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  • 15 Year Old Battling Leukaemia Needs Your Help

    15 Year Old Battling Leukaemia Needs Your Help

    My name is Nickson, and this is my story. Just like any teenager, I am an active 15 years old boy, with my bright future in front of me and filled with zest of life ahead of me. I have always been leading an active lifestyle, and an avid basketball player and I even qualified for a slot for Singapore Youth Basketball Team. Life was truly amazing for me!

    However, on a fateful day on September 2015, I collapsed at home due to high fever and after several tests, doctors revealed that I’m is suffering from an aggressive form of leukaemia. My world came tumbling down, and not sure what to think for a 15 years old.

    Thereafter, we seek medical attention from both KK Hospital and NUH, specialising in childhood leukaemia. I underwent chemotherapy and I harvested my father’s bone marrow in the hope for a full recovery in Sep 2016 in which I suffered a relapse just 3 months later which is in Nov 2016. After the relapse, my father’s cell was subsequently harvested to support the treatment of my leukaemia while searching for a compatible unrelated donor.

    During the interim while looking for a compatible donor, we will have to repeat the harvesting of my father’s cells and the usage of a German drug by the name of Blinatumomab in order to stabilise my condition. The drug, Blinatumomab, cost about roughly SGD $220,000 in which is infused into the body over a period of one month. I am lucky to be insured under insurance for all treatments I’m doing in Singapore but for any procedures, various blood tests and treatments that my father is doing in order to harvest his cells to me (or if there’s any matching donors) insurance or Medisave doesn’t cover them and we’ve to pay solely in cash.

    However, the doctors in Singapore recommend us to seek treatment for in Seattle Hospital in USA, as it is the only place in the world for cell therapy and there are already two successful proven cases who have returned back to Singapore with full recovery results.

    All the health insurance in Singapore can only cover local treatments, and not overseas treatment. The deposit for the hospital in Seattle requires a minimum of SGD $700,000, and my parents were at the complete shock and lost in their thoughts upon hearing the treatment cost, and it’s way beyond our means.

    As parents, I know they want their children to be healthy, and if there’s anything wrong with us, they will always seek the best possible treatment for us. We’re not sure if we can find any unrelated donors at this stage, but the possibility of me recovering through cell therapy is high, and we’re sincerely urging your kind helping hand and generosity to help my parents to lessen the burden and fundraise for my treatment.

     

    My father is the sole breadwinner of the family, and my mom has become a full-time housewife in order to take care of me and my brother.

    My life is not even half way through and the option for the cell therapy there is by far the most feasible and effective option for my full recovery. Results were already proven with two patients having gone there for the similar treatments and came back with very good results leading to a complete recovery from the dreadful disease. The cure that best fits my stubborn persistent leukaemia is only available in Seattle.

    I and my family can never thank you enough in helping us for this fund raising for my treatment in the States and our family will forever be indebted to all the help and support we have received. Thank you so much for all the kind assistance rendered and we wish all good health.

    Please help me to fight this leukemia so that I can continue walk the path in front of me. No amount is too small and we thank you again for your kind generosity.

    Nickson Yee

     

    Source: https://give.asia

  • Young Ustazah Nur Masreena Loses Battle With Cancer

    Young Ustazah Nur Masreena Loses Battle With Cancer

    CONDOLENCES
    إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
    Innalillahi wa inna ilahi rojiuun

    Pergas is saddened to learn of the passing of Ustazah Nur Masreena Abdul Wahab.

    Pergas would like to convey sympathy and heartfelt condolences to her family.

    اللهم اغفر لها وارحمها وعافها واعف عنها.
    اللهم أكرم نزلها ووسع مدخلها وبدّلها داراً خيراً من دارها وأهلاً خيراً من أهلها.
    اللهم أغسلها بالماء والثلج والبرد ونقها من الذنوب والخطايا كما ينقى الثوب الأبيض من الدنس.
    اللهم باعد بينها وبين خطاياها كما باعدت بين المشرق والمغرب.
    اللهم ثبتها بالقول الثابت.
    اللهم قها عذاب القبر وعذاب النار.
    اللهم أظلها بظلك يوم لاظل إلا ظلك.
    اللهم أدخلها الجنة مع الأبرار، يا عزيز يا غفار

    Al-Fatihah.

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    TAKZIAH
    إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
    Innalillahi wa inna ilahi rojiuun

    Al-Fatihah buat Allahyarhamha Ustazah Nur Masreena Abdul Wahab yang baru sahaja meninggal dunia pada hari ini.

    Semoga Ruhnya dicucuri Rahmat oleh Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala dan digolongkan bersama para Anbiya’ , Awliya’, Syuhada’ dan orang-orang Soleh. Insya’ Allah, Allahumma Amiin.

     

    Source: Singapore Islamic Scholars & Religious Teachers Association – Pergas

  • Mum Dies In Jurong Accident But Doctors Saved The Premature Baby Girl

    Mum Dies In Jurong Accident But Doctors Saved The Premature Baby Girl

    The six-month pregnant woman, from Johor, was walking to the market with her mother-in-law when she was knocked down by a lorry in Singapore.

    Doctors managed to save the premature baby of a Malaysian woman killed in a road accident in Singapore.

    The Straits Times said the six-month pregnant woman, from Johor, was crossing the road with her mother-in-law on Saturday morning when she was hit by a lorry turning out from a carpark in Jurong.

    Goh Chieh Ting, 25, was taken to hospital but it was too late to save her, the daily said.

