Kindness goes a long way

Like my new blog skin? :)

I like to tell everyone a secret... shh... i won't mind you you you telling others about this secret if you happened to chance upon my blog... The secret is : (actually it's an open secret la! everyone knows...) Hazel is a kind soul!! wonderful right?!

Let me take a break to burst out laughing (wahahaha!!)

three days ago, i found a mickey plus minnie mice wallet at loyang point while i was about to go home from grocery shopping. I picked the wallet and opened the wallet to see what's inside. I saw alot of cards and though they were phone cards and guessed the wallet belonged to some ridiculous kid who is obsessed with cards... I opened another compartment and found money inside!! rough estimation: 70 plus bucks. So i went to open the other compartment with all the cards and realised they weren't just phone cards. There were NTUC link card, ez link card,77th street and minitoon discount cards, credit cards, IC, driving license... There were like 20 plus cards in total. The cards which i thought were phone cards were not phone cards!! IC,credit cards and driving license are important!! so i sacrificed 15 minutes of my youth loithering near the place were i found the wallet, praying the person who lost it would return to claim her wallet. (i know it's a her cause i saw the IC)

Did i mention i was eating hello panda biscuits that are meant to be dipped into creamy cheese? It works like yan yan biscuits whereby you dip the rod like biscuits into chocolate before chomping on it. So, my hands were greasy and cheesy while i was clutching the wallet. wahaha!! Anyway, this isn't the issue. The owner of the wallet was 10 years older than us. Yet she still used a mickey mouse + minnie mouse wallet (giggles) . that's why at first glance, i thought it was some careless gin na (hokkien for kid) who had lost the wallet... Plus for goodness sake, can't the person don't bring so much cards out. Those discount cards can be kept at home la... only serves to make the wallet heavier...

15 minutes of my youth was wasted and the person wasn't back yet. I looked at the address on the IC and saw that the owner lived in pasir ris. I discussed with my aunty and we made an honourable decision to deliver the wallet back to her house as we lugged all the grocery bought along and having no idea where exactly her house was...

we asked a few people and got a rough idea where her house was. Rough idea meaning which direction we should head and that's all... we were on some 'adventure' ...

our energy and enthusiasm were sapped dry after walking for 15 minutes and there was still no sight of the block!! We paused to take a breather and that was when we made the second important decision whether to continue with the hunt... since we are already halfway there, must as well finish off with our kind act right? so we both pitiful souls continued to lug, drag, pull, toss, kick our baggage of groceries and fight on!

at long last, we managed to find the block!! went up to her unit. pressed the door bell and the owner's ( of the wallet) mum opened the door, carrying the careless woman's baby... the baby very cute sia... chubby. we passed the wallet to her mum and guess what... no thank you!! Not even a smile k... nothing... whatever. I do kind act not for the sake of receiving acknowledgement also la... but still... a sore nagging part of me thinks it would be better if the mum at least said a thank you since i walked like 3o minutes to her house. ai ya!!

my aunty and i left and walked another 30 mins home. on the way home, both of us were disappointed and complaint the lack of basic courtesy... OK la!! both of us weren't like begging for a thank you but somehow, it'll make us feel better if we got some kind of acknowledgement ma... we're humans anyway. even though we may say we don't do act if kindness of any reward but at least some kind of acknowledgement will warm one's heart right?

we met a blind woman on the way. wanted to help her home was she was insistent that she could get back on her own as she did that everyday. i'm awed by the blind woman...

Upon reaching home, i realised that i shouldn't fret over the no thank you thing. I'm proud of myself! i didn't keep the wallet and not return. it proves to me that i'm a law abiding, kind, considerate, thoughtful, helpful samaritan! I hiked all the way to her house despite the time cause i thought the woman would be worried sick for her wallet.

Hazel's such a kind soul !! (that's self affirmation)

oh ya!! Audrey's voice rang in my head on my way home. she always says 'kindness goes a long way". That quote rang in my mind in a ghostly audrey's voice. Well indeed! Kindness does go a LONG way. (had to walk for so damn long)

Opps! did i mention that i forgot to clean the wallet after eating the cheesy biscuits? i bet the wallet would be oily and reek of cheese. Opps!