Sunday, July 30, 2006 @9:22 PM
Juz reached hm after doing flag day cum selling keychain. Singaporeans cannot help their fellow singaporeans, that's sad. An young(arnd 7 urs old) ang-moh girl almost thrashed every singaporean, she juz took out a bunch of coins and put them all in. The most touching part was that she even checked whether she had any coins left in her small bag. Actually it's not the amt u donate that matters, it's how u treat the people who ask for donations. Some can just walk pass you as though u are a ghost juz released for the 7th month. It is worse when pple actually avoid you from far, it's lyk they saw u liao, then purposely take a longer route, just to stay away from you. What is this world coming to ? I understand that some people may be facing financial difficulty, but we did not set a minimum limit to our donations, neither do we force pple to donate, even 10 cents counts. 10 pple donate = $1 , 1000 pple donate = $100. given the crowd at orchard, we can easily raise $500 per can. The problem is, pple avoid "flag day" volunteers. Some pple can afford to buy loads of branded stuff, but cannot donate even 10 cents, abit ironic la. What is 10 cents to you ? The most you only see pple asking for donations on saturday and sundays. 20 cents per week can make a difference in other people's life. Why not juz put ur hand in the pocket, take out the puny coin, and put it in the tin ? At the very least reject politely la. We volunteer to do flag day , not to get scolded. We ain't having fun , neither does the money go to us. The lamest thing I heard today was a guy making fun of the cancer society by saying that he was one of the receivers(it shld be recipients, his eng fail),Brain say if that guy is a receiver, then brain himself is a telephone. Totally no manners and a black sheep of the society. To think he received so much education, did schools teach him to make fun of pple who have physical disabilities or are suffering from an illness ? Poor thing , so many years of education gone to waste. I urge everyone who reads this blog entry to donate at least 10 cents when we see someone doing flag day, cuz we now how difficult it is to ask for donations. We have had hands-on experience. EVERY CENT COUNTS - Children Cancer Society.