Fri night, I attended the Yellow Ribbon Concert. It was a pretty cool affair though the turn-up was not that good (I was trying to sms more of my friends to come down). There were sharing by the organisations which help in the rehabilitation of prisoners, a useful panel discussion and some simple plays and performances. I guess the success rate was fair and what really counts is the volunteer effort cos I saw them selling ribbons throughout the week at arts walkway....
Yest was Sat, I went to MWH to help them fold hearts for the President's Challenge. Nothing eventful except on the way there, I met this old man at the bus stop who asked me for directions to NUH. I kindly told him that he had to change 3 buses to get there but he was more interested in going there by cab and hinted that I pay his cab fare for him, saying that he was dropped by a cabbie at the bus stop because he had no money to pay. He was going for physiotherapy at NUH and walked on crutches but he was dressed quite nicely and though our conversation (where he asked me where I was going, where I lived, where I studied, how many siblings I had etc...so many...) he sorta doesn't seem like the down and out kind w/o any money. Seeing that he wasn't making any effort to follow my kind directions I ignored his hints. But later leaving him at the bus stop when my bus came, I felt a kind of moral conflict, maybe I shld hv just sponsored his cab fare la afterall he's a old man, gg to the hospital...er...But it was too late to turn back. Xuan later assured me that it's fine there ARE some old ppl out there who like to cheat ppl, just want freebies etc. It's a moral dilemma that happens everyday like when u see those old woman selling tissues at high prices, those blind buskers, those youngsters selling collecting donations for old folks home... You can't help them all...Last night the gals went to celebrate SHui's bdae at Swensons Marina Sq.
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