Something disturbing took place yesterday. But before I come to that, I shall just go on first about how my day went by. Firstly, Ashwin came to stay over the night before. A living pooh bear. We went to tekka to send him off cause his mother was there also. From there, I headed to Queenstown to meet my baby for his Deepavali shopping at Queensway Shopping Centre. He got himself a
very nice shirt, a
very very nice dark brown polo tee and a nice jeans. :P
After that, I headed down to Bedok for my grandfather's death prayers. Normally indians do prayers for the dead before Deepavali. As I was on my way, my mom called me to tell a shocking news. One of my
uncles (dad's bro, his wife's
bro) is admitted in the hospital in ICU. Though I don't really know him personally, I have seen him before and talked to him once or twice. The last I saw him was probably a year back at 888 plaza coffeeshop (woodlands) drinking.
So actually, what happened was,
My uncle was brutually hammered by 3 young Indian punks. A 21yr old, 19yr old and 18yr old beat him up with an umbrella, helmet and boots if im not wrong. And those bastards targetted his head only. And before bashing my uncle, the 21yr old actually bashed up another young teenage guy at Sembawang and they dug his eyes out. Now that guy is in GH ICU unit and the doctor has given him 24hrs.After the prayers my mom decided to pay a visit to the uncle as we probably won't have time to go this week already. Also the doctors have given up hope and it was just a matter of time. We reached TTSH ICU Unit and saw my aunties all seated there. When we reached, they were cleaning him up. When the doctor was done, we all went in. It was the most depressing sight ever. His whole body was swollen. His eyes were covered. Tubes were everywhere and machines was all over him. His sisters were rubbing his hands as he felt quite cold.
I was standing in for about 5 minutes when my cousin decided to go out to call his wife and 2 young children. My mom told me to accompany her and we both left. But the wife was on the phone so we came back again. And from the door we saw all of them standing out and crying. We quickly ran back to call the wife. Our worst fears were confirmed. He was dead. My parents saw his life just slip by right infront of their eyes. At that point of time, I realized how 2 minutes or even 1 mintue made an impact. I was totally shocked. Just a moment ago, he was breathing. And I stepped out and and came back he was gone.
His daughter (Pri 5) started crying. I was holding on to the younger boy and my hand was across his chest. I could feel his heart beat so fast. He was probably about Pri 1 or 2 there. After a while, when my dad's brother went to hug him, he burst out crying. All of them went to see him except for the daughter. She didn't want to go. I stood there and accompanied her. After a while when she calmed down, she asked if she could go and see him. I asked her if she really wanted to and she nodded.
I brought her in and she went right beside him and started calling him. My god. Thinking about it now makes me feel so sad. The way she called him back, even my dad teared. The father was supposed to bring the kids on Wednesday for Deepavali shopping. And to add on, yesterday was the uncle's 12th year wedding anniversary. What could be more worse? I was so affected by it that my heart literally started to ache. God. I abhor
death.I wish I can see those 3 guys and give them the punishment they deserve. But I am not God and they don't deserve death sentence (
if sentenced) because it will be just for 1 minute or 2. They won't get to suffer like how the victims did. No matter what the problem was or who provoked who, they had no right to beat someone to pulp. The uncle's whole lower jaw was broken plus his nose and those bastards even punched his eyes. His kidney and lungs failed and his skull had a lot of blood clots. Argggh. I am just soo irritated. I feel a lot for his young kids. One should never go through like this and should never die like that.
My question for this entry is,
If you are given a chance to be God and punish these fellas, what would you do? And how will you help the family?Labels: death
Sunday, November 04, 2007 // 7:03 PM