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  • This Power Driver With Winning Smile Made My Day

    This Power Driver With Winning Smile Made My Day

    So I took bus number 806 from Yishun Interchange at about 10.54pm last night (27.06.17). This driver is one of the best drivers i’ve experienced in my entire 21 years of life so far.

    As usual everyone was silently in queue waiting for our bus. No emotion on our faces no smile, nothing at all.. As we boarded the bus, this driver made everyone smile but welcoming everyone so warmly. He greeted everyone as we boarded. Majority acknowledged and moved on back.. I thought that was the end of his gesture of kindness trying to brightens everyone day but warmly welcoming us onboard. But no..

    As we approached the first stop, and as soon as doors open and people alighted, he wished them a goodnight. Eventhrough he was right at the front and people were alighting from the other door at the back, he still shouted in a very sincere way wishes them a good night.

    He did this for every stop. Then my stop came, I didn’t know what I was feeling but I knew I was smiling and definitely feeling slightly sad as he are the type of people who should be accredited and known.

    As my stop approached, I walked to the front and started speaking to him. Thanking him for his service and just having a normal conversation. He respected everyone by calling them in the terms he knew how to address then as sisters and brothers. When he got to know I am Punjabi (he is mixed Punjabi) and It was time for me alight, he very nicely said Sat Sri Akal and wished me a goodnight.

    This are the kind of people that are needed in the service line. They make everyones day better and slightly more bearable. Tired or not I promise with more of them, you’ll never be dragging your feet to the bus interchange anymore. Service line isn’t just a job. It’s passion to help people and offer them the services our job requires.

    Thank you for the good ride home Surenther Singh Teja Singh

     

    Source: Simran Kaur Sheena

  • Caring Malay Bus Captain Was Superhero, Took Care Of Woman Struggling With Toddler

    Caring Malay Bus Captain Was Superhero, Took Care Of Woman Struggling With Toddler

    This morning at about 10.15, I took a SMRT bus 859B (Licence plate no SMB 3149 X) at the bus stop opposite Blk 491 Admiralty Link. The driver, a Malay man in his twenties ( I couldn’t get his name) seemed reluctant to continue and kept looking towards the back of the bus.

    After about a minute of waiting, he walks towards the back and tells a female passenger who is standing to have a seat. The passenger is carrying a toddler. Despite her declining, he politely tries to persuade her to sit down, telling her that it may be uncomfortable and dangerous to stand. This prompts another passenger to persuade others to give up their seats. Someone gives up his seat and the passenger sits down. The journey continues uneventfully.

    Prior to boarding the bus, I had been watching the trailer of the new Captain America movie, a cinematic project filled with an assortment of super heroes.

    I couldn’t help but think that this young man could have turned a insouciant blind eye to the passenger’s discomfort and the possible danger facing her. He instead chose to address it. This prompted others to rise up and help her. He may have not realized it, but he inspired others to act with civic consciousness.

    Now that’s who I call a superhero. It is therefore fitting that I couldn’t even catch his name and he remains a mystery.

     

    Source: Thiagesh Menon 

  • Bus Driver In India Names Son Jeyaprakash Lee Kuan Yew After Singapore’s First Prime Minister

    Bus Driver In India Names Son Jeyaprakash Lee Kuan Yew After Singapore’s First Prime Minister

    MR B. Jeyaprakash, a bus driver working for a government transport company in India’s Tamil Nadu state, has never been to Singapore and, until last month, had never heard of Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

    But he was so moved by the outpouring of grief over the Singapore leader’s passing that he named his newborn son Jeyaprakash Lee Kuan Yew.

    Mr Jeyaprakash, 37, lives in the town of Mannargudi, which has a population of 70,000.

    Soon after Mr Lee’s death, placards with photographs of Mr Lee were put up across the town. On the day of his funeral in Singapore, more than 300 people from Mannargudi and nearby villages marched silently for 4km behind a wreath for Mr Lee. The procession stopped in the centre of town, where people bowed and prayed before a photo of Mr Lee.

    The tribute moved Mr Jeyaprakash so deeply that he decided on the spot to name his son after Mr Lee. “I wasn’t planning to give him that name. I had gone to the bazaar to buy milk and saw this procession and memorial for Mr Lee. So I stopped and heard people talking about all the great things he had done for Singapore. There was so much respect for him,” said Mr Jeyaprakash.

    “That was the first time I heard Lee Kuan Yew’s name. I didn’t even ask my wife, I just decided on the spot that my son should have an auspicious name. So I put Sir’s name in the hope that my son will do very well in life.”

    His son was born at 1pm on March 23, the same day Mr Lee died.

    In Tamil Nadu, parents sometimes name their children after international and historical figures, including Josef Stalin, Karl Marx, Nikita Khrushchev and Winston Churchill.

    Mr M. Karunanidhi, leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party and former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, named his son M. K. Stalin.

    Mr Jeyaprakash’s mother is unable to pronounce her grandson’s name. But his wife, Ms Bhagiyalakshmi, 27, has no such problems.

    “It is the name of a great man and leader,” she said, smiling broadly. “Lee Kuan Yew!”

    The baby, dressed in pink, sleeps peacefully in his mother’s arms as people talk around him. “He doesn’t cry that much and he is much easier to take care of than my daughter at the same age,” said Ms Bhagiyalakshmi.

    Mr Jeyaprakash has been reading up on Mr Lee in the local Tamil newspapers.

    He cut out a photo of Mr Lee from a newspaper and plans to hang it on a wall.

    “If I have a photograph in the house, I can point to it and then tell people about my son’s name.”

    He is also donating 10,000 rupees (S$220), nearly his month’s salary of 12,000 rupees, for a museum being planned in town for Mr Lee.

    Still, the grandmother looks doubtful about being able to pronounce the name. “I just cannot pronounce the name. I call my son ‘thambi’, so I will call my grandson ‘thambi’ too,” she said. “Thambi” means “son” in Tamil.

    But Mr Jeyaprakash has a solution for that: “I told her to call him ‘Mr Lee’ for now, and then we will see.”

    NIRMALA GANAPATHY

    BACKGROUND STORY

    AUSPICIOUS NAME

    I heard people talking about all the great things he had done for Singapore. There was so much respect for him… I didn’t even ask my wife, I just decided on the spot that my son should have an auspicious name.

    – Mr Jeyaprakash, on naming his son Jeyaprakash Lee Kuan Yew, after the late Singapore leader

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com