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A final farewell for Kerin Peh

Family and friends bade a final to Ms Kerin Peh today.

She had leapt to her death on Monday from her flat in Hougang.

Her death comes less than a year after her husband's mysterious fall from the Hilton hotel on their wedding night.
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At 11am, family and friends gathered at the void deck of Block 549 Hougang Avenue 8 to pay their final respects to her.

As the pallbearers carried the casket out from the void deck, her distraught mother Mrs Peh followed behind.

When the casket was placed into the hearse, Mrs Peh's sadness turned into anger when she spotted photographers from the local media taking photos of the funeral.

She shouted at them and even hurled water bottles in their direction. She had to be restrained by relatives.

As the hearse made its way through the HDB estate, Mrs Peh walked beside it, wailing loudly.

Mrs Peh had to be supported by relatives as they boarded the bus for Bright Hill crematorium.

Ms Peh's ashes will be placed in the niche next to her late husband's at the crematorium.
 

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how i wish i could find true love. Take note i do not mean that i want my girl to commit suicide. I just want a girl who truly loves me. guess this is a near impossible dream.

rip Kerin Peh.
 

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Hilton groom's widow bought niche next to hubby's ashes
THIS is as tragic as a love story can get.

Mr Vernon Leong Jun Wei and his wife, Ms Kerin Peh Li Ling, had planned on living happily ever after, till death do they part.

Sadly, death came too soon, too unexpectedly, too tragically.

On what was supposed to be the first day of the rest of their lives together, he left her a widow.

Mr Leong, 31, mysteriously fell to his death at the Hilton Singapore on Nov 4 last year, just hours after celebrating his union with Ms Peh with a banquet at the hotel.

Perhaps the pain of losing him was too much to bear. Perhaps his unexplained death became a tipping point.

Around 2am yesterday, Ms Peh, 28, was found dead at the foot of Block 540, Hougang Street 51.

It was exactly 35 weeks after her husband had plunged to his death.

Ms Peh had moved back to live with her parents in their unit on the fifth storey of the block.

It is believed that she had fallen from the sixth storey, while her family was asleep.

The New Paper understands that just before she fell, Ms Peh's sister, 30, had seen her sitting on the sofa in the living room staring into space.

The sister did not think anything was amiss, and went to bed.

But not long after that, she was woken by some noises.

She went to her sister's room, but found her missing.

She then rushed downstairs to check and found her sister in a pool of blood. Her white slippers were found 2m from her body.

Ms Peh, the second of three sisters, had died on the spot.

It has been said that those who are left behind are the ones who suffer the most.

They are the ones who have to pick up the pieces.

And so it was in the early hours yesterday, when her family's loud wails woke residents in the block.

A resident on the second storey heard their cries around 2am yesterday.

Miss Vimala, 22, an undergraduate, told The New Paper that after she heard the cries, she walked to the staircase landing and saw one of Ms Peh's sisters squatting by the lift and "wailing very loudly".

Another resident saw her two sisters and mother rushing to Ms Peh's body.

The younger sister was hysterical and repeatedly hit her head against a wall at the void deck.

The elder sister, who was also wailing, tried to pull her back but was not strong enough to stop her.

In the end, it was a male relative who managed to stop the woman.

Nearby, their mother sat sobbing inconsolably.

The wailing continued till 5am, after Ms Peh's body was taken away to the mortuary.

Last night, Ms Peh's wake was set up at Block 549 Hougang Street 51. Her family declined to be interviewed.

The New Paper understands that Ms Peh did not leave any last notes.

Police are investigating the case as one of unnatural death.

Those who knew Ms Peh thought she was beginning to put her grief behind her. They did not expect her death.

One of Mr Leong's ex-employees, Mr Lucas Chen, told The New Paper that when he first heard the news of Ms Peh's death, he couldn't believe it.

Said Mr Chen in Mandarin: "I even asked my friend if it was true. It had been eight months already since Vernon's death and from what I heard, Kerin was feeling much better recently.

"It had been so long already, we thought she had got over it."

The truth sank in only after Mr Chen went to work. His colleagues who knew the couple were talking about it and arranging to go to Ms Peh's wake.
ASHES TO ASHES: Ms Kerin Peh paying her respects to her late husband at Bright Hill Columbarium last year. She attempted suicide by slashing her wrists weeks after her husband's death.

Mr Leong used to run a shop in Sim Lim Square selling computer peripherals with his business partner, Mr Gan Kow Meng.

