Sometimes, the challenges of Ramadhan seems overwhelming yeah. Frustrations at work, accidents, deaths, distractions and so on. I was feeling a little bit blue especially since I just read on someone's entry that a fellow teacher died due to a hit and run. How sad. Then I spied a blue umbrella I brought to school and i remembered some nice things that happened to me, all in one day. So the story goes like this....
It was a wet, very stormy morning. It rained in the early morning. Rained very very very heavily. So I called a cab and did not take an umbrella with me because I don't like to bring umbrellas. In the afternoon after school, it was all sunny and I went to Bedok interchange to look at paint and other things. And you know what, I got stuck in the rain! It started to be stormy again, with thunder and lightning and I was at the block next to the interchange and no shelter whatsoever from that block to the interchange. So I decided to walk along the block looking for shops that might sell umbrellas. To my dimay there was none. Then this old man who was standing at the lift landing and observing for some time approached me as I passed him by and said "Would you like some bubur masjid?" I was so surprised and I initially declined but I gratefully took the packet of bubur masjid from him. It was still hot and smelled so delicious. How kind of that man. A stranger, no less. But that did not solve the storm problem. So I walked to the edge of the block contemplating to brave the rain and make a dash for it. I was standing just beside a barber shop steeling my mind for the mad dash when the owner of the shop came out and said "Kak, you have no umbrella? I will lend you one." Wow. He told me I can return him the umbrella any time when I am free. I felt so touched after that.
So nice right? 2 strangers who are so kind to me. May Allah bless them for their kind acts. Eh, don't be like a certain someone I know who says that they are only nice to me cos got ulterior macho motive. You know macho men helping helpless young lady....
