人间有爱

Within a week I met 2 kindhearted persons...

1) Last Saturday I took a cab from home(west) to Bishan with the kids. You can imagine how much the cab's fare would be. In the midst of the journey, I realised there was another amount that kept "jumping" with the main meter? That was really weird... So I asked the uncle when I had the chance because the extra charge I knew was a fixed $3. He told me that was history already! Oh dear... I believed my fare was really going to be near $30 then!

When I reached my destination, uncle told me to just pay him the amount displayed on the main meter. The additional charge was then $6 plus leh! Can buy 2 plates of chicken rice... I went "Huh?". He said "Since you don't know... Nevermind la, don't charge you..." He really caught me by surprised because I even forgot to take down his car plate number after we alighted.


2) This evening, I sent my gal's shoes to mend at the kind of cobbler that always goes to the same spot that is an open area near a mall and waits for customers to bring shoes to be mended leh. When I asked the uncle how much it would cost me, he said "I don't charge for children's shoes.". I went blurr for a moment... Called my gal to come thank the uncle.

Afterall, even we are facing a world finance crisis - when the worst is still not here, these non white-collar workers I have met have shown me that there is still hope in this world. I must continue to have some faith in Life.