This is the 4th week of June. It is time to print my "Respect Traffic Law" T-shirt. This is not to show off but a lesson learn. Last month I was thinking of writing on the back of my T-shirt "Respect traffic law for our security and dignity" but than a thought came out of my brain asking why don't I engage other instead of doing it alone. So I started to do fund raising. By now (one month later), from the dream of wearing this t-shirt alone, another 99 more people will join me. However, I am a bit ambitious. To make it even more, I put one/fifth of my salary this month to print extra 50 T-shirt. I am 22 years old, I am just a student, I am not someone famous, and so on, but I was doing the right thing. I believe in Gandhi philosophy "when you are fighting for a good cause, people seem to pop up and support us" Here are the evident:
- My mother who is a an uneducated person, living in Kampong Cham, a business women who never like to waste money. But she did contribute some money.
- Young people/students who don't have job or earn any income, and never know me at all, they contributed small amount of money too. Not just themselves, they talked about it with friends, and their friends made contribution too.
- Someone (sorry I forgot his name) living in Ratanakiri province got this information from someone. He called me to ask for further information, than he raise money within his work place and send the money to me. Can you believe this?
- My boss contributed two small amount of money, one for him, and one for his daughter who is about 14 years old. My other colleagues contributed some money not just for themselves but also for their wife and girlfriend.
You see, people do care of making small changes. And you know who didn't care? Our ministries ! I send the announcement out to most of ministries including the city hall. Non of them even send a reply. Well, it is their problem, not my problem.
I am so happy now with my achievement. Thanks to all who have made contribution to make this possible. I do really really appreciate your commitment and putting trust on me. I'm sure what we have done is contributing to our society good.
"sangham saranam gacchami"...foryou!
ReplyDeletehi hi. Thanks for visiting my blog. But what "sangham saranam gacchami" means?
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ReplyDeleteNana, you're innocently funny. I can't help you with the meaning of that phrase, but I heard that phrase repeatedly said by monks during the religious ceremony in a pagoda. So if you ask the elderly, i'm pretty sure they know the answer.
By the way, you are doing a good job, even though I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel for that issue. If you look at other countries, the issue is even worse, even with the government's involvement. We are talking about a multitude of factors here. Respecting the traffic law is unfortunately just one of the issues. The issue is pretty simple: more people and more vehicules, but the number of roads is still the same. I really miss the time when the road were bad. That way people slow down a lot and there were less accident...anyway...