Category: Singapuraku

14 Year Old Wants MSF To Bail His Pregnant 13 Year Old Girlfriend From Girls Gome

Dear All Singapore Stuff,

This young 14 year old boy impregnated his 13 year old girlfriend, earlier this year. His girlfriend is now 5 months pregnant and the authorities have got involved.

Instead of obeying the gag order and settling the matter with the authorities, he made a public post on the Ministry of Social and Family Development’s facebook page, ranting about how the Ministry had taken his girlfriend from him. He was furious that the MSF had sent his girlfriend to the Girls’ Home and he insisted that he can be a responsible 14 year old father! He is also an underage smoker and he has consumed alcohol too. There are many such photos on his facebook page. As a result of Wei Jian not complying with the gag order, by now many Singaporeans have already shared his post through the social media.

Here is the text of what he posted on the MSF facebook page:

Joke on how effective you are, msf. Ministry of Social and Family? Then what are you doing to break up our small family. I just wanted my Girlfriend to be back with me, and you just snatch her away from me. Not answering any calls from us, even my girlfriend’s Mother. Even my girlfriend’s Mother cant contact till my Girlfriend. Can’t even get to know where she is until the fourth day.

My Girlfriend is only 13 years old, yet you bring her to court without any parents consent. Is this how singapore’s law or police do their job? We can’t even lodge a report just to know where she is. My Girlfriend is already 5 months pregnant, and you put her inside girls home. What if she was bullied inside? What can you do? You can’t be watching over her for 24/7 every single day.

I’m the one who was at fault, but why did you charge on only my Girlfriend? MY GIRLFRIEND IS PREGNANT AND YOU PUT HER INSIDE GIRLS HOME. You said it was a better place for her? It wasn’t, she need more care.

Furthermore, I can’t even attend her court hearing, she would be afraid because she is alone and she is only 13 years old. She called her mum saying she wanted to go home, but msf is not doing anything. MSF told us she could be out after 1 month, but she isn’t out now. Why? I’m the Father of the child, I will bear all responsibility of the wrongs I did, because I’m a guy, but you took a 5 months pregnant woman away, putting her in such a dangerous place, without any care. Me and my Mother couldn’t get to see her at all, even her court hearing, we can’t be there.

Hope you all would share around and let my Girlfriend to come back to me and I would take good care of her that you all couldn’t.

Samuel
A.S.S. Contributor

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

October 19, 2015
Myanmar Nationals Think Singapore Will Collapse Without Them

Hey all Singapore stuff,

Recently I came across a political picture drawn by a Myanmar national here which is insulting to Singapore .

In the photo Merlion was crying and saying ” oh my god .. Oh my god.. If the Myanmar people who working in my country go back to their country after the changes Singapore will be in trouble . And in the picture showing line of Myanmar people queuing at Myanmar embassy. Which I think u saw in CNA news .

In the comments post by the author . There were lots of likes and support . Don’t you think they are being ungrateful and forgetting who is giving them job . We should let people know about it

Loyal Singaporean

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

October 19, 2015
D’Concept Design Leaves Customers In Lurch

When Mr Jai Amir, 35, hired D’Concept Design to renovate his home in June, he thought that he had done his homework.

After all, he had quotations from nine other companies and designers from D’Concept visited him four times to discuss plans to overhaul his living room, kitchen and toilets.

He ended up forking out $43,774 upfront, after taking a bank loan. The work on his resale flat in Tampines – including re-flooring and new fixtures – was to have been completed in August. However, until now, only the cupboards in the living room have been torn down.

“The company kept giving excuses. First, it said the designer was on reservist duty; then, the boss was not around. Later on, the boss himself told me that his contractors had suddenly left him. Then, after a while, everyone stopped picking up their phones,” said Mr Amir, who works as a chef.

He met 14 other D’Concept Design customers last month, who were left in similar situations, to decide what to do. The Straits Times understands that, so far, at least 11 police reports have been made and the group has engaged a lawyer.

Since January, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has received 14 complaints against D’Concept Design, mostly about multiple delays despite payments being made to the firm.

Many customers paid in full even before renovation works had begun. The total contract value of the cases lodged with Case adds up to $457,294, with the highest contract valued at $51,000.

An Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority search found that the firm was registered in September last year. It has a paid-up capital of $2 and has one owner, Singaporean Kelvin Ang Yong Hong.

