It’s the one week Easter break, after much shopping, I reallise that it’s time for me to earn some bucks…so the only available job is be a fundraiser after Jac’s intro. It’s like flag day, holding bucket on the Sydney city street asking for money fr pedestrians. Except that I get 33% commission of what i collected. So first day I collected 120+ and thus I earn 41 in 3 hrs at Hyde Park South.
It’s definitely not an easy job I can say (it’s sorta underpaid but at least I get something and be part of charity as well) U see all sorts of people. Most of the time, the people that you don’t expect them to donate (judging fr their look) actually donated….(or course I approached them most of the time) it’s a truly randomize process. But I ‘m dead sure those in full suit are not gonna donate. They probably see pple like us everyday on work days. U get lotsa diff responses like “ sorry no change, sorry no money, sorry another day” of course some people will juz give u cold shoulder. Asian gals will give u a shy smile juz like wat I’ll do too….of course I did get some bad remarks like “ you are here everyday” (you refer to the fundraiser), “ I don’t advocates such blah blah” ( I can’t get wat she’s saying but she’s definitely not frenly). It’s kinda surprising that coins lidat can accumulated to such a lump sum. Juz an incident worth to mention, there is this old man keep digging in his groceries bag, so I tot he’s gonna donate but who knows he took out a banana and put it in the bucket. Of course that’s for me and the bucket can’t fit that. So SWEET. i so need that
I guess when people saw it’s for AIDS….u know….all the stigma still present in some mindset, they don’t donate.
Sometimes when some guys saw me, I saw them reaching into their pocket and u heard the clutter of syilling loose change….but they don’t donate. I guess the sight of me reminded them how broke are they……
I oso saw the Falungong demonstration which caught everyone’s attention on the busy street and no one actually care to donate money unless I explain to them what are the Chinese characters about. Everyone juz stopped and see…. The march was very long, consisted of brass band, loud speakers with recorded slogan, people holding banners, dead man’s photos, people dress up as police, doctors, captives.etc They even put torture simulation scene on the back of truck, saying falungong captives are tortured and their organs illegally taken out in China. True or not, I really have no idea. But I know it did catch lotsa attention. Could have taken a photo with my new phone camera but I decided that my blog shall stay away fr any political interest. Around 1 month ago, I also saw some pro Tibetan demonstration against China….I guess that’s the wonder in Western Countries – Freedom of Speech. You most probably wldn’t see this in Asia.
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