Everyone misplaces their valuables at some point in their lives.

Just that for a Singaporean lady, Amalina Senin, it just had to be S$5,600 in cash that she misplaced.

Losing a wallet with S$5,600

According to The Straits Times, Amalina boarded a Grab car with her mother at Raffles Hospital on March 28, 2018 afternoon as they headed for home at Yuan Kang Road.

However, it was only at around 9pm in the evening that Amalina realised that she had left behind her wallet containing S$5,600.

Her mother had passed her that huge sum of money during the Grab ride to pay for her pilgrimage.

Returned by a stranger

Because of the thick S$50 stacks in her wallet, Amalina did not think that she would get her wallet back.

To her relief, however, a stranger reached out to Amalina's husband, Amin Mimie, saying that he found her wallet.

Liaw Yi Kang, a former NSF 3rd Sergeant, told them that he found the wallet in the car.

He managed to traced the couple as there was a receipt which had the woman's husband's name and mobile number on it.

Liaw gave Amin his address, and told him to come down anytime the next day between 8am to 5pm to retrieve the wallet. He assured them that everything in the wallet remained intact.

Amin offered Liaw S$100 as a token of their appreciation, but he declined to accept it.

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To express his gratitude, Amin took to Facebook to share this story on March 29:

"Life is already a struggle and super hectic in Singapore and yet there is still a honest and kind soul living among us."

This is his full post and the screenshot of the chat:

Yesterday, my wife misplaced her purse in a Grab car. A purse with $5.6K of $50 notes hard cash.Midnight, a man named Mr Yi Kang called me on my mobile. He found a receipt which had my name and mobile number in the purse.He told us he found it in the same Grab car that Mimie took. Today, I met him, thanking him and even offered $100 for his honesty. But he declined.Life is already a struggle and super hectic in Singapore and yet there is still a honest and kind soul living among us.

Thank you Mr Yi Kang.

May God bless you and family.

Those who knows this man, kindly express my extend gratitude and thankfulness to him.

Praised by the Singapore Army

Amin's Facebook post has since gotten over 700 shares.

The story was also picked up by The Singapore Army, who identified Liaw as a former Detachment Commander of 10th Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (10 C4I) Battalion.

In their Facebook post, the Singapore Army also praised his actions as one that exemplifies "the SAF's core value - Ethics."

What would you do if you find a stack of notes amounting to a few thousand Singapore dollars? This real-life scenario happened to 3SG (NS) Liaw Yi Kang, a former Detachment Commander of 10th Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (10 C4I) Battalion. On board a Grab-registered car, 3SG (NS) Liaw found a heavy purse with $5,600 worth of cash in it. He contacted the owner and duly returned the purse untouched. This action of his drew praises online and the Singapore Army would also like to commend 3SG (NS) Liaw for his act of honesty and thereby exemplifying the core value of ethics.

In this post, Liaw shared that he returned the wallet after putting himself in the shoes of its owner:

"At that point of time, I thought that the owner who lost this purse would be panicking as it is a large sum of money. The owner must have needs to settle some issues urgently as no one would usually carry so much cash. $5,600 is really a huge sum of money to me as a young adult, and if I was the one who lost it, I would also panic."

Top photo from Singapore Army and Amin Mimie Facebook