OCTOBER 8 — Last week, I had an unpleasant surprise at a petrol station.

Driving home to Klang from Kuala Lumpur, my Myvi was already on its last bar of fuel.

I stopped to refuel, only to realise that I had left my IC behind.

Without it, I could not access the subsidised petrol price and had to pay the full price.

Fifty ringgit barely brought the gauge to half a tank.