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  • Toa Payoh Hawker Centre Couple Identified As Tutors In Toa Payoh Tuition Centre

    Toa Payoh Hawker Centre Couple Identified As Tutors In Toa Payoh Tuition Centre

    According to Shin Min Daily News, the 46-year-old man in the video is a director of the tuition centre. His wife 39-year-old, is also a teacher in the centre.

    The extremely viral video was shared 42k times and was viewed over 3 million times in our facebook page.

    Young couple bullied and pushed an elderly man over a table at Toa Payoh Lorong 8 hawker centre.UPDATES: Couple arrested by the police. Read: http://bit.ly/2phZNN6Background: http://bit.ly/2p3cWY0Thelocalsociety

    Posted by Thelocalsociety on Saturday, 22 April 2017

    Police arrested the couple for the offence of Public Nuisance under Section 290 of the Penal Code may be punished with a fine which may extend to $1,000.

    The website of the tuition centre on April 20, 2017 (before the day before the incident) shows that the wife is a tuition teacher in the centre teaching premium mathematics.

    Details of the wife:

    MS VERON TAY
    PREMIUM MATHEMATICS

    Premium Mathematics
    Bachelor of Business, Monash University
    Taught in Hong Wen School and St Michael’s School for upper Primary Mathematics
    Conducted Primary 4 to 6 Mathematics holiday enrichment classes at Da Qiao Primary School
    Teacher in Novel Learning Centre since 2011

    In a previous media interview with Shin Min Daily News, she told the media that she was the manager of the tuition centre.

    They visited the tuition centre website and found his wife’s information has been removed.

    They also visited the husband and wife at their home. Upon knowing that reporters came to his house for comments, he quickly closed the door.

     

    Source: www.thelocalsociety.com

  • Daughter Of Uncle Abused At Hawker Centre – Self-Entitled Brats Will Get What They Deserve

    Daughter Of Uncle Abused At Hawker Centre – Self-Entitled Brats Will Get What They Deserve

    Today, no words can express my outrage and disgust to learn of an incident that happened to my dad. The incident took place on 21st April (this past Fri night) and I only got to know of it through several online postings and after watching the video. (For my peeps on the other side of the globe, you can read about it in the link I’ve posted below. Now that it has gone viral, even YouTube has the video..oh geez…ikr.. it’s pretty shameful but it happens….)

    What I find unbelievable is for the entire 2 days, my dad never for once mentioned a word of it. When I ask him why hasn’t he made it known to us? Why hasn’t he made a report? In his own words, he tells me he didn’t think anything will come out of it, will the police even act on it? ..does it make sense to pursue it?.. Furthermore, will anyone even going to believe him? It will be just his words …So what can he do? He figured he will have to just brush it off, and move on..so no point mentioning……I was stumped for a moment, only then it dawned on me that there are folks out there, like my dad, who fell victims to similar unruly behaviors, and yet do not think they have a voice or view that any appropriate action will be taken for all it’s worth… what my dad didn’t know (since he is not exactly the most tech savy person) is the whole incident was captured and recorded on video…over the course of 2 days, multiple eye witnesses have stepped forward and filed police reports …and for that, I am forever grateful to Manny who posted the video and the ones who brought to light of this incident and also for those (like Janice ,Trish and the netizens) who righteously have the courage to stand up, to speak up, and to take action against the bullying.

    Our hawker and food centres are public places. Seatings are first come first serve basis. While I understand it’s common practice for many of us (including myself) to leave an artifact to reserve seats while queuing for food, since when does this equate to entitlement or ownership of these public items? To get in depth with Singapore’s infamous “chope seat” system will require a whole separate discussion, which I am not about to get into here ….Bottom line is (doesn’t matter who is there first) , my dad only wanted to share the table, there were only 2 of them (the couple) and their food wasn’t even ready….Will it kill them just to share the seats??! I mean ..seriously??!! Not only the woman was uncouth with her hurling of abusive profanities, her companion just had to despicably ram my dad from behind, trying to knock him off his feet!

    Last but not least, thank you all for the heart warming support, the vigilantes who keep a watchful eye on the wrongdoings, and took care to lookout for those who are vulnerable. The culprits are still Scot free. If any of you can kindly identify them or have someone in mind, (please NO cyber posting of names or bullying). .. just notify the police at 1800 -255 -0000 at your own discretion…the police will verify the identities of the culprits first in any case, so that we don’t falsely accuse the innocents.

    to the ugly couple who did this to my dad, you know who you are..what goes around comes around.. even if we don’t find you.. God sees everything.

     

    Source: Caroline Ng

  • Toa Payoh Lor 8 Hawker Centre Pushing Incident – First Person Witness Account From Janice Lim

    Toa Payoh Lor 8 Hawker Centre Pushing Incident – First Person Witness Account From Janice Lim

    We got in touch with Janice Lim, identified via her Facebook comments on the viral video to be a credible first person witness when the pushing incident happened at Toa Payoh Lor 8 Market and Food Centre last night.

    In the video, a well-dressed lady is seen arguing with an old man over the seats at a round table in the hawker centre. She called someone for help and an equally well-dressed young man came to her rescue, shoving the old man from behind, causing him to fall forward:

    Janice recounted the whole incident to us from the beginning. She said the incident happened at around 8.45pm. The hawker centre was very crowded and the table which caused the incident was the only available table where no one was seated.

    When the old man approached the table with his tray of food, there was no one seated at the table. However, there was a folded purple umbrella placed on the table, presumably to chope the seat.

    The young woman then confronted the old man and shouted at him rudely and loudly, spewing a slew of vulgarities which was what caught Janice’s attention.

    Janice said that the old man was polite throughout his verbal exchange with the lady. He had said that he only needed one seat and politely asked if all the seats were taken, questioning how many seats did the lady need exactly. The lady did not reply directly. Instead, she insisted that the table was reserved and the old man has no right to occupy a seat. She kept cursing the old man before calling her friend on her mobile to get help.

    The young man then came from behind, pushing the old man, causing him to fall forward. What happened from this point is captured on video.

    Janice said that after the pushing, another kind gentleman came over and offered for the old man to sit with him at his table (don’t say Singaporeans are all selfish). Someone should identify this good guy and buy him a beer or something!

    Janice said that the well-dressed couple did not eat anything, but they ordered many takeouts and continued to occupy the table. There were no other people who came to join them at the table either.

    Janice also shared that another guy went over to the young man and told him that he should not have pushed the old man. In agitation, the young man pushed and shoved all the used plates and utensils on the floor in a fit of rage.

    Janice concluded the interview saying that she was shocked by the behaviour of the well-dressed couple and that this is the one of the worst manifestation of the ‘chope’ culture that we have in Singapore.

    Hopefully, this interview with Janice cleared the air on what actually transpired, providing the context to the video.

     

    Rilek1Corner

    Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com