More popularly known as Jonghyun, the 27-year-old lead singer of Korean boy band SHINee died on Dec. 18.His death has been ruled a suicide and sent fans around the world reeling.
Orderly tribute
The sombre mood at Hong Lim Park stood in stark contrast to the pubescent hysteria typically associated with K-pop fantaticism.Orderly queues started before 7pm and snaked around the park.
The girls in attendance were in their teens. They arrived in black or white.
They queued up patiently to enter the park. Detailed identity checks against pre-registration forms were conducted.
Those who could not enter — as only 1,000 people were allowed into the compound at one time — patiently waited their turn.
Many of them brought along flowers and personal letters as tributes.
Post-it notes were also available on site for them to pen messages.
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The main organiser, who wished to remain anonymous and declined to be interviewed by The Straits Times, told Channel News Asia that she was surprised at how big a news story the memorial has become.
The 22-year-old said she has been a K-pop fan since she was 14.
She also clarified that she is not part of any SHINee or Jonghyun fan club. She organised the event with a few friends.
She said she hopes this tragedy and spate of events will make mental illness issues less a taboo.
Closure
The fans gathered at Hong Lim Park subsequently observed one minute
of silence. Many were seen breaking into sobs when it ended.
Others came forward to comfort and hug those who were crying.
The fans gathered also sang SHINee’s debut song Replay. They waved lightsticks and recorded the moment on their mobile phones.
They also shouted “You did well, you really did well, Jonghyun-ah!” in Korean at the end.
This was a reference to the suicide note Jonghyun left behind, in
which he wrote: “Please tell me I did a good job… You’ve worked hard.
You’ve really gone through a lot. Goodbye.”
A
turf war between two underworld gangs is the reason behind the brutal
killing of a man at a Johor Baru petrol station on Dec 17, according to
Malaysian officials.The victim, 44-year-old Tan Ah Choy, was stabbed and mowed down twice by a BMW at a Shell petrol station in Taman Pelangi, located just 4km from the Causeway.
The victim was conscious but was believed to have died while help was on the way, reports The Straits Times.
"Yes,
he was the leader of one of the gangs. It stemmed from a turf dispute
between two rival gangs," Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told
reporters yesterday.
"The four suspects who attacked the man have also been identified, police are hunting them down as we speak."
Asked
about the possibility of retaliation from the murdered man's gang,
Datuk Seri Zahid, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, said: "There is,
since it involves secret societies. It is their nature to be vindictive,
but the police are always ready. There is never a day without
operations being conducted."
The victim was also said to have 14 previous drug convictions.
The victim's wife on Monday took his remains from the morgue of Sultanah Aminah Hospital.
Asked
at a function if Tan was indeed a gang leader, Malaysian deputy police
chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim said: "We don't want to jump to conclusions,
let us investigate first. Based on the information that we have, there's
an involvement of money but we don't discount the possibility of it
being a triad war." Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder as the manhunt for the four assailants continue.
South Korean band Dear Cloud's vocalist Nine9 revealed the late Jonghyun's painful suicide note on his Instagram on Tuesday.The singer, whose stage name is Nine9, released the letter with his family's permission, reported Koreaboo.
In
a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday, she wrote: "I was not sure whether
I should be posting his will or not, still contemplating in fact, but
Jonghyun asked a favour to release his final words if he leaves this
world behind. I was really hoping that this day would not come….."
I was broken from the inside.
The depression slowly chipped me away, finally devouring me.
I could not beat the negativity.
I
hated myself. Even though I tried so hard demanding my memories that
kept getting cut off to 'wake up,' all I got in return was silence.
I'd rather stop if I cannot breathe.
I asked who could be responsible for me.
You're the only one.
I felt utterly alone.
It is easy to say "I'm going to end it."
It is very difficult to actually go through with it.
I've been struggling through the difficulty.
I told myself that it's just me wanting to run away from everything.
It's true. I really did want to run away.
From me.
From you.
I asked, "Who's there?" It's me. It's me again. And it's me the third time.
I asked, "Why do I keep on losing my memory?" They said it's due to my personality. I see. It's all my fault.
I wanted someone to notice (my suffering), but no one knew. Of course, they wouldn't. They never met me before.
I asked why people live. Just. Just. They live "just because."
If I ask why people died, they would probably say they couldn't bear it any longer.
Troubling thoughts flooded my head. I never got the chance to learn how to change dull pain into pure joy.
Pain is just pain.
I kept reprimanding myself not to do so.
Why? Why can't I even end my life with my own will?
I tried figuring out the reasons for my pain and suffering.
I already had the answer. I was in pain because of me. It's all my fault that I carry so many imperfections.
Teacher, is this what you wanted to hear?
No. I didn't do anything wrong.
I used to think that it's so easy for doctors to blame your personality for the suffering in their calm voice.
It
surprises me how I am feeling this much pain. Those people, who have
suffered worse than I, seem to go on living perfectly fine. Those weaker
than I am live on as well. I guess not. Among the living, there is no
one who is suffering worse and no one who is weaker.
The only answer I got back was "just live nevertheless."
Asking the purpose of life more than one hundred times is not for me. It's for you.
I wanted to do it for me.
Please don't say things you don't know.
How
could you ask me to still look for reasons behind my pain? I told you
multiple times why I'm suffering. Do I need more reasons to be in pain?
More dramatic details in my stories? More stories even?
I told you already. Were you absent-minded when I told you? Things you can bear and even come above do not leave scars.
It wasn't my responsibility to go against the world.
It wasn't my path to become world-famous.
That's
why they say it's hard to go against the world and to become famous.
Why did I choose this path? It's quite funny now that I think about it.
It's a miracle that I endured through it all this time.
What more can I say. Just tell me "good job."
You did great. Tell me I suffered enough.
Even though you can't laugh right now, just don't send me off blaming me.
Good job.
You suffered a great deal.
Good-bye.
BANGKOK - A 19-year-old freelance fashion model reportedly suffering
from depression was found hanged late Sunday night at her boyfriend's
house in Bangkok's Suan Luang district.
Pol Captain Ariyalertchaikul of Khlong Ton Police Station said
officers were summoned to the two-storey house on Soi Pattanakan 48 just
after midnight Sunday.
The teenager was found in a second-floor bedroom, hanging from a ceiling fan by a dog leash.
The body showed no other sign of injury and the room was locked from the inside.
The body was sent to Chulalongkorn Hospital for an autopsy.
