Disgusted

It's really heart endearing when you see a helpless woman being assaulted. Sometimes, you'd wonder do Singaporeans really have that heart of gold. Probably, they won't want to be involved but I believe the least one could do was to call the police.

I wasn't at the scene but I was narated this incident:

A woman was assualted by her relative under the void deck. At the same time, there was a funeral procession going on. Not a single soul offered to step in to haul the attacker away. The relentless hitting was supported by the man's wife. The victim was the man's younger sister, a woman in her mid 50s and she was on her way to work.

She cried out to the onlookers to for help but they looked on. It was after a few minutes a guy stepped in and called the police. It's surprising the hero was an white expatriate. He happened to be passing by the scene.

What didn't a single Singaporean do anything. Even if no one wanted to step in, is it so difficult to dial 999?

The woman was left with bruises on her face and internal bleeding in her body. I may not be a helpful Singaporean but if I encounter such a scene, I'll definitely call the authorities because I would never bear to see someone hurt seriously or even die under the hands of such a ruthless person.

Can you imagine if this person was your relative or kin? No one in the right mind would want such a thing to happen to their relative or kin.

A 30 year hatred led to this and from a religious point of view, the man is definitely possessed with evil.

Flashback 1960:

The man came from a traditional background of Taoist roots. The father remarried and had several kids. The first 6 was from his 1st wife and the remaining 2 was from the 2nd wife. Life was always ironic and both wives died at an early age. This man got married and being the elder son, he took the responsibilty of looking after his siblings. However, his wife never liked the siblings. She plotted and managed to kicked the step siblings out of her flat. The step sibling though left the home, they kept in touch with the sisters and their father. The man's remaining 4 siblings were close knitted. 1 man and 4 sisters. His younger brother had a heart problem and need constant medication. As for the 4 sisters, one believe in Jesus and got herself baptised. The man's wife felt this sister never respected her brother as she dismissed Taoism and believed in another religion. Because of this, the wife blamed the remaining sisters for not showing their sister the right way of life. By accepting another religion, it was a sign of disrespecting her eldest brother.

Eventually, the 4 sisters left the house, leaving their father and brother in the eldest brother's care. Before they left, the man harshfully severed all ties with them because they never respected him and left one to stray away from Taoism. The sisters did well in their career, settled down and still took time to visit their father and medically ill brother. One day, the man's wife accused her father in law of peeping her in her room. Her father in law stand was that he wanted to take a look of his first grandchild. He was chased out of the flat and he slept under the void deck for a few days. Finally, he went to seek shelter from one of his daughters. The sisters endured the disrespect the woman did to their father and housed him in a 2 room flat. After some time, they brought their medically ill brother to stay with their father. Frequently, they took turns to visit them, cleaning their flat, cook for them and even gave them allowances knowing that it's difficult for the brother to get a permeanant job. From the time their father was chased out of the flat, there was never a time, the elder brother went to look for his father.

Decades passed on the sisters never had any contact with that man. Fate took a turn on their lives when one of their sisters commited suicide in 1998 by hanging herself. She couldn't endure her abusive husband's beatings.

As age caught up with their father, the Christian daughter took the responsibility of caring for him in her apartment.The other sisters still regularly visited him. As for her brother, he stay alone in the 2 room flat. In 2004, a search for a man's next of kin appear in the papers. The medically ill brother had a heart attack and he passed away under his void deck. It was then for the 1st time after 30 years, the siblings met. The elder brother assumed all responsility and held a Taoist funneral. After the funeral, the Christian sibling received numerous calls from the man's wife asking her to meet them. They demanded $4000 claiming it was money for holding the funeral. My sister refused to give any money and the man threatened to hit her for disobeying him. It was ironic how he severed all ties with the sisters and yet still want to take the role of the elder brother. The whole matter came to a standstill when the sister paid $1500. There was no mention from the elder brother that he wanted to take his father back.

Last month, the sister's father passed away at the age of 90 years. A Christian funeral was held and the elder brother was informed of his father's death. There was a ruckus at the parlor: crocodile's tears, vile cursed words from the man's wife when they arrived. At the parlor, the elder brother yelled at the sisters for holding such a funneral knowing that their father was a Taoist. He added they 30 years, they still never respect him and even till his final breathe, he has the right to lecture because he is their eldest brother. He threathen to lay his hands on them. The step siblings came too but they avoided him.

The funneral was chaotic as there were clashes of religion. The man wore traditional costumes for Taoist funneral but there was no joss offerings. A funneral was supposed to be a solemn event yet, it became a big joke. The planned Christian funneral was still executed until the day of the cremation. During the cremation, the sisters remained strong and not shed a tear. On the other hand, the elder brother cried and kept mouthing that if his father could live longer, he'll be enjoying a good life in his home. If one had the heart, he would have searched for his father when he was chased out by his wife. Why say such things when your father had already moved on.

When Christian sister returned to collect her father's ashes the next day, the man and his son assaulted her. Being a soft hearted person, she didn't lodge a report neither did she went to see a doctor, fearing the doctor would probe. It was traumatising because her father's death certificate indicated her address and her brother had a copy of it. She received several calls from him asking her to meet him together with her remaining siblings.

On Wednesday, her sister was assaulted by the man and his wife below her void deck. This sister never divulge her home address to anyone and it was suspected that the man's wife got it from her deceased sister's mother in law. They met while at the funeral. That morning, her son saw the couple in their kangoo while he was on his way to work. The first time he saw them was at the funeral. Initially he thought he might have recognised the wrong person as they were quite a distance from him. Furthermore, they never knew their address.

It was then in the day he realised he didn't see the wrong person but it was too late and his mother was assualted.

I got to know the full story because I was there at the funeral. My mother was the one badly attacked. Our whole family has decided to lodge a lawsuit against this man for being a tyrant. Yes, he may have a son still in primary school (who was there at the funeral). But what his father did was untolerable and we will not be soft hearted. One of my aunt has suffered his attack last month and we will not take this lying down because he will defintely go to look for my other aunt. A letter has been sent and on if he fails to turn up in the family court on 15th May, we'll relodge this matter as a criminal case.

My family will make sure justice is done to him, his wife and his son who hitted on my aunt.

As a Singaporean, I'll appalled that they are so many Singaporeans at the scene yet they did nothing. Are we telling the rest of the world that we have no sense of justice or we're scaredy cats? Eventually it was an expat that tried to help my mother and even stood up to be a witness for this. I'm grateful to him deeply, forever.