THEY, That We Cared Less

the earth says Hello!

people in the world put your hands in the air

*whoot whoot*

ok,lets cut the crap.

i kinda like the new job im doing now.its very relaxing and no one to boss me around although sometimes it can be super dry a.k.a dead bored.

but sitting at that place allows me to look around,see the people around me,the way they act,walk and talk. 

the way they laugh 

and much more

among all we can also see a different kind of people and evaluating all of them is fun and funny and sometimes can be a bit gross too (seriously gross)

anyway,the place im referring to would be the food court.here in Penang we mixed around. there are Chinese, Malay, Indian and even Pakistani.

the Pakistani are the cleaners here at the food court.you or should i say WE might sometimes think that the work they are doing are kinda gross or like what the Malays like to address as 'geli'.

but you know what,without them we customers will not have a clean table at all time.we should thank them.

anyway,what is the first impression that you have the first time you're looking at these people?? like the foreigners who work in a way that people of that country would not even want to work? you might think they had no ambition or illiterate or sometimes some people might think that they (we people) are way much smarter than those low class workers.

i had this chance of talking to two of the workers who work at the food court. they shared few things about their life, work and their wishes with me. can you even imagine what is the outcome of that cheet chat? 

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!

the first Pakistani worker that i talked with had shared few stories with me about his family and his life here in Penang,Malaysia.

Mohammad Hafisz, the name of the Pakistani worker that i talked with had just set his foot to this beloved Penang for 4 month. he left his 2 brothers, a sister and his parents at Pakistan just to work at this country.

his father possess a MBA and the brothers and sister are studying at the University currently. his interest in school and till he studied at college was only towards Mechanical. when he reached Penang in the first place his intention was to work under mechanical sectors but instead he had now become a security guard.

he complained about few things like the food and maybe environment. the food in Penang does not suit his taste bud i guess. after all he just been here for 4 month,so i don't blame him.

the second guy introduced himself as Anwar Shadiq(or something,im only sure of Anwar but not the last name tho,ooppppss)

he shocked me for a while when i asked him his age.he is soon reaching 18years old. 18 years old!!! can you imagine at the age of 18 years old he had already travel that far just to work. at that age i am still taking my a-level and still depending on parents fully.

well,his story was a bit different than Hafisz. he was already in Malaysia since he was 14years old. he attended his schooling days here in Malaysia.he manage to sit for PMR examination but then he had to returned back to Pakistan. but then he came again to study and sit for SPM examination.

he said PMR is tougher than SPM.weird.but kinda true.

when i asked him what is he going to do after he receive his exam result he said that he's really interested to study again.so i ask ...

"any specific course that you intend to take?"

"yes.i want to take engineering"

"engineering??!wow...that is really tough and time consuming ya'know"

"what to do,i like engineering"

and imagine how embarass was i when i asked him how tough is the exam. he said that the exam was easy! when i took my exam it was as hard as i can't imagine. pffft. and this guy just said it is very simple. how pissed off i can be now???!!!

see !!! how big is their ambition?? really big. and they really hope that they can sail through their life at the place whom no one cares about them or their life. i wonder how strong they can be to go through all this? i can't possibly be as strong as them.

lucky i never interviewed or talk with the other fellow if not i can't imagine what other shocking stories i would've heard.

Hafisz told me that i am the only person who would wanna talked to him at that place. the rest don't even look at him with a friendly look and more like strangers although he is a stranger in the first place :P

well,im glad that i did that.the more friends the merrier it can be.i wish to make friends not enemy

let the dream begins!

let love be your energy! (thanks robbie for the lovely quotation)

let sleep be your vitamin *wat the heck*

till then ...

xoxo dr.teoh <3 <3 <3