Police investigation found that Nannpus stayed at the house with her boyfriend of six months.
Police discovered that Nunnpus had last posted on Facebook at 6.39pm on Friday Dec 15.
An Indonesian girl suffered severe head injuries while she and three other friends were taking a group photo near railway tracks in Purworejo, Indonesia, on Wednesday (Dec 6).
The 16-year-old victim, Ely Hayati had gone for a stroll at the
tracks with her friends when they decided to take a 'wefie' - a group
selfie - with a selfie stick one of the girls brought, reported World of Buzz and Oriental Daily.The group was busy posing for the photo and did not notice a train which was passing behind them.
Ely, who was at the back of the group, was hit and thrown forward by
the force of the train, causing her to bang her head on a concrete slab.
Her friends panicked upon seeing Ely bleeding profusely and quickly ran to look for help.
Nearby residents came and called for an ambulance.
Ely was brought to a hospital for a surgery to stem the bleeding.
Fortunately, Ely survived the ordeal and is in a stable condition although she is still warded in the intensive care unit (ICU).
After news of the incident spread online, some netizens have
criticised the teenagers' actions and said they should not have gone so
close to the railway
SINGAPORE: The Agri-Food and
Veterinary Authority (AVA) has temporarily restricted the import of
poultry and other products from an area in the Netherlands, following an
outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu in a duck farm there.
The
import of poultry, poultry products and ornamental birds that come from
a 10km restricted area around the affected duck farm in Biddinghuizen,
the Netherlands, will be temporarily restricted, the authority said in
response to Channel NewsAsia queries on Friday (Dec 15).
This follows the outbreak of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza in the duck farm.
However
heat-processed poultry products, which meet the requirements for the
destruction of the virus, will not be affected, said AVA.
So
far this year no poultry, poultry products or ornamental birds have
been imported from the affected area, the authority added.
The Netherlands has confirmed an outbreak
of highly contagious bird flu that has led to the culling of nearly
16,000 ducks, the World Organisation for Animal Health said earlier this
week.
The
highly pathogenic H5N6 strain was discovered on the duck fattening farm
in Biddinghuizen on Dec 7, and a 3km surveillance zone and 10km
protection zone were established around the farm.
SYDNEY: Australian institutions
"seriously failed" children in their care over decades with tens of
thousands sexually abused, the final report from a five-year inquiry
said Friday (Dec 15), calling it a "national tragedy".
The
government ordered the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to
Child Sexual Abuse in 2012 after a decade of pressure to investigate
widespread allegations across the country.
The commission
was contacted by more than 15,000 survivors who detailed claims of
child abuse involving churches, orphanages, sporting clubs, youth groups
and schools, often dating back decades.
It heard horrific stories during often confronting and emotionally exhausting public and private hearings.
In total, more than 4,000 institutions were accused of abuse, with many of them Catholic-managed facilities.
"Tens
of thousands of children have been sexually abused in many Australian
institutions. We will never know the true number," the final report
said, making hundreds of recommendations to improve children's safety
and make it harder for paedophiles to operate unpunished.
"Whatever the number, it is a national tragedy, perpetrated over generations within many of our most trusted institutions."
It
said abuse occurred in almost every place where children resided or
attended for educational, recreational, sporting, religious or cultural
activities.
And it was not a case of a few "rotten apples".
"Some institutions have had multiple abusers who sexually abused multiple children," it said.
"Society's
major institutions have seriously failed. In many cases those failings
have been exacerbated by a manifestly inadequate response to the abused
person.
"The problems have been so widespread, and the nature of the abuse so heinous, that it is difficult to comprehend."
More than 2,500 referrals have been made to police, with 230 prosecutions under way.
Among
the 17-volume report's recommendations was the creation of a National
Office for Child Safety, and for religious ministers to be required to
report abuse confided to them during confession.
During
its hearings, the commission heard that seven percent of Catholic
priests were accused of abuse in Australia between 1950 and 2010, but
the allegations were never investigated, with children ignored and even
punished when they came forward.
There were more than
1,800 alleged perpetrators, with the average age of the victims at the
time 10 for girls and 11 for boys. The St John of God Brothers religious
order was the worst, with just over 40 percent of members accused.
The inquiry embroiled Australia's most senior Catholic cleric George Pell, now the Vatican's finance chief, who was questioned over his dealings with paedophile priests in Victoria state in the 1970s.
Pell
is currently accused of multiple historical sexual offences, with a
committal hearing in March due to decide if there is enough evidence
from the prosecution for the case against him to go to trial
BANTING, Selangor The fire at a house in Tanjung Sepat here, which killed two senior citizens and two boys, took a terrible turn after the police found a slash mark on the victim."The victims are believed to have been killed and burned."However, the cause of death will only be confirmed after postmortem," said senior CID chief Asst Comm Fadzil Ahmat in a statement Wednesday. Fire investigations at home after fire
Postmortem is expected to take place on Thursday (Dec 14).
He added that the case was investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for the murder.
The victim was identified as a 73-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman, while a nine-and-a-half-year-old boy.
In a video circulating on social media, a 12-year-old boy, believed to be the only survivor in the incident, voiced a masked intruder into the house and killed his brothers and grandparents.
He said he was hiding in the toilet during the riot and fired a shot when the intruder left him.
Annie Ee's sister has told Channel NewsAsia
that the prison sentence given to Tan Hui Zhen "is never enough compared
to the sufferings my sister has gone through".
SINGAPORE: She was a close friend
of the Ee family, and doted on the children. Little did they know that
housewife Tan Hui Zhen, 33, would be the cause of devastating heartbreak
in the years to come.
More than two-and-a-half years
after she was found dead on Apr 13, 2015, 26-year-old Annie Ee Yu Lian’s
tormentors – Tan and her husband, Pua Hak Chuan, 38 – have been sentenced to jail.
Now 26, Annie’s younger sister has told Channel NewsAsia of Tan’s transformation from friend to tormentor.
“I’ve
known her (Tan) since I was seven. She was always doting on us … I
never would have thought that she would torture Annie,” said her sister,
who asked that her name was not published.
The couple physically and psychologically abused
Annie for eight months, from August 2014 until she died in her sleep,
severely injured. The couple had battered Annie’s body and mind and
shattered her self-worth. She was beaten daily, taunted and intimidated,
and forced to hand over her entire paycheck.
An autopsy
detailed the extent of the physical abuse she suffered: Twelve fractured
ribs and seven fractured vertebrae, a ruptured stomach and a body
crowded with blisters and bruises.
