Happy New Year! (: Here to update on my blog again.
3 minutes ago,i was just on facebook reading an article : Last Day of 2011.
This article is about a Singaporean,Zahid who went to work with his friends on the last day of the year in which they were paid $80 for that day. When he went off to work that day,he realized that he will be working with all the bangla workers. Onlookers whom saw them working together were very much criticizing them and looking down on all of them.
Zahid also use to stereotype this bangla workers due to their smell and all but now he truly understands how they feel. He finally know how to accept workers like them.
I was practically on the urge of crying when i read the article and saw the picture that Zahid took with them. It was truly inspiring for me. True enough,i have to say that i always look down on people like them and sometimes when they smile to me,i will be like "WTH,retarded" I felt so guilty now for doing that. Sometimes,i tear because whenever i walk passed them,i will see them eating rice with curry and nothing else. They might be earning money but the money they earned will be send back to their families.
My father also have a few bangla workers who will helped him out in his work. They also used to have lunch with only rice+curry but it all stopped when my father, couldn't bear to see them eating stuff like that,and offer to buy them lunch everyday. Now they are all eating better. I'm not saying this to show that my dad is a great guy but i just felt like this should be told. Singaporeans,all seems to be looking down on people like them. But have they actually think about the things that have done for us? Have we ever thanked them for what they have done? If wasn't for them,we wouldn't be able to live in house,have shopping malls,lifts...etc. Is all due to their handwork. Maybe we should start appreciating them and stop with all the looking down. They are afterall humans and humans have feeling too right? Now,i feel like crying.