Man dies from hunger after anti-foreigner strike
Leaves behind two elderly parents, domestic helper and pet terrapin
An artist’s impression of Sin Ka Poh. Any coincidental resemblance to Gilbert Goh of the National Solidarity Party is unintentional.
A man in his late forties has passed away after enduring a week-long protest against immigrants in Singapore. A regular contributor to TR Emeritus and various boycott Facebook pages, Sin Ka Poh
was leading a nation-wide boycott of cafes and restaurants operated by foreign labour.
Beginning with a boycott of Ya Kun cafes, which he claimed were being overrun by “PRCs and Pinoys”, Sin led a group of three in a “Occupy Kaya Toast” protest.
“He just sat there for days without ordering anything. And he looked so angry!” said Fu Wu Ren, an employee at Ya Kun who repeatedly urged Sin to try the shop’s perfectly cooked half boiled eggs
enjoyed with a moderate drizzle of dark soya sauce.
Sin fainted on the third day of the protest and was brought to the Tan Tock Seng hospital. Regaining consciousness after being on drip for half a day, he then refused treatment and demanded to be
brought home.
“He told me that I should go back and dance around the coconut trees, and leave the medical jobs to Singaporeans. I thought he was delusional from that strike and increased his medicine to prevent
hallucinations. I didn’t know he actually meant it,” said his doctor Samy Govindasamy, a new Singapore citizen who does not dance around coconut trees.
“And he looked so angry!”
Three days later, Sin passed away at home while updating his Facebook status. It read: “Continue to boycott restaurants that don’t employ Singaporeans for $5 an hour!”
His domestic helper was inconsolable.
“I told boy boy. You cannot play computer everyday without eating or drinking. I cooked his favourite curry chicken noodles every night but he refused to eat. Just because I’m from the Philippines.”
said Maria Fontanilla who has worked for the Sin family for the past 20 years.
“He was such a nice boy in army. I remember folding his uniform every Sunday night before he booked in. But lately, he looked so angry.” she said in tears.
According to various forum letters written by Sin, his hatred for foreigners escalated after his unsuccessful career in Australia. Sin Kah Poh leaves behind two elderly parents, a domestic helper and his
pet terrapin Jim Jim.
Source ~ New Nation.