There appears to be a suicide that happened some time before or after midnight at Jurong West Central 1 right across from where I stayed. I managed to use my FZ-8 to capture a few photos. (It’s either a suicide or somebody fell off a window.)

The poor sod in the 3rd and 4th photo probably came home after an evening jog training for his IPPT and it is probably also him who is the kind soul who called the police.

Sorry there are no photos of the body. While it is also true from my unit the tree was blocking everything, I wouldn’t have put up a photo showing the body even if I had one as I believe it is only decent to let the dead rest in peace.

It was 18 years ago when I read about soldiers shooting people on the streets. That was 1989, when the Chinese People’s Liberation Army was shooting people in Tian-anmen and the streets of Beijing. The so-called people’s army is shooting the people. I was so outraged. It was something I hoped would never happen again.

A little more than 18 years later, it is soldiers in Myanmar shooting people on the streets this time round. And this time round, there were videos of the atrocities. Some were posted on Youtube and I get to see for myself the brutal murder of an innocent Japanese journalist – a man who is just doing his job to bring to us news. And the shameless junta has the cheek to say he was killed by a stray bullet.

Although only a total of 9 people were reported killed by Friday (I hadn’t read the papers for 2 days), rumors is that the Myanmar Army has been digging mass graves to bury the bodies. There are also rumors that elements of the Myanmar Army has disobeyed orders to open fire on the crowd and a CO of one of these units has been arrested and place under house arrest.

I hope elements in the Myanmar Army with a conscience should seize power from the junta now and free Aung San Suu Kyi. She won the elections fair and square back then.

On the 14th of Sep (Friday) at about 9.45am, 21 year-old Liu Xia Wei (Alex), met with a fatal accident. The accident took place at the junction of Bukit Batok Street 25 and Bukit Batok Ave 6 which was just another junction away before his home.

FT2072, the Honda CB400 Blue, was hit by a silver car driven by a lady of 40years of age. The lady driver was turning right into Bukit Batok Ave 2 and Alex was traveling straight and has the right of way.

For reasons known only to the driver, she didn’t see the oncoming motorbike and knocked him down. The force of impact caused Alex to land some distance away and it was so strong that the helmet was smashed on landing. Alex was sent to hospital but unfortunately died of skull fracture and internal bleeding the next day at 1030am.