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Monday, November 16, 2009

Something unexpected

Today i did something extra ordinary out of my life.

It was raining, can't be said as cats and dogs, but it was not negligible.

It was approximately 1830, I was having my cozy seat in the road liner, waiting for the bus to start moving, as usual, nothing uncommon, passengers in and out, so on and so forth.

It was till then, a feeble looking poor old Indian lady came trembling, hardly managed herself up the 3 little stairs at the entrance, asking for the bus's destination.

After confirmation, she paid Rm1 and had a seat near me, she had difficulties of sitting down as her wobbly leg was shaking.

She shrank herself into a state and it was so distorted that I thought she just transformed herself into a fragile little shrimp.

She whimpered, trembled and shook uncontrollably, her white hair is tied back in randomness and her fringes followed the rhythm of her pathetic rock as the gale of AC whoosh past her.

She rubbed her palm and hugged herself and rocked back and forth to get warmer, but, it turned out to be fruitless.

Instantaneously, she became the center of attraction, with everybody's eye on her, but nobody doing anything except for there's this one kind lad adjusting the AC so that it is not directed to her direction.

I was out of words, I did not know what to do to ease her suffering. Lend her my stinky uniform as a jacket? No, that is quite dumb. Hug her? She would've die of shock for that, haha.
I ran over to the nearby mamak store, and ordered a Neslo panas.

I said 'hey aunty.. take this =)'
She : '......' *eyeing up on me, showing traces of thankfulness*

Sat back to my cozy little seat, and was a bit shy with the stares of the public surrounding.

Maybe it is something ORDINARY for you guys, but, this is the 1st time I'm doing thing like this, as in helping the needs, especially those in front of you, and are under desperate conditions. I'm happy, and feeling something special out of it. =D

1 comment:

i am mai said...

wow brian that was really kind of you... omg baik gila. i've never done anything like that. i mean, the most i did was offer a seat to old people and chatting with them... at certain times.

heee... we need more people like you.

*salutes*