信则有，不信则无
其实，到现在我还不能确定我是否真的“碰见“了。。。。
小时候，住在东部的一个乡村。就靠近巴耶利吧空军基地，那个时候还是国际机场。樟宜国际机场还没建呢！这村主要是华人，不过还有马来甘榜（注：甘榜是马来语，是村的意思。）。一个很典型的甘榜，有回教堂，高脚屋，椰树等等。自我懂事以来，丛没看过那里的华人和马来人有问题过。其实，我可以说是互相尊重，和睦相处。
我家里成员蛮多的。上有婆婆（现以不在人世了），父母亲，四个哥哥，一个姐姐和一个妹妹。呵呵！够大吧？可组蓝球队了。。。父亲出外做工，母亲是家庭主妇。不过，为了补贴家用，她也兼职从工厂拿一些裤子回家加工。
记得五、六岁那一年。服装加工老板就在马来甘榜里租了一栋蛮大的高脚屋来当工厂。其实，除了屋还有一片蛮大的花园，不过有点乱，杂草四处。晚上，花园很暗，没灯。我的母亲也和左邻右舍的兼职主妇一样的去那里拿货和交货。一天晚上，母亲要去高脚屋（忘了是去拿还是交货），我也跟着去。
我记得那天我身体是健康的。没病也没有什麽不妥，或什麽生病预兆。
马来甘榜晚上很暗，需要走50米才能到那高脚屋。那个时候的路灯，不像现在的那麽亮。当我和母亲走进马来甘榜时，我就紧紧抓住母亲的手。当我们一踏入花园，忽然间，我全身发冷，感觉到有一股冷气从我身体扫过。我就跟母亲诉说我突然间感觉到很冷。
过后，我就生了一场大病。有两个星期吧！我还记得那个时候，病了一个星期还没有起色。母亲就带我去很远的地方（那个时候交通很不方便，还没有地铁）看中医。忘了那里，只记得巴士路程很远很远，而且也走了很多路。
左邻右舍，大的小的都来看我。呵呵！不知母亲跟他们讲了些什麽，应该有这里加一点，那里加一点吧？每个都在议论纷纷，说我碰见鬼了。哈！碰见鬼了？那个时候的我就五、六岁嘛！他们每个问我，我就说“是啊！“。呵！就这样一转十，十转百。我也就这样就成了“见鬼了！“的小孩。
很好笑吧？当大人说我碰见鬼，我也随声附和。其实我是没看见“它“。而是忽然间，我全身发冷。之后就生了那一场大病。信者，觉得就是“那个“扫过我，然后我就中了咯！不信者，觉得是因为那个地方对我是一个新环境，心里难免也会有点难适应，而且夜晚和胆小。也可那能时已经在发病的边沿了。所以。。。。。
呵呵！不过，当时的左邻右舍，也包过我家人吧？相信的成分应该有99。99%喔！
那，你呢？你觉得呢？相信会有不同的见解。呵。。呵。。
Saturday, 30 June 2007
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
七年前的一个夜晚。。。。
呵呵！。。对不起！。。这不是什麽七年之痒或艳遇的故事。。。也不好意思！只是我的一个巧遇。。。。。嘿嘿嘿！！。。。
三天（27日六月2007年）前的傍晚，回父母家吃晚餐。住在六楼，刚好电梯那一层。
电梯一开，就听到“嗨！你好吗？“（英语）
我一抬头，看到一位住在同一座的印族男同胞。他向我招手，微笑。旁边站着一位小女孩。羞答答的托着他的手，也向我微笑。他们正等着电梯下楼去。看到了我，也没进去。
我也向他招手，微笑。"我还好！你呢？“
“我也不错！“他很礼貌地回答。“可以给我你的电话号码吗？“突然间他向我讲了这一句。
愣了一下。“好啊！“我就把电话号码给了他。“哦，好久没碰见你了！“他继续。然后就吩咐女儿叫我uncle。（唉！不知不觉已是uncle俱乐部的会员了）。
“是啊！最近比较忙。不过也时常来，只是没碰着。“我回答。跟着也向小妹妹招手，也跟着问他“这就是你女儿吧？几岁了？“
三天（27日六月2007年）前的傍晚，回父母家吃晚餐。住在六楼，刚好电梯那一层。
电梯一开，就听到“嗨！你好吗？“（英语）
