In a shocking incident that unfolded at the iconic Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, an Egyptian man found himself in a legal quagmire after he allegedly herded two women into an elevator, molesting one of them and resorting to lewd behavior. This disturbing incident, which took place in April 2023, has raised questions about safety and conduct in one of Singapore’s most renowned landmarks. Let’s delve into the details of this unfortunate event.

Wael Mohamed Abdelmagid Ibrahim Kandil: The Man in Question

The perpetrator in this case is Wael Mohamed Abdelmagid Ibrahim Kandil, a 38-year-old man hailing from Egypt. Wael, at the time of the incident, was in Singapore for a week to attend a conference. He held the position of director of sales for Simply Gourmet, a company based in the United Arab Emirates.

The Fateful Encounter

The incident occurred in the early hours of April 29, 2023, at the entrance to a lift lobby on the 57th floor of Marina Bay Sands. At that moment, two women were present: a 36-year-old Vietnamese woman and a 39-year-old Singaporean woman. According to court records, the women were simply minding their own business and did not wish to engage with Wael.

Despite the women’s clear disinterest, Wael continued to persistently interact with them and followed them into the lift lobby. His actions soon took a disturbing turn.

Unwanted Advances and Confrontation

Inside the lift lobby, Wael approached both women, putting his hands on their shoulders as if to massage them. Disturbed by this unwanted contact, the younger woman quickly removed his hand from her shoulder, while the other woman firmly told Wael not to touch them.

However, Wael’s advances didn’t stop there. When the elevator arrived, he forcibly pushed the older woman toward the lift. She was clearly unwilling to enter the elevator with Wael and the other men accompanying him. However, Wael persisted, herding both women into the confined space.

Inside the elevator, Wael’s behavior escalated to a new level of indecency. He suddenly reached out and flicked the younger woman’s nipple repeatedly, leaving her shocked and angry. Understandably, both women confronted Wael about his disgraceful actions.

Instead of offering an apology, Wael responded in an even more offensive manner. He looked at the victim, touched his own nipple, and then brazenly lifted his shirt, exposing himself to her.

Reporting the Incident

Once the elevator reached the ground floor, the two women wasted no time in leaving the scene. They promptly reported the shocking incident to security officers at Marina Bay Sands.

Wael and his companions, however, took a different approach. They claimed that the two women were intoxicated and asked the security officers to provide them with water.

Legal Proceedings

Thankfully, the two women persisted in their efforts to seek justice. They reiterated their accusations of molestation against Wael, prompting the security officers to detain him and review closed-circuit television footage from inside the elevator.

Subsequently, one of the officers filed a police report, leading to Wael’s arrest.

False Accusations and Ongoing Legal Battle

During the investigation, Wael offered an eyebrow-raising defense. He claimed that the two women had offered sexual services to him in exchange for money and that they had fabricated the molestation allegations when he refused to meet their demands.

As a result of these allegations, the investigation officer had to conduct a thorough inquiry to disprove Wael’s claims, which included taking statements from the two women.

Wael’s Current Situation

Wael’s legal woes have had a profound impact on his life. As of the court proceedings, he had spent approximately five months in Singapore due to the ongoing case. During this time, he sought to extend his residence visa in Dubai, where his wife and two children reside.

Wael’s wife is Russian, and neither she nor their children possess citizenship in Dubai or Egypt. If Wael’s visa were to expire, it could lead to dire consequences, as his family would be compelled to return to Russia, a situation his lawyer deemed “very dangerous” for them. Additionally, Wael’s business would be at risk of significant losses.

Legal Implications

Wael Mohamed Abdelmagid Ibrahim Kandil is set to return to court for his sentencing in November. His actions carry serious legal consequences. For the charge of molestation, he could face imprisonment for up to three years, fines, caning, or a combination of these penalties. Regarding the charge of insulting modesty, he could be sentenced to imprisonment for up to a year, fines, or both.

A bunch of stories of army days were shared by netizens, here are a best that were picked.

Story 1:

We had this guy, without fail, will call our ma’am “sir”. Every single time he talked to her. Always come out one “Yes sir” or “Thank you sir” First time, the ma’am just brushed it off as she knows it’s like muscle memory. But 2nd and 3rd time, she got annoyed and started scolding him.

