Kindness Begets Kindness

[Mercs]

A happy smile makes the whole world happier :))

[Christan]

Want to relate an incident this morning. Was walking with my elderly mum to NTUC, walking in front of us was an auntie. Need to cross a stretch where there are steps to reach NTUC.

 

While we were approaching the steps, the auntie has paused there & informed us there is some oil/grease on the steps & be careful. She had also took out some tissues to clean this section which I offered to do for her, to clean up.

 

She mentioned many elderly walk this area daily & can easily slip & fall if they didn't notice this. 

 

Would like to share this auntie's simple act of kindness. Kudos for her consideration   

 

[Tianmo]

Want to relate an incident this morning. Was walking with my elderly mum to NTUC, walking in front of us was an auntie. Need to cross a stretch where there are steps to reach NTUC.

 

While we were approaching the steps, the auntie has paused there & informed us there is some oil/grease on the steps & be careful. She had also took out some tissues to clean this section which I offered to do for her, to clean up.

 

She mentioned many elderly walk this area daily & can easily slip & fall if they didn't notice this. 

 

Would like to share this auntie's simple act of kindness. Kudos for her consideration   

 

 

Good one Bro! 

 

there is kindness in life, 人间有温情!!!  

[Ktglfc]

Good to see more kind acts posted here :)

 

A kind act a day, keeps the world a happier place to live in :)

[Atonchia]

Fast reaction from the cashier save the baby.

https://youtu.be/YrAIj8xS2U4

Edited May 3, 2017 by Atonchia

[Atonchia]

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/motorcyclist-helps-elderly-man-stuck-on-highway-divider?xtor=cs1-10

Off-duty policeman helps elderly man stuck on highway divider

 

 

SINGAPORE - A motorcyclist has earned the praises of netizens after a video of him helping an elderly man stuck on a highway divider went viral on Tuesday (June 13).

 

The Good Samaritan is actually an off-duty policeman, The Straits Times has learnt.

 

Captured on Mr Mohd Elfie Mohd Amin's helmet camera on Monday (June 12), the video showed Mr Elfie, 30, riding along the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) at around 4pm, before stopping at the divider at Jalan Eunos to help the elderly man.

The police officer was on his way to Tampines when he saw the man. As no vehicles were parked on the road shoulder nearby, he decided to go to the man.

"He could either be lost, or worse, attempting suicide by crossing the road," he told ST.

"As I got closer to him, I saw a few grocery bags behind him and his demeanour told me he was lost."

 

 

He asked the man where he was going and offered him a ride.

 

"I will send you," he told the man. "It is very dangerous for you to walk here."

According to the post by Mr Elfie, the elderly man had missed his stop while travelling on a bus. He attempted to walk straight towards an overhead bridge to get to his daughter-in-law's home, but ended up on the highway instead.

 

After passing the elderly man a helmet, the two rode off.

 

The video was posted on Facebook at around noon on Tuesday, and at 7.40pm it had 162,000 views. It was also shared on road safety community page Beh Chia Lor.

 

The post also had more than 1,000 comments, with most applauding Mr Elfie for his good deed.

 

Mr Elfie said he did not expect the video to go viral as it was his instinct to help.

 

"I'm a police officer and it is my duty to protect a life, at any cost," he said, adding that he is overwhelmed by the responses. Strangers have even messaged him on Facebook to thank him.

 

In his Facebook post, he said he hoped that the video would encourage people to go out of their way to help others.

 

"Do good and good will come to you," he wrote.

[Jman888]

 

 

 

Couple leaves S$6m legacy to health, animal charities in Singapore

29 Jun 2017 01:00PM (Updated: 29 Jun 2017 01:34PM)

 

 

SINGAPORE: They lived all over the world, in Britain, South Africa and Australia, but it was Singapore that the couple finally decided to make their home.

 

And when both of them died in old age, Jo and Gerry Essery left a generous S$6 million legacy to be divided equally between three charities here: Assisi Hospice, National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).

 

According to Dr Tan Hwa Luck, the executor of the couple's estate and a close friend of more than 30 years, Mrs Essery was 89 years old when she passed away in 2013, while Mr Essery was 92 when he died in 2015.

 

In a joint press release, the charities expressed gratitude towards the couple for the posthumous gift.

 

Assisi Hospice’s CEO Choo Shiu Ling said the donation will help the hospice provide assistance to needy patients.

 

"(The) majority of our patients are from low-income families with issues not just relating to their health and finances, but also social challenges that may compromise well-being of their family members," Ms Choo said.