我一抬头，看到一位住在同一座的印族男同胞。他向我招手，微笑。旁边站着一位小女孩。羞答答的托着他的手，也向我微笑。他们正等着电梯下楼去。看到了我，也没进去。
我也向他招手，微笑。"我还好！你呢？“
“我也不错！“他很礼貌地回答。“可以给我你的电话号码吗？“突然间他向我讲了这一句。
愣了一下。“好啊！“我就把电话号码给了他。“哦，好久没碰见你了！“他继续。然后就吩咐女儿叫我uncle。（唉！不知不觉已是uncle俱乐部的会员了）。
“是啊！最近比较忙。不过也时常来，只是没碰着。“我回答。跟着也向小妹妹招手，也跟着问他“这就是你女儿吧？几岁了？“
“七岁了“他回答。
“七岁了？“我重复他的回答再加个问号。“哦！已经七年了吗？“我不由自主的重问。
"是的！七年了。。。。谢谢你。“他脸带着微笑回答我。
奇怪吧？为甚麽他回答“是的！七年了。。。谢谢你。“。让我讲个故事给你听吧。。。
七年前（应该是2000年吧），我还跟父母一起住。一个周末夜晚两三点吧？跟几个旧同事兼好朋友喝完酒，唱完卡拉OK。正要搭电梯回家。我没醉，不过也有一点醉意。进了电梯，按了六楼后就闭上眼睛。困嘛！忽然间，觉得为甚麽这麽久六楼还没到。开了眼睛“哇！还在一楼啊！“。“我明明已经按了嘛！为什麽。。。咦？莫非我。。。？没那麽倒霉吧？。。。“心里有点七上八下。。。然后赶紧再按一次六楼。眼睛睁大大的看。这一次电梯动了。。喔，肯定上了。。嘿嘿。。。心里踏实了。。。
到了六楼，电梯门一开。吓死我了！！！怎麽一踏出去即刻就碰见一个印族男同胞抱着一个女人匆匆向我冲过来，几乎就撞到我。
刹那间，醉意全没了！
女的很虚弱，表情很痛苦，流着泪。男的很紧张，不过也一直跟女的叽哩咕噜。虽然是半夜，不过他们两人当时也没有想这麽多吧？我相信当时没熟睡的，应该也被他们“吵“醒吧？
他一看到我，就跟我说“请帮帮我！“（英语）。我也没问什麽事，就即刻跳回电梯里帮他按下楼。电梯里，我问他什麽事，他流着眼泪说他妻子就快要生了。妻子很痛苦。应该是第一胎吧？
哇！又吓死我了！！我怕血的哦！！最好不要在电梯里面生啊！搞不好，我也一起进医院啦。（呵呵。。我可是有记录晕倒的喔！）
在电梯里，每一秒就好像很长很长。。。真的很长很长。。。我在祈祷门快点开，祈祷她忍一下，不好在电梯里生。。喔。。。
出了电梯，看着他很辛苦也很慢的抱着妻子走。我走靠近他，也想帮他扶他的妻子。可是心里有顾忌，也不敢扶了。电梯离大路也有差不多一百米多。他很辛苦的抱着妻子，几次差点跌倒。问了他几次需不需帮他扶，他也没回应。我只有跟着他走，以防他支持不住。
那个时候的他，他的眼里应该只有妻子的安危吧？其他的也听不进去了。
靠近大路差不多二十米时，我就先跑到大路去拦德士。幸好很快在对面街拦到。德士司机刚开始对我有戒心，因为，我在路上跑来跑去，而且是三更半夜。（假如你是那个司机，有可能你不会停喔！对不对？）。我跟司机说明事件，然后叫他拐个弯。司机照做，我也跑回去。不过，还是不敢帮他扶他妻子。他们上了车，我跟他招手。德士走后，我也回家冲个凉跟着就睡觉去。那时家人都熟睡。
隔天也跟家人大慨讲了一下。
往后也因工作，时常早出晚归。也没碰到他。其实我每天大概早上七点就出门，晚上没八九点以后别想在家看到我的影子。通常碰到我的机会蛮低的。我也没把这件事放在心上。
几个星期后，我的妹说有个印族同胞问她我是不是住这里。可能他应该曾经见过我吧？因为我父母家就在电梯前。（这栋组屋不是每一楼都有电梯）。妹妹笑着重复他的问题“请问那个胖胖的先生是不是住这里？他。。。“ 妹妹幸灾乐祸地重复“胖胖。。。“我哭笑不得 ,用无奈的口吻说“唉！帮了他。。。想找我也不需用“胖胖“的形容词嘛！，早知道。。。”。他向我妹道谢。几天后，碰到他。他一直跟我道谢。我感到很不自在，况且我觉得我只是帮他拦德士而已。也向他查问他妻子和小孩情况。母女平安，替他开心。不久，他也碰见我母亲，也向她道谢。
