An Amazing Story

I was in Tawau this morning to attend a meeting. After the meeting, I asked my Site Supervisor to take me to take a few photographs of an existing huge storm drain which we had designed and supervised the construction way back in 1989.

As I jumped down from the edge of the drain to the road verge after taking the photo, my hand phone accidentally popped out from the casing and dropped into the murky water in the drain.

That's horror of horror. It's not so much of losing the phone, but the thought of losing hundred of phone contact numbers was just too shocking. But, what to do, there was just no way of getting it back looking at the condition of the water, the rubbish, the smell and the depth of the drain.

To my surprise, my Supervisor without hesitation took off his shoes and somehow managed to get into the murky water to try to get the phone back for me. The water was waist deep. He first tried to feel for the phone using his feet. Then he climbed up and pulled out a water-soaked hand phone from his pant's pocket. Wow, I thought it was mine. But alas, it was his! He forgot to remove his own hand phone from his pant when he went into the water. His phone was dead. I really felt bad.

He went into the water again. When he failed to locate the phone using his feet, he decided to take off his shirt and felt for the phone using the hands this time. After almost 15 minutes in the water, he finally yelled "Got it !". That was truly amazing !

But of course, my phone was dead. The bright side was that I got back my sim card and that would save me a lot of effort of gathering all the phone numbers again.

When I tried to activate the phone when I finally got home, it could not be switched on. I remembered someone telling me to dry it using the hair dryer. Well, praise the Lord, the phone could be switched on after the drying. The good news is that everything is intact.

I called my Supervisor and asked him to do the same. Of course, I could not get through as his phone was dead. I sent an sms to him through one of his friend to ask him to do the same. An hour later, he sms'ed to tell me the good news. His phone is working again !

Wow ! That's amazing. For the record, the "saviour" of my hand phone is Maznan Madun.