She got so fed up, she instructed the rest of us to make sure he gets it right, if not we all kena. So we sat him down and made him repeat simple instructions using “ma’am” instead of “sir”. And he was sure he got it already, kept reassuring us, don’t worry won’t happen again.

Next time we saw our ma’am, he damn confident. Went up to her, said loudly: “Good morning…. Mom“. I swear the whole lot of us facepalmed at the same time.

Story 2:

Encik, why we cannot book out early on Friday, you every time make us stay until 6pm so late we hungry how.

Encik: ok indent dinner every Fri from now.

Story 3

During the rifle presentation ceremony, we were supposed to shout “WITH THIS RIFLE, I WILL DEFEND MY COUNTRY!”

This blur sotong, when he got his rifle, panicked (because there were many high ranking officers and photographers watching) and shouted:

“WITH THIS RIFLE, I WILL DE.. DE.. DESTROY MY COUNTRY! No, def… DEFEND MY COUNTRY SIR! SORRY SIR!”

I was in the front row and I tried sooooo f-ing hard to control my laughter because I knew when we returned to coyline, all of us were going to kena one time good one.

I remember looking at my encik and the look of horror on his face was incredible, he was so horrified because there was a bunch of majors and LTCs around him.

We went back to coyline and faced the floor, just because one bodoh don’t know how to differentiate “defend” and “destroy”.

Story 4

“Bro you confirm holding on to the TF cap/SG pin ah?

Sotong: “Ya cfm la I check already action with squeezing grenade pouch”

Proceed to fight through the whole jungle for another mission to another location.

Summex, shag AF. Can’t wait to RTU. While returning RAI.

Sotong: “eh you got pass me the cap/ring anot ah? Can’t find leh”

Whole platoon: vulgarities

“Whole platoon go back find RAI. After that stay back to help count RAI . The rest RTU first before tonner get stuck NMT”.

Blurcock was my buddy. Unfortunately he never talked much so its more of his actions than anything else.

Story 5

This happened a long time ago so apologise if I remember certain things wrongly haha.

This happened during our time in 8SIR (A.k.a security trooper training). There was this guy of us from our platoon who wasn’t very good with English. Everytime before we have our admin time, we will have a water parade where we need to recite the ST Creed. One of the ST would need to lead in the recital. At the last sentence in the creed, the ST needs to shout :

“We Always stand our ground! never back down!”

For one of the parades, he got arrowed to by the sergeant. Even with constant guidance by the sergeant, he kept forgetting the words. At the last sentence, he shouted:

“We never stand our ground! always back down!”

Everyone was trying so hard to not laugh. The best was that guy shouted with confidence and had the smirk in his face as if he scored marksman’s.

Subsequently he was given an excuse called “Excused Complicated information”.

Story 6

We did some urban blank shooting exercises. Once we done, we need to “sumpah” that there are no more rounds left with us. We fall in and then “Bang” trigger happy finger + a round still left in this blur sotong SR21. God damn, Everyone get so terribly terrified. The Encik and platoon sergeant were discussing weather this guy should go DB straight or not? We were so sure that he is dead meat. In the end 2 weeks SOL for this guy. Another exercise, then we did the “Sumpah” again. The Sargent ask him specifically, make sure no more round on him and he say confirm. Then he got a full spot check, 2 rounds found inside his LBV. GG, this guy go in DB for 2 weeks. Damn how sotong can this guy be…

Too soft-hearted? Too Kind?

Basically early this year my friend asked if I could lend her money cause she’s broke so without 2nd thought I lent it to her. She promised to return back by next month. Then when time is up, I asked if she could return my money, she told me she will do it in the evening.

So as a friend, I trusted her but later in the evening she did even not transfer. I guess she forgot about it so never mind. Later in the month I reminded her again, this time round she told she transfer the money already so I went to my account to check there wasn’t any transaction from her. So after, that she came back telling me that her account got issues cannot transfer. Fine! Few months later, I reminded her to transfer back the money she did not still.

