From The New Paper.
May 29, 2008.
Mr Liu, a China national working as a waiter at the Beng Thin Hoon Kee Restaurant in OCBC Centre, had made the call to his mother in Jilin, China, after he finished work on Sunday night.
Said Mr Liu, 22, in Mandarin: ‘I was talking to my mum when I boarded bus number 145 from Boat Quay.’
He said the bus had about 20 people in it.
Soon after he sat down, he claimed that a man sitting some rows behind him told him aggressively to keep his voice down.
‘I was still talking to my mother. So I lowered my voice. She kept asking me what was happening. I didn’t want to worry her, so I told her it was all right,’ he said.
After he finished the conversation with his mother, he turned to look at the man.
‘He was still scolding me, gesturing with his hands and feet. He made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed at me. Then he kicked his legs about, in a threatening manner,’ said Mr Liu.
He claimed the man then rushed over and started beating him up.
‘He just came at me, held my neck and rained blows down the right side of my face,’ he said.
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Do u really believe EVERYTHING the main stream media reports? Ha ha. Grow up. Wake up. :P
Violence on any excuse is totally unacceptable BUT knowing Singaporeans, I find this ordeal quite incredulous. I’m sure we are all familiar and guilty of false pretense and cowardly tolerance. How many times have we been on MRT rides and in cinemas when we witnessed losers play loud music on their speaker phones boldly or chatting in the middle of a movie defiantly, and yet more often than not, you DO NOT see brave avatars clamoring down on these anti-social insects. Also, I’m sure we have witnessed many a times these so called foreign talent, more like labour, talks LOUDLY in public, cycles on pedestrian walkways/ bus bays recklessly like in Tianamen Square or the Taj Mahal, rushing for their rebirths, barely missing ramming into people and causing serious injuries. Alot of Singaporeans emulate this anti-social behaviour too.
So, to have someone on a bus full of witnesses, rush up to you and bash you up when you have already toned down the volume as claimed, that’s just hot air from the steam from a pot of very hot mala steamboat soup.
I personally know of a few friends and colleagues who had unfair reporting in past with The ST when they refused to give interviews over certain incidents and guess what, a new story emerges. You would think that only the National Enquirer or trashy prints like TNP would stoop so low. Guess again and be shocked. ST does this all the time-vis-a-viz you also cannot believe how low your MIW will go to suck your blood! Every drop counts ! Wake up people-vampires exists ;P
PS: Ever wonder why we NEVER hear anything good about any opposition in mainstream media? If oppositions were so absolutely horrible, why were some invited to be non-constituency MPs?
Adding impurity into a pure substance to make it purer is not logical science. It’s pure nonsense; or you have a damn good spin doctor. LOL.
I’m Chinese myself and this is something I have been holding inside for a long, long, long time. I hate it when my own people talk so loud on the bus. It is so rude. In Canada it is considered very rude when they talk loudly to each other or on the cellphone when on the bus. Worst yet is they speak Chinese when they do this. These ladies straight out of China are yelling at each other from across the seats. I am sitting there and I feel ashamed and embarrassed. So many times I have wanted to tell them to lower their voice.
Lately I’ve been thinking about doing that so that they can learn and stop embarrassing us Chinese people. Plus because I am Chinese myself I think I could be able to tell them to be quiet.
The story told is liken to half boil egg….not fully detailed …. or may be to potray an incident about an immigrant worker being assaulted by a mentally unsound Singaporean.
The fact also remains that there who are Singaporean low lives very jealous of foreigners in Singapore, especially against those who are from India and China.
Some of our Singaporeans are plain bullies who are cowards, who preach to the world and sell their souls to the devil ; wah! so heroic against the helpless and weak but grin and suck up to the powerful, and the brutal.
Thats why sometimes I feel we need the PAP, to tame these type of ‘pariah’ bullies and imbeciles to put them in their coops.