Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email i remember discussion about felicitating him with gifts and awards. i reiterate that giving him a chance for furhter education or better job is they best way forward. we have to look beyond short and superficial awards. a poor person would not be getting "datuk"ship, so we can forget that. only we are harping about his deeds, but the rest have moved on. soon, he will be forgotten.
perhaps those in position in MNCs or educational institutions can help to offer him a job or scholarship. if his ex-employer can invite him to join in a trip, he must be a good employee.
Tioman hero wants a good job
By WANI MUTHIAH
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Family pride: Krishnamoorthy (centre), his mother Saroja (left) and his siblings (from left) Satyacelan, Nagamah, Chandrasekaran and Yogeswary looking at newspaper cuttings on Krishnamoorthy’s brave rescues at sea.
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Although he received many accolades for saving lives during the Seagull Express 2 ferry fire off Pulau Tioman recently, S. Krishna-moorthy remains unfazed by all the attention.
“I am too preoccupied with earning a decent living to allow all the praises to go to my head,” he said when met at his home in Pandamaran, Klang, recently.
According to the 19 year old, his main priority is to earn enough money to make payment on his family car and house.
“My two brothers Chandra-sekar, 20, Satyacelan, 17, and I offer wiring services and sometimes it’s quite a struggle as work is scarce these days,” added Krishnamoorthy.
The youth who dropped out of school after completing Form 1 is the third son in a family of three boys and two girls.
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"A good-paying job will help me ease my family’s burden" – S. KRISHNAMOORTHY
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His sister Nagamah, 19, is jobless whilst the youngest Yogeswary, 15, is still in school.
Krishnamoorthy’s father B. Sandaran who works in a Tamil school and his factory worker mother P. Saroja take care of the family’s utility and food bills.
Krishnamoorthy hoped that the media highlight would help him get a job.
“That’s the best reward that I can receive as a good paying job will help me ease my family’s burden,” he added.
Krishnamoorthy found himself in the limelight after he selflessly handed life jackets to passengers and helped them off the burning ferry.
He had also ignored his own safety by repeatedly diving into the water to pull others to safety.
When asked what had prompted him to do so, Krishnamoorthy said it was due to compassion.
“I couldn’t just stand by and watch people struggling to get out of the water as well as get off the burning ferry,” said Krishna-moorthy who was there on a vacation with his former boss Phang Kee San and his family.
