Random Acts of Kindness - Time to feel GOOD

[corneyAmber]

duriz:

ksi:

It was the first time my child ever got any plush from the machines and it was a grand prize which required more than one grab. :love: :love: :love: Thanks to the 2 lovely persons, my child carried her prize so proudly home and slept with it. On top of that, they paid for the games.....and they went home with 5 super cute plushes themselves. :love:


Oh not forgetting, there was a 3rd person in the picture who was very helpful. Without the guidance, it would not have been so easy too...

Thanks to the three of them for making our day so great!

:celebrate:

:celebrate:

[corneyAmber]

duriz:

jedamum:

i think they may be call 'UFO catchers'....my bro is an expert in this.

I have never won anything in my life (so far).
Not by luck nor skill

That is because you still have a long long life to go......so it will come...
To me meeting all the nice people is part of the luck lor if I have no direct luck to pick out the winning items... :lol:

[duriz]

The Benevolent Mother Hen


When I was little, I attended Buddhist studies class (the equivalent of Sunday school) every weekend. Our instructor told us many interesting stories, one of which struck me as particularly poignant - maybe the reason was because I was born in the year of the Rooster. The story surfaced in my mind lately, when I read a newstory whereby a (celebrity) woman said that chickens are stupid and how she prefer to have other animals as pets. The story I was told was based on a research conducted in Europe - studying animal behavior. Below is the original story in Chinese and my brief (and lousy) translation of that story:

"One time, a hen was brought a bunch of quail eggs. She looked at them, pondered for awhile but proceeded to roost them as her own. When the eggs hatched, she brought the chicks out to the woods and showed them how to dig for worms and tree bark, just as their mother would.

Another time, the same hen was brought a bunch of duck eggs. She roosted them with the same care and when they hatched, she brought them to the lake for their first swim.

Both experiments surprised the reseachers. Here we have your basic domestic hen, who was raised on chicken feed and does not swim - yet she knew to dig for worms (for the young quails) and "coach swimming" (for the young ducklings)".

This makes me wonder if we could be as generous and empathetic towards each other.


仁 慈 智 能 的 母 鸡

欧洲一个专门研究动物的机构中，有位教授负责研究「鸡」，他很用心地观察各种鸡类的生活形态。
有一天，他在树林里发现一只山雉生了好多蛋，就悄悄地拿了几个蛋带回去。刚好有一只母鸡也生蛋了，他把母鸡生的蛋取走，换上山雉的蛋。母鸡看到蛋不一样，犹豫了一下，但是很快地就去孵这些蛋，既温柔又谨慎，好象在孵自己的蛋一样。
经过一段时间，小山雉破壳而出，母鸡带它们到树林里，自己用爪子将土拨开，寻找土和树根之间的小虫，然后咕咕地叫着那些小山雉来吃。
教授看了好惊讶！因为以前这只母鸡生的小鸡，都是喂食人造饲料；这一次，母鸡居然知道小山雉不吃饲料，只吃自然界中的食物。
教授又拿了一些鸭蛋让母鸡孵化，母鸡一样耐心地把鸭蛋孵化成小鸭，然后带着小鸭到水池边，让小鸭在水里游泳。
这两件事让教授明白一个道理──人类认为愚蠢、没有感情的鸡，其实既有爱心、又有智能啊！不同的人有不同的个性、习惯、观念，人与人之间的误会、冲突，绝大部分起源于彼此不了解，不互容。
一个团体能否和谐安定，关键就在于团体中的个体，能否相互尊重、包容，以慈悲的胸怀彼此扶持，而非相互计较、埋怨；以清净的智能化解纷争，而非任由无明烦恼的情绪蔓延。
一只母鸡能够以爱心和智能，对待外形和生活习性皆与自己不同的异类，身为人类的我们，只要肯用心，当然也能以「善解、包容、知足、感恩」彼此相待。

[corneyAmber]

If everyone has a \"chicken heart\" as above, the world would be a better place!!! Thanks for sharing duriz.

[duriz]

ksi:

If everyone has a \"chicken heart\" as above, the world would be a better place!!! Thanks for sharing duriz.

You're most welcome ksi.
LOL@ \"chicken heart\" - cute

[tankee]

Time to feel GOOD !


Too much negativity recently, need some positive energy to counter it.

Come share whatever random acts of kindness that someone did to you or you did to someone today. No act is too small, what's important that it had made you smile.

[verykiasu2010]

a group of angmo going for Christmas party, cakes and gifts on hand, ended at my home ..... wrong address .....so I drove them to the correct address......same house number, same owner name ....only difference is road name - one with 'west', one without :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[corneyAmber]

Thanks tankee...I thought I had a similar thread somewhere started 2 years ago, something about nice encounters? Must go and dig for it....think it has gone under a huge pile by now... :rotflmao:

[tankee]

verykiasu2010:

a group of angmo going for Christmas party, cakes and gifts on hand, ended at my home ..... wrong address .....so I drove them to the correct address......same house number, same owner name ....only difference is road name - one with 'west', one without :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

both houses yours? :evil:

:salute: that's a very kind act !

[BlurBee]

verykiasu2010:

a group of angmo going for Christmas party, cakes and gifts on hand, ended at my home ..... wrong address .....so I drove them to the correct address......same house number, same owner name ....only difference is road name - one with 'west', one without :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Wow, so many 巧合. U r so nice to drive them there.