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Monday, July 20, 2009 @ 8:25 AM
Gracious Singapore? No no, not so after all... Was on the way home in the train today. As usual, during after office peak hours, the cabins are usually packed. (Nowadays in the trains there are few so call "priority seats" meant for people with special needs.. Usually placed near Exit Door) Saw these 2 "priority seats" being occupied by a young girl and a lady. When the train arrives at Katib station, 2 elderly man walks in, one of them even needs a crutch to walk and with the other man assist. At first I thought the young girl would give up her seat as she seats nearer to the door. But she did not move at all, although she see them entering the cabin. At first, I thought of walking towards her and asked her to give up her seats to the elderly man but seems to be not a nice thing to do. After looking around for available seats but found none, I decide to use the same method I used before in the same situation. That is, to look at the 2 sat passenger, especially the young girl, in a way that when they look at me, I will signal to them to make them aware that there is people who need the seat more than them. The young girl just look away(sigh....). But the lady sitting beside her get the hint and give up her seat to the man with crutch. I thank her when she stand up, with a disappointing glance at the young girl and turned away... Not sure is it because of that glance, when I turn back to check again, she had given up her seat to the other elderly man. What they have done is right, but do they need to be reminded then respond? That reminds me of what my secondary school principal told me once before: An Eagle Makes Things Happen. A Vulture Wait For Things To Happen. A Chicken Ask What Happen? So what you wanna be? Eagle? Vulture? or Chicken? My choice is Eagle, in the situation above. |
Friday, July 17, 2009 @ 10:43 PM
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 @ 10:48 PM
This post today is to share with you one of my most eventful day ever encountered so far this year.
This day: Chinese New Year(CNY) Eve 25th of January 2009 大年初夕. Singaporeans usually had spring cleaning in their homes days before this day arrives. And a lot more others which I dun wanna touch on.. As usual every year during this time, I helped my dad to wash his van, which he use for his business. Believe it or not, I may be the only one who wash his van since last year's CNY eve. It was so heavily coated with dirt that you can see big difference between the before and after cleaning. And not forgetting stains of dried bird feces... OMG... Although the sun is shining brightly above, but the wind is there to accompany me, so its still not so bad. The thing the make my day is when my dad came down and join me in the cleaning. (Its because all this while since I start cleaning, I am not aware that there is a bottle of cleaning solvent in the van which can makes my job easier! And my dad was curious why I took so long to clean thats why he come down and check it out! hehe, stupid me) While continue cleaning, I start to feel happier, not because I made my dad, who is in his 60s to come down to wash the van, but being able to do something with him. Only him and me, father and son, eyes suddenly become wet, but I try my best to keep it back. Maybe I am too emotional, or maybe its because of his business, we have limited time to spend together. No time for us to really communicate to each other. So such activity gives us time to do things together. *****And also while cleaning, I noticed small pieces of colored straws fall from the HDB flats next to where the van parked. But I was too slow to catch anyone when I look up the flat. As I grew up in HDB blocks also, I know this must be done by kids as they try to see who can hit the target first. But this time they choose the wrong Target! This goes on for quite sometimes till I cant take it anymore. I stop whatever I am doing, stand further away from the building and look up. Waiting for the culprit to throw again. And true enough, I saw 2 heads poping out, looking at my dad's van direction. When they saw me looking at them, they hide back to the building. I counted which floor they are in and took a lift up. When I arrived at that level, the 2 kids, standing in front of a corridor unit, are looking downstairs again. With an angry voice(+ my ah beng fierce look), I shout at them: "Very fun right?! Keep on throwing things down. Who's winning?!" With an innocent voice they denied(of course). As to teach them a lesson, I tell them, "Dun think I dun know, have been waiting for you to stop but still keep on throwing. I know what you thrown, its with me, have your fingerprints on it. You want me to hand them to police?!" They just look at me, silence.. then I say, "Now at this age throw straws, then when you are older are you going to throw