Sunday, January 16, 2011
#1 A moment spent alone doing something you enjoyed : Helped
Hi there once again! This will be my first assignment post and the theme for this is - A moment spent alone doing something I enjoyed. What are things that you can enjoy doing? Probably your hobby? From my post title "Helped", you can guess what my story is about. You might be wondering how hobby is related to helping, right? Let me tell you that this is nothing about my hobby and it is something about helping.
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It all happened when I was going back home and I was suppose to meet up with my friend in a bus interchange as he wanted to pass me something. Before I found him near a bus queue, I went down to the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station, trying to find him. When I walked down the staircase leading to the entrance of the MRT station, someone called me "Boy!" in Chinese. I was at first scared as not long ago, a beggar in the same bus interchange came to me, asking me to give him money and it was the first time someone begged me for money. I thought it would be another beggar, but I still turned around to see who it was. I let out a sigh of relief when I saw it was an elderly man. He was sitting at the first few steps from the bottom of the staircase.(as shown in the photo) He was an absolute stranger to me, but I still went to him to find out what he wanted. He fished out a few two dollars notes from his pocket and I was wondering why he did so. Maybe he wanted to give me some money for some reasons? I'm joking :D.
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While looking at his appearance for awhile, I felt very worried as I was all alone and I didn't know if he had anything up his sleeves. We had a short conversation in Chinese and after requesting, I found out that he wanted me to help him buy a can of Milo.(A single can without the packaging as shown in the photo) He also added he needed a straw and he passed me a two dollars note. I at first was dumbfounded as a stranger talked to me out of a blue, furthermore asking me to help him get a drink. Nevertheless, I also agreed.
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He also directed me to buy the Milo from a shop just beside where we were and as I was very familiar with the surroundings, I knew exactly where he was referring to.(As shown in the photo above this paragraph) I made a beeline to the shop and asked the shopkeeper if there was any can of Milo. She pointed to me and I purchased one can, which costs $1.40. I also asked for a straw and I left the shop after receiving the change. I returned to the man, gave back sixty cents and passed him the Milo with a straw. He was then still holding on to another few two dollars notes and after he had taken his stuff from me, he offered me another $2 to buy myself a drink. I was surprised by his generosity and I felt that it was only a small matter helping him to get a drink. Thus, I declined his offer and smiled at him. He thanked me many times and I felt very accomplished. I then headed back up the staircase to find my friend. Virtue of kindness is its own reward and I did not regret not accepting the money from the man to buy myself a can of drink.
This was one thing that I enjoyed doing although I was alone. I realised helping is something that we all should adopt in our daily lives and both parties will feel satisfied too. To end off my first assignment post, I have a song by The Beatles, titled "Help!" I think the lyrics of this song are related to what I had said and I hope you will enjoy the song and see you next time! (Please pause the auto-playing song on mixpod before hearing the video!)
(Quote of the day: We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone-Ronald Reagan)
(Video: Thanks to
OfficialBeatlesTV on youtube)
Posted by Yi Jie at 4:18 PM
