What if he’s your own bright-future son? On Dr. Ooi Death…

What if he’s your own bright-future son? On Dr. Ooi Death…

I just could not believe it, this person “Letter from Tan Hau Teck” - wrote a reply in the publicly listed free newspaper on which everyone should have been reading (specially those who ride public transport kind of people)… “Dr. Allan Ooi’s Death.. Rather Then Point The Finger”.

Here is in the reply letter published that “Tan Hau Teck” wrote in that newspaper - the clips is attached in here above:

• **However, I totally disagree with some of the comments about how Mindef is to blame for his death. Now, it could be that Dr Ooi’s job in the Singapore Armed Forces was a rather stressful one. He probably wasn’t happy, and he didn’t want to be bonded. However, he was the one who signed on the dotted line. He knew what he was getting into when he signed the Local Study Award. And his extension of bond came about because he went for further specialist training — training which he consented to. If he did not want to be bonded, why did he go for further training? Some argue that he was too young to bond his life away like that.

Well, that is a slippery slope argument. If he’s too young to sign a bond, then how old must one be? And perhaps then we should increase the age for young men to serve National Service or to get married, as they are probably too young to hold a rifle or to have a family too, right?

I can’t believe that his family is asking for an inquiry into his death. Who will pay for this inquiry? Why should tax payers shoulder the “blame” for his death? If anything, the family should examine how, if Dr Ooi was as unhappy as they say, no one picked up the signs that he was going absent without official leave (Awol), and subsequently committed suicide. He had written in to HQ Military Corp in July, and he only went Awol in October. What did his family and friends do in that three months? And why didn’t anyone fly over to Australia in the three months he was Awol?

There are many questions to be answered in this case, and unfortunately, not all of them can be answered by Mindef. Instead of always pointing the finger … perhaps it’s time we look around us and see what we can do for the people near us.***

And here is what actually written in yesterday published newspaper column, about the actual letter from Dr. Allan Ooi before his death:

• **The following is an excerpt of his last email: “My job was terrible — no joy, no satisfaction, 10 to 14 hours a day of nothing. A prison. One of my own forging, perhaps, by signing a contract with the SAF at the

age of 18. Youth was not an excuse, yes, but I refused to accept being deceived into believing things about the nature of my employment that were simply untrue.

“Twelve years of bonded service became potentially 15 or 16, became unbreakable. How can a bond be unbreakable? How can it be extended at will by an administration, simply by passing a paper? “And how can the people subject to this bond not even question it, but instead sit in silent resentment and ultimate dissatisfaction?

“I was angry, so angry, which stemmed ultimately from a sense of waste and imprisonment so profound that I had no choice but to leave it entirely. To the people within this system, please change it to better benefit yourselves and future generations, instead of creating a self-perpetuating cycle of, at best, painful obligation, and at worst, utter despair.

“That was certainly the main cause for my severing of ties.’’ ***

The article:

Will Mr. Tan Hau Teck do what he declare “do NOT blame tax payers to the death of Dr. Ooi”, if this happened to his own bright-future son who might be a doctor, with specialist training in UK (NOT Singapore btw)… will he still be able to do what he said? - Or he’s just doing fishing in a cloudy-water?

Every normal-minded parent will definitely do that legal-action and the same as Dr. Ooi’s family, which I think they’re also a well-known family with a bright-future son…

I was just wondering why Mr. Tan did not think, why Dr. Ooi went to “Australia” the haven for all people from Singapore safest-place… and why Mr. Tan never thinks that such a brilliant person, a doctor, a specialist, a dog “huskies” lover would do such a short-simplest mind and (like newspaper and public declared) do commit suicide?

So is he really commit suicide? - If so, why must be under Sydney Harbour Bridge? - Where I think must be a very crowded place (even I’ve never been there)… and should have been plenty of people saw him before he “commit suicide”, which I believe Australian will never be so ignorant (like in Singapore’s train youth-beaten incident) to see such ‘accident’.

• **”There are many questions to be answered in this case, and unfortunately, not all of them can be answered by Mindef. Instead of always pointing the finger … perhaps it’s time we look around us and see what we can do for the people near us.*** - Mr. Tan’s last comment is exactly how typical we are in Singapore… with the very best infamous commentary, that we all know for the Mas Selamat escape and never been captured back… “It happened… what can we do? Let’s put that aside. Let’s move on.”

Seems like Mr. Tan is the one who does not have any parent’s passionate love for their children! We pray for your family, Mr. Tan… that you would not have to go through what Dr. Allan Ooi’s family has gone through now.

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