That is what I am. I was eating near college when this lady from some shelter comes to sell these gifts, in the name of charity. They even produced a photocopy of the police document that lets them go around asking.<\/p>\n
Of course, I had my earphones on. She was doing the introduction and I pretended to be unable to hear her. I took out one earphone and then after a while, the other. Yeah, you gotta love those conversation-stalling devices. (Uh, I use them at work too, hehe…)<\/p>\n
Suddenly, the voice of my dead grandfather played back in my head.<\/p>\n
“Don’t donate to these people. You should go to the place itself, because you can never tell who is real.”<\/p>\n
So I told her that I had only 5 Ringgit and I had to pay for food, drinks and the bus fare home. Wrong timing, I said. I was broke<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Evil I was. I lied.<\/p>\n
I went to college, and I had time to burn before heading to Midvalley, so I decided to get some Vitamin D. I headed over to the KLCC side of Ampang Park, and I met the WWF.<\/p>\n
The lady sort of stood in my way. She was better looking than the earlier volunteer, so my conversation-stallers came off sooner.<\/p>\n
She<\/b>: Do you know about the WWF? Or you think it’s the wrestling one?
\nMe<\/b>: Yeah I know… it’s the one with the pandas in shopping malls with holes in their heads.
\nShe<\/b>: *opens leaflet* Have you seen this man? (Some Indian dude who’s been some WWF superstar since 1974 or something.)
\nMe<\/b>: Nope…
\nShe<\/b>: Anyway, the WWF needs RM2xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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