Sorry? So, chapter two in the hotel room, happy for the moment. And then, starting to call the credit card companies and put on hold. Okay, by then it was late afternoon. And I was getting quite hungry. This thing happened about 10.30 in the morning. I didn't have lunch. So, by round, 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I was damn hungry and like, shit. What am I gonna do about food? Okay, it's nice that I'm in the hotel. Right? Safe and all. But, I'm gonna starve here. Hotel. Yeah. Hostel, I say I'm used to travelling staying in hostels. So, I was in a hotel damn hungry. Luckily in the fridge, I had some leftover ice cream, which, Ben and Jerry's, maybe a little bit left. So, I devoured it. Helped me a tiny bit, but I was still quite hungry. In the corner of my room was a plastic bag of souvenirs for my colleagues. Chocolates and biscuits. I'm like, wow, should I eat that or not? Getting, starting to get desperate. But anyway, my immediate problem then was how the hell do I get cash and how the hell do I get food to eat. It's quite sad to be able to stay in a hotel, but staff to death. So, one of the things I did was post on Facebook and asked for a little bit of help. But unfortunately, like most of you, my friends have not been to Guam and they don't know anyone who's in Guam. Nobody goes to Guam from Singapore. Any Western Union there? Probably. Yeah, but how do you collect money with Western Union? But you can always show them a comfortable pass for some time to allow you. Sometimes. Well, better than zero chance, right? Yeah, so I had to... Okay, the other thing is Western Union, it was a distance away. So, taxi... Yeah, that's one way. Yeah, but the chances are not very great and then the risks are high because also I don't have money for taxi and the taxi quite expensive. So I had to consider other options. So that's one option which was in the back of my mind but lower in my backlog. Yeah, so I call credit card companies partly to cancel and tell them of my audio and say, hey, can you send me over? I don't know if you've seen advertisements of credit card companies when you lose a card, next day you get it, you know, smiling and all that. Unfortunately, I called a lot of them say oh, it would take 3 weeks or 2 weeks because I know Guam. Okay, I had something like 7 credit cards. So... Put all in your wallet. Wallets. Put one credit card in your safe at home. But in your shoe. Sorry? In your shoe. Oh, you meant I put one in your shoe? Yeah, I might get blisters. Okay, I do have credit cards distributed everywhere so I still had some at home. And then you have a copy of all the details? I do. So that also kind of saved me from my hotel bill later. But for cash, how do you get cash from there? I asked the hotel can you... I have the credit card number but can you give me cash and all that? They refused. Do you have any coin? Don't have, yeah. If I have... Can I be below one? Sorry? Yeah, I had... So one option, similar option I had was PayPal. So I started calling anyone I had contact with. So my dive guides before... the days before too to ask them, hey, do you have PayPal? If you have PayPal, I can pay you via PayPal because I still had active credit cards tied to my PayPal account and that credit card wasn't stolen. So still active. But the guy I called, okay, he said he didn't have PayPal so I thought, okay, I'll leave him in the backlog and then try other options. So I posted on Facebook okay, one... one... lucky thing kind of or so I thought that was lucky was that before I went, I was telling this friend hey, I'm going to Guam. Then she said, oh, Guam. My brother's also going to Guam. He's actually... he was there, he had to go there for a business trip. So he was there like two, three weeks or something. So I thought, oh, maybe the brother's still there. I can link up with him. She didn't respond to me on Facebook so I was desperate I called her. She was actually in the airport ready to fly off to... for a holiday. So she's... I asked, hey, is your brother still in Guam? He said, oh, come back already. I'm like, does your brother have friends in Guam? You know, maybe getting quite desperate, right? Then she asked me what happened. I told her what happened. Then she said, okay, you... you want something? Then I'll get back to you. Okay, basically what happened was she had this... she has this friend whom she hasn't talked to in about five years. But she remembers seeing him mentioning on his Facebook that he's going to Guam. So she messaged him on Facebook to say, hey, my friend is in Guam, lost everything, needs some help. When he received that Facebook message, it must be a scam. Right, I'm sure you encountered these passport missing scams, right? So he was going to ignore it. Then he thought, hey, but this one quite... quite tailored because it mentions Guam. So he messaged back saying, okay, why don't you give me a call? So my friend gave him a call and turned out, hey, actually it was true. Lucky for me. So... so basically he linked us up. And after, she gave me the details of him and then turned off the phone because she was already on the plane about to fly off. So long story short, I met him that evening for dinner where he passed me some cash. Okay, the lucky thing again is that he was in Guam also, he's Singaporean. He was in Guam for business trip as well. Like I said, all the day. And because he travel so much for business, he seldom mentions it on Facebook. It was just that time he thought, ah, just post on Facebook going to Guam. So if he didn't, I don't know, I'll be quite... some people say sell backside, but yeah. Yeah. So that's chapter 2 how I got some cash to save my ass. Quite literally. Chapter 3 is how I got, you know, passport is gone, right? How to get the damn replacement passport and all that. Okay, the good thing about Guam luckily is that it's part of the US so everything's in English. So if you make a police report you do everything in English they'll give you a report in English and so on. For countries where it's not English then you have a whole set of problems. So I didn't have to face those. Okay, if you lose a passport overseas what you need is to get a replacement passport called a DOI. Document of identity which is a piece of paper official looking with your photo on it with some text and all that. So that is like good enough to get you back to Singapore and then they'll take it back and then you apply for new passport. To get a DOI so you have to report to the nearest consulate and all that. So the consulate is under MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From the consulate they can issue out the DOI but the DOI is owned by ICA Immigration and Checkpoints Authority of Singapore the guys in charge of the passport. So for them to issue for MFA to issue the DOI MFA has to ICA has to agree. And to get your DOI you need a police report. Problem with Guam was that after I report they gave me a case number but the police report will take 5 to 10 working days. So that means like 2 another 2 or 3 more weeks in Guam that's sort of out of the question. So I think to cut