Donations. Every year, every school from St. Xavier's Institution to Convent Pulau Tikus, most if not all non-government body, be it St. John or the Red Cresent ask for donations. Every year, thousands of people go out and about, into the streets, the wet market, ferry station, shopping complexes, food courts; some holding a small tin can while others hold a piece of card and some brochures giving their best effort in really helping to seek donations. Well, the very least I could remember was that I too was a former member in the Red Cresent society and when it comes to Flag Day, I have to perform my duty. That aside, I was also the member of social action group which once in awhile is also required to collect donations.
That brings me to one question cause up until today,
whatever donations that I have seek, I don't know where they end up and who benefited from it. Where did all that money went to? What was the purpose of the donation? Do they REALLY really need it? Well, to all donation seekers out there, stop and think about it okay.
Anyway, the issue here is how annoying all these donations have become. I could at the very least understand the severity and how badly the people who suffered from catastrophe such as tsunami, earthquakes or landslides will ever need these donations. I might feel for the orphans. But schools. SCHOOLS. A place where we study needs donation? This is really really annoying. Every year, they hand over the cards for us to seek donations. Arghhh!!! How much I despise this.
And let me ask you a question. Does donation has a limit? I mean when you seek donations, do you open tender and ask for a certain amount of money and that you WOULDN'T settle for anything less than the amount specified? Truth be told, this is actually happening. WHATTT THE HELL IS THIS? Let me make myself clear here. I am not talking about charitable organizations, not orphanage homes, not the homes for the aged and infirm but schools. The very institution that serves to provide us education.
So some of you guys might disagree with me and hate me on this. Recently, my brother (stupiak brother) received the card (walkathon, jogathon, whatever thon... ) to collect donations. Well, he is somewhat of a coward (unlike me who is shy when it comes to my female counterparts, he is afraid of the school). He doesn't dare to question the school, doesn't dare to speak up his mind like I do and not ready to challenge them. Set there is a requirement of at least, the very minimum of RM40.00 per card and that is made compulsory. He is lazy to collect donation using the card, probably shy (so you can put the blame on both reasons), he somehow managed to coax mum to ask me to do it for him. Well guess what, did I do it... nahhhhh... not in a million, gazillion years.
That led to a fight between me and mum. Well, RM40.00 is by all mean not a big amount but I am not saying that it's easy to collect RM40.00 especially when first, you're living in Penang (where all the kiam siap cockroach is residing, me included wahahaha) and second, during this hard time when people find it difficult to even make ends meet. For God's sake, the fucking government is coaxing everyone into believing that there is no financial crisis or whatsoever crisis. Duh, are they blind or what? One comparison that I can make our current government be it from Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nepotis... (ooops, Barisan Nasional) to is that they are the same, not similar but the same as an ostrich who rather dig their heads into the ground than to face the fact.
Back to the donation issue. Given an effort, yes... you(I) can do it. Nothing is impossible. But then, I choose not to do it. Why? The simple reason why is because you asked me to do it. You gave me instructions to do it and for that, I retaliate and I don't want to do it. Yes, I am that kinda person. Why on earth must you make it compulsory? Why are our kids (paused, thinking... yes, I'm not married therefore no kids, LOL), brothers and sisters, cousins and friends made to become tools to serve the school's interest in collecting donations. Ehhh... we go there to study, we are not bind by any sort of contract written in black and white or was there any unwritten social contract or mutual understanding that requires me to contribute at least RM40.00 in the form of donation to the school each year.
I am very pissed off now. Some of you guys might just fuck me up and say, "deyyy, shut up, cut the crap and just go out and go seek donation la, your time wasted to blog about it, might as well put it to good use and seek donation for the school". Well no. I am trying to make a point here. If they want donations, they have to accept whatever amount there is. Be it RM10.00 or just RM1.00, just take it and shut up. Since when the world operate by the concept that beggars do get to be choosers. And the perception of how much you collect for the school reflects upon how much you love you school is TOTALLY nonsense and absurd.
Well, think about what I've blogged about. Does it make sense to you? There is no reason why the school should set an amount for the minimum donation per card. They might as well just go rob the bank. And then to think of it again, there are plenty ways to raise funds and collect donations. We have canteen day every year. Why not have it this year? Why not have it twice? Once at the beginning of the year and once at the end of the year. Stop using those cards la. Grrr... all this donation through cards, it reminds me of all those people that comes around every now and then to seek donations whenever you're enjoying a bowl of laksa and a glass of sugarcane water at Gurney Drive. LOL...
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