Recently I told her again she said she will do it in the evening in the end also never. I really don’t know how to ask for my money back…. Even though I’m not the person that owe others money but still I’m too shy to ask for my money back. I don’t know why I’m feeling this way, maybe because I don’t want to ruin the friendship????

Here are what netizens think:

• Always only lend the amount of money that you are happy to never see again.. nothing more.

• I taught my kids a lesson when an aquaintance needed money. He promised 3 days. I told my kids.. watch this and learn. 3 mths.

• The stories and lies people conjure are getting a little stale – account issues, take some time for the transfer to get through etc. The only reason there is issues with your account is – There is insufficient $. Don’t blame the bank

• Up to you depending on how good a friend she is and what’s your earning power now. Maybe she’s broke. I helped a friend with a $500 loan before as she was job seeking. She forgot, but given that she had helped get me and the wife together I just let it go. As you get older, friends are more important than a few hundred bucks.

My husband is calling me the worse daughter in law and saying I’m overreacting. His mother moved in with us after her caretaker quit, my husband’s uncle died in a car accident in December. In the end, the plan is that she’s going to go live with one of my husband’s other relatives so this isn’t permanent. She’s in her seventies and while pretty mobile and loves to go on walks and out in public with us to do errands she’s also becoming more senile every day and I honestly can’t take it anymore.

Since she’s always cooped up in this house my husband asks that I let her come with me and/or my kids to go to the park, grocery shopping, library, etc. I didn’t mind and actually liked the help (holding) of the baby while she was with us. But there’s been two situations where she’s said “karens” things very loudly embarrassing us. The first was when we went to a small coffee shop. It was me, my seven-year-old, my toddler and the baby and grandma. We were sitting down and there was a man with what appeared to be mixed looking kids in line. We had already been served and were sitting. Very loudly she turns to my oldest and goes “Well that’s just not right” and we all stared since she said it so loudly. She then kept repeating herself and started pointing to the family in the line in front of us. They looked very shocked and I was so embarrassed. Quickly I apologized and left in a hurry.

When I went home to tell my husband he was shocked but told me I was overreacting. He said we’d likely never see those people ever again and while it was bad they probably picked up on the fact that she’s not all the way there because she’s old and understood. I hesitated on bringing her out with us but after she kept complaining to my husband about never leaving the house I brought her out with us to the library this past weekend with just my oldest and while there she was being very rude to a man wearing a head covering and saying loudly she wanted to leave the part of the library we’re at while pointing to the man.

She then refused to leave the library after the man didn’t get up and just ignored her and I tried to tell her we were leaving and she got upset since we just got there. It made my daughter cry. When we got home I exploded on my husband that I am never going out in public with his grandmother again and told him what happened.

He said I didn’t know exactly why she was pointing at the man since she didn’t specify and that I shouldn’t assume it was to be ignorant and that I’m just looking for excuses to not take her out. He then said I’m a bad person since I know he’s busy with work in the afternoon and his grandma sleeps in and doesn’t wake up till late so me running errands is the only time she leaves the house and that if I don’t take her sometimes then she’ll really be crazy cooped up

Am I at fault here?

Meaningless traditions should stop.

TLDR – be considerate while burning paper offerings if it’s going to affect the people around the area.

I feel that paper offering burning needs to stop. Even though I’m a Chinese. I really don’t see any positive benefits of having it. People, no matter how much you tell them to burn properly, throw the rubbish properly, simply refuses to learn. It’s not even religious, it’s just a stupid practice that has been inherited throughout the generations. Do y’all even know if hell has such concept of currency usage? Don’t care right? Pretty sure billions of dollars have been burnt throughout the years. Inflation down there must be pretty insane right?

I feel that it’s bloody selfish to expect others to deliberately avoid stepping on your burnt shit when the f**king thing is all over the walkway. “dOnT sTeP oN tHe MoNeY, lAtEr ThE gHoSt CoMe HaUnT yOu”. Do y’all even clean up after yourself after all that burning? No, y’all just expect the town council cleaner to do it for you. Privileged f**ks. Then they clean halfway and just so happen to step on the burnt mess? Die ah? Or the ghost will be like…. “okay understandable, have a nice day”? Or y’all just don’t care because you’ve done your “due diligence” and the ghosts are happy now.

