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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ON TUESDAY, I returned from a holiday at the Malaysian hill resort, Genting Highlands, with my wife, two children and my parents-in-law. At the petrol station just before the immigration checkpoint in Gelang Patah, my in-laws realised that they had left their passports at the Genting Highlands hotel.
This left us in a fix (and panic) as I had to catch a flight back to India that night for my work the next day.
As we were fretting about what to do, a fellow Singaporean at the petrol station noted our plight. Without us even asking, he offered to take my wife, children and me across the Second Link to Singapore, so my parents-in-law could drive back to Genting Highlands to retrieve their passports.
My wife and I were at a loss for words at his kind gesture, as everyone at the petrol station - pump attendants included - agreed it was almost impossible for us to take a taxi back to Singapore, which was our initial plan. It did not help that it was raining heavily. We gratefully got into the car of this good Samaritan, whom I knew only as Mr Lim.
Mr Lim's kind gesture touched my wife and me in many ways. First, if he had not come to our aid, I do not know what we would have done. His willingness to come to the rescue of strangers, whom he did not know at all, was commendable.
What was most awesome about Mr Lim's act was the fact that he knew the risks he was taking by taking total strangers with luggage across the border. Yet that did not deter him from coming to the rescue of two adults stranded with their children.
Nicholas Leong
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ON TUESDAY, I returned from a holiday at the Malaysian hill resort, Genting Highlands, with my wife, two children and my parents-in-law. At the petrol station just before the immigration checkpoint in Gelang Patah, my in-laws realised that they had left their passports at the Genting Highlands hotel.
This left us in a fix (and panic) as I had to catch a flight back to India that night for my work the next day.
As we were fretting about what to do, a fellow Singaporean at the petrol station noted our plight. Without us even asking, he offered to take my wife, children and me across the Second Link to Singapore, so my parents-in-law could drive back to Genting Highlands to retrieve their passports.
My wife and I were at a loss for words at his kind gesture, as everyone at the petrol station - pump attendants included - agreed it was almost impossible for us to take a taxi back to Singapore, which was our initial plan. It did not help that it was raining heavily. We gratefully got into the car of this good Samaritan, whom I knew only as Mr Lim.
Mr Lim's kind gesture touched my wife and me in many ways. First, if he had not come to our aid, I do not know what we would have done. His willingness to come to the rescue of strangers, whom he did not know at all, was commendable.
What was most awesome about Mr Lim's act was the fact that he knew the risks he was taking by taking total strangers with luggage across the border. Yet that did not deter him from coming to the rescue of two adults stranded with their children.
Nicholas Leong
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