Calls to Mr Ang’s mobile phone went unanswered and the company’s officein MacPherson was locked and its signs removed. No one came to the door at his registered home address in Yishun when The Straits Times went there last Wednesday.

Checks with Case, the Renovation and Decoration Advisory Centre and the Housing Board found that D’Concept Design is not registered or accredited by them.

There have been other sudden closures of companies in recent months. Last week, 76 couples with wedding packages amounting to more than $130,000 were left in the lurch after bridal salon Sophia Wedding Collection shut. The police are also investigating The Scizzorhands hair salon which left hundreds out of pocket in August.

Case executive director Seah Seng Choon urged consumers to be careful when dealing with a lowly capitalised company. Owners of private limited firms – which D’Concept Design and most other pre-payment businesses are – are liable up to only the firm’s paid-up capital amount and cannot be sued directly for company debts.

Mr Seah also urged home owners to refer to the model contract provided by HDB. He added: “While it is understandable that renovation firms may need some payment upfront, consumers should pay only a little bit at a time, instead of a lump-sum payment.”

Mrs A.L. Lee, 31, who also had a bad experience with D’Concept Design, said the company even arranged visits to houses that it said it had renovated.

“We saw two or three units, so it gave us confidence that they were able to do the job,” said Mrs Lee, who works in marketing.

She paid the firm $33,000 in August to renovate her kitchen and living room but, after making payment, she claims the company was uncontactable. “I thought I did my homework. It’s so hard to establish if a company is really trustworthy, and even good ones can fail.”

Source: www.straitstimes.com

October 19, 2015
Goh Meng Seng: Good Opposition Performance Backfired, Don’t Blame Small Opposition Parties

From Goh Meng Seng

I cannot help but wonder why people cannot see through the plain attempt of some political leaders of shifting away blame when they come up with some totally illogical and even contradicting statements.

Half truth is thrown up to mask their flaw argument.

For example, people say opposition suffered a bad swing because of small parties and we contested all seats. This is because people fear PAP losing power.

One must first look at simple facts of comparison. In 2011, all but 6 seats were contested. You mean to say that PAP won’t face the same risk of losing power in 2011 if we simply look at the total number of seats contested?

There must be something more to make voters to fear PAP losing power. There are combined factors:

1. The show of an over confident of WP and SDP winning. This can only be effected when majority of media focus has been put on them, showing the huge crowd size of their rallies and suggestive reporting of potential GREAT victory. This also means that other small parties did not hog the news space and didn’t project any negativity to voters as a whole.

2. However, the number seats of WP and SDP added up will not Cross the 50% mark. It would be irrational for voters to conclude that PAP will lose power if Both WP and SDP win all the seats they contested. Thus, it also means that in voters’ mind, other smaller parties may also win seats! If that was so, it must be the case that voters also think smaller parties have good credible candidates who could potentially win seats as well .

Now, how can people start to say that other smaller parties do not have credible candidates if that was the case?

Thus, please don’t put blame on other smaller parties. Opposition as a whole has put up a TOO STRONG showing which Ironically backfired. It was too strong overall to make people frighten of the unthinkable, PAP LOSING POWER.

Contrary to those nay sayers, opposition wasn’t weak at all and it was Precisely due to this perceived strength, voters begin to worry about PAP losing power. Period.

Source: People’s Power Party – PPP

October 19, 2015
Trial Of Ex-Policeman Over Kovan Double Murder To Begin On 20 October

On July 10, 2013, the suburban neighbourhood of Kovan was shaken by a grisly crime.

The body of a 42-year-old man was found on the road outside Kovan MRT station with a 1km-long blood trail that led to the discovery of another body in a house.

It sparked a 54-hour manhunt that ended when the murder suspect, a former police officer, was arrested in Johor two days later.

With the murder trial set to begin in the High Court tomorrow, ELIZABETH LAW ([email protected]) looks back at the drama and intrigue of the case.

The body of Mr Tan Chee Heong, the director of an electronics products company, was found at a taxi stand outside Kovan MRT.

It had been dragged about 1km, leaving behind it a blood trail that led to his father’s house at 14J, Hillside Drive.

At the house, police officers discovered the body of car workshop owner Tan Boon Sin.

His car, a Toyota Camry with the number plate SGM 14J – the family house number – was missing.

The suspect was established to be police officer Iskandar Rahmat, 34, who had handled a police report the elder Mr Tan had made in 2012 about a theft from his safe deposit box.

At the time of the killings, Iskandar had been put on administrative duty.