    But doctors performed an emergency Caesarean and saved the baby, a girl.

    “The baby is healthy and large for her age,” Yau Siew Mek, 64, who is the baby’s grandaunt, told the daily.

    The baby has been kept for observation at the Ng Teng Fong Hospital.

    Goh had been holding hands with her mother-in-law, on their way to the market after breakfast, when the accident took place at 8am.

    She had apparently been staying for some time with her parents-in-law.

     

    Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com

  • Ridhwan Confident Of Taming Tanzanian Opponent To Become Singapore’s First Boxing World Champion

    Ridhwan Confident Of Taming Tanzanian Opponent To Become Singapore’s First Boxing World Champion

    Call it arrogance if you like, but Muhamad Ridhwan is confident of becoming Singapore’s first boxing world champion.

    Speaking at the Roar of Singapore II press conference at Decathlon Bedok yesterday, the 29-year-old declared his intention to win the Universal Boxing Organisation (UBO) World super featherweight title bout with Tanzania’s Fadhili Majiha at Resorts World Sentosa on May 27.

    “Pressure is for tyres, I don’t feel it. I enjoy it, and this is my moment,” said Ridhwan.

    The Singaporean boxer, who boasts an unblemished professional record of seven wins and no losses, is fresh off his WBA Asia super featherweight title victory against Indonesia’s Waldo Sabu at the Singapore Fighting Championship 5 last month.

    His opponent at the Roar of Singapore II event at the end of the month is no pushover.

    The 23-year-old Majiha is a World Boxing Association (WBA) Pan African champion, and is also the 79th-ranked super bantamweight fighter in the world. The Tanzanian has a record of 20 wins, four draws and eight losses.

    Ridhwan, however, fired an ominous warning to his opponent.

    “To me, this is just another fight, another opponent who is going to try to take away whatever I have worked so hard for. It is an important fight, and I feel excited and motivated to fight him,” said Ridhwan.

    “He is not going to know what hit him.”

    Ridhwan is confident that the hard work he puts into training will pay off with a world title belt on May 27.

    “I train six days a week, except Sundays. In the morning, I put in two hours and, in the evening, I train up to three hours. I spar three times a week and go up to 12 rounds,” said Ridhwan, who is endorsed by PSB Academy and Everlast Singapore.

    “I do a lot of strategy work with my trainer (Rey Caitom Jr). As for the details, everything happens behind closed doors.

    “You’ll see the hard work on fight night.”

    When asked about his game plan against Majiha, Ridhwan preferred to keep his cards close to his chest, but said: “The game plan for fight night is a lot of action.

    “My plan is to fight every second of every round and, when the opportunity for a knockout presents itself, I’ll go for it.”

    “If he is not ready mentally or physically, he is going to break.”

    Despite the tough talk, Ridhwan admitted that there is room for improvement in his game.

    He said: “Physically, I feel good and, mentally, I am fresh.

    “But there are definitely weaknesses in my game.

    “There are nervousness and excitement (for the upcoming fight). A little bit of doubt, but it’s all part of the game.

    “I know I am not unbeatable, I can be beaten, but not on the night of the 27th.

    Roar of Singapore II organiser, Scott O’ Farrell, believes Ridhwan has a good chance of creating history.

    Speaking after the press conference, he told The New Paper: “Ridhwan is showing real guts here.

    “He is going up against a really tough fighter, and it will be a hard fight for him.

    “He has good charisma, very humble, and has loads of talent.

    “He is a true champion who loves the sport.”

    There will be 10 bouts at Roar of Singapore II.

    One of those fights is the 56kg Men’s Eliminator. Two Singaporeans – Jason Chua and Daniel Jalili – will do battle in three three-minute rounds.

    The winner will represent Singapore at the South-east Asia (SEA) Games in Kuala Lumpur in August.

     

    Source: http://www.tnp.sg/sports

  • Commentary: Need To Understand Asia Without Western Bias

    Commentary: Need To Understand Asia Without Western Bias

    Professor Kishore Mahbubani brought up a pertinent question (How the Western media gets the Korean crisis wrong; May 13): Is the Singaporean mind Eastern or Western?

    Amid the sea change happening in the world, it is time we asked ourselves this question.

    History may have decided for us how we were governed and educated in the last two hundred years. The English language has helped us tap international commerce and adopt technologies. We are fed Western pop culture and news that shape how we understand the world. But are all these cast in stone?

    While we have adopted the language, we have imperceptibly adopted the West’s superiority complex.

    In fact, many among us want to have nothing to do with anything non-Western, and view such things as inferior.

    But does this hold true in the changed economic, geopolitical and social reality we witness now?

    All through Asia, we see the desire for progress translated into action – infrastructural build-up, the adoption of technologies and an overhaul of electoral systems.

    The economic betterment of the people is self-evident. It seems that ideology has given way to economic progress.

    All these are happening in our neighbourhood. Asean, India, China and the vast Central Asia easily make up the majority of the world’s population.

    We should not let this huge tsunami of change pass us by just because we hold fast to archaic notions.

    Therefore, there must be a greater need to understand the region we live in.

    We are what we read. We should diversify our sources for news and information.

    More importantly, we should understand Asia through its own platforms and not cling to digesting feeds that are monolithic in portraying Asia as backwaters, or its people as repressed.

    We must understand Asia through Asia’s eyes.

    It is time we re-orientated our bearings, amid the rise of Asia.

    It will be perilous for us to ignore all that is happening at our doorstep.

     

    Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print

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