几年后，我也搬出去。碰到他的机会几乎等于零。不过偶而还会碰见他，也会跟他打个招呼“嗨！你好？“通常都是我匆匆忙忙的寒暄几句就走了。偶而会问“这就你的女儿？“，“哦，长大咯“。
没错的话，从那时到现在碰见应该没超过十次吧？可能吧，每次我都是匆匆忙忙的。哈！所以这次被“逮到“，他就跟我要了电话。其实，我一直觉得不是大不了的事，任何人遇到都会帮的啊！当他回答“是的，七年了。。。谢谢你！“和向我要电话号码的时候。我这个笨蛋才桄然大悟！这麽多年来他还是没忘那个夜晚的事件。
喔。。。不知不觉时间飞逝，一下子七年就过了。唉。。。。。
给了电话号码，寒暄了几句。过后，在父母家里，心里总觉得怪怪的，一直在想这件事。也跟他们讲了在电梯外碰见那个印族同胞的事。
当晚，也有点难眠，一直在想。一直以来我不喜欢邀功。所以过后没刻意跟他联系，也没再去想整件事。
我很感动。。。感动这麽多年了，他还记得这件事。到现在还在感激我！这远比送任何物质上的礼物来得珍贵。
其实，不是每个人都会像他那麽感恩。
到了现在，我还不知道他的名字。而他，那天才得到我的电话号码和名字。
一件对我来讲的小事（帮忙），对他来讲则是件影响到他全家的幸福的大事啊！
在这里吧！祝他和家人幸福快乐！！
Sunday, 24 June 2007
原谅
读书时，偶而会剪一些华文报的文章。过了这麽多年，不见了很多。印象最深刻是这篇从那时的联合早报（忘了那一年，不好意思）剪下的。文章名为“原谅“，觉得笔者写得太完美了。世上应该没人会100%符合吧？不知笔者本身得多少分呢？我呢？呵呵。。。。应该只有20%吧！不过，我也把这篇文章做为学习的对象，提升自己。
几年前，一位在澳洲背包旅游认识的日本朋友到访。接待她几天，住我哥的家。也抽空带她四处走马看花。一天逛市中心，她看到了竖立在那的二战记念碑。带她到碑前看，也讲解二次世界大战在新加坡发生了什麽事。她很惊讶，说在日本读书时，二战事件讲不多。听了我的讲解，她觉得很难过。她问我憎恨日本人吗？我向她解释这是上一代发生的事，我们已不再憎恨任何人了。虽然我原谅但我不会忘记历史。
感觉到那个时候的她感到歉意万分。可是，那不是我的目的。
那次过后，她还来过一次。不过当时我也忙于工作，匆忙跟她见个面吃个饭。之后换了电脑，联络也断了.
或许吧！日本人知道亚洲人会原谅，就是不会忘记历史。所以他们就窜改历史考科书，就来一个“算了吧！即然你们不能忘记，那就我们自己忘记吧！呵呵！“
德国人坦然面对历史，真诚承认犯过的错。犹太人也欣然接受。俩方不再背着历史包袱怨恨对方。现在的德国人可以抬起头来看着犹太人，交朋友。
或许吧（哇！怎麽，那麽多或许啊？），日本人觉得面子比较重要。背着历史包袱比认错来得容易。那，就让她背吧！累了再看看。可能，那时大家真的都忘了。
唉！再一个或许吧，呵！那个时候，大家都喝了“忘情水“什麽都忘了。怨恨，仇恨都没了，也不需要原谅了。希望有这麽的一天来临。我期待。。。。。。
一个不承认自己犯了错的人（国家），是不会得到他人（国家）的信服和尊敬。或许，他们没读华盛顿的故事吧。你说呢？
我们不可以忘记历史，其实人类真的很健忘（选择性吧？）。一直在重复人祸，唉！种族，宗教，国与国。到现在还是有问题。天灾也是人类弄出来惩罚自己。
用一个有诚意的认错，换回一个原谅。怨恨，仇恨与猜疑就随空而逝。何乐而不为呢？
认错。。。。真的那麽困难吗？
面子。。。。真的那麽重要吗？
好吧，我把原篇复印贴在这里与你分享。读了之后，让我知道你的想法，好吗？
把鼠标指向图，然后点击。图会变大。
Saturday, 23 June 2007
600K Peanut
Wow!! Finally, i am in blog too....hmmmm...
