Good Neighbors / 好邻居

This morning, I went to deposit S$1100 at the ATM machine outside our condo. Suddenly a strong gust of wind blew most of my money away. I had tried my very best to grab what I could, but the wind was too strong and I couldn’t respond in time. One man outside the lift (unit no, #05-04) and another woman inside the lift helped to grab S$100 each. She also spotted another S$100 that was stuck in the lift gap. In such a hurry, I didn’t even have any chance to thank them because after counting there were still 4 x 50 dollars notes were missing. I was so worried, as we are now already in a big financial strife and S$200 is enough to cover the cost of my mother’s treatment for one day. The condo management then called out the emergency service engineer from the lift company. Meanwhile, there was one electrician who was under the condo management and also my neighbor (unit no #01-03) who volunteered to help. The electrician managed to see a S$50 note on my neighbor’s aircon ledge. (Later he also borrowed a ladder to check some other places in the basement) She quickly went to the aircon ledge to get it back for me. A while later, the serviceman came. He went down below and found the other 3 notes. When he heard about our financial problems, he kindly let me off the usual S$30 charge for emergence call out.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people for their kind help. Their kindness made me feel that I’m not alone in fighting this harshness and that there’s still a bright side to life. Once again thank you all so much.