“What a HEARTWARMING scene that has made my day,” wrote Winson Heng in a Facebook post that recounted the time he saw two kindly foreign workers offering to shelter alighting bus passengers from the rain on Monday.
It’s been a pretty rainy past week across Singapore, and the financial adviser had been prepared to be drenched upon reaching his bus stop.
“To my surprise, I couldn’t feel any rain and when I looked up, a foreign worker was holding an umbrella for me,” he wrote. Another foreign worker had stationed himself at the other end of the bus stop to hold out an umbrella for passengers wanting to board buses.
Subsequently, the man stayed for a while at the bus stop to observe. The duo — still donning their hard hats and work vests — would wait for buses to arrive at the stop along Sengkang East Way and step forward with open umbrellas to provide shelter to boarding and alighting passengers. It’s sad to note from the videos captured that some of the folks didn’t offer their thanks to the selfless workers.
According to Heng, this went on for the next hour.
“After I went back home to prepare for work, about 1 hour later, I took a peep out of the window, to my amazement, they are still consistently sheltering people… They must have done it for the past few hours and it is really touching to see such a scene”
Speaking to The Straits Times, Heng initially believed that the workers had been sheltering commuters as part of their jobs, but he realized that they weren’t obliged to do so, considering other foreign workers had been “sitting down and relaxing” nearby.
He made sure that their good deeds were rewarded — he bought them four 1.5litre bottles of 100Plus.
“In that heavy rain, the construction work needs to stop temporarily and they could use the time to rest like most of their other friends BUT INSTEAD, these few brothers chose to use that time to LOVE OTHERS, putting others interests above theirs,” he wrote.
Singaporeans react
Netizens applauded their foreign workers’ kind gesture and railed against the folks who didn’t have the courtesy to thank them.
Meanwhile, someone chose to be non-conformist and tried to prove that the workers were actually paid to do it.
Good thing he was called out.
