Not Everything in Life ...

While performing guard duty one day last year, a soldier stole a rifle, five rounds of ammunition and bullets, intended to attack his ex-girlfriend, later got caught in a toilet on the third floor of Cathay Cineleisure Orchard.

Today, the judge sentenced him to a 9 years and 2 month's jail and 18 strokes of the cane.

What the judge said to him touched me greatly. Recalling the same emotion I felt when i sent a group of guys to the police 1.5 years ago ...


Justice Tay Yong Kwang says:

'MY HEART hurts for you that so young a man will have to spend some of the best years of his life in prison and have to undergo so many strokes of the cane, but I trust that you understand a deterrent sentence is unavoidable in the circumstances.

Dave, you have had a very hard life. I hope that this unfortunate and traumatic wrong turn in your life will make you much more mature and a whole lot wiser and that you will spend the next few years reconstructing your young life.

I hope that you will pursue your studies, listen to good advice from counsellors and learn many skills while in prison and that, upon your release, you will have a life full of meaning and purpose to honour the memory of your grandmother and your beloved younger brother.

It has been written, 'To everything there is a season'. There was a time when you loved, there came a time when you hated. There was a time when you felt you wanted to kill, now is the time for you to heal. There was a time you were broken down, now is the time to build yourself up. There was a time when you were at war in your being, now is the time to restore peace within.'


Not everything in life there is a second chance, I always say this to many NUMguys. When this happens, one got to do what one got to do, so with all the many reminders given, we wish noone will have to go through this.