 

She added that the hospice has named a hall used for staff clinical training, talks and seminars Essery Hall in appreciation of the couple's generosity.

 

NKF chairman Koh Poh Tiong said that with one new case of kidney failure every five hours, the donation was "timely and crucial" and came as a "welcome relief".

 

“We are touched and grateful to Jo and Gerry for their generosity, love and benevolence. Their S$2 million heartfelt legacy will go a long way in our mission of ensuring that no needy kidney patient will die because of no access to dialysis," Mr Koh said.

 

The money will go towards building a dialysis centre in Marsiling, set to start construction in October and begin operating in April next year. It will have 22 dialysis stations which will benefit 132 kidney patients living or working in the north-west of Singapore.

 

Madam Halimah Yacob, the Member of Parliament for Marsiling-Yew Tee, said Mr and Mrs Essery's "long-lasting and meaningful gift" will be "a sanctuary for many poor and needy kidney patients for many generations to come".

 

Meanwhile, the SPCA said it has already used S$300,000 from the donation for its new building fund and for sponsorship of an open-air education pavilion, named Essery Education Pavilion, which hosts activities such as education talks and dog training sessions.

 

The remaining money will go towards the upgrading and maintenance of the SPCA Animal Welfare Centre in Sungei Tengah, as well as to improve animal welfare services, the SPCA said.

 

"A LOVING COUPLE"

 

Mrs Essery was born in Singapore and lived here until the start of World War II, when she left for South Africa.

 

Mr Essery, on the other hand, was born in Britain and came to Singapore in 1931, as his father was working as an engineer here. When the Japanese invaded Singapore, his father sent him to Australia. A few months later, he travelled to South Africa where he was reunited with his family.

 

It was also there that he met Mrs Essery. They got married in South Africa in 1945, when they were about 18 or 19 years old.

 

Jo and Gerry Essery in their younger days. (Photo: NKF)

 

The couple moved to Australia in the 1950s, but decided to make Singapore their home after Mr Essery got a job in a glass production company here.

 

For more than four years in the 1970s, Mrs Essery was on the management committee of the SPCA.

 

She was affectionately called "Mrs E" by the charity's staff and helped foster many kittens and puppies over the years, also taking sick animals home to nurse them back to health, the animal welfare group said.

 

"When not busy helping around the shelter or office, she would be out with SPCA officers assisting with cruelty cases," it added.

 

Dr Tan described Mr and Mrs Essery as a loving couple. "They started with very little but they worked hard and learned how to live a simple life, which continued as a way of life for them till their old age. They were generous and very involved in helping others, hence I am not surprised that they donated their money for good causes.”

 

Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/couple-leaves-s-6m-legacy-to-health-animal-charities-in-8987688

 

 

 

[SGCMmaomao]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope NKF use the money "wisely" 

[Hamburger]

Time for tap change. Hansgrohe perhaps.

[Newbie26]

Many souls will benefit

 

Bless the kind couple to eternity 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Yewheng]

 

This is a true example of kindness begets kindness.

 

Hope more people to cultivate this habit and make singapore a better place to live in.

 

Everyone help each other, everyone look out for each other.. How good?

Edited May 5, 2018 by Yewheng

[Ravinged]

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This is a true example of kindness begets kindness.

 

Hope more people to cultivate this habit and make singapore a better place to live in.

 

Everyone help each other, everyone look out for each other.. How good?

 

That's very nice of him. It's more informal and easier for the participants to share questions too.

 

[Yewheng]

That's very nice of him. It's more informal and easier for the participants to share questions too.

 

Ya this is how one person kindness affect others. For his case because of someone kindness to help tutor him and because of that he passed the test and he felt he also need to do that to help others pass too.

 

So this is the habit that hopefully more singaporeans to adopt.

[Jman888]

Man in Korea halts unconscious driver's moving car with his own

THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  May 14, 2018

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=-XxksxvN17Y

 

A man who intentionally crashed his vehicle on a highway with an unconscious driver's car is receiving a breadth of commendations for preventing what could have potentially led to a bigger accident.

 

Incheon District Police said Monday that it will internally close the crash case that occurred on Saturday morning (May 12) on the second West Coast Highway, as the collision was "unlike other highway accidents" and "an intentional act to halt a moving car with an unconscious driver behind the wheel."

 

The collision had been soft. Both drivers did not sustain any serious injuries.

 

Han Yeong-tak, 46, told local media that his own car was the least of his concerns when he spotted the oddly crawling vehicle scraping the median strip as it was advancing.