Let me start my 1st blog title with "600K Peanut"
U many be wondering why i am using "600K peanut", right?
Well, if u are residents of Singapore in the past few years, u will know what it means. Some sad things happened here in Singapore, abusing of power and corruption in few charity organisations. Corruption in Singapore? U may ask. Yes!! in Singapore and it is a big one.....hmmmm ..... Sad thing isn't it :-(
It started with this biggest charity organisation name "National Kidney Foundation" ( NKF ) few years ago, which majority of its fund was donated by general public. It was a big earthquake in Singapore......
The CEO got himself high salary, around SGD$600K per year, plus many perks. Wa-lau!! Charity organisation leh, SGD$600K per year?? Yes !! But not only that.... business class when flying out for meetings...
Until one fine day, a contractor went to do renovation work in the office and one of the requests was to install gold-plated tap for the CEO office's toilet ( wash room ).... The contractor was an odinary Singaporean, who was angry with the way the organisation spending its donors' money. So, the news leaked... after sometime, it reached the media. The reporter decided to write an ariticle about this.
Ha... the organisation CEO was angry with the defamation and together with the committee members, they sued the reporter and the press. It had successfully sued 2 parties b4, so this time, they were confident that they will clear their names.
Hmmm.... Well, not this time! They calculated wrongly, they lost!! As the court hearing went on, more dirty things were dug out.... and it lead to the fall of the CEO and the entire committee... Government stepped in, appointed new CEO and team, got auditor to check all books.....
Wow!! the former CEO treated NKF like its family-owned biz, one man managed organisation. He involved in almost everything, especially money-related issues.... outsourced projects to friends and own company.... Those committee members don't know do what, may be they just make use of NKF to build their own profile. Nobody bother to know what the CEO is doing.
Now, the 600K Peanut comes in..... during the courts hearing..... my respected former PM, Mr Goh's wife, whom is a close friend of the former CEO, made a comment, which made many Singaporeans angry the following day... Mrs Goh said that with the NKF capacity and the amount of money raised by the former CEO, SGD$600K is just a peanut !!! I was totally disappointed with the words came out from my respected fomer PM's wife.
I disagree, Mrs Goh.... To you, SGD$600K may be Peanut, but many of the donors may not earn this much in their entire life. Believe me, this is true. If this is peanut, why did the former CEO reluctant to reveal his salary and other packages? Besides, this is a charity organisation, not IBM, HP, Shell, Google etc... All the money is from ordinary Singaporeans, whom some of them monthly take home is less than SGD$1K. No matter how, nobody should treat it like a commercial organisation. Anyone who wants to work in charity organisation should not expect market-rate salary like those commercial organisation. Day one, he/she should know this is a public-funded organisation.
The development of this case, till today ( 23June07 ).... has made the former Chairman, Mr Richard Yong, bankrupt and he sold all his properties and ran away from law.... sigh... haiz!! i remember he made appeals to the public for more donation, saying he couldn't sleep and worrying for the patients as the organisation has insufficient funds to support them for the next few years... he cried !! Yes, he cried .... But now, what happened to him ?? He ran away ..... Isn't it insulting?? Good acting right? Should have gotten him an acting award...
Now, the former CEO is being convicted for using a fake SGD$20K invoice to deceive NKF, he is sentenced to 3months jail. He will appeal soon. Besides, he is also ordered to pay SGD$4.0millions to the new NKF for the losses and damages it suffered. Well, lets see if he also run away....
I used to defend NKF in the past whenever somebody said bad things about it. I was a regular donor, even during my difficult time. I have since terminated the donation, may be will resume later when everything is back in order. I have changed my opinion on charity organisations, unlike last time, now i question when approach for donation.
Recent months, many charity organisations here were found to have mis-managed funds. The latest was 2 days ago, St John's Home for Elderly, the Superintendent took away SGD$3.88Million and is now uncontactable. He is in his 60s and has 2 grown-up sons, not sure if the whole family run away together.
Well, greed is inside every human beings, when the temptation is too strong to resist, some many give up morale and choose to act something which they were taught by parents and teachers not to.....
That is life..... and it goes on....
贪婪 - 人类基本潜在的特性。
贪小便宜 - 满街都是，小贪者也。在我们的日常生活每天都有。都是你，我和他。哈！
贪得无厌 - 往往都是没了理智，不懂得收手，最终被抓。
人心不足，蛇吞象 - 特大贪，一次过要做皇帝。不过，通常都是消化不了。最终也伤了自己。
Let me start my 1st blog title with "600K Peanut"
U many be wondering why i am using "600K peanut", right?