Mr Gan, 31, continued with the business after Mr Leong died.

Recalling how loving the couple was, Mr Chen said Mr Leong would call Ms Peh on the phone every day.

Said Mr Chen: "Sometimes he would come into the shop for half a day and after that go out to meet Kerin. The couple often went on holidays too."

Mr Chen, who attended their wedding banquet at the Hilton, added that Ms Peh seemed to be a cheerful and outgoing person.

"She was often around when we went for supper with Vernon after work. They were a very loving couple."

Mr Leong had courted Ms Peh for six years. The couple had got the keys for their new flat just before their wedding dinner.

Everything was looking up for them and Mr Leong's business was said to be doing well.

Ms Peh, an IT product distributor, had quit her job a month before the wedding and was to have joined a new firm.

The couple's wedding was held on Nov 3 last year. The 10-course Chinese dinner in the Hilton ballroom ended around 11pm.

About three hours later, Ms Peh sounded the alarm when she couldn't find Mr Leong in their 10th-storey suite after she emerged from the shower.

Mr Leong was later found on the driveway near the hotel entrance.

How he landed there and what led to his fall have remained a mystery.

Emotional wreck

Those who know the couple said Ms Peh had been an emotional wreck after her husband's death.

Her family and friends had been keeping a close watch on her.

In the weeks following his death, Ms Peh had been visiting his niche at Bright Hill Columbarium every day - sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by friends.

Ms Peh would be seen in front of her husband's niche with offerings of fruits and his favourite foods.

But the visits stopped on Dec 8.

Those who worked at the columbarium wondered why.

Then came news that she had been hospitalised for eight days. Ms Peh had slashed both her wrists. She was found unconscious on a bed at a flat in Block 30, Balam Road, where she was living with her in-laws.

Some pills were also found beside her.

In what could be an indication of her distress, Ms Peh had bought the empty niche next to that of her husband's a few weeks after his death.

Was it that she wanted to be with her husband in death?

She failed in her first attempt. That time, her sister, who was staying with her, had got to her in time.

Not so, early yesterday morning.

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The spot where Ms Kerin Peh's body was found.

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Ms Kerin Peh is believed to have fallen from the sixth floor of Block 540, Hougang Street 51. She lives on the fifth floor with her family.

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suicide watch for mother and younger sister now

i suggest friends and relative to havesuicide watch for mother and younger sister now, also make sure they do not bang the wall too hard with their head.


Grief-stricken mum breaks taboo

THERE is a Chinese custom that the old should not send off the young. That he who is white-haired should not have to bid farewell to one far from greying.

That it is taboo for the parent to be there for the final journey of his dead child.

Yesterday morning, cold custom was cast aside by overwhelming grief.


A mother who should not have been at the crematorium went against the weight of tradition - for those extra few precious, additional minutes with her dead daughter.

It was the day of the send-off.

Earlier, the mother had clung to the side of the hearse carrying her daughter's body, her face contorted in pain.

No one and nothing could tear her away from her dead daughter's side.

Weeping inconsolably, the woman, who appeared to be in her 60s, flung her body against the side of the hearse, her wailing a sorrowful counterpoint to the toneless chants of Buddhist monks in the background.

Shared grief

Other mourners stood watching, sharing her grief, sympathising, sobbing silently.

Passers-by in the otherwise quiet Hougang neighbourhood stopped. They were riveted by the sight of one whose private pain was so intense that it could not be contained.

A few shook their heads. They knew the woman's story.

And they understood. In just eight months, this mother has mourned the loss of two young lives - that of her son-in-law, and then his wife, her youngest child.

Those closest to her were intimate with the turmoil she went through ever since son-in-law Vernon Leong Jun Wei, 31, was found dead on the driveway of the Hilton Singapore on Nov 4 last year.

Just hours earlier that night, she had been the celebrated guest, a VIP, the proud parent of bride Kerin Peh Li Ling at her grand wedding dinner at the hotel.

Hours before dawn the next day, her 28-year-old daughter lost her husband, and she, a son-in-law. Hours before dawn on Monday morning, she lost her daughter.

Ms Peh was found dead at the foot of Block 540, Hougang Street 51, where her family lives.

Her wake was held for the past four days at the void deck of an adjacent HDB block.

A steady stream of visitors turned up every night to pay their respects.

How was the family faring? What could it have been like mourning death in such tragic circumstances? Most at the wake were tight-lipped. Neighbours would only say, ashen-faced, that Ms Peh was the prettiest of the three daughters.