the long story short MFA basically tried to get me an exception from ICA. ICA at first refused in desperation I asked my mom to contact the member of parliament. Because some things let's say if your kid can't get into a primary school you contact the MP no use they can't help you but MPs love to help cases where if it's escalated high enough it makes sense they can make an exception. So they can score points as well. So my MP was very happy to help and once his name appeared in the picture things escalated and long story short finally ICA approve the DOI which then my mom had to go to ICA to apply for after it's approved but for her to apply I also had to write a letter of authorization which I had to sign scan send to her so that she can go to ICA to to collect and all that. Then then courier over to Guam then yeah then I could fly back to Singapore one thing I forgot to mention Guam although it's part of US so the nearest US consulate with San Francisco so like which is Singapore Philippines Guam San Francisco so that's why it made more sense to send from Singapore so they also had to make another exception because it's the US jurisdiction actually there's one more chapter coming back to to Singapore I'll keep that one short we're almost out of time okay so Guam to Singapore to Singapore I mentioned the Guam to Manila which was three and a half hours I had a five hour stop over and then there would be another three and a half hours five hours at the waiting area the plane wasn't there yet just after I was stuck for a whole week in Guam so finally after that whole week of dealing with these guys finally it could come back and then now you give me another waiting period okay but long story short five hours became six hours so one hour later we were on the plane everyone was eager to go so on the plane in the terminal the plane started reversing the cabin crew is like doing the safety demonstration when suddenly the plane went it's like everyone's face when blank black the cabin crew is like blur some of them you see their face turn black for that split half a second before they tried to smile again everything's okay about maybe 15 minutes later the pilot said oh basically there was some contact between the nose landing gear and the toe vehicle collision and he didn't blame anybody so it was probably his fault so he had to investigate and then so investigate after maybe 20 minutes they said okay good news we don't have to disembark it's like because disembark they have to wait for a new plane and board and so they need to fix it then after maybe about 20 minutes they said okay good news we are now fixing the the landing gear we fix we fix 2 of the parts there's just one more part which they're still locating okay so then wait wait wait maybe half an hour later they said okay good news they've located the third part it only takes about 10 minutes to replace but it will take about 30 minutes to bring over here okay so about another hour later captain said okay good news we've replaced the final part all we're missing is a nut and if we can't find a nut we may have to disembark and get on the new plane unlike isn't it easier to just grab a nut from another plane rather than you know how these things are so maybe another half an hour later finally good news or just good news so we could leave by then it was dark we were in the plane for another we were sitting there for 4 hours so when we were moving I'm thinking bloody hell I should be in on land in Singapore airport not still in Manila Airport so but finally go back to Singapore after that big delay and got home safely okay we we still have time for an epilogue see either camera this didn't belong to me belong to my my goddess and luckily what was not stolen was she also lent me a GoPro which I was busy filming my torch light snorkel my shoes were still there so after I came back to Singapore after a few days I decided to properly unpack and then I can return what's left of the GoPro and the camera accessories to my goddess except that the GoPro was gone the mistake I made was to check it into the check-in luggage when I came back I forgot that you shouldn't leave valuables in your check-in luggage one reason why I made that mistake is because my carry-on was still in Guam don't know where in Guam but my normal carry-on bag with everything was still in Guam so I had a waterproof dive bag but it's quite small so enough space for my laptop and a few other small items but not that much space for a GoPro so I thought I wasn't thinking just threw it into my check-in luggage so my epilogue is that GoPro is also gone I felt like someone who has been beaten up raped lost consciousness woke up someone saw me and kicked me in the balls that's all thanks for enjoying my audio you got a question obviously this was I really don't know where I would have put my things in hindsight I might have left more I might I might have left more of my valuables in the hotel but then then again when I did the research on the caves it didn't there was no indication that there was a crime hotspot so I didn't know why you didn't put your passport inside a crime lazy I reached there first thing I do is walk go out actually there was at the cave there was a nearby cliff so I was tracking I didn't know how far it was I tracked to the cliff took a lot of photos in this camera then then went to the cave and then the cave was there the water is there just put the stuff there and jumped in so it's hard to say what I would have done differently for this maybe try to find a more better spot to put it but then I don't think there was much of a better spot then I would have someone along locals don't even dare to go there at all it's a copy of a crime hotspot that's not very good I have it in soft copy in my computer so it serve no purpose because of a soft computer that's okay good for you you can print that out next week okay okay you can try each one sorry oh, that's another mistake oh no, why? see, Guam is a very sage place if Japanese tourists love that actually Japanese tourists are some of the most vulnerable tourists they are very bad at all this so I tend to be quite selective the other thing about insurance it may not be very easy to claim so if it's lost they say oh, this is your fault so some of them if they say it's your fault then sorry so not so straightforward it depends on which insurance it's true any other comments? okay if not what's the case you can only try to borrow money from an entity they have posted that you can't borrow money from an entity yeah, they are obviously there in San Francisco well, that's too bad but in this school they can help you up with $1,000 in fact an entity can't borrow money from an entity so they can't help you up with $1,000 in fact an MFA officer handling my case was my friend's friend so social media I found out through Facebook and all that then then there were people in ICA also whom I had indirect connection with and all that but it didn't really help very much specifically Facebook yes not directly but indirectly we can tell them they'll always be with you alright, thanks time's up