“(Tan) was in total control of my sister,” said the sister, in an interview conducted via WhatsApp.
She
recalled the shock of finding out that Annie had been battered and
abused by Tan. Though the police had visited the Ee household to break
the news of their sister’s death, “we only knew about the abuse the next
day, when we saw (a picture of) her bruised face in the newspaper,” she
said.
Tan was so close to the Ee family that it was to
them she turned to when she faced trouble in her marriage. Once, Tan
showed up with a bruised face after a fight with Pua, and the Ee family
took her in. “She stayed with (us). We gave her shelter and food,”
Annie’s sister said. “WE TRIED TO STOP HER”
Though Annie was the eldest of the Ee siblings, her younger brothers and sisters were fiercely protective of her.
“Her
freedom was sometimes compromised,” her sister admitted, because the
family worried Annie would be “bullied or cheated” due to her simple
nature.
She described Annie as a friendly girl who loved dogs and who would strike up conversations with strangers.
“My
sister felt that our family was being unfair to her (by) not giving her
the freedom to make her own friends … she felt that she was old enough
to look after herself,” her sister said.
It seems that Annie eventually decided to strike out on her own, and ended up moving into Tan and Pua’s flat in Woodlands.
Annie
agreed to earn her keep by doing the housework, but ended up cooking
and cleaning for the couple, who “exploited her low intellect and social
isolation, and manipulated her into thinking that she was
insurmountably indebted to them,” prosecutors had said.
“We
realised my sister’s behaviour and attitude started to change … we knew
that Tan was trying to manipulate my sister, so we tried to stop her
from contacting Tan."
But Annie was very defensive of
Tan, the sister said, and drew more distant as her family tried to
intervene. “She was in total control of my sister,” she said of Tan.
“My
sister loved (Tan) … no matter how we tried to stop her … she didn’t
believe what we told her, because she felt that (Tan) was always (on her
side).
“Some of the family (went to) where Annie worked,
but she would avoid eye contact. We tried getting her number, but she
was stubborn and said she would contact us … and asked us to stop
forcing her.”
“WE ARE GRATEFUL, TOUCHED BY ALL THE SUPPORT”
When
Tan and Pua were convicted of multiple charges of assaulting Annie on
Monday, Annie’s story went viral and triggered an outpouring of public
outrage and support in equal measure.
“We are really
grateful,” Annie’s sister said. “Though some people might have
misunderstood … that we kicked Annie out, many others have grieved with
us.
“We are really touched by their words - sincerely, thank you.”
Turning
to the public apologies by the Tan and Pua families, Annie’s sister
said the Ee family “will never be able to forgive what (they) did,
especially Tan”.
And while the pair received long
sentences, that is scant consolation: “The sentence, of course, to my
family is never enough compared to the sufferings my sister has gone
through.”
But there is some relief that Annie’s suffering has ended, her sister said.
“We hope she finds peace … be happy … and be free.”
SINGAPORE: A man was killed and two others were injured in an accident along Serangoon road on Saturday (Dec 2) evening.Channel NewsAsia understands that the accident involved a lorry and a motorcycle.Images and videos circulating online showed a stretch of the road near Race Course lane and Roberts lane cordoned off by police.
The
Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) said it received a call for
assistance at approximately 7.50pm and immediately dispatched its
resources to Serangoon road.
One person
was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, while another two were
taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), SCDF said, adding that the
hospital was alerted to be on standby.
The man in Yishun who kicked a passing 10-year-old boy for no apparent reason has been arrested under the Mental Health Act, Channel NewsAsia reports. The incident occurred on Thursday, Nov. 29, around 12.30pm
along Yishun Ring Road. In case you haven’t yet heard about it, here’s
the story:
From this unfortunate incident, however, we find ourselves more
interested in the stranger lady who managed to chase the perpetrator
down, even convincing him to return to the scene and wait till the
police arrived.
She has now been identified as one Doreen Chew, a resident of the
hallowed Singaporean town Yishun. She relates her experience of the
events that unfolded that day in a Facebook post:
According to Chew’s post, she was on the way to buy some books with
her daughter when she heard a commotion, and subsequently saw the young
boy flat on the ground.
The boy’s elderly relatives were asking for help to catch the
culprit, but no one from among the bystanders at the scene went to their
aid.
“I have a mental cert” / “Me too”
In the spur of the moment, Chew decided to run after the man.
When she caught up with him at a traffic junction with red light, she described his manner as “defensive and aggressive”.
Nonetheless, Chew remained undeterred, and managed to convince him to head back to the scene of assault with her.
The man even told Chew that he has a “mental cert”, to which she replied, surprisingly, “Me too”.
Halfway through the walk back, however, the man punched Chew from behind, almost making her fall over.
After a warning from Chew, he stopped the physical attacks, but started ranting instead.
Thankfully, the police arrived just five minutes after Chew called them.
Besides the boy’s family who thanked her profusely, people of the internet were coming forward to heap praise on her as well:
Chew writes in her post: “Nothing beats knowing my kids is as proud of me as I am proud of them.”
Indeed.
The moon is going to look huge tomorrow night (Dec. 3) because it’s a supermoon.
And it will be the first and last time we will see a visually larger moon in 2017
When to see it in Singapore
According to Moon Phases for Singapore, the supermoon will occur on Sunday, Dec. 3 at 11:46 pm.
Interested Singaporeans can try to catch a glimpse of it around that time.
What is a Supermoon?
A supermoon is popularly known as a full or new moon that coincides
with the lunar orbit making an especially close approach to Earth.
It appears to be visually brighter and larger than normal to the naked eye.
The scientific term for supermoon is perigee syzygy.
Gurtina Besla, a professor at the Arizona University, explains:
“Perigee refers to the moon being
at its closest distance to the Earth, and syzygy refers to the alignment
of multiple bodies — the moon, Earth and sun need to be aligned for us
to see a full moon. So it translates to the closest separation between the moon and Earth when the Earth, moon and sun are aligned.”
Next supermoon in 2018
If for some reason, you can’t catch the moon in its full glory, you
can always watch the live stream of the celestial event at the Virtual Telescope (3:45 am ET, or 16:45 pm local time on Dec. 4).
But if you’re too busy for that, you can always wait till the next supermoon occurs on Jan. 2, 2018.
The last supermoon we saw was on Nov. 14 last year. It was the
closest to Earth since 1948, making it the largest moon Earthlings saw
in 70 years. The next time the moon appears this big will be in 2034.
