Last Sunday (19 Apr) my dad fetched me from work coz it was raining in the morning and I couldn't ride the scooter. So we went to run some errands and our first stop was a car workshop to get the car aligned and change of spare tyre. He gave the keys to the workshop's owner and the guy asked one of his employees ( a very young boy probably underage) to drive the car into the workshop while my dad went to the lottery shop nearby and I went to Guardian on the next building. We didn't noticed that my dad left his Samsung hp on the car's dashboard. After the whole business was done, we went to a hypermarket to get some groceries and then head home.
It was until late Sunday noon he asked me whether I saw his hp around. I helped looking around the house at the places he usually left the phone (near the tv, by the sofa etc) but no avail. I rang the phone many many times and yet the phone is ringing but there's no vibration or sound at all around the house. I was thinking if the phone was stolen then the culprit must have thrown the simcard away but my dad said probably the guy still want to use his prepaid credit (RM18.83 to be exact) so that's why the phone is still switched on. I was soooooo upset and sent 2 smses to 'whoever' took the phone asking them to send the phone back to me. I cried coz that was my hp I bought with my student's loan money ( I know, I know...) Sayang baahhhh...
By Monday morning, I gave up. So I told my dad to forget about it and promised to get him a new one after I get my paycheck. Amazingly he's still very positive about the hp and said that the phone is not missing, it's just misplaced.
That Monday evening after we had our dinner and watched tv, suddenly a big butterfly (well, actually it was a huge beautiful moth) landed right next to me on the sofa I was sitting on. I was surprised at first because it just plopped next to me and when I touched it, it didn't move at all. FYI, I was still upset and sad about the missing hp. So when I saw the butterfly suddenly I felt soooo calm. (Seriously, man!) I don't know why but I liked its presence there so I took out my camera and snapped a few shots with flash on but still that thing won't budge so I said to dad it must have like its pic taken har har har...Then after about half an hour perched on the sofa with me, it flew to the wall and guess where it landed? Right next to mom's pic frame. I was surprised so I took a few shots. Corny but amazing. Then I remembered 2 nites before on Saturday I saw the same butterfly on our front gate while I was feeding my cats outside the house. My cats were so excited to see it and watched it with intense interest but I made sure my cats won't be able to get it.
Then we went to bed with the butterfly still in the house. The next morning (Tuesday) I woke up and went to the kitchen and saw the butterfly perched on the cupboard where my mom displayed her tea sets and expensive dish. So I went to work as usual that day.
By evening when I came back from work, dad told me that the butterfly 'returned' his hp. I asked him what does he mean by that. He told me that the hp was found at a fellow rosary group member's house where my dad attended on the Saturday nite (the day the hp was 'missing'). I asked my dad how come the owner didn't notice the calls that I made to the hp and the morning alarm that my dad set to ring every morning at 630am since the hp was set at a full volume.
Well, we never knew why or how but I believed that the butterfly that came was my mom and her presence calmed me down as if as to tell me to be patient and keep hoping. I know that this is kind of corny but hey...it's a wonderful story isn't it?
The butterfly just flew and landed next to the pic frame