The stolen car was found the next day at a parking lot in Eunos. By then, Iskandar had fled to Johor.

He was arrested by Malaysian police on the night of July 12 at a restaurant in Danga Bay.

Iskandar was charged with the double murders on July 15, 2013, and faces the death penalty. He has claimed trial to both charges.

TWO PARTS

Two tranches have been set for the trial. The first part starts tomorrow and will go on till Oct 30. The trial will break and continue in April next year.

The prosecution team is led by Senior State Counsel Lau Wing Yum.

There will be 102 prosecution witnesses.

Those testifying in the first tranche include eyewitnesses and police officers, some of whom have worked with Iskandar.

Shin Min Daily News had reported that American forensic scientist Henry Lee, who did post-Sept 11 forensic investigations and has worked on cases like the O.J. Simpson trial and the assassination attempt on former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian, would be a witness.

Iskandar, now 36, is represented by a team of six lawyers under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences.

Led by veteran lawyer Shashi Nathan, the team includes Ms Tania Chin and Mr Jeremy Pereira of KhattarWong; Mr Rajan Supramaniam of Hilbourne and Co; and Mr Ferlin Jayatissa and Ms Sudha Nair of Lexcompass.

Mr Nathan told The New Paper that over the last two weeks, the team has been making daily visits to Iskandar in Changi Prison.

“He is very concerned about his trial though as an ex-police officer, he is familiar with the procedure and knows what to expect,” Mr Nathan said, adding that his client has been doing a lot of reading on his own to prepare for the trial.

Mr Nathan is arranging for his own forensics expert to testify. The expert testimonies are likely to take place during the second tranche.

There will be one final pre-trial conference today in the High Court before the trial begins tomorrow.

VICTIM 1: Tan Boon Sin

The elder of the two victims, Mr Tan Boon Sin, 67, was an avid hobbyist fisherman who went on regular overseas fishing trips.

A fishing contemporary had described Mr Tan as a friendly, jovial man who seemed younger than his age.

He owned Soc Leon Motor Works, a car repair workshop in Kaki Bukit, which neighbours said was doing “very well”.

He was a generous employer, and staff who worked with him for more than 10 years were given Rolex watches.

Soc Leon’s head mechanic, who wanted to be known only as Ah Siong, described Mr Tan as a warm, caring and hands-on boss who was very friendly to all and had no airs.

“This shop was his life and blood,” he told The New Paper after the murders. “It’s all the small things he did that made you feel appreciated. I’ve been working here for almost 40 years.”

Workers at the workshop said the elder Mr Tan left the office just after 1pm on July 10, 2013, a few hours before he was killed.

Mr Tan left behind his wife, Madam Ong Ah Tang, a daughter and another son.

VICTIM 2: Tan Chee Heong

The younger victim, Mr Tan Chee Heong, 42, was the co-founder and director of an electronics products company.

He lived with his family in a Sengkang flat and his wife was a housewife.

At the time of the murder, his elder son was 10 and his younger boy was just three.

During the wake, the elder boy stayed close to his mother, sometimes holding her hand to console her.

The boys’ granduncle, Mr Ong Boon Kok, told The New Paper during the wake that when told about his father’s and grandfather’s deaths, the older boy’s first thought was about who would look after his widowed mother.

He also made a number of drawings to be put in their coffins.

For his father, he drew a red sports car and four hearts, representing their family.

But because his father had left them, one of the hearts was further away. On it, the boy wrote, “Daddy I (love) you.”

There was also a picture of a sofa because the family’s home was under renovation at that time.

ACCUSED: Iskandar Rahmat

A former police officer, Iskandar Rahmat, 36, held the rank of a senior staff sergeant.

He had investigated a case of theft that Mr Tan Boon Sin had reported a year before the murders.

Iskandar was separated from his wife and lived with his parents in a three-room flat in Kim Keat.

Iskandar was arrested by Malaysian police at a Danga Bay restaurant on July 12, two days after the murders.

At a press conference to announce the arrest, then Police Commissioner Ng Joo Hee said: “I cannot remember the last time a murder suspect was also a police officer. You may have seen this kind of thing depicted in the movies and on TV, but when it happens for real, it hits you like a freight train.”

Iskandar, a 14-year police veteran, had earlier been put on administrative duties.

After a psychiatric assessment, he was found to be not of unsound mind and fit to plead.

If convicted, he could face the death penalty.

Source: www.tnp.sg

October 19, 2015