Most of us probably have dozed off while charging our mobile phones
at night. But the seemingly harmless deed cost one Vietnamese teen her
life.According to The Sun, 14-year-old schoolgirl Le Thi Xoan died in her
sleep after being electrocuted by a faulty iPhone charging cable.
Investigators at the scene speculated that the victim plugged her
iPhone 6 and lay on her bed - as she did so every night - alongside it.
They also discovered a burnt white cable with a slight tear in the rubber casing, which left several live wires exposed.The cable also had visible tears on it, which may have electrocuted her with the current, the report said.
A see-through tape was also wrapped around the wire's faulty area,
which suggests that Xoan was aware of the tear, but opted to continue
using it.Meanwhile, police also noticed that the cable also appeared shorter
than the Apple's original 0.5-meter (20-inch) charging device.
Officials were checking if it was indeed an original Apple wire or a third-party device.
A single mother of two young kids, Penang-born XYW arrived in
Singapore 10 years ago and has struggled to meet ends meet ever since
her divorce in 2012."My ex-husband, a Singaporean, left me for a woman from China," she told Stomp.The 37-year-old does odd jobs such as cleaning houses and washing
clothes in the day, while her nights are spent toiling away as a
full-time employee at a steamboat restaurant in Katong.
XYW, who declined to be identified over fears of losing her job,
said: "As I am a Permanent Resident, I have very little subsidies."My take-home salary from the restaurant is $700+ while I can earn
$50 for every home I clean (about four hours each time). Sometimes, I
have to clean up to 20 houses a month."
Despite her hard work, XYW had hit a rough patch as her children's school fees were overdue and she lacked funds.
But a generous $2,000 tip in cash from a regular customer helped her tide over the crisis.
XYW initially thought the extra cash was a "mistake" as the
customer's bill was only $66, but broke down in tears upon realising the
truth.
Stomp got in touch with the customer, whom XYW identified as Mr Atwell Tay, to find out what inspired his actions.
"I felt that it was something that I had to. My family is also in the
F&B business, so I know what a tough industry it can be, having
helped my father in the kitchen before. It requires a lot of energy and
can be very stressful.
"She (XYW) is also a very hardworking person, and this is a quality
that's hard to find in Singapore nowadays. I appreciate and am impressed
by people who work hard instead of stretching their hands out to ask
for money," said the 32-year-old oil trader.
Mr Tay, who had been accompanied by his wife and eldest daughter
(aged nine) at the restaurant, also encouraged XYW to stay strong and
continue to give her best. STRONG FAMILY VALUES
Mr Tay's love for his family is evident from the way he spoke about them during his exclusive video interview with Stomp.
His main motivation for helping others comes from wanting to be an
exemplary role model for his three daughters: "Being humble is a virtue
and I want them to see that." And
his moving quote about what our two hands are for? It was a lesson that
he derived from his mother when he was 19 years old and had yet to
serve his National Service (NS).
Admitting that he went through a rebellious streak during his teenage
years, Mr Tay said: "She told me I could do whatever I want, but to
always have commitment and consistency, or one would never succeed." GENEROSITY =/= WEALTH
He first made headlines in 2015 after being given a flashy Lotus supercar by his mother for his birthday that year. But
in response to critics who think that his family background allows him
to be generous with money, Mr Tay pointed out that lending a helping
hand is not about being well-off.
"Coming from a poor family and becoming rich doesn't mean you will
end up helping everyone. Neither does coming from a rich family and
being successful mean you will help other people. It all boils down to
the individual," he shared.
Likewise, XYW had only good things to say about Mr Tay.
She told Stomp, "He visits the restaurant about thrice a week, always in a different car.
"However, I am really touched because he always clears his own plates, telling my colleagues that it's okay and to relax.
"Whenever I serve wealthy people, they are usually very proud. But Mr
Tay is humble and always greets us, saying thank you and everything."
Mr Tay, who is also a venture capitalist, revealed that he is no
stranger to people taking advantage of his kindness and generosity.
Still, he remains undeterred and wants to act as an inspiration for the younger generation.
When presented with a Stomp Goody Bag, Mr Tay expressed his wishes to donate it to his daughter's school.
"I would like to donate the Goody Bag to someone else because I am
not here for the publicity. I'm here because I hope that more people in
our generation can work hard."
JOHOR BARU - A 39-year-old single mother who forced her daughters
into having sex with Bangladeshi men was sentenced to 150 years in
prison after she pleaded guilty to 10 charges of prostituting them.She was charged with prostituting the girls to two men at a budget
hotel in Larkin Perdana on five different dates - on Oct 1 and then for
four days in a row from Oct 4 to Oct 7.
She was accused of selling her children, aged 10 and 13 years old, for
RM50 (S$16.20) a session and sometimes the girls would receive RM1, RM5,
RM10 or RM20.
Clad in an orange tudung, blue top and long pants, the woman pleaded
guilty to a total of 10 charges (five for each daughter on each date).The mother, who was not represented, pleaded for a just a fine,
citing that she has two young children aged five and fours years to care
for.
Sessions judge Kamarudin Kamsun sentenced her to 15 years' jail for
each charge, however, the sentences will run concurrently for charges
with the same dates. This means that she is set to spend 75 years in
jail.DPP Suhaila Shafi'uddin prosecuted the case.
The accused was detained by police on Oct 25 at their home in Taman Bintang in Senai.
She was living with her daughters, who are from her fourth and fifth
marriages, in one of six rooms at a two-storey commercial lot in the
area
I would like to share this incident that has happened to me recently. I
am a single mom from Malaysia who has a tough time making ends meet
working in a restaurant and a house cleaning job in Singapore to support
my 2 young kids after my husband left me.
Earlier this week, a couple who is a regular in the place that I work
in, came in and ordered their usual soup and food, and 1 coke. I was
clearing their table after they finished their meal, the guy casually
asked why I look rather sad as usually I'm very cheerful. Previously we
casually chat a few times and he notices I am holding many odd jobs and
working very hard as a single mother. I told them that I just went to
clean 3 houses today and just started my night shift at the restaurant.
He asked if everything was alright, so I told him also that my kids
childcare fees was due and I am having issues. But I just had to work
harder. He then smiled and asked for the bill. The total bill was $66.
After I went to the counter to swipe his Visa card, I realized he put
his visa card and 2 pieces of $1000 note into the bill folder.
