To: Reach/NEA/PM Lee/MSF/ 潘丽萍议员(MP Denise Phua)
请耐心看完以下视频, 如果总理和潘议员有所感动, 会和我的网友们一样有同理心, 想亲自拜访这位老人家吗?
这是新加坡政府如此照顾建国一代吗?
Jane Lim
5-8-2017
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拥有80多年历史的新加坡结霜桥免租金旧货市场, 被PAP关闭了, 这名83岁的独身老摊贩, 在这里摆摊36年, 现被逼到现实边缘, 生活堪怜, 如今躲在组屋楼下一角, 想继续过自立的摆摊生活, 无奈人潮已退, 没人来光顾, 却还得提防环境局(NEA)来开罚单, 真是情何以堪啊!
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5-8-2017 2pm-4.00pm于结霜桥。83岁的刘先生, 在这里摆摊36年, 如今无处可去, 只好在附近的楼下一角摆摊, 他对我说:”没有生意, 没有人买东西。” 75岁的沈先生给他送来免费饭盒, 征得他们同意, 让我拍照上网, 最后给了他们每人5个祝福红包, 祝福他们坚强面对前路。艳阳下, 64岁的符先生坐在路边, 独自撑着伞等待着顾客上门让他修理电器, 临别时, 同样给了他5个祝福红包, 他交代我:”如果你和朋友有电器坏了, 记得拿来这里让我修理。”
巧遇其他机构的义工和NEA的两位年轻职员在这里巡视, 他们说这里安装了闭路电视, 确保摊贩没在这里继续摆摊, 否则NEA就会开罚单, 我告诉两位NEA职员, 不好雪上加霜开罚单, 多体恤这些老摊贩。
另一角, 有10个老摊贩相聚在那里, 给了他们每人2个祝福红包, 结束了我今天的结霜桥之行。
炎热的结霜桥, 无助的摊贩, 冰冷的PAP, 无情的NEA。
Jane Lim
5-8-2017
(2pm-4pm@结霜桥)
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Translated by Charlotte Cai:
To: Reach/PM Lee/MSF/MP Denise Phua
Please watch the video below with patience.At the end of it, would you be moved so much so that you will want to visit the elderly citizen featured in the video personally, just like my cyber friends and I?
Jane Lim
5-8-2017
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The rent-free Sungei Road flea market, with a rich legacy dating back to more than 80 years ago, was closed down by the PAP government recently. The elderly man showcased in the video, who is single and 83 years of age, has had been hawking here for about 36 years. Alas, he is now being pushed involuntarily to the boundary of real life. Living a harsh and difficult life for as long as he could remember, he is now hawking used goods at a corner of the void deck of a block of HDB flats. He wants to be as financially independent as possible by working this way, however the crowd of people has already been dispersed with the closure of the Sungei market, and there is not even one customer at his current location at all. Instead, he has to be on the guard against NEA inspectors who simply issue summons to him for violating the relevant rules. All of this sparks of irrationality and insensitivity on the part of the government towards ordinary folks like him and the rest of us! How is he going to make a humble living then?
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5-8-2017 2-4pm at the Sungei market
The 83 year old Mr Lau mentioned above, who has had been hawking at this market for about 36 years, and now with no where else to go to except a little corner of the void deck of a block of HDB flats, told me ” no business, no one is buying things from me.” A Mr Sim (75 years old ) came and handed him a free lunch box. I took pictures of the two of them upon getting their approval, to be uploaded online later. I also gave 5 blessing hong baos to each of them , wishing them all the best as they embark on their uncertain and worrying future.
Mr Foo, 64, sat on the road side under the hot sun, and held an umbrella while waiting for his customers . He specialised in reparing faculty electrical products. Before we parted, I gave him 5 hong baos too and he reminded me to inform my friends to have their dysfunctional products serviced by him.
I ran into some volunteers from other organisations as well as two young inspectors from the NEA. The latter warned me that CCTVs have been installed in the area to deter the hawkers from continuing their business , and that summons would be issued to them should they do so. I advised these officers not to rub salt into the wounds of the poor elderly hawkers and instead to be more considerate and empathetic towards them.
10 other hawkers gathered at another corner of the market. I gave 2 blessing hong baos to each of them before ending my trip there.
The scorching heat in the market, the powerless
and helpless elderly hawkers, the apathetic and indifferent PAP, as well as the ruthless and merciless NEA make me dreary indeed…..
**快乐天使**Happy Angel** 