“ Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou salt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander” Holocaust Museum, Washington DC October 13th afternoon around 5:30, a car accident occurred in Huangqi, China. The victim was a 2 year old girl who was run over by a van, which then fled the scene while she lay bloodied. Over the next 7 minutes, 17 passerbys walked past her and did nothing. It took the 18 th person, an old woman who was a garbage scavenger, to rush to the aid of the kid and bring her to the hospital. She now lies in coma, has been declared brain dead and could die anytime. A few weeks ago I was in the bus, on my way to school. Being rush hour, it was packed with students. At one of the stops, one of the passengers who entered the bus was an elderly man, old enough to be offered a seat. Though the only one who offered it to him was a middle aged woman. The rest of the students were
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com·plain [k uh m- pleyn ] verb (used without object) to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure,resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantlyabout the noise in the corridor. I complain a lot (more to myself than to anyone else). People around me complain a lot. Pretty much everyone I know have complained at some point in their lives. Not that there is anything particularly wrong with it. To some extent, especially in Singapore, I think it is perhaps the one of the few forms of expressing our dissatisfaction with something. I mean, we Singaporeans are one of the most obedient groups of people you can find anywhere. The government increases GST, we complain, but we learn to live with it. Our schools and workplaces bombard us with endless work, we complain, but we still do it. In other countries, when higher authorities over exercised their power, people have usually taken to the streets. Good and Bad. Good because, it shows these autho