Not long ago a robbery happened few meters away from the house. We even hear the girl scream and the gun fire despite the high volume of our tv. The robbers fled using their motorbikes, but they are bold enough to return to the scene to confront some of the people including our landlady who responds to the victim. They told them that she was shot because she tried to fight back and rush off.

It is a dreaded scene. The people are helpless because they have guns. From that, we also learned that it was not the first incident of robbery in this area. There are a number of cases happened before we moved in here. Of course, the news broke our hearts because we are not safe even if we are just meters away from a busy road.

Few measures must be taken. We don’t want to wait for the robbers to get into the apartment and rob us. The tall grass and trees, in which they can hide and jump on the passers, were cut. Our landlady installed barbed wire in our almost 12 feet tall solid concrete fence. And, she also fixed the gate locked.

As for hubby and I thought of installing wireless alarms. But, we dropped the idea because we have plans of transferring before December ends. Aside from that, we must discuss the idea with the other renters because we are in one compound. They may or may not agree with it. For those reasons, we postponed the idea until we can move to a place that we will reside permanently.