Hippocreep

When I was young, I always tell myself to respect people no matter what that person does for his/her living. And I also tell myself that never ever judge a person by his/her looks.

As for my job, sometime I need to get down to production line to settle those issue faced by production. To cut the story short, after some period of working in the same line, I got to know this girl. She’s one of the operator of the line. She’s in her early 20s, quite pretty looking and she’s from Vietnam. As she knows how to converse in BM, I started to chat with her while monitoring the line. I asked about where she stays in Malaysia. She told me she’s is staying in an apartment with other operators. Very normal conversation and suddenly I ask her about her family background. Asking what is her parents doing for the living back in Vietnam. And I got a shock hearing her answer. I was expecting some low income profession what force her to come here to work and send money back but it’s not.

Apparently, her dad is a doctor and her mum is the state library’s head librarian. And she herself used to work in her dad’s clinic. I proceed to ask her why she still comes to Malaysia and work as operator since she’s able to live such comfortable life back home. She said she had a huge argument with her dad where she secretly give the patients expensive medicine because she felt pity for them. And her dad found out and they had argument. Within 2 weeks, she arrived in Malaysia.

Seriously, I got a shock and I kinda admire her for her courage to come so far from her home to work but in a meantime, I feel she is very stupid and silly of doing that. How contradict my thinking is but seriously, when you see a foreigner walking on the street, never ever assume that they’re from low class family. Because they might have some interesting story behind them.

J