Sept 5, 2018—So I took a picture of a Bangladeshi cleaner cradling a fat ginger cat like a baby outside Toa Payoh library, and it quickly went viral on social media. Mothership published it and it was soon picked up by radio station Class95FM, who came to interview the cleaner and me.
Every one swooned over the unlikely relationship between Sajeep and Ah Wang the cuddly cat, but I had my own set of questions when I captured the moment.
How do we treat service staff, toilet aunties, uncles and cleaners? They take on jobs we shun but do we shun them to the extent that we don’t even look at them?
Do we need another cat to get past our prejudices or can we see people for who they are regardless of their jobs they do?