Average Joe In The House. sKy

These few days have been really busy for me. Yesterday and today, from 9 to 6, I'm actually working at Suntec Theatre, where there is a Cancer seminar organised by Channel NewsAsia.

At first I thought that this is going to be a very boring seminar, whereby I won't be able to understand what the doctors are saying. But I was soooo wrong.

I feel sad for those patients that the doctors show or quote in their examples, for they can be anybody like you and me, our friends or somebody we know, and by looking at the pictures itself, we can actually know that the patient has been suffering from so much pain that we can never ever imagine.

But due to the advancements of technology, I'm so glad that we have these doctors who can detect the cancer cells by using the high-tech equipments, shrink it by using chemotherapy, before surgically removing it.

Not only that, we have more choices of drugs now, that enable us to control the cancer cells from spreading. But the downside of it is that EACH pill costs about SGD$100+, and the patients will have to consume like many a day.

Most importantly, we have to show support to the cancer patient. Doctors themselves are not enough to guide them through the entire process. Support from family, friends, psychiatrists, counselors are required too.

But the bad thing is that I stood for too long being an usher, and now my left ankle is injured quite badly, in the sense that I cannot turn my ankle at all. I don't know what happened to it too. Damn.

And on friday, I think I either did a good deed, or I got conned. Here's what happened.

I was at the bus stop outside Mediacorp at about 6pm, and I sat beside this indian lady. After about 2 minutes, she suddenly turned around and talked to me. She told me that her right eye is blind, and when she took the bus, she dropped her wallet, which has her ezlink. She needed $3.80 to take 3 buses home, and asked if I could give her. I didn't have any coins, so I checked my wallet, and I only had a $10 note. I told her that I don't have coins, but only a $10 note, she said it's fine and that she can change it to coins.

1) How was she able to change it to coins where there isn't any shops nearby?
2) Why on earth was she there in the first place?

But I still decided to give her the money, because I felt that if my money could really help her, then it'll be a good deed. She asked for my handphone number so that she can pay me back the next day. I was thinking, "will she call me for more money?" So I decided that she didn't need to do so, and I boarded my bus a minute later.

So am I conned?