A PLENTY FOR REN CI
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Awesome flag day with all my other peers!
went to school with elysia, cos she stayed over @ my house yesterday, if you're read the previous post.
4/7 and 4/8 had to go to AMK for flag day.
Trained to AMK HUB with serene, jingwen, peiyi, amir and practically half the school, bcos everyone had to take mrt to their destination. everyone was just in different cabins!
We wanted to camp @ the mrt station, but we saw some Riversidians taking the place already, so we just left and search other places.
and while we were walking pass amk hub, we couldnt pick up any courage to ask around if they could donate. so we continued to walk, until we walked out of the building then we heard from the security people, we aint suppose to ask for donations in the hub, but only outside, so we had to no choice to just move out to the shophouses.
We split up to look for places , so that we wont be searching for the same people @ the same time. I was walking pass the POSB area and realised that was a good place to ask for donations , so i started to camp there.
But till i realise we couldnt stand @ places that had cameras, so i moved away.
and for a moment i was just standing there, calling out for people to donate but all just shoved me aside, or treated me like transparent.
Stood somewhere further away from the bank. where i had flow of people coming from the bank, and also from the parking lots.
It was an awesome spot, because people who walked there, 70% of them havent seen anyone that has asked for donations! so i was the first they saw, and thus i got their wonderful and generous donations!
which was really kind of them .
i stood there the entire time from 930am-1030am. and that's a whole hour! and please dont underestimate the power of this one hour!
It made me realise, what type of singaporeans or rather people living in singapore were.
It's heart warming to see people taking out coins from their wallets to 'tong' into the tin! I was happy, perhaps for myself and also for someone who needs their help.
But there were people who were just plainly tooo selfish and everything to help out.
I see people walking with a pocket with coins, that swing so hard, and rung to hard, that it seemed like it called me to take them, but their owner just stubbornly refuse to take them out and put it into the tin!
I mean if you're not so rich, or just simply dont have small change, a 5 cent would do too! But do you not even have 10cents ringing in that heavy pocket of yours? i guess you're simply selfish.
I dont blame people who're rushing for time, and everything , and hence not donate.
Cos well, i do that too when i see people with tins.
But people who ain't rushing for time, walking so slowly, and see me from a distance, guess what they did! they made a huge huge detour just to avoid, how sad is that huh. and when i say huge, it really meant huge.
I thought you could just simply walk pass me and say sorry, i dont want to. like all the 198325678945412539432 people who did that to me or probably all the other riversidians today!
You just took a wasted effort to avoid me, cos you would probably meet another of my clone, in the next corner. how many HUGE detours do you wna make?
What to do when you see this? Just put in a coin, and get a sticker, everyone would just stop asking you for money.
And we're doing this for charity for god sake! We're not begging for money.
And so are you, put in that coin, who knows whose life you would save!
I get to see people who would just ignore you when i said so loudly to their ears: 'hi. would you like to donate?'
People with headphones was even nice enough to say, it's ok thanks.
It's not like they can hear me @ that point of time when i asked them that, but they replied nicely! gosh, ignoring is worst thing you could do to anyone, and esp for charity!
Oh gosh, riversidians, i totally unds how you feel to see these people and still have to smile to them when they ignore you, or just say no thanks, when they really see you working so hard to get that few coins from their pockets into your tin!
I also see people carrying gucci/LV bags, and carrying a whole lot expensive stuffs, and not willing to stop and just donate a few cents! what is this becoming to ....
Enough said about people with negative behaviours.
Guess they would understand what's the importance of that few cents to someone's live.
i have amazing nice people who donates THRICE!
i see them with 2 stickers on their shirts and, i didnt want to ask, bcos they've done their part, but they willingly and so generously put in somemore coins!
It was just awesomely nice!
I have parents who told their kids to donate money to me, and even said: ' next time when you grow up, you must learn from jiejie, come out and help and do things for charity! '
it was so niceeee of them.
And i have super understanding and smart kids who told their parents off.
everyone in their family has donated except their mother, and the kid scolded her off : ' Mummy! why you always dont want to donate! Not good leh'
They were only probably just younger than 5years! and they can say such things!
If i would thank, i would thank this truly nice people who helped the people in need, and indirectly helped me to fill up my tin so that i t was so heavy!
I have nice uncles who barely can support themselve to just fork out 20cents to put into my tin, for charity, anything would do.
During this one hour, i've seen people who are inconsiderate, selfish, self-centred, considerate, nice, generous, understanding, sympathetic.
All of which contradicts one another.
but i guess, deep down, everyone would know how important to help the others who're in need , @ the other part of the island.
Just bcos people who are near you ain't in need of such desperate help, but please visit websites and everything to know about these people.
Sometimes people are just so busy with their own work, and rushing from here to there, and seem to be only living in their own world, should really stop and watch what's going around them.
i admit it isnt easy, but i would make you appreciate your life more.
Because you would know how many people would benefit a whole lot, from your mere donations.
Sometimes you're just so busy, you've got no time to pick up the phone to call up during charity shows to donate, which is okay.
But! when the tin is sent right into your face already, why not? just spare a minute, to take out your coins to put it in, guess it doesnt hurt to do that, does it?
You will too, benefit from it. Trust me.
So people, when someone asks for donation, do it generously from your heart,
It will make you feel good, and @ the same time benefit someone else.
Yes, good job my peers.
You've endured all the rejections by 982765467829 people! and still put a sweet and lovely smile on your face to just show the least respect for others.
you will be rewarded in one way or another.
Really.
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