Simple and kind deed still remembered

I REFER to the report “Kindness – that’s all it takes” (The Star, Feb 16), which reminded me of the 20 sen I received from my classmate Tan Kit King 55 years ago. We were in Form One then.

We were standing on the field in front of our school, La Salle Klang, when he suddenly shoved a 20-sen coin at me and asked me to take it. In those days, I could get a plate of rojak in one of the many Indian restaurants along Rembau Street in Klang, which has been renamed Jalan Tengku Kelana. My classmate lived on that street in the 1960s.