Well, if u are residents of Singapore in the past few years, u will know what it means. Some sad things happened here in Singapore, abusing of power and corruption in few charity organisations. Corruption in Singapore? U may ask. Yes!! in Singapore and it is a big one.....hmmmm ..... Sad thing isn't it :-(
It started with this biggest charity organisation name "National Kidney Foundation" ( NKF ) few years ago, which majority of its fund was donated by general public. It was a big earthquake in Singapore......
The CEO got himself high salary, around SGD$600K per year, plus many perks. Wa-lau!! Charity organisation leh, SGD$600K per year?? Yes !! But not only that.... business class when flying out for meetings...
Until one fine day, a contractor went to do renovation work in the office and one of the requests was to install gold-plated tap for the CEO office's toilet ( wash room ).... The contractor was an odinary Singaporean, who was angry with the way the organisation spending its donors' money. So, the news leaked... after sometime, it reached the media. The reporter decided to write an ariticle about this.
Ha... the organisation CEO was angry with the defamation and together with the committee members, they sued the reporter and the press. It had successfully sued 2 parties b4, so this time, they were confident that they will clear their names.
Hmmm.... Well, not this time! They calculated wrongly, they lost!! As the court hearing went on, more dirty things were dug out.... and it lead to the fall of the CEO and the entire committee... Government stepped in, appointed new CEO and team, got auditor to check all books.....
Wow!! the former CEO treated NKF like its family-owned biz, one man managed organisation. He involved in almost everything, especially money-related issues.... outsourced projects to friends and own company.... Those committee members don't know do what, may be they just make use of NKF to build their own profile. Nobody bother to know what the CEO is doing.
Now, the 600K Peanut comes in..... during the courts hearing..... my respected former PM, Mr Goh's wife, whom is a close friend of the former CEO, made a comment, which made many Singaporeans angry the following day... Mrs Goh said that with the NKF capacity and the amount of money raised by the former CEO, SGD$600K is just a peanut !!! I was totally disappointed with the words came out from my respected fomer PM's wife.
I disagree, Mrs Goh.... To you, SGD$600K may be Peanut, but many of the donors may not earn this much in their entire life. Believe me, this is true. If this is peanut, why did the former CEO reluctant to reveal his salary and other packages? Besides, this is a charity organisation, not IBM, HP, Shell, Google etc... All the money is from ordinary Singaporeans, whom some of them monthly take home is less than SGD$1K. No matter how, nobody should treat it like a commercial organisation. Anyone who wants to work in charity organisation should not expect market-rate salary like those commercial organisation. Day one, he/she should know this is a public-funded organisation.
The development of this case, till today ( 23June07 ).... has made the former Chairman, Mr Richard Yong, bankrupt and he sold all his properties and ran away from law.... sigh... haiz!! i remember he made appeals to the public for more donation, saying he couldn't sleep and worrying for the patients as the organisation has insufficient funds to support them for the next few years... he cried !! Yes, he cried .... But now, what happened to him ?? He ran away ..... Isn't it insulting?? Good acting right? Should have gotten him an acting award...
Now, the former CEO is being convicted for using a fake SGD$20K invoice to deceive NKF, he is sentenced to 3months jail. He will appeal soon. Besides, he is also ordered to pay SGD$4.0millions to the new NKF for the losses and damages it suffered. Well, lets see if he also run away....
I used to defend NKF in the past whenever somebody said bad things about it. I was a regular donor, even during my difficult time. I have since terminated the donation, may be will resume later when everything is back in order. I have changed my opinion on charity organisations, unlike last time, now i question when approach for donation.
Recent months, many charity organisations here were found to have mis-managed funds. The latest was 2 days ago, St John's Home for Elderly, the Superintendent took away SGD$3.88Million and is now uncontactable. He is in his 60s and has 2 grown-up sons, not sure if the whole family run away together.
Well, greed is inside every human beings, when the temptation is too strong to resist, some many give up morale and choose to act something which they were taught by parents and teachers not to.....
That is life..... and it goes on....
贪婪 - 人类基本潜在的特性。
贪小便宜 - 满街都是，小贪者也。在我们的日常生活每天都有。都是你，我和他。哈！
贪得无厌 - 往往都是没了理智，不懂得收手，最终被抓。
人心不足，蛇吞象 - 特大贪，一次过要做皇帝。不过，通常都是消化不了。最终也伤了自己。
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