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Animation by @tu4ah
Holy crap! Someone made an animation video of me playing granny. This means the world to me, animations are really cool and this is freaking sick dude tuf4h
This is an achievement for me honestly, I’m so grateful for this ❤️
Tufah, you’re awesome dude please keep doing what you’re doing right now! I’m rooting for you all the way, loved your work so much, it means the world to me !
Thank you dude, Thank you ❤️
#FAIZNAJIB #GRANNY
Animation by @tu4ah
Holy crap! Someone made an animation video of me playing granny. This means the world to me, animations are really cool and this is freaking sick dude @tuf4h
This is an achievement for me honestly, I’m so grateful for this ❤️
Tufah, you’re awesome dude please keep doing what you’re doing right now! I’m rooting for you all the way, loved your work so much, it means the world to me !
Thank you dude, Thank you ❤️
#FAIZNAJIB #GRANNY
I have been working as a GrabFood deliveryman since I lost all of my arts income due to the current COVID-19 climate.
If I could sum my experience up in a phrase, I would say it has been an experiential ethnography of privilege and empathy.
I have had some bad/heartbreaking experiences. I encountered a migrant worker who asked me to give him some of the food that I was supposed to deliver to a paying customer - the migrant worker had no money to buy lunch because his employer was not paying his wages on time. I received a one out of five star rating for a delayed delivery, because it was raining and when I reached the lobby of the forty-storey high condominum, I had to queue up at the security counter for temperature taking/contact tracing purposes.
But I have also had my share of heartwarming encounters. On my first day of work, a waitress bought me a drink while I was waiting for an order that was taking longer than usual to be prepared (“做这行辛苦了，这杯茶泡给你喝，替你加油!”). A granny who lived in what looked like a rental flat tipped me $5 for a Burger King order that cost slightly more than my tip.
Ever since the 'circuit breaker' measures kicked in on Tuesday, I have seen Safe Distancing Ambassadors and enforcement officers from the various government ministries on the ground discouraging people from gathering/roaming together on the streets - a tough but necessary thing to do given how infectious the coronavirus has proven to be.
At the same time, I am also frustrated by some of the vigilantism/shaming that has been happening on social media - ranging from people loitering in void decks to fellow deliverymen having meals in public. To be able to stay at home (let's not even talk about ordering in) means that you have a certain kind of privilege that not everyone has. For every person who is irresponsibly hanging outside for fun, there is also another person who genuinely does not feel safe to be at home, be it alone or with members of their household - whom they may not be on good terms with.
Stay at home if you can - we need all hands on board to curb the spread of COVID-19. But if you do see someone else not staying at home as often as they should be - rather than admonishing them straightaway, gently check in with them to see if there is anything you can do to help them stay safe in these trying times. Sometimes there are complicated circumstances behind the non-conformative actions that people take, that we can never discern on the surface.
[P.S. Do tip your deliverymen if you can - even a $1 tip is appreciated! It is the only form of income that companies does not, and cannot touch. Delivery earnings across the board have been slowly, but surely reducing for us because of the sudden influx of deliverymen, and the less than proportionate increase in demand for food delivery from consumers.]
[P.P.S. If you are thinking about ordering from your favourite hawker stall, if you can help it, try to dapao/bungkus from them in person rather than through a third-party app, so that the hawker can minimise the commissions that they have to pay for using the third-party app to offer delivery services.]
