Thursday, July 13, 2006
I have had let Panic through my mind. Stupidity and self-condemning is starting to sink in. This evening I think I have done a very impulsive thing. I left the company at around 1814 hours. I was about to exit out to Hoy Fatt Road when I was approached by one young man and a middle-aged woman. The man was about in his mid or late twenties, had semi-shoulder length hair, had almond-shaped face, he was wearing a pale blue (I think there are stripes) collar-ed shirt, around 170 in height because I have to tilt my head up to talk, not skinny or fat. The woman was in a black top and shorter, plump too, taller as compared to me by a few centimeters, had black stains in between her teeth, quite a oval wrinkled face and had small silted eyes when she smiled.
What happened:
As I have mentioned above, I was about to exit out to Hoy Fatt Road when approached by them. They said that they were from China; here in Singapore to visit some relatives but upon reaching found out that their relatives had traveled to Hong Kong. So now they were penniless and "begged" me to help them out. They continued relating their situation to me even when I told them I was in a rush and that I had parents waiting at the station for me (it was actually a lie which I thought I could get away with). **This was roughly the scenario because they had really heavy accented mandarin and I could only understand and recognize some. In the end I took out $10 and gave them and quickly left the area.
After that I called one of my colleagues (Christine) who's still inside the company and told her what happen and asked if they did go past the company. She told me that I shouldn't have given them $10. After that I started feeling uneasy and the scenario kept repeating in my head and I kept thinking of the various possibilities of how I could have avoided them. The worst thing is that when they were talking to me I have totally forgot that the moment I stepped out of the company's gate, to my right, there's a police car parked up the slope and the police was doing their rounds. That flew out of my mind. I should have just referred the couple to the police!!! (T_T) Oh man, the more I think, the more stupid I think I am.
Right now, I am trying to console myself by thinking that they really needed the money and that I have done a good deed instead of a stupid act.
