Thursday, August 17, 2006

3 incidents in the past month...

There were a total of 3 incidents that happened in the past month..
In all the 3 incidents, I was just an onlooker...
But I just overall, felt bad..
Cos if I had faster reflexes, I wouldn't be just watching things to happen..
And not doing anything to prevent it...

Incident 1

NEL Outram Station
Everyone is going for the upriding escalator.
There's a family in front of me.

The little toddler... (I can't rem girl or boy)
Just before the escalator's step elevates...
The little toddler slipped his/her hand off the mum's...
And ran back to the place we first stepped onto the escalator.
The mum couldn't run back.. It was too late..
And I stood there at the start of the upriding escalator..
Staring at the toddler who looked lost next to me...
I was stunned too...
The scene probably froze for a few seconds...

What defroze the whole situation?
A heroine emerged from behind the toddler...
Scooped the little toddler up by the little armpittys...
Moved onto the escalator, and land the little toddler on one of the steps..
Her hands never left the little toddler...
This was crucial, so as to calm the toddler's fears of the escalator...

I also moved onto the escalator, standing next to the heroine...
Feeling so lousy.. Feeling so small..
Me, being the youngest in my family...
I totally have no experience with any toddlers in my life...

When we reached the top, the heroine scooped the toddler up once again..
And safely and calmly brought the toddler back to the mum...

Okay.. A lesson learnt...
Probably the next time, I could emerge as a heroine and no longer an idiot..
Standing there and stoning and blocking everyone else behind me and the little toddler...



Incident 2

Citilink - Escalator leading to Marina Square.
It was after a Sunday's music class, after dinner with Eva and Justin...
I wanted to go back hostel, cos I'm carrying a big paper bag...
It was also Hall FOC Day One...

I was going back alone...
I was going down.. the down riding escalator..
There was 1 well-dressed lady on the next escalator, and upriding one..
The upriding one was empty..
And what was the scene?
The well-dressed lady was walking down the upriding escalator..
The speed wasn't enough to beat the escalator..
While walking down, she held her phone and called someone..
"Great! Now I'm walking down the upriding escalator...
Cos I've dropped my EasiLink card just before the upriding escalator..."
And she was speaking very loudly, creating a scene, looking very pissed.

I was rather irritated by her...
I was thinking..
Firstly, she's trying to walk down the escalator in her super high heels..
What was she thinking?
Secondly, she called her friend to complain SOOO loudly..
Was her friend so nearby that he/she could come and picked her EasiLink for her?
What's the point of doing so?

After I walked out of the downriding escalator...
I stood there, and stare at the EasiLink for a moment...
I was thinking, if I should pick it up and pass to her..?
But as I see that she was getting a little clever...
To quit walking down the upriding escalator,
And come down by the downriding escalator...
I thought.. Maybe I shouldn't help her pick up...
And cos I felt that she could have just asked someone to help her pick up..
Instead of complaining loudly to her friend on the phone...
She could have politely asked...
A well-dressed lady with a good attitude and courtesy..
Anyone will definitely be willing to lend a helping hand...
Okay.. all voice down to..
The lady's attitude is why I decided to just use eye power to look at the EasiLink..

Next, while the lady had to go through the crowded downriding escalator...
This very young Malay boy...
He's at most my waist level tall...
Once he walked out of the downriding escalator...
Ran to the EasiLink, quickly picked it up...
Gave me a stare, and slipped it into his pocket, and ran away...
I was so.. shocked!
A LITTLE BOY!!!
So dishonest at such young age......
I just can't believe my eyes...
And.. disappointingly.. I didn't stop him...

The lady saw her EasiLink being 'kidnapped'...
She shouted loudly from the mid-way of the escalator..
"Hey you! STOP! That's MY EASILINK!!"
Then she made her way through the crowd, and got off the escalator...
By this time, the boy was already into CitiLink, just got through the glass doors..
And that boy behaved so nonchalently as he merged with the crowd and his parents/adults..
And what amazed me, was his parents or the adults didn't scold him or what!!
She, at her panicked mode...
She looked around... and screamed, "ARGH!"
Then she spotted that Malay boy again...
And shouted at the boy...
The boy shouted back too...
I wasn't too sure if she had her EasiLink back...
Cos I had already walked away when her screamings and their shoutings started..

The lady behaved like a crazy woman..
Okay.. Probably she's too mad...
I felt a tinge of guilt, but just too turned off by her screamings...
I was one of the eye-witnesses of the whole thing...
Yet I chose to walk away, and not help in a way or two...

I could have firstly, picked up the EasiLink and waited for the lady to come down..
And she thank me for it, and that's it!
She would be glad to meet a kind soul...
Her day, my day... Will be better...

Or.. When the boy picked the EasiLink...
I could have walked up and grab his hands and stop him...
I didn't!
I was standing there like an idiot...
Like a CCTV... Just to tape the whole process...

When she came through the glass doors...
And for a moment, lost sight of the boy...
The boy is still so clear in my vision..
As in.. the boy never left my sight since he picked the card up..
I could have pointed him out to her...

I have 3 chances to be a heroine within minutes...
I was too slow to react...
I was also abit tired, and abit attitude..
Cos I was pissed with her attitude, the willingness to help dipped...

This incident made me feel bad...
On top of lousy weekends cos of the stupid Simon blog....
My stupid mistake in commenting his entry...
More about it > here

I felt so lousy through and through...
That's why I went for a run - the perimeter of the whole NTU/NIE...
Felt slightly better...
Going through the last FOC, I was also hoping for better spirits...
Though that very Friday night, my mood dipped...
Okay..
All lousy things just like to come together...



Incident 3

Monday at Canteen 14

The guy in front of me was collecting his order at the Jap stall..
His tray was halfway in the air...
I stared at it.. and wondered if it would drop...
Then, I see that, he was about to take the tray...
So I didn't say anything.. I just stared at the tray blankly...

The very next moment...
The tray tilted..
The bowl and the cup of milo peng on the tray came crashing down...
And I didn't know why...
But that instance, my reaction was superb fast...
Probably cos I sensed it coming....
So quickly jumped a step back...
And the bowl missed my toes by an inch..
I was safe!

Well.. I could tell him to be careful with his tray in the first place...
But cos I was abit sleepy mode... I was stoning...


Okay..
Perhaps sleepy, attitude problems, inexperience with toddlers...
There are mere excuses to why I wasn't a heroine in these cases...
I could have prevented so many things from happening..
Next time.. I probably should not stone too much..
And just do what I felt was right....
Follow Nike's slogan..
"Just do it!"

sugary sweet savouring @ 12:26 AM |



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