Chinese New Year is often a festive season that is ushered in with prosperity and abundance. But in the case for one group of friends, it was also one that was celebrated with much kindness and consideration, as their recent experience would go to show. In a post that was shared by social media user Syed Azmi, he recounts how he and two other friends had stumbled upon an elderly Chinese auntie while at an MRT station.
Group of M’sian friends stumble upon auntie desperate to get home
At the time, it was already 10.05pm and the ticketing booths had already been closed since 5.00pm. But out of desperation, the auntie tried to call out for help to purchase a KTM ticket so that she could get home. Syed notes that she was seen wearing a hearing aid.
“Unfortunately, the man standing behind the MRT counter said he knew nothing about KTM trains.” he said.
Taking it upon himself to assist the elderly auntie, he decided to try and purchase a KTM ticket for her by using the designated KTM ticketing machines. But to his dismay, he realised that all the ticketing machines were out of order.
Desperate and in a state of panic, the elderly woman said she wanted to cry as she didn’t know how she was going to get back home. Realising that they had little choice left, one of his friends, Rizan, then offered to drive the auntie back to the KTM Bangi station where she was due to get off and meet her younger sibling.
“We called her younger brother and asked him if we could help bring her back to the KTM Bangi station. Her younger brother agreed, so she joined us in our car.” he explained.
Was divorced and had been travelling from Sungai Choh
During their commute, he struck up a conversation with her and came to learn that she went by the surname of Teh, and is 65-years-old. Her eldest child is 40-years-old, and she was divorced from her husband who had already remarried.
That day, she had been spending her evening in Sungai Choh as she was attending a reunion dinner with her old colleagues from a factory that she used to work in, and was due to head back to her younger brother’s home to spend the night.
Eventually, they managed to send her back to KTM Bangi where her younger brother was waiting for her on his motorbike. Thanking the men profusely, she even gifted them ang pows for the trouble and asked them for their numberplate so she could buy herself a lottery the next day, owing to her good fortune of running into them.
In fact, she even asked Syed if he had any children, to which he answered that he wasn’t married. To his surprise, she even told him to invite her to his wedding when he ties the knot, as she already considered him to be a friend.
“That was perhaps the best Chinese New Year memory that the three of us ever made,” he adds, before ending his story.
His post has since been warmly received by netizens, many who commended him and his friends for lending a hand to the auntie when she needed it the most.
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