Feeling puzzled, I thought he made a mistake and accidentally left
the 2 pieces of $1000 note inside. When I passed the receipt for him to
sign, I return it to him. That’s when he told me something I will never
forget, He said " No it's not a mistake, we have 2 hands, One is to work
hard and the other is to help others. "
I cried after they left. I wanted to thank him and I saw his credit
card name was "Atwell Tay". I searched on Facebook and realized he had
appeared in The New Paper before. I would like to say my deepest thanks
to him as it tide me over for my kid's school fee. AllSingaporeStuff.com
A 19 year-old Singaporean teenage girl was found dead at the bottom of her Toa Payoh HDB block on Monday at about 5AM.The teen had allegedly committed suicide after a meeting with her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had just had bad break up.
The incident happened at Block 225, Lorong 8 Toa Payoh. Residents
reported hearing a loud crash, followed by screams in the wee hours of
the morning.The teen's former boyfriend had been the one to inform the teen's
parents, who were already at work at their stall in Ang Mo Kio. The
boyfriend had allegedly apologized profusely and wept.
The father of the teen says that he and his wife had initially
objected to their daughter's relationship because they felt that she was
too young, but she had insisted on going ahead with the relationship.
They did not expect the relationship to end so tragically.
A Singaporean man dropped his brand new iPhone X through the platform
gap and onto the train tracks at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station after queuing
for more than 16 hours for it.The incident occurred on Friday evening, Nov. 3, between 8pm and 9pm.He had only owned the phone for a few hours at that point in time.
This is the heart-wrenching sight:
How it happened
Lee, a 26-year-old game artist, was heading back to Somerset MRT
station when he dropped the 256GB silver iPhone X that cost S$1,888.Before this, he had queued outside the Orchard Road Apple store at
Knightsbridge Mall on Nov. 2 from 7pm, to Nov. 3, 11.30am, to purchase
the phone.That’s 16-and-a-half hours.After he made the purchase, the staff at the store told him to come
back at 5pm on the same day (Nov. 3) to pick up the phone, which he did.Once he got the brand new phone, he headed to City Hall for dinner.And then he decided to go back to the Somerset Apple store to purchase something else.
Too fatigued
Unfortunately, Lee was too fatigued from the overnight queuing, and mistakenly alighted at Dhoby Ghaut instead of Somerset.That was when the phone slipped from his hands and through the platform gap, ending up on the tracks.Now that’s a cruel twist of fate: Lee was actually heading back to the Apple store to purchase Apple Care for his new phone.
SMRT staff to retrieve it
Speaking to Mothership.sg, Lee said the SMRT staff will attempt to retrieve his iPhone X after track maintenance has been completed for the day.
He also hopes the phone will be usable if he gets it back, even if it might be in bad condition.mothership.sg
SEREMBAN, Malaysia: A married
couple were killed last Friday (Oct 27) in an accident with a trailer on
Malaysia's North-South Highway near the Seremban rest stop.Malaysians
Lau Lian Huat, 62 and his wife Lim Ah Gim, 60, were pronounced dead at
the scene after a trailer slammed into their car from the opposite side
of the expressway.
Dashcam footage of the accident shows that the
trailer was travelling southwards on the leftmost lane when it suddenly
swerved, cutting across the highway to the rightmost lane and crashing
through a guardrail.The trailer then smashed three cars on the
opposite side of the highway, including the Perodua Alza belonging to
the deceased couple. Three others who were travelling in the other two
cars were injured.
The trailer driver, a 59-year-old Malaysian
man, fled from the scene after the crash. He surrendered himself to
police on Sunday, two days after the accident.
ragedy struck a residential hostel at the National University of
Singapore (NUS) last Saturday morning, when an 18-year-old female
student fell and died.The New Paper understands she had been
climbing out of a nearby window while trying to reach her room on the
seventh storey of the eight-storey Block C of Sheares Hall. It is one of
NUS's six residential halls.It is believed the student is a Korean first-year student.A police spokesman told TNP they were alerted to a case of fall from height at around 11.40am that day.
The
student was found unconscious and sent by paramedics to the nearby
National University Hospital (NUH) , where she died from her injuries.The police have classified the case as an unnatural death and are still investigating.On
Wednesday (Nov 1), An NUS spokesperson confirmed the incident with TNP
and said: "We are deeply saddened by the incident, and our thoughts are
with the family and friends of the student."NUS staff and counsellors are in touch with the student's family and friends to provide support and assistance."
Residents
said Sheares Hall and its individual rooms are only accessible using
their matriculation cards. According to Sheares Hall's regulations,
students who are locked out of their own rooms may approach the hall
office during office hours or a resident fellow after office hours. A
service fee might be imposed.When TNP visited Sheares Hall on
Tuesday evening, most students said they had been advised not talk about
the incident to the media and were told to direct all queries to the
hall's management.One resident, who declined to be named, told
TNP an email had been sent to Sheares' Hall's residents on Saturday
afternoon informing them of the student's death. A meeting with all the
block's residents was held on Sunday night.
The resident added a wake for the student had been held on Monday evening at Mt. Vernon Sanctuary.It is believed the student had forgotten to bring her room key and could not access her room.Located at 20 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Sheares Hall offers accommodation for more than 500 students in NUS.In
Nov 2015, a similar incident happened in a Choa Chu Kang condominium
when Mr Timothy Bell, 22, an Australian jockey, had misplaced the keys
to his penthouse at Mi Casa condominium.
He climbed a ledge to
enter his unit through a kitchen window but slipped and fell 12 storeys
to his death. — ADDTIONAL REPORTING BY JAN LEE
SINGAPORE: Changi Airport's Japanese-themed
food court, is set to open on Nov 14 at Terminal 2 of the airport,
Changi Airport Group confirmed in a Facebook post
The
food court, called Japan Gourmet Hall Sora, will be located on the
third floor of Terminal 2's public area, where restaurants Seafood
Paradise and Fish & Co used to be. This makes it the largest
restaurant space within Changi Airport, the airport management said previously in August.
It will be set up by the trading company of Japanese airline operator ANA, in a joint venture with Singapore-based Kormas Group.
CAG
said the concept for the new dining space is a gourmet food market
featuring several popular Japanese F&B brands. It added that the 721
sq m space has a seating capacity of 300.
The Nikkei earlier reported that dishes on offer will include fresh seafood bowls and okonomiyaki (savoury Japanese pancakes). According to Nikkei, ANA will invest about 220 million yen (S$2.5 million) in the food court.