knives? more fun right?" They still in silence.. then an auntie come out of the unit and say "See, ask you guys dun play this already. Still dun apologise to uncle?" And they apologised. Since its the CNY eve today, I just end it there and walk back to the lift lobby and went down to continue the washing. ***** When I came back to the van, before I can continue my washing, an ambulance arrived and parked next to our van. Minutes later, the medic came back pushing a lady in wheelchair back to the ambulance and drive away. Had seen the lady before, she is one of our neighbour, she seems to have a headache when I saw her in wheelchair. After the ambulance left, we finish the remaining task and head back home. Getting ready for reunion dinner. But two days later, on the third day of CNY, when my family and I are going to do some visiting to our relatives, were surprise to see a chinese funeral was held in the void deck below my block. Wondering who is it for at this festive season. It was later found out to be for the lady who my dad and I saw being wheeled into the ambulance on CNY eve.... |
Thursday, July 9, 2009 @ 6:33 AM
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Sunday, July 5, 2009 @ 9:13 PM
Can anyone tell me what is wrong here? Location: Han's Cafe and Cake House #01-03 Great Eastern Centre Crowd: Big crowd with people from office buildings around this resturant rush in during lunch hours. Was having Lunch there with my wife one sunny afternoon. Found this table near to the emergency exit empty. As I used to be the fire safety of my previous company, I learned that Emergency Exit should be free from blockages. So the scene above looks not right to me. So I snapped it down and hope to share with you this. Have you ever wondered what happen if there is a fire at the main entrance and other exits, and this is the only safe exit? Everyone would rush for this exit. All the pushing and pulling, people may fall and being stepped on. This actually how people were injured or killed in some similar accidents. You may think it would not happen to you. But wait till you are in one of the situation above then you think of it, will be too late. You may also say those baby trolleys can be wheeled away easily but when people panic, all they think is to get out! Do you think all will stay calm and wait till someone to pull out the baby trolleys so that they can exit? No, all will rush to the exits. Will only push anything that block their way. When they see that they need to remove the trolleys first, its too late... the exit will be too crowded to move anything..... By then, Sad Stories on the headlines of newspapers... then the government start to spot check on all the resturants... Always happen this way... Sigh... |
@ 7:05 AM
Finally, something I can write about. Had been thinking what to write for the past few days.....
Just minutes ago, in this rainy night up in the northern part of Singapore. Was seeing my wife home. Just as we are approaching the junction, someone approach us from behind. Picture this, a guy with nice jacket + shades, pants and slippers = a typical ah beng of Singapore walks towards us. Behind him, another guy, with simple normal shorts, pants and slippers, pushing a small trolley. Saying:" Excuse me, this is my brother and we are trying to sell ice cream to help our mother to settle her medical bills........ At this moment, with past experience of similar cases( will talk about them later), I give a very fake yawn and continue our journey. They continue to approach another family walking behind us. My wife later sms me asking if we are very bad in rejecting that boy. I told her I will answer her here: Firstly,if you really so desperate thinking of helping your Mum, why are you both in pairs and on the streets? Both of you will have greater chance of selling off your"ice cream" faster if you walk on your own to every units in the housing blocks around and not talking to passerby along the road, so many people had succeed through this method. (Especially from my Mum :) ) And, I find that selling of ice cream and medical bills just dun click. If you wanna sell ice cream just sell ice cream and shut up. "selling ice cream to help your mother settle medical bills?" sound more like an excuse, an excuse to gain sympathy. Just like what the actors in charity shows always says: "got injured while practising stunts etc. Secondly, the way you dress is also not convincing enough to the above story. It may be cold as it has been raining whole day. But the way you dress is like you just came back from shopping centres, not seriously looking for money. So, that is why I did not even bother to hear another word from him. Sorry, I admit I am cold blooded somtimes. But no choice, they approached the wrong guy this time..... They are lucky(if they lied) I did not ask for their Identification Card to check if they are really blood brothers. |