Ms Peh's family members had declined to speak to the media.

But Ms Peh's mother relented, only slightly, when approached by Shin Min Daily News while she was with her grandson at a nearby playground on Wednesday.

She said in Mandarin: "I'm more calm now, but I'm still very sad. My heart aches whenever I think about it."

Calm turned into a crescendo of grief when the time came for the final farewell yesterday. As the time of the cremation drew closer, as the last rites were being performed before the trip to the crematorium, Ms Peh's mother broke down.

The Buddhist monks chanted prayers. The elderly woman wasn't listening. She sank into a chair, her body doubled over into the arms of a relative.

Later, when the coffin was moved into the hearse, she again burst into loud wails and had to be restrained by relatives and friends. She settled down only when the hearse started moving off.

As it slowly made its way out of the open-air carpark, she went with it, holding on to the vehicle, pressing her face against the glass windows that separated her from the daughter she gave life to and raised.

She wept silently.

When the cortege reached the main road, the urgency of grief took over. She refused to let go of the hearse.

She had to be pulled away by relatives and led to the bus hired to take them to the crematorium.

In the bus, she knocked her head on the seat in front of her, as she bent over in pain. Then, suddenly standing up, she leaned forward and reached out, looking as if she was trying to call out to her dead daughter.

At Bright Hill Crematorium, where the group of about 40 mourners gathered half an hour later, only one of Ms Peh's elder sisters and a male friend took part in a final prayer session led by a monk.

Rushed forward

Ms Peh's other sister and mother were too distraught to participate. Both rushed forward as the coffin inched towards the furnace.

Ms Peh's sister crumpled into a heap on the ground and was immediately surrounded by friends and family members. Her mother had to be led to the side by a relative.

Whatever questions, doubts and dark shadows that must have occupied Ms Peh's mind in the period between her husband's death and her own will go forever unanswered.

The pain that seared her once love-lorn heart lasted eight months.

Yesterday, Ms Peh's pain, her intolerable grief, became her mother's to bear.

And so, inexplicably, the mourning continues.

This article was first published in The New Paper.


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Re: suicide watch for mother and younger sister now

I think it is in their genes to take things super hard.
 

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Groom's death: Misadventure
By Khushwant Singh

TOXICOLOGY report showed that Vernon Leong Jun Wei, 31, was drunk and disoriented when he fell to his death at the Hilton Singapore last year, hours after his his wedding dinner.

At the coroner inquiry on Wednesday, State Coroner Victor Yeo ruled his death a misadventure. The coroner said evidence and closed circuit television footage showed that the computer shop owner got lost in the hotel's fire exit stairway after celebrating his wedding dinner in the hotel's ballroom.

For some unknown reason, he had left his wife in the suite and went into the stairway. Unable to find his way out as the doors only open from the outside, he chanced on a door that opened into the air handling unit (AHU) room on the fourth floor. The room was dark and it was through touch and feel that he made his way to another door that opened to the fourth floor open rooftop.

The rooftop lights had been switched off after midnight and the coroner said Mr Leong would have stumbled in the dark and accidentally fallen some 13m to his death. The court heard that the rooftop had no railings, just a 17cm-high ledge that was 13cm wide. The coroner noted that it was clear that Mr Leong was tired and feeling the effects of the alcohol.

Forensic pathologist Teo Eng Swee indicated in the investigation report that the alcohol in Mr Leong's body was 161/100ml. At that level - which is double the legal limit - a person is likely to display signs of drunkenness that include nausea, slurred speech, confusion and impaired judgement, Dr Teo added.

The inquiry also heard that Mr Leong's bride Kerine Peh Li Ling, 28, had called hotel reception at about 3.15am on Nov 4 to say that her husband was missing from the room and that he was drunk. She was told hotel security officers would look for him but they found him dead on the driveway in front of the Orchard Road hotel.

Ms Peh fell to her death last month.

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Ms. Kerin Peh mother holding on to the hearse adn cryiing during the funeral pocession. About 50 family members and friends gathered on 9 July to bid a tearful farewell to the young window who had fallen to her death months after losing her hushand on the wedding night.
 

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Rooftop no railing? Lights switched off? Door opens to a ledge on a step or two away? Visitor and even guest can reach that area and fall down to their death?

I think can sue the hotel! :oIo:
 

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Re: smoking kills

Such endearing Sinkie woman is very rare

Other ones will be laughing all the way to the bank with the collected insurance and compensation!
 
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