i know i should be studying because i have a test on monday, and i even missed youth meeting just to study...but anyway, over dinner tonight, i've come across some gruesome scoops about death here and there.
yesterday when i read the online version of inquirer, i chanced upon a news article about a chop-chop murder case in singapore. IN SINGAPORE! things like this very rarely happen in singapore. i mean, i'm very complacent about my safety and security here. i feel safe even when i wander in the streets past midnight. i've always gotten this idea that singapore is a safe place. then here's a news article about a lady being severed to pieces and her body parts left in such a public place as orchard mrt station. i was terrified while reading the article. it seemed so unreal that such a macabre crime would take place in singapore. if it happened in the philippines i won't be surprised - we had this chop-chop lady whose life story and unspeakable demise was made into a movie.
so anyway, yesterday the newspapers still didn't have the details. but over dinner tonight joseph told us that the police have already arrested the murderer - a filipina maid. she is my compatriot. she is one of the people whom ninoy aquino thought was worth dying for.
and the chop chop lady - also turned out to be a filipina maid herself. what the *inferno* is going on here? *human excrement!* surely this would make the headlines in the straits times tomorrow, or maybe on monday. today it is on the front page- i've read the newspaper during my study break at hon sui sen library. then of course this development on the case would make even bigger waves in the media, considering the police have managed to apprehend the criminal AFTER ONLY ONE DAY! (ala-CSI!!)
the murderer would most likely be made to suffer the capital punishment, and that is death by being hanged. yes, a repeat performance of what happened to flor contemplacion ten years ago. (at that time i swore to myself i'll go to any country abroad except singapore, for fear of being hanged. i was just a kid then.)
again, the philippines will be made famous in singapore for the wrong reason. we will again be in a bad light. arroyo's been soiling our name in straits times (local newspaper) yes, but singaporeans won't even bother with it or with her because philippines is a place far away. but this chop-chop case is right here and is very real. it happened in singapore so people will begin to doubt their own safety.
that filipina murderer all put us to shame and she should be condemned for what she did. how can she stomach chopping her fellow maid into pieces? so maybe she got angry right, maybe she stabbed her first. then what made her angry to the limits that she should sever her fellow's body parts and dump them like that? how could anyone tell the victim's family back there in the philippines that hey, sorry, your daughter/sister/mother was chop-chopped by this wacko? and how to tell the family of the murderer that hey, sorry, your daughter/sister/mother just chop-chopped her fellow maid and justice calls her to be hanged to death? how to tell singaporeans that hey, sorry for this abominable thing that happened in your country brought about my fellow filipino, but we are not all slaughterers and sickos, really.
i relayed the news to sundeep then afterwards he was making as if i'm going to chop him to pieces and he's pretending to be very scared - just because i'm a filipino too. grr.
yesterday when i read the online version of inquirer, i chanced upon a news article about a chop-chop murder case in singapore. IN SINGAPORE! things like this very rarely happen in singapore. i mean, i'm very complacent about my safety and security here. i feel safe even when i wander in the streets past midnight. i've always gotten this idea that singapore is a safe place. then here's a news article about a lady being severed to pieces and her body parts left in such a public place as orchard mrt station. i was terrified while reading the article. it seemed so unreal that such a macabre crime would take place in singapore. if it happened in the philippines i won't be surprised - we had this chop-chop lady whose life story and unspeakable demise was made into a movie.
so anyway, yesterday the newspapers still didn't have the details. but over dinner tonight joseph told us that the police have already arrested the murderer - a filipina maid. she is my compatriot. she is one of the people whom ninoy aquino thought was worth dying for.
and the chop chop lady - also turned out to be a filipina maid herself. what the *inferno* is going on here? *human excrement!* surely this would make the headlines in the straits times tomorrow, or maybe on monday. today it is on the front page- i've read the newspaper during my study break at hon sui sen library. then of course this development on the case would make even bigger waves in the media, considering the police have managed to apprehend the criminal AFTER ONLY ONE DAY! (ala-CSI!!)
the murderer would most likely be made to suffer the capital punishment, and that is death by being hanged. yes, a repeat performance of what happened to flor contemplacion ten years ago. (at that time i swore to myself i'll go to any country abroad except singapore, for fear of being hanged. i was just a kid then.)
again, the philippines will be made famous in singapore for the wrong reason. we will again be in a bad light. arroyo's been soiling our name in straits times (local newspaper) yes, but singaporeans won't even bother with it or with her because philippines is a place far away. but this chop-chop case is right here and is very real. it happened in singapore so people will begin to doubt their own safety.
that filipina murderer all put us to shame and she should be condemned for what she did. how can she stomach chopping her fellow maid into pieces? so maybe she got angry right, maybe she stabbed her first. then what made her angry to the limits that she should sever her fellow's body parts and dump them like that? how could anyone tell the victim's family back there in the philippines that hey, sorry, your daughter/sister/mother was chop-chopped by this wacko? and how to tell the family of the murderer that hey, sorry, your daughter/sister/mother just chop-chopped her fellow maid and justice calls her to be hanged to death? how to tell singaporeans that hey, sorry for this abominable thing that happened in your country brought about my fellow filipino, but we are not all slaughterers and sickos, really.
i relayed the news to sundeep then afterwards he was making as if i'm going to chop him to pieces and he's pretending to be very scared - just because i'm a filipino too. grr.
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