Peh Kheng 63-year-old part-time security guard has been sentenced to 8 months jail after burning a 12-year-old boy with his cigarette.
Before the incident occur, Peh Kheng was consuming alcohol since 10 am and got drunk by 6.30pm.
The incident occurred last year in November at Lengkok Bahru located near Bukit Merah Secondary school. Peh Kheng was in a drunkard state when he attacked the boy. He assumed that the boy was the one screaming at the void deck.
He pressed his lit cigarette against the boy’s neck and walked away. The police were alerted after the boy went home and informed his mother.
The lift lobby CCTV footage captured the act of him burning the boy.
Hui Mei harass Singapore Police Force officers who were concern for her safety being alone in the dark. This is what the so called free speech activits called “civil disobedience”. Taking a leaf out of Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) Chee Soon Juan 徐顺全’s book of antics
The Battle of Opium Hill (14 February 1942) at Pasir Panjang was one of the fiercest battles that took place in Singapore in World War II.
“By their stubborn defence of the Pasir Panjang Ridge at the height of the Battle of Singapore, they set an example of steadfastness and endurance which will become a great tradition in the Regiment and an inspiration for the future generations.”
My mother grew up in a family that clearly privileges the males in the household disproportionately more. It doesn’t help that she only has one male sibling.
The only male heir was the centre of the entire family. He was the youngest, because they tried several times in hope that they would conceive a son.
She is the eldest sister. And being the eldest in the 60s-70s meant that she had to shoulder a huge portion of the domestic chores, caring for younger siblings, etc. She was her mother’s best helper, the one who knew all along the silent hardships and untold sufferings that my grandma kept to herself.
But my mother, despite all her contributions to the family, was not well-appreciated.
She never got to eat the drumstick during special occasions. She never got the extra dollars to get new clothes for the year. What extra resources was available in her poor household went to the golden boy. The one who had the right biological composition and genitalia to become the symbol of hope and progress for the family.
She grew hard under the abuse and indignities of favouritism. She knew that it was unfair her and her sisters were doing so much but her brother remained the only one who was praised for tiny steps.
She even had to fight to pursue her education in diploma. She got it on scholarship, much to the resistance of her parents.
Even though the diploma education was sponsored, it was not free because it took up two years, and time is money because she could have been working to provide for her brother’s education. I am glad she insisted on the diploma for herself. At least she could break out of where she came from and to Singapore. She was most successful amongst her siblings to break out of the poverty trap.
And, when my grandma suffered a stroke, she depleted all her CPF savings (10 years of slogging her guts out) to pay the high cost of hospital treatment and nursing home fees as a PR.
Fast forward, my mother, now a 50 years old woman is now living a relatively adequate life. Not rich, not even close. But just enough to live without fearing insufficiency.
Both her children are in university. Intergenerational mobility seems to be looking promising for her. But as her daughter, I see and experience it – the continuity of the “son privilege” tradition.
I cannot believe my mother would continue to practise a habit that she suffered so much for. My mother loves my brother very much. It has reached a point she doesn’t bother to cover up the bias. I used to beg my father to persuade her to love me a little more but that was ten years ago.
How does she not understand the importance of treating and loving your children equally? Does she want me to go through the exact same troubles she had when younger?
When you play favourites with the children, you divide the family inevitably. You estrange your child from yourself and the siblings from each other. In a nuclear family with average one two children, can two siblings afford to be on bad terms? Who will they rely on as they become older?
Why wouldn’t she think of it? This is the part that infuriates me the most – not even the actual favouritism. But the very fact that you have first-hand experience of being the neglected child and yet you CHOSE to let it happen again.
I love my mother, but maybe because I feel obligated to. I love my mother in a way that is never consistent. How can I be consistent? I get food, shelter, warmth and free home Wi-Fi.
But I don’t have love.
Oh. And she doesn’t keep in much contact with her brother ever since
A 49-year-old Singaporean had driven his car on the motorcycle lane at Tuas checkpoint on 22 Jan and knocked into the passport scanning kiosk. ICA officers observed that he reeked of alcohol. The man was referred to the Singapore Police Force.
Drink-driving is a serious offence as it poses danger not only to the driver but to other road users, in this case, checkpoint users too. ICA and the Police take a serious view on such errant drivers and do not condone their irresponsible road behaviour.
My boyfriend and I has been together for more than half a year and he claims to be a romantic. That seemed to be the case in the first six months yet now it’s Valentine’s Day, he chose to just bring me to a shop and asked me to pick whatever I want and paid for it.
No fancy meal nor flowers either (although I don’t actually need that). These are opposed to him going out of the way to pull connections to get a table at a fully booked restaurant for my birthday just because I wanted to try, spent weeks searching for the present etc. I feel cheap and unappreciated that he thinks that I don’t require any effort anymore );
The family’s breadwinner earns a five-figure salary and the wife says they are a middle-income family who needs financial help from the government. The family consists of the mother, father, 3 kids and 1 maid.
The family spends their money on things like medication, whom the wife needs. She recently had a heart transplant and are paying slightly above $1000 every 6 months. They would also have to pay for education for the eldest son, who has to pay $1800 per semester and also support the daughter, who CCA is sailing, about $300-400 a year. This excludes the cost of having a maid.
She claims she is of ‘middle-income’ and that she is suffering from paying the expenses. Her salary exceeded the maximum income they could qualify for financial assistance. They hoped that they could get some assistance from when Budget 2018 is announced.
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A 49-year-old Singaporean had driven his car on the motorcycle lane at Tuas checkpoint on 22 Jan and knocked into the passport scanning kiosk. ICA officers observed that he reeked of alcohol. The man was referred to the 
My boyfriend and I has been together for more than half a year and he claims to be a romantic. That seemed to be the case in the first six months yet now it’s Valentine’s Day, he chose to just bring me to a shop and asked me to pick whatever I want and paid for it.