MULTAN: A Pakistani woman who gave her husband poisoned milk ended up killing him and 12 of his family when the tainted liquid was turned into a yoghurt drink and served to him and his relatives, police said.The woman, who was forced by her family into an arranged marriage in September, has been arrested and charged with murder along with her alleged lover, senior police official Owais Ahmad told reporters in central Pakistan’s Muzaffargarh district on Monday.
Police said Asiya Bibi mixed poison into her husband’s milk last week but he initially failed to drink it and it was instead blended into a batch of yoghurt-based lassi and served to the man’s family.
Thirteen people have so far died, including the husband, while a further 14 have been hospitalised, Ahmad said.
“Police have arrested Asiya Bibi, a man and his aunt for being accomplices and charged them with murder,” Ahmad said.
He said the man was allegedly Bibi’s lover and that his aunt helped hatch the murder plot.
Forced and under-age marriages are common in deeply conservative Pakistan, particularly in rural and impoverished regions, where women have fought for their rights for decades.
An unlikely meeting of two individuals at a Boracay dragon boat event in May 2015 finally culminated in a union between Stomper Jarrick and his fiancée, Sophie, in Singapore last Saturday (Oct 28). The joyous event took place at at kult kafé, which is located along Upper Wilkie Road.
In a telephone interview, Jarrick told Stomp how the two of them had met as participants in the dragon boat event.
Jarrick
said that before meeting Sophie, he had been single for ‘so long and
was so old’, that his mother thought that he was not interested in the
opposite sex.After getting to know each other, Jarrick continued dating Sophie when the two returned to Singapore after the event.That was when Jarrick popped the question, asking her if he could move in with her.To his surprise, she was agreeable to his request.
Said
Jarrick: "I still do not know what came over me I just asked her if I
could move my things in. I didn’t even pack for it, so I had to return
home for more things."According to Jarrick, Sophie ‘made the
first move’ during their courtship, when she offered him antiseptic
cream after he brushed against a coconut tree and got injured in
Boracay.
However, according to her, it was he who made the first
move, going up to her room to ask her if she wanted to have dinner with
him and his friends. Although the stories are clearly different, both ended the same way -- a happily ever after for the couple.Let’s wish this couple a blissful marriage ahead!
SINGAPORE: Messaging app Whatsapp has launched
a new feature that lets users delete messages that were sent out -
within a 7-minute window.In the past, the "delete message"
function would only remove the message from the sender's phone, while
the recipients of the message would still be able to see it.Now with the "delete for everyone" option, the message will be expunged for sender and recipient(s).But not all traces of the message will be gone as it will be replaced with "This message was deleted".
Another
important caveat is that users can only delete messages for everyone
for up to seven minutes after the message was sent.
While the feature reportedly went live four days ago, it appeared unavailable in Singapore.
But
as of Monday, at least some users in Singapore have got the latest
update, which Whatsapp said would work only if both the message sender
and recipient are using the latest version of the messaging app.
According to the Whatsapp website, to delete messages for everyone:
Open WhatsApp and go to the chat containing the message you wish to delete.
Tap and hold the message. Optionally, tap more messages to delete multiple messages at once.
Tap Delete (trashcan icon) at the top of the screen > Delete for everyone.
A netizen went on Facebook to request for help to share her story.
She lost her handphone after leaving it behind at a bubble tea stall.After placing her order, and making payment for the drink, she accidentally left phone on the counter and walked away.A lady who was behind her in the queue apparently proceeded to place her
order and made payment. In the CCTV footage which the stall manager
shared with the phone owner, the lady was seen to make payment for her
drink and took the phone and placed it in her bag instead of informing
the phone owner.
Along with her handphone, she also lost her Identity Card, debit cards and EZ-link card.
The
phone owner requests for help to report the lady to the police if any
handphone shop notice the lady selling the said handphone with the
following IMEI number:
Three double-decker buses have crashed into the same taxi stand shelter opposite VivoCity in 2017.
The first two incidents earlier in the year involved Tower Transit buses.The latest third incident involved a SBS Transit bus.
Third incident
The latest incident occurred on Oct. 28 at around 7.10pm.
The impact shattered the upper deck windshield of the SBS Transit bus.
No injuries were reported.
The likely causes
In the July incident, the Tower Transit bus captain was reported to have mistaken the taxi stand shelter for the bus stop.
The regularity of such accidents occurring has been debated amongst public transport enthusiasts.
Members of the group pointed out that the taxi stand shelter is only
3.7m instead of the usual 4.5m height, that will allow double-decker
buses to easily pass under it.
There is also a tendency for the buses to swerve left to keep to the
left-most bus lane, due to the right lanes experiencing congestion with
vehicles lined up to turn right at the traffic light junction.
A Facebook user, Noh Koris,
recently shared videos of a man who had been caught allegedly molesting
and then trying to kidnap a seven-year-old girl in Malaysia. According
to Noh Koris, the incident reportedly happened near the Cheras Ria
apartments in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 23, at around 1.45pm. In one of the videos, the suspect was accused to having molested a girl while riding a red Honda EX5 motorcycle.
A man holding a stick could be seen in the second video, interrogating the suspect.
At a point, he raised the stick above his head, seemingly ready to hit him, although he stopped to listen to the girl. Noh Koris also emphasised that the suspect was not a resident of the apartment, reports The Coverage. In another video, police officers could be seen at the scene. According to the New Straits Times, the man was arrested for the alleged offences.
Another
netizen commented on Noh Koris’s post, adding that the man in the video
had violated his neighbour’s child and the family had lodged a police
report.However other netizens criticised the brutality of the resident’s behaviour. Said one Facebook user:“The police have already arrived, so why threaten to hit him?”
City
police Criminal Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner
Rusdi Mohd Isa said the offence was believed to have taken place in a
lift of the Cheras Ria Apartment.
Rusdi also added that the girl's father had lodged a police report, saying:
"He (the suspect) has been remanded seven days to facilitate investigations." source
Trinity was just nine when leukaemia took her
memory and ability to move or speak. Four years on she is healthy,
finished with her PSLE and dreams of being a beatboxing
singer-songwriter.
SINGAPORE: The first try fails, and so does
the second. She comes agonisingly close on the third, only to fall back
in her wheelchair. Perhaps weakened by the exertion, her fourth comes up
short too. But she quickly bounces back for attempt No.5: And stands,
teetering, leaning on her mother briefly before successfully swiveling
around and sitting down on her bed.This was young Trinity’s first
time transferring herself from wheelchair to bed - a milestone captured
on video in 2013, and symbolic of her wider battle against the blood
cancer known as acute lymphoid leukaemia.
