The incident took place at Hin Sheng Coffee House at 346 Geylang Road.

According to CNA, 45-year-old Lee Han Leng pleaded guilty to voluntarily causing hurt with a dangerous weapon and he was jailed for 6 months.

21-year-old Koh Hee Yang was selling sleeping pills at a Coffee shop in Geylang and the 45-year-old got into an argument with him after Koh felt that the way Lee had thrown money on the table was rude.

The two ended up parting ways and the sale of the sleeping pills did not happen.

About 1 month after the incident Lee plotted his revenge against Koh.

Background of incident

The victim is 21-year-old Koh Hee Yang who is currently pursuing his diploma and was slashed on June 1st 2022.

The 45-year-old man first equipped himself with a knife and hide in the back alley to ambush the student.

While he was facing his friend the 45-year-old man rushed towards him from the back and attacked him.

Slashing

The victim who was caught off guard tried to defend against the assailant and he was slashed at least 6 times.

He was bleeding from his head, neck and hands.

The man immediately ran away after slashing the young man and by the time the victim’s friend reacted he had run away.

The victim’s friend gave chase but the man disappeared into the alleys of Geylang.

A Planned Revenged

SMDN interviewed the victim and he said that he has seen the assailant and said that he once had a conflict with the man.

Previously, the man had provoked him and the young man pinned him to the ground.

Arrest

According to 8world, the man was subsequently arrested at his home in Hougang Avenue on the same day of the accident.

He will be in court tomorrow (June) and he will be charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons.

The offence of voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons under Section 326 of the Penal Code 1871 is punishable with life imprisonment, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to a fine or caning.

Image Source: Shin Min Daily News (Left), Google Maps (Right)

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong addressed the country in his National Day Message 2022 yesterday (8 August), acknowledging that the cost of living is at the top of everyone’s minds.

He said that the government is doing everything necessary to help Singaporeans with the rising cost of living, as he listed out some of the measures that the government has done/is doing to help the people:

1. Multiple support packages have been released, targeting the neediest, with more packages to be introduced in the coming months to complement the support programmes.
2. The government is also trying to alleviate skyrocketing food prices by securing supplies from diversified sources, as well as stockpiling supplies.
3. Exchange rate policies have been tightened and our currency has been strengthened to dampen the imported inflation.

PM Lee added that should the situation worsen, the government is ready to do more to help Singaporeans.

“Around us, a storm is gathering”

He also warned that the world is unlikely to return to low inflation and interest rates anytime soon because of the shifting in international economic conditions.

He added that although Singapore’s economy has emerged strongly from the pandemic, the outlook has clouded considerably due to overseas conflicts worsening the existing inflation, as well as the supply chain being disrupted by Covid.

He also pointed to other overseas tensions and said that “around us, a storm is gathering”, and Singapore will be buffeted by intense rivalry and tensions in the region around us.

He also urged Singaporeans to stay united, and keep our armed forces strong and credible, while also preparing ourselves for a less peaceful and stable region in the decades to come.

I need to get this off my chest, I’m having a tough day guys. I’m 30 years old and I’ve got nothing to show for it. I still live with my emotionally toxic family, have no romantic partners, no children, no house, hardly any money, no education. On most days, I don’t think about these things and I just put my head down and move on with my life. today was a difficult day.

I ran into one of my friends from secondary school. We spent some time catching up and by the end of it, I wanted to cry. See, I was okay at one point in my life. I was doing well at school and was at the top of many of my classes before my mental struggles hit its peak and crushed me completely.

Today, my former classmates are doctors, lawyers, IT professionals, teachers, and investment bankers. Some are even married with children. I was from a SAP school, nearly all my schoolmates are successful.

Whereas I dropped out of school, have a dead-end job that barely pays, and don’t seem to have much of a future. My highest education level is O levels. I’ve tried going back to school many times but would drop out each time due to the mental health issues that were unfortunately debilitating for me.

I’ve not stopped though, I will be doing my A levels in 2023 once I’ve saved enough money to enrol somewhere. Yet it all feels utterly pathetic and it feels like my life has been a massive failure. I will be a 32 year old doing A levels.

Comparison is the thief of joy, one of the first few things I did almost a decade ago was actually deleting all my social media . I lost touch with most of my friends from school and didn’t know how any of them were doing.

Every now and then I would receive updates from the few people I was in touch with but I would try to keep my head up and not let it bring me down. I’m happy for all these people, they are good people.

It’s not their success that is bringing me down, it’s my own failure, and the magnitude of my failure which becomes so clear once I compare myself to my peers, that’s crushing me. I don’t know how my life ended up here.

For years, I believed that things would work out for me. I believed that it’s not my timeline but God’s timeline, I would tell myself that I can’t follow the timeline of the world. There are so much uncertainty in the world, someone could have all the success in the world and die tomorrow. I had this almost delusional optimism that things would be okay, I believed that God had a plan.

Today, I find myself in tears, thinking that there is probably no God. There is no plan. I’m alone. By telling myself that it was going to be okay, I was just consoling myself. The reality is that I got left behind in life, my life will never be the same as my peers’. I have to make peace with that. There is also a chance that I may never be okay.

Every year, it’s the same questions from my relatives. Everyone is disappointed and ashamed of me. My life has been a failure to them. I don’t blame them for seeing it that way. I used to tell myself that it’ll be okay someday. I don’t believe that anymore. I don’t see myself recovering, leaving my family, having a family of my own, successfully get into uni, having a better job. I don’t see any of it happening.

I just needed to tell someone this, thank you for reading. Tomorrow will be a better day, but today, I just need to lick my wounds.

A Singapore resident, Maria, shared how she booked a hotel room at ParkRoyal on Beach Road to celebrate her mother’s birthday.

Speaking to MustShareNews, Maria said that they arrived at the hotel and checked in early into their room at 1 pm, before going off to have lunch at bout 1.40 pm.

Items laid out were gone

However, when they returned to their room at about 7 pm, her mother then noticed that the soaps that she laid out in the toilet were gone.

The mother and daughter didn’t ask for any housekeeping service and wondered where the soaps could have been.

They then checked with the hotel manager, who looked through the CCTV and saw that a hotel staff member had gone into their room and taken their items to dispose of, including Maria’s mother’s soaps.

The staff member then left the room after seeing their luggage.

Maria told MS News that they were horrified that someone was in their room and threw their things away, and she added that the soaps that were thrown away were not easily replaceable because they had to either be prescribed by a doctor or bought online.

Maria’s mother needed the soap to use the toilet, and this inconvenienced them.

Hotel manager agreed to full refund but changed his mind

It was later revealed that their room was marked as a check-out room by the hotel by mistake, and Maria said that it was worrying how a staff member could enter their room without permission.

The hotel manager then agreed to process a full refund but later changed his mind and gave them a late check-out instead as he didn’t want the incident to be brought up to the senior management of the hotel.

Maria then lodged a police report because she no longer felt safe in the hotel room.

The police then arrived and spoke to the hotel manager while Maria waited in the lobby with her mother, and eventually managed to convince the manager to give them a full refund.

The mother and daughter then eventually finished their checking out of the hotel by 10.45 pm.

ParkRoyal responds

ParkRoyal on Beach Road responded to the incident and told MS News that they regret that the guests had to go through this “unpleasant experience”.

They said that this was an isolated incident and that the items were “accidentally” disposed of during housekeeping.

They added that the safety and security of their guests are paramount to them.