Introduction and Myself

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My aim of this blog is to educate the general public on martial arts in general with more emphasis on clearing doubts and misconception on chinese martial arts in a healthy and educative manner on this blog.

I also hope to share my knowledge and skills in tricking to wushu or tricking enthusiasts out there regardless of race or nationality through upcoming videos or tutorial videos.

This blog also serves as a discussion on any other issues that are non-marital art in nature that is happening in the world or my homeland, Singapore.

Finally, it is to introduce my homeland, Singapore to friends from the rest of the world!!!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Giving up Seats to those who Need in Public Transportation

It is not the first time I witness such an incident that people can be so oblivious to their surrounding. An elderly women, obviously old in her sixties or seventies, can be left standing in the train with no one offering a seat to her.

I am pretty irritated at how Singaporeans are becoming. Everyone for himself. Most of the commuters were strong, healthy looking individuals, at least strong than that elderly woman. However, why they could not even offer a seat to her?

Just as I was standing pondering over this issue, there was this Indian man (he did not look local by the way), who stood up from far and brought the old woman to his seat.

This Indian man was clearly not local, maybe a Bangladeshi. That very moment, I had a great respect for this man's action. Not only did he represent his own moral values, but also he represented the entire non-local Indian population's moral values.

I have heard Singaporeans who looked down upon them. Now, I think it is time we think twice before looking down on such non-locals. We, educated people with at least an 'O' level or diploma, could not even match a Bangladeshi in terms of moral values. Most of the commuters who were sitting down were decently dressed with office attire. Others were at least secondary school students.

I am not generalizing all Singaporeans as ungracious people. However, I would like to make it clear that each one of us represents our entire Singapore population, our own education system, and our parents' upbringing. Therefore, it is best that it is time we wake up and shake off our selfish character so that we can stop this vicious cycle of immoral actions from perpetuating within our society. The rationale is if we as the adult population in Singapore do not feel anything wrong about this actions, we will not be able to educate our next generation of Singaporean what is right or wrong.

Let us start looking out for people around us to care for and help. =)

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