Life Transformers - Xin Qing Da Dong Yuan

[corneyAmber]

Yeah I watched this one too, she is simply respectable and amazing, I love her attitude towards life. :salute: :salute: to infinity... Everything Zack wrote, she could smile when she spoke about them. The steelness in her character is admirable and she is very cheerful despite her plight.


For my case, it was not my dd who needed to watch this, it was my maid who needed to watch it and she did!! My maid is much much much much much more fortunate than the old lady. :x

I wish her well too!

This is indeed a good program, sometimes we are surrounded by affluence, we forget we still have such people around us.

[ZacK]

ks2me:

This is indeed a good program, sometimes we are surrounded by affluence, we forget we still have such people around us.

Of all the programs similar to this.. I still prefer Xin Qin Da Dong Yuan... Cos I find it more true to life. Seeing the conditions that these people live in... I find that this is a good reality check.. To remind us that there are actually people who still have trouble making ends meet.

Despite our busy schedule and hectic lifestyle, perhaps sometimes we can slow down or even stop what we are doing to show some care and concern for a fellow person.... We do not have the ability to help them all the time, but at least when we stop to care, we will make it a beautiful day for them.

[ChiefKiasu]

ZacK:

... Despite our busy schedule and hectic lifestyle, perhaps sometimes we can slow down or even stop what we are doing to show some care and concern for a fellow person.... We do not have the ability to help them all the time, but at least when we stop to care, we will make it a beautiful day for them.

ZacK, you have one of the best hearts I've ever known amongst my friends.

[corneyAmber]

ZacK:

ks2me:

This is indeed a good program, sometimes we are surrounded by affluence, we forget we still have such people around us.

Of all the programs similar to this.. I still prefer Xin Qin Da Dong Yuan... Cos I find it more true to life. Seeing the conditions that these people live in... I find that this is a good reality check.. To remind us that there are actually people who still have trouble making ends meet.

Despite our busy schedule and hectic lifestyle, perhaps sometimes we can slow down or even stop what we are doing to show some care and concern for a fellow person.... We do not have the ability to help them all the time, but at least when we stop to care, we will make it a beautiful day for them.

Yeah I actually also :salute: the volunteers who went to the house to help them neaten up. It takes alot of effort and energy and certainly a compassionate heart to do that within a day's work.

I used to do holiday jobs(eons ago) as the ministry's interviewers doing surveys. I was sent to those 1 hall 1 room homes to do the surveys and I saw alot of such people and housing then. I thought such housing would have been greatly reduced by now and people's life are generally better.

So when I watched this programme, it brought back those memories of live cases I had encountered in those years.

[jedamum]

disclaimer : my opinions are my own and only based on the few peeks i got of the show - cos i usually tune out of it.

personally, i don't like this series. it reeks more of entertainment (at times at the expense of those needing help in the programme) than genuine help.
my opinion is that there are many ways to raise awareness or filming technique to make it more of a documentary than a drama.
i watched only one full episode - the one on the hyperactive boy - fancy calling the boy a little demon in front of him/the camera; shame on them.

[ZacK]

ChiefKiasu:

ZacK:

... Despite our busy schedule and hectic lifestyle, perhaps sometimes we can slow down or even stop what we are doing to show some care and concern for a fellow person.... We do not have the ability to help them all the time, but at least when we stop to care, we will make it a beautiful day for them.

ZacK, you have one of the best hearts I've ever known amongst my friends.

Thanks for the compliments Chief... A tall one at it too :oops: ... I believe there is a good in everyone. For me I am not there yet still working on doing it more... There are so many times, I notice such people in need but yet in my busyness ... I just walk along. :oops: :oops:

Recently I started travelling via one of the small streets thru Chinatown to get to my work place and see the old almost balding Ah Po by the road again ... Yet I didnt stop to give her a small ang pao cos I was always running late :roll:

[BlurBee]

1 qn for those gold-hearted people.

If you see an old man/lady selling something (eg packets of tissue papers) everyday (pls note, its everyday), will you help buying from them everytime?

[corneyAmber]

Jedamum you probably caught an episode not so cool, I missed that one.

I don’t watch many but the few I caught accidentally were ok.

Blurbee, firstly I am not gold-hearted but I am one who do not carry tissue in my bag, strange for a lady. One of my male friends laughs that hanky now replaced by tissue is important for ladies because that is the origin of hanky panky. Hahaha… Anyway I remain the way I am so if the tissue man or woman I see daily, I may not buy daily but on alternate days. Since I don’t carry any n that little help may mean alot to them.

[ZacK]

ks2me:

Yeah I actually also :salute: the volunteers who went to the house to help them neaten up. It takes alot of effort and energy and certainly a compassionate heart to do that within a day's work.

Yeap certainly kudos to the volunteers as well... Cos some of the home conditions are very bad... Washing toilet stained by decades of neglect, clearing out mites, dirt and dust etc... :salute:

For me... I get irritable nose and will itch all over whenever I get hot and sticky in a dustry environment... hahaha perfect excuse to stay away from spring cleaning LOL

[ZacK]

BlurBee:

1 qn for those gold-hearted people.

If you see an old man/lady selling something (eg packets of tissue papers) everyday (pls note, its everyday), will you help buying from them everytime?

For me, I acknowledge that I cannot help them all the time... Having said that, I also look at how bad their condition is, some of the people walking ard to sell tissues have a lost limb or blind etc... Most of them sell tissues for 3 pkt/dollar, there have been times that I give them $2 w/o taking their tissues or I give them a dollar for 1 pkt of tissue... There have also been times when I politely reject them.

I guess what I do is a function of how I am feeling that day etc... But for those people that are rude and persistent and some even \"insist\" that you get from them and tell their sob story to gain sympathy :roll: ... I usually wouldnt bulge.

Hmmm... By responding I am not acknowledging that I am gold-hearted lar... I have my moods and emotions too... Just that I am fairly observant of my environment and these are the things I notice and pick up. So to me, if I am in the position to do a little something at that moment, I just tell myself to do it.