Argument over chopsticks leads to tragedy
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By kaifong | SingaporeScene – 1 hour 18 minutes ago
A tiff with her boyfriend over a pair of chopsticks might have been what cost a woman her life two years ago.
The High Court heard on Monday that Tan Teck Soon, then 19, had thought his girlfriend, Chong Kar Yin, wanted to break up with him, and agitated he pushed her off a twelfth floor.
He jumped to follow her in death, but he survived the plunge instead, reported AsiaOne.
Tan, a welder, met then 20-year-old Chong, a waitress, through a friend. Both Malaysians worked in Singapore. The couple got together after a month's acquaintance and had been dating for five months before tragedy struck.
On 6 March 2009, at about 11:30pm, the couple met at the hawker centre beside the Bedok bus interchange. Chong ordered a bowl of fishball noodles and later asked Tan to get an extra pair of chopsticks, which he refused. Chong became unhappy and refused to talk to Tan, relenting only when he tried to pacify her by feeding her a fishball.
However, Chong was kept busy with her mobile phone throughout the meal, incurring Tan's ire.
The couple's chat on their way home to the girl's place at Block 565 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 degenerated into a quarrel. When they reached the twelfth floor, Chong told Tan that they would never be able to change their tempers.
Tan took this to mean that she was trying to end their relationship, and decided to die with her. He pushed her over the parapet.
Seeing that she was dead, Tan then ran towards the parapet and flung himself over it. His fall was broken by some metal scaffolding that had been erected as part of the lift upgrading works and he survived.
Tan, who yesterday pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, will be sentenced on Friday.
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A promised fulfilled.I'll do the same too.
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what damn scary folks.
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theres always porn!!what??the best wimen on planet not good enough for this welder????think spore is filled with greedy egoistic demanding n lazy foreign workers. the best isnt good....too lazy even to get chopstick for galfrend even.probably ego too big to get chopsticks for gal even!
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asshole
push ppl
that ppl die
ownself do stunt
survive
oh well 20 yrs jail ba
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Sometimes humans do not know how to handle precious things.
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Actually humans do not know how to sort simple things out.
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damn silly and bo liao over a small matter.
now a life is dead and a life ruined, and for what....
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wasted talent. He makes a good Jackie Chan stunt double.
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fuck that guy
go die.
she shouldve gave him chopstick up the ass!
at least die for something
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The girl must be smsing another fking guy, that's why he push her down. The guy did the right thing! BUT he's just unlucky that he didn't die.
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............GUY WAS a retard....girl must also be a retard for goin out with him. takes 2 to do the tango....a tragic tango.
