Forewarned is forearmed....

Ladies, pls be alert & cautious at all times!

Dear all,

You must have wondered why I asked of Carrie's help to send the following message to all of

you. Please take serious note in what I am going to tell you here. I would say that yesterday was

a lucky day to me, if not, I wouldn't be here alive to send this email out to you or to celebrate CNY

open house to some of you who will be coming tonight.

I went to One Utama Shopping Mall yesterday after Tesco. Time was around 1pm. I parked my

car at the old wing, B1 level near the Arena food court. I did a reverse parking and my car was

indeed very near to the food court entrance. Those shoppers who went in and out can see me in

full view. Exact parking location was D4, in 3rd or 4th plot where the car turn in. It was indeed

very close to the entrance.

As I came down from my car, I saw these 2 malay young adults walked towards me. I did not

bothered at all cos I thought they were shoppers who want to collect their cars. I then went to the

trunk to check on a bottle of clorox i bought in Tesco cos I was afraid the liquid may be spilt

during the driving. It only took me a few second to put up the clorox bottle and then I closed the

trunk, I had not locked the car yet. Suddenly the 2 malay came very near me and took out a 1

foot long parang and pointed at me. I gave them my handbag. But that was not enough, they

asked me to unlock the car and wanted me to go inside the car. They said "jangan bising, masuk

kereta, cepat."

At that point I was struggling, the car was actually still unlock. They commanded me a few times

to unlock the car, so in the moment of confusion, I pressed the button and I actually locked the

car. They repeated their sentence asking me to unlock the car, and one of the Malay with

parang was pushing towards the driver side. In panic, I pressed the remote, this time the car was

unlocked. The malay with parang then openned the car door trying to push me in. I looked at the

situation, due the driver's side car door was openned and there was another car parked beside

my car, I only had a very narrow path to escape. Worse of all, I was afriad that half of my body

might bang the car door and instead of running forward and out i would actually be pushed back

to the robbers who stood beside me.

I prayed very hard in my heart. Canny Ong's case came into my mind. I can't go inside the car, I

kept telling myself, that was the worst thing to do. I prayed and prayed then I looked at the robber

with parang, I noticed that he was looking down somewhere, the other robber was standing next

to him. I saw the narrow path, I knew I must somehow get myself out of the path. In a split

second, I seized the opportunity and run, thank God, somehow I managed to squeezed thru the

gap and run out towards the crowd. I did not know how I did it.

Many people saw what happened to me. There was a lady grabbed me and tried to clamed me

down. I do not blame those people for not doing enough to help me cos everyone was in panic

and with a parang the robber can harm me in situation like that.

My husband and I then went to lodge report, I then asked of Carrie's help to sent the following

email first cos I did not know when I would be finishing lodging the reports with the relevant

authorities. And some of you may be on leave today so you won't be able to reach me via

handphone. All my money, mobile, credit cards etc in the bag were gone but my house keys

which attached to the car key were still tightly clinched in my hand (this was another fortunate

thing). I was still badly shaken inside even now. We reached home around 6.30pm after lodging

all necessary reports with Jusco Management and the Police.

Last night, we managed to talk to those top guns in the corporation and today we went into One

Utama Jusco management office to view the CCTV. We all are in this together, we are trying to

help out each other. Together with One Utama and Jusco management, we have formed a task

force to look into this serious case of robbing and kidnapping. Our main purpose is to make the

shopping mall safer to all the shoppers like you and me in the future. What have happened was

luckily not worse than what it can be...with all the "if"s... Inspector Zulmairi from Mutiara

Damansara told us that he has been handling One Utama Shopping Mall cases for long time and

this was the first time he came across such serious case.

Please be extra careful and taking extra precautious wherever you are. I prayed that God keep

us safe under His wings. I actually prayed on the breakfast table that morning asking for God's

protection from danger, harm and accident. God was listening.

To all of you who will be out with family and friends celebrating CNY or birthdays or gathering,

please watch out for each other. God bless you all.


P/S: Do not spread news and tell people not to go One Utama cos that was not my intention and

spreading news like this will not help the situation. We will work together with the corporation to

push the security level to a higher notch. Prevention and tighter security measurement are what

we are after for. We do not want this to happen to any of you or your family member. I

am fortunate enough to be out of the situation, next victim may not be so lucky