Another stupid thing is, y’all be burning shit like houses, smart phones and cars. Like seriously? How tf do you think it would work in hell? The house you buy inside no furniture like wtf? I see some houses got maid inside… Really? You expect the devil to conjure a maid everytime someone decides to burn a house? Y’all burn the car but no engine or parts required for the car to move. Need burn mechanic shop in case car spoil? Burn iPhone but never burn sim card and charger. Need burn one singtel outlet so they can get reception?

Don’t get me wrong, if you burn your own shit in a place where won’t be disturbing anyone, sure by all means.

PS – If you feel that there are some traditions that are meaningless and needs to stop, do mention them in the comments to raise awareness and get people to question the logic of all these meaningless practices.

Failure in Life

Growing up having parents who argue and fights and eventually having my Dad abandoning us altogether.

Due to the lack of Dad’s presence, I always hope to find a man who can be there for me and give me some supports and care.

In my early adult lifes, I have a few relationships but it doesn’t last long.

I did realised that I might have look for love in all the wrong places but I am not to a point of being desperated, just want to fill the emptiness because my Mum began to blame me due to my Dad leaving as I was not born a boy that they hope for.

I end up with all sort of guys: Gangster, drug addict,abuser,cheater. Each time getting myself fill with betrayals and very much hurts.

Till I was in my 30s, I tell myself hey, enough is enough! I began to upgrade myself and took up private course and drifted my mind to something useful. That’s put me off searching for love for a couple of years.

Till I change my working environment after graduating, I start to have a relationship again. It lasts longest,7 years to be actual, till one day, the guy went MIA. It was after another 3 years that I saw him again and he confessed that he was making use of me all these time and after I cannot help him anymore, it’s time he leave. You see, he was not well to do and didn’t have a stable job so I help him whenever possible.

It was so hurtful!

I went on to another company and years later, my colleague ask me to try being with him. I was very reliated because of my previous relationship. I am scare to be make use and wasting time again as I am

not any younger so I just pull it off.

However, after he left the company and return to his country and I also left the company subsequently, he waited for me for 10 years and throughout this period, we stay as good friends. One day, he ask the question again and I was touched because these 10 years, he was a pillar of support, he give care and often checks on me( he is a foreigner posted to another country for work). So I agreed. The first year went by good and we finally meet up again. We spend many good moments and even met his family members in his hometown. Till lately, he starts to give cold shoulders and went unresponsive most of the time. He can be online, read the messages but doesnt reply on a daily basis. Words become lessers and the only conversation we have is good morning and good night. I start to feel disappointed again because why is it always end up like this? Very nice and good at the start but very brittle and hurting as time passed. I am not a lady who wants a house, car, money.. I am totally not a control freak, I allowed friendship with opposite sex, I dont stalk, dont argue, dont demand, dont questions. Basically, I trust and just want real concerns, a person who can listen, talk to and love. It is just so simple but why is it that it seems like no one cherish and no one feels for a person like this? I always wonder what’s wrong with me? And I doing it all wrong or I just simply don’t deserves love in my lifetime. Anyone have similar encounters? Will like to know your experience and thoughts. Thank you for reading

A man shared how he is described as a “manly man” but he watches animal rescue videos when he’s drunk and cries like a baby when his wife isn’t around.

Here is the story

I get drunk, watch animal rescue videos and cry like a baby when my wife isn’t home.
I’m what most people would consider a “manly man”.

On weekends when my wife works overnights I usually get a bottle of whiskey and watch YouTube animal rescue videos. I get so emotional seeing an animal being rescued, I bawl like a little girl. I’m talking full on tears streaming down my face.

Edit: For those mentioning some people put animals purposely in those situations for YouTube videos; with this channel, it is not the case.

The channel is The Dodo. Which mostly shows abused/neglected animals being cared for and rehabilitated in foster homes until they find their forever home.

Drunk me can’t resist the urge to click on those videos and the savvy programmers at YouTube know it…

Netizen’s comments

• I have used alcohol to elicit emotional reactions. It’s cathartic. Keep doing it if you need to.