 

The driver of the car, who reportedly had a chronic illness, had passed out while on the road due to the previous day's stress. The car had already advanced 1.5 kilometers when Han quite literally stepped in.

 

Dashcam footage from the car revealed several passing cars choosing to overtake the vehicle without stopping to look, until suddenly Han stops his Tuscani in front of the moving vehicle, bumping it to a halt.

 

Hyundai Motor Group, the carmaker of the Han's Tuscani, offered to repair his vehicle free of charge.

 

 

 

[Mustank]

Tuscani for the win

[Weez911]

Police officer buys toy plane for boy who went missing from Kallang Bahru after finding him at NEX

 

https://stomp.straitstimes.com/singapore-seen/police-officer-buys-toy-plane-for-boy-who-went-missing-from-kallang-bahru-after

 

 

Adeline Tan

The New Paper

Jan 17, 2019

 

When her seven-year-old son ran ahead as she was taking his two younger siblings to a pre-school, she did not bother to chase after him.

 

He would often run off and then wait for them at My First Skool at Block 66 Kallang Bahru.

 

But yesterday was different.

 

When the mother, who wanted to be known only as Madam Siti, got there, little Danish Fazlee, who has mild autism, was nowhere to be seen.

 

But she was still not too concerned because "he likes to visit some toy shops along the way".

 

Madam Siti, 24, told The New Paper: "He knows his way around. He has never been out alone and would always wait for me."

 

She searched the neighbourhood twice before returning to their home at nearby Block 61.

 

But Danish, who goes to AWWA School for children with special needs in Hougang, was not there. By then, 45 minutes had passed.

 

The worried housewife called the police, who put out appeals for information on the whereabouts of her son, who was last seen at 10am wearing a white and orange shirt, and orange shorts.

 

The Special Operations Command and Ground Response Force were also activated to search for him.

 

Unknown to his mother and the police, little Danish had embarked on a potentially dangerous "adventure" on his own.

 

Madam Siti said: "When I saw so many police officers, the gravity of the situation hit me. It never occurred to me that he would run off. I just broke down."

 

A spokesman for My First Skool told TNP that Madam Siti had appeared anxious when she dropped off her two children.

 

She said: "She asked me if I had seen Danish, who had previously attended the childcare here. When I said no, she asked me to call her if I heard anything about him."

 

Residents and shopkeepers said at least 10 police officers combed the area for about 30 minutes.

 

A shopkeeper, who wanted to be known as Ms Liem, said: "It is usually quiet, so seeing so many police officers was shocking.

 

"They were asking people questions, and there was a woman crying."

 

Madam Siti said the police later called to tell her they had found out that Danish had boarded a bus and alighted at a stop just before the Eunos bus interchange.

 

Madam Siti said that when she and her mother, 43, were in a taxi heading to the bus stop, she started fearing the worst.

 

"I was praying he would still be there. I was so scared that he left the neighbourhood alone," she said.

 

"I kept thinking that he would not obey traffic rules and would get into an accident. He is an active boy and might dash across the road without me around."

 

When they got there and could not find him, she was panic-stricken and kept calling her son's name while combing the area with her mother.

 

Then the police called again to say that they had found out that Danish had taken a train from Eunos and then a bus to Serangoon.

 

Said Madam Siti: "I got even more worried. Serangoon is far from my place and we hardly go there. Just the thought of him crossing the roads was unbearable."

 

When Madam Siti and her mother reached Serangoon, the police said they had found him in a toy shop on the fourth storey of Nex shopping mall.

 

The police said in a Facebook post that Danish was found after about three hours by Serangoon Neighbourhood Police Centre officers who were looking for him in the mall.

 

 

Danish received a souvenir from his "adventure" when an officer bought him a toy plane.

 

Madam Siti said: "I was so relieved when I saw him that I teared up again. He was smiling happily and all he wanted to do was to go home and play with his toy.

 

"I can't thank the officers enough for their hard work and for reuniting us.

 

"He won't be running off by himself any more because I am making sure that I hold on to his hand tightly from now on."

 

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    [angel]   

 

Edited January 18, 2019 by Weez911

[Angcheek]

Police officer buys toy plane for boy who went missing from Kallang Bahru after finding him at NEX

 

 

 

See ... the Police officer is telling the boy dont anyhow fly aeroPlane ..... make him so busy trying to find him. 

 

[DACH]

Next time don't threaten your kid that the policeman will catch him/her if he/she becomes naughty.