Horrible Week

Work

Finally had our administrative team's meeting, things are being discussed and hopefully things would be moving along smoothly soon enough. Another meeting would be held in 2 weeks' time, let's just cross my fingers and see how things proceed.

Family

Argghhh, it's been things going downhill last week. Very bad rainy days and the road is jam packed with vehicles going at snail pace. Thursday, 13rd March 2008, the coldest day in Singapore as reported over the news. This is the day that our dear car had to have an unfortunate accident with another vehicle.

We were travelling straight on the 1st lane along Bukit Timah Road when another vehicle tried to do a lane change from the 2nd lane. Cold, wet, stormy night... a sudden impact from my left banging into our vehicle's passenger door, which I'm seated at. My husband whom is driving, got a huge shock.

We drove to the side road on the left and exchanged contacts with the other driver. What should follow would be a week of battle between the other driver's accountant and us. Our first road accident, and it left us in shock as to what should follow, how is the repair going to be done and what is the costs going to be like.

The other party contacted with us, and say that the repair costs for both cars would fall under individual insurances! I almost faint, it is a big big mistake that we did not get the Singapore Accident Statement form filled up on the spot. First timers having accident and essential things were not done at all. We told them that in event of a slow moving traffic situation and the driver is comtemplating a lane change, it is basic driving knowledge that the driver should check for approaching vehicle, blind spot before moving out. It does not mean that switching on the indicator stands for safe lane change when there is a heavy traffic flow.

It took me many a time to control my fustrations, even the insurance company of the driver called to tell us that they did not receive a statement from them and are "vomitting blood" explaining to them that it is standard procedure to file a statement before the claim of policy can be processed. Finally, the nightmare is disappearing. I had to write a email directly to the driver that his accountant is not doing anything while my car is sitting there with the damages. Arrows flied, the statement was finally submitted to the insurance company and accountant insists that he is doing his job... I had only one thing to say to him when he called up to ask why I wrote to his boss that he isn't doing his job, "Finally things are moving after I wrote to your boss".

*sign* a simple thing has to go round countless circles before it takes a simple procedure of submitting a statement to resolve it. Uncountable time could have been saved from being wasted on if people could do their part seriously. Counting, the accident happened on 13th Mar and is only resolved by 20th Mar, what inefficiency.