• Try it without the alcohol see if you get the same results. Let us know.

• It’s good. Although maybe if you feel that strongly about animal rescue you could volunteer to help at one.

Nothing against getting drunk. But those animals need you, man!

• Go help the cause and come home and crack a tall one!

Everyone needs a way to let out emotions built up over time. Doesn’t really matter how often you do this, it helps your mind. This seems healthier than other means of doing so.

I never had a father growing up. My mother was a single parent, and she did her best to raise me, but she was always struggling to make ends meet. We never had a lot of money, and I never felt like I had a strong male role model in my life. This often made me feel insecure and unloved.

When I was in my late teens, I started working in a pub. It was a great way to earn some extra money, and I enjoyed the atmosphere of the place. I was a hard worker, and I quickly gained the respect of the regulars at the bar.

One night, I served a middle-aged man. He was handsome, sophisticated, and very charming. I felt an immediate connection with him, and we started talking. I told him about my fatherless upbringing, and he listened intently. He was kind and understanding, and he told me about his own life and experiences. I was immediately drawn to him.

We started seeing each other regularly, and he soon became my confidante. I felt safe and secure when I was with him, and he had a calming effect on me. He was patient and supportive, and he seemed to understand my feelings. I started to trust him and rely on him for emotional support.

As we grew closer, I started to realize that I had developed strong feelings for him. He was an older man, and I felt like I was looking for a father figure. He was the first man I had ever been close to, and I was scared of getting too attached. I was also conscious of the fact that our age difference made our relationship somewhat taboo.

Despite my fears, I kept seeing him. We would spend hours talking, and I was amazed by how much he seemed to care about me. He was attentive and understanding, and he always made me feel loved and supported. I felt like I had finally found the father figure I had been looking for.

Our relationship eventually became physical, and I felt a deep emotional connection with him. We spent a lot of time together, and I was thankful to have someone who could provide me with the love and security I had been lacking in my life.

Unfortunately, our relationship was not to last. After a few months, he decided to move away. I was devastated, but I knew that I had to let him go. I had to accept that I could not replace the father I had never had.

Although our relationship ended, it left a lasting impression on me. I had learned to trust a man, and I now had the self-confidence to pursue meaningful relationships. I was no longer the insecure girl I had been before, and I was able to move past my daddy issues.

I was grateful for the experience. I had found a loving and supportive partner in an older man, and I was thankful for the time we had spent together. I had grown as a person, and I was now ready to embrace the future with newfound confidence.

He is her boss, and she got promoted at work. So he bought her a Nintendo Switch. He is in his early 30s, she is younger.

I asked if any other colleagues are sharing, he ignored my question. I asked again, then he got annoyed and blurted another name. Obviously lying, or 1, he won’t get annoyed, 2, I don’t have to repeat my question, 3, he would have said right from the start that a colleague and him will be buying the Switch for the girl.

He often treats his team to dinner, buys them snacks and pastries. (Not sure how true is that, or is it just 1 person or the entire team. I usually don’t ask much, until he bought the Switch.)

He always texts his colleagues even late at night every single day. I didn’t check his phone but briefly saw the names when I walk past, and assumed it’s about work stuff. Not sure if it is normal to be THIS close to your colleagues. I usually avoid mine after working hours unless it’s urgent.

At my workplace, we usually just buy lunch or dinner to celebrate the promotion. Told my colleague and she said that he is so nice and generous to his team, nothing to worry about.

Here are what netizens think:

• Out of his own pocket? Unless he’s at some higher level six figure job that’s a major red flag. Hell even if he is the fact he wouldn’t just answer your question is a red flag.

• It really depends on the industry and ofc your salary. In my workplace, gifts to colleagues worth $1000 are uncommon but not unheard of, especially if its middle management or upwards. A director once bought everyone in the office the latest iPhone because his horse won some sort of trophy.

• Yeah my moms an executive and gets Louis Vuitton gifts for Christmas from her employees. I got tickets to my favorite band which was $150. I think a nintendo switch if he’s a higher up isn’t crazy.