Discovering the Undermined Gems Rewards Time Episode 1!

If this is your first time reading about my Discovering the Undermined Gems series, I will briefly walk you through what I do.

Sometimes, when I walk around the malls or eating places, I find some very ordinary people in the line of service but with very outstanding attitudes. It drives me to want to highlight them and tell about their stories in my blog. I refer them as GEMS. I would dedicate the payout I receive for the post featuring them as their tips, if their workplace allows. (For some helpers or maids here, their employers prefer not to let them have too much cash in hand, as there are many cases of some of them running away before their contract ends.) If their situations do not allow, I would buy them gifts or food as the "tips" collected from all of you who upvote my posts. Tipping is not a usual practice in my country (yet), so let's see if this can build up a wonderful trend to further reward those in the line of service!

This intention or "movement" was mainly motivated by my little philosophy of:

Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly!

and

Open your eyes, look around and see the unnoticed!

I like to tell real-life stories anyway, so let me start telling of those who are even strangers to me!

Rewards Time!

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If you have read about this dedicated cashier I met in McDonald's here named Farish, I have gone back to find him several times and finally, I got to meet him last weekend. Some of the days when I went, he was off duty. So, it actually took me some two weeks to finally meet him.

Sorry for the blur photo, because we were queuing to place order for our food, there was also a line behind us, so the husband took this in a rush.

Farish was surprised when I handed him the cash of MYR102. SBD was rather low when I got my payout, it was approximately 2USD per SBD. Hence, with the payout of the post $12.63, I multiply it with 2 and multiply it with 4 (1 USD ~ MYR 4 which fluctuates too, so I rounded it up), amounting to RM101.64, rounded to MYR 102. He thanked me and chuckled a bit. After that, he professionally continued to take my orders and those behind me.

A day later, I located him again because I realized that I could have given him the link to the post featuring him. Haha. That was when I found out he is from the same hometown as me, studying in the school nearby my school! What coincidence! We couldn't chat much again due to the nature of his work.

On a second thought, I need to plan this better so I can take better pictures and know what to hand over to them.

Overall, I learn that it is not easy to actually locate my "gems" again to pass them the reward. I have been looking for the petrol station attendant which was my 2nd gem, but to no avail. So, let's just post about my 1st gem first! Wish me luck in finding back all my other gems!