Mere months
before, as a nine-year-old, she underwent three brain surgeries in the
space of 10 days to fix complications arising from chemotherapy. The
ordeal left her unable to talk or move; she was also robbed of other
senses and suffered memory loss.Fast forward to the
present and she is a healthy 13-year-old armed with a radiant smile,
ready laugh and positive glow about her. With her PSLE completed,
Trinity already has an eye on secondary school and beyond, to dreams of a
career as a singer-songwriter - who beatboxes to boot.
The
question of how she got here elicits a lengthy pause. “Before, I felt
like it was useless and pointless, that there was nothing I could do,
that there wasn’t a way,” she muses. “I eventually accepted my
condition, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t do something about it.”
“I just didn’t want to give up so easily.”This was young Trinity’s first
time transferring herself from wheelchair to bed - a milestone captured
on video in 2013, and symbolic of her wider battle against the blood
cancer known as acute lymphoid leukaemia.
Mere months
before, as a nine-year-old, she underwent three brain surgeries in the
space of 10 days to fix complications arising from chemotherapy. The
ordeal left her unable to talk or move; she was also robbed of other
senses and suffered memory loss.Fast forward to the
present and she is a healthy 13-year-old armed with a radiant smile,
ready laugh and positive glow about her. With her PSLE completed,
Trinity already has an eye on secondary school and beyond, to dreams of a
career as a singer-songwriter - who beatboxes to boot.The
question of how she got here elicits a lengthy pause. “Before, I felt
like it was useless and pointless, that there was nothing I could do,
that there wasn’t a way,” she muses. “I eventually accepted my
condition, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t do something about it.” “I just didn’t want to give up so easily.”
In the middle of the night, she'd start crying or shouting.
It all began with frequent fevers in early 2013, said Trinity’s father Govinda Rajan, 48.An
initial blood test came back normal, but during the June school
holidays Trinity grew noticeably weaker, prompting her parents to take
action.After a second blood test at the hospital, they
were informed by doctors that 90 per cent of their daughter’s body was
occupied by leukaemia cells.“Her lymph nodes and her
heart were swelling, making her chest area bigger - I thought she was
maturing early,” said Trinity’s mother Esther Melanie Dass, 44. “She
also had a 10cm cyst above her pancreas.”
“The doctor said it was a slightly higher-risk cancer, still curable, but they would have to start chemotherapy immediately.”
The following month of treatment
was a difficult time surmounted only by Trinity’s high tolerance for
pain, said both her parents.“When the doctor first poked
a lot of needles in my skin I cried very loudly. It was very painful,”
their daughter recounted. “But as time passed, I got used to it. I could
still feel the needles but I would just try to not think about the
pain.”She also remembers doctors “inserting a long
needle” in her spine, as part of a tri-monthly lumbar puncture procedure
to collect fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Then there was
the discomfort of a portacath device implanted near her heart, to
administer the chemotherapy.
Her eldest sister Tritassha,
17, sometimes stayed overnight to accompany Trinity. “It was really
scary because in the middle of the night, she’d start crying or
shouting. Sometimes it was nightmares, but other times it was because of
the horrible pain she felt in her body.”“But she’s a very determined girl and I think that’s why she recovered a lot.”Govinda agreed. “She’s very strong.”
The following month of treatment
was a difficult time surmounted only by Trinity’s high tolerance for
pain, said both her parents.“When the doctor first poked
a lot of needles in my skin I cried very loudly. It was very painful,”
their daughter recounted. “But as time passed, I got used to it. I could
still feel the needles but I would just try to not think about the
pain.”She also remembers doctors “inserting a long
needle” in her spine, as part of a tri-monthly lumbar puncture procedure
to collect fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Then there was
the discomfort of a portacath device implanted near her heart, to
administer the chemotherapy.
Her eldest sister Tritassha,
17, sometimes stayed overnight to accompany Trinity. “It was really
scary because in the middle of the night, she’d start crying or
shouting. Sometimes it was nightmares, but other times it was because of
the horrible pain she felt in her body.”“But she’s a very determined girl and I think that’s why she recovered a lot.”Govinda agreed. “She’s very strong.”
I was very, very scared.
Trinity would require all her hardiness for what was to come next.She
had been responding well in chemotherapy and after being discharged,
the family thought things were looking up - but a month later in August
she contracted a raging fever and was hospitalised again.While visiting her daughter Esther suddenly found Trinity unable to speak or move properly and quickly alerted the doctors.
It
turned out she had developed a major fungal infection, due to her
immune system being affected by the chemotherapy - and the infection had
already spread to her brain, causing severe bleeding.
“There was a 4cm blood clot in her brain,” said Esther.Trinity
immediately went through an emergency operation. Ten days later, after
exhibiting the same symptoms, she was taken in for a second surgery.
This still failed to stop the advanced clotting and she was rushed right
back into the theatre.
“The doctor told us the entire
left side of her brain was bleeding,” said Esther. “It was a life and
death situation. We had to sign a consent form - it was that critical.”Trinity
doesn’t remember much of the surgeries - except for the sadness before
each. “I cried because I was very, very scared, because my mum couldn’t
always hold on to me,” she said.But there was more to
fear. After the third operation, the neurosurgeon told Trinity’s parents
he had done his best to take out as many blood clots - but there were
consequences.“Basically, he said I wouldn’t be taking back a normal child,” said Esther.
The following month of treatment
was a difficult time surmounted only by Trinity’s high tolerance for
pain, said both her parents.“When the doctor first poked
a lot of needles in my skin I cried very loudly. It was very painful,”
their daughter recounted. “But as time passed, I got used to it. I could
still feel the needles but I would just try to not think about the
pain.”
She also remembers doctors “inserting a long
needle” in her spine, as part of a tri-monthly lumbar puncture procedure
to collect fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Then there was
the discomfort of a portacath device implanted near her heart, to
administer the chemotherapy.
Her eldest sister Tritassha,
17, sometimes stayed overnight to accompany Trinity. “It was really
scary because in the middle of the night, she’d start crying or
shouting. Sometimes it was nightmares, but other times it was because of
the horrible pain she felt in her body.”
“But she’s a very determined girl and I think that’s why she recovered a lot.”
Govinda agreed. “She’s very strong.”
I was very, very scared.
