Life Transformers on Mondays 8pm at Channel 8 is really worth watching!

i've been watching a few episodes here and there since the airing of this programme. It mainly shows us (fortunate kids and adults alike) the plights of the needy and unfortunate in Singapore and how their lives are improved upon the help rendered by organisations.

Today's episode talked about a mother who has developed a phobia of walking and even going outdoors because her daughter had accidentally pushed her down a flight of stairs when the latter was very young. the mother didn't trust her family members at all after that incident, especially her daughter, and she didn't dare to step out of her bed. hence, she's been lying on that thin, dirty bed for almost a decade. The father is a newspaper vendor and earns really little to feed 3 mouths and the daughter is just a mere 9-year-old.

Since young, the daughter has never experienced her mother's love and instead of her mother providing for her, she needs to do all the household chores and settle meals and even clear the poo-poo and the wee-wee for her mother.

I can assure you that she looks much older, much more mature than a 9-year-old.

The previous episode also showed the whole production team and about 7-8 volunteers spring-cleaned their homes which were really filthy, greasy and filled with algae, cockroaches (dead and alive) and years of accumulated dust.

Honestly, i've never come across these cases and only got the chance to learn vicariously from such programmes. I realise that there is still a group of these unfortunate Singaporeans who are neglected by society and needs a lot of help and care from both the public, the government and the organisations.

There are many people in Singapore and in the world, worrying when they would get to have their next meal, worrying if their electricity and water supply would get cut off. They want to find jobs but their disability has prevented or rather stopped them from doing so. It's heart-wrenching to see many children not being able to receive proper education while the whole lot of us are whining and complaining about the pile of holiday homework and the upcoming tests/exams.

I guess this is a form of relativity. One would NEVER get to experience what others are experiencing. i guess we all have to learn the hard way. I do.

Quote of the day: We can't always control our envrionment but we can control the way we react to it.