Trinity would require all her hardiness for what was to come next.She
had been responding well in chemotherapy and after being discharged,
the family thought things were looking up - but a month later in August
she contracted a raging fever and was hospitalised again.While visiting her daughter Esther suddenly found Trinity unable to speak or move properly and quickly alerted the doctors.
It
turned out she had developed a major fungal infection, due to her
immune system being affected by the chemotherapy - and the infection had
already spread to her brain, causing severe bleeding.
“There was a 4cm blood clot in her brain,” said Esther.
Trinity
immediately went through an emergency operation. Ten days later, after
exhibiting the same symptoms, she was taken in for a second surgery.
This still failed to stop the advanced clotting and she was rushed right
back into the theatre.
“The doctor told us the entire
left side of her brain was bleeding,” said Esther. “It was a life and
death situation. We had to sign a consent form - it was that critical.”Trinity
doesn’t remember much of the surgeries - except for the sadness before
each. “I cried because I was very, very scared, because my mum couldn’t
always hold on to me,” she said.
But there was more to
fear. After the third operation, the neurosurgeon told Trinity’s parents
he had done his best to take out as many blood clots - but there were
consequences.
“Basically, he said I wouldn’t be taking back a normal child,” said Esther.
We saw her broken.
Doctors
had to carve out a hole in Trinity’s skull and dig deep to remove the
clots, in the process touching major parts of her left brain, said
Esther.The result? “She couldn’t speak, couldn’t
remember our names, couldn’t remember her ABCs, there was totally no
movement on her right side, she lost her senses, and it took a while for
her to respond when we spoke to her,” said Govinda.“We saw her broken, bedridden, at only nine going on 10…” his wife trailed off, holding back tears.
With
their daughter’s body not responding to food, doctors had to pump out
up to a litre of gastric juices every day, and were considering putting
her on tubes permanently.Trinity remembers this “very
frustrating” time. “I wanted to say the words, but I didn’t know why I
couldn’t say it out… I think my brain didn’t listen to me.”
But
the next year or so of Trinity’s “retraining”, as her father put it,
left even doctors amazed, said Esther. “What she went through… it wasn’t
expected for her to recover as soon as she did.”
Within
weeks Trinity slowly started to speak and recall her memory with the
help of family members and therapists patiently interacting with her.
“I still remember my mum started by teaching me three words: ‘I want to’, because I sometimes need this and that,” she laughed.Once,
when Trinity was just regaining her speech, she asked Esther if this
was happening to her because she was “naughty or mean, or not a good
girl”.
“I quickly brought her (two elder) sisters and
(younger) brother and they hugged her and kissed her and told her she
didn’t do anything wrong, this just happened and she was going to get
out of it,” said their mother.
Next thing we knew … She's running.
Then
there was the impaired mobility on her right side, which meant Trinity
had to switch master hands. “At first it felt really weird, but I slowly
taught myself to use my left.”After her discharge - two
months from admission - she was still wheelchair-bound and needed to be
carried around and bathed, but Trinity started telling herself she was
going to get up and walk, said Esther.
She would wheel
herself around the house using one leg, and use the window grille to
strengthen her limbs by repeatedly sitting and standing. These exercises
helped her eventually progress to a walking stick, but she still wasn’t
stable, her mother recalled.“Then the therapists started training her and next thing we knew, we threw away the stick and now she’s running.”
While
Esther credits her family for sticking together as well as the
Children’s Cancer Foundation for providing counselling, therapy and
academic assistance, above all she believes it was Trinity’s own
willpower which aided in her comeback.“She’s an amazing girl,” said the proud
mother. “Honestly, what we saw with our eyes… That was not something we
thought could get any better.”
“The doctor said a lot of
things about how she was going to be, but she didn’t just take that in
and say ‘I’m going to be like that’ - if she did, I don’t think she’d be
walking or running or talking or going back to school.”Added
Esther: “Every time I feel down or that I can’t do anything, I talk to
her, and I get lifted. Because I know (what) she’s gone through, and
she’s done it, and it motivates me.”
“We’ve learnt a lot of things from her,” said both father Govinda and eldest sister Tritassha.
I thought people wouldn’t talk to me.
After
finishing intensive chemotherapy in May 2015, Trinity could finally
install a titanium plate to fill the hole in her skull and the resulting
depression at the side of her head.
She also went back to her primary school
in January 2016, after a two-year absence. “She puts on her own bag,
carries her own stuff and goes to school on her own. She wants to do
things independently,” said Esther.Initially, Trinity
struggled to pass her exams. The Education Ministry helped by extending
hours for her oral and written papers, and after gradually getting back
in the groove she has not failed a test since.
Trinity
also had other doubts of the social sort. “I thought people wouldn’t
talk to me because of my condition. But there’s one girl, she accepts me
for who I am. She’s nice, she always helps me… This year, I have
another friend.”
Said Esther: “She’s just glad she’s back in school and not sitting in hospital. She treasures this a lot, and is so thankful.”
There
are still remnants of trying times past. Trinity sleeps in a hospital
bed at home, and she recently had a second, sudden onset of seizures.
Brain scans indicated improvement and she was discharged the same day -
but her family is well aware she is not yet at a 100 per cent.
Her right hand still cannot grip well
and there remains a slight drop foot on the same side, where she dons an
ankle brace when going out. But Trinity is, as always, optimistic.
“I
have no more difficulty walking about,” she said, with more than a hint
of resoluteness. “It’s just my hand. The last bit… it’s just my hand.”
This close to victory, all bets are on Trinity - the cancer survivor, the girl who doesn’t give up - to do something about it.
SINGAPORE: Two people were injured in a
multi-vehicle collision along the Tampines Expressway (TPE) on Thursday
(Oct 26) morning.The collision took place along the TPE towards Changi Airport before the Elias Road exit.The
Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted to the accident at
around 8.50am and dispatched an ambulance to the scene. Two people
suffered injuries and were taken to Changi General Hospital, SCDF said.Video
of the accident on Facebook page Roads.sg showed that the collision
involved at least two motorcycles and two cars, including a yellow
CityCab taxi.
Video
footage shows the taxi slowing down as a red Honda Vezel, unable to
brake in time, smashes into it. A motorcycle manages to swerve around
the two cars.Another motorcycle follows, but the rider loses his balance
as he brushes past the red car. A third motorcycle smashes into the back
of the red car and breaks apart. Motorcycle parts were sent flying onto
the road while the motorcyclist falls to one side.
