AUSTRALIA CLIMBER: MALAYSIAN UNIFORMED RESCUERS WERE CLUELESS & DISORGANISED
Arriving at Laban Rata, Ms Dumlao saw uniformed rescuers milling around the "chaotic scene"."They were looking rather lost really, and it was the mountain guides who did most of the work attending to...
View ArticleSEA GAMES HOST SHARON AU MADE AN HONEST MISTAKE
I don't know Sharon Au as a friend. But I have met her before, and I remember that we were both enthusing about how much we loved Haresh Sharma's plays. (Au declared he was her favourite Singaporean...
View ArticleSTUDENT SURVIVOR SAW SCHOOLMATES & FRIENDS CRUSHED TO DEATH
Tanjong Katong Primary School student survivor Emyr Uzayr does not want to close his eyes, even as he lies in a hospital bed at Gleneagles Kota Kinabalu Hospital recovering from a fractured skull and...
View ArticleFATHER OF DECEASED STUDENT: I REGRET LETTING HER GO ON MT KINABALU TRIP
51 year-old Mr Wee, the father of the Singaporean student Peony Wee Ying Ping, says he regrets letting her join the school expedition to Mount Kinabalu. Peony was a primary 6 student of Tanjong Katong...
View ArticleMALAYSIA RELEASES NAMES OF VICTIMS STILL TRAPPED ON MOUNT KINABALU
The Malaysian authorities today released all 17 names of the Mount Kinabalu victims of an earthquake which struck Sabah Malaysia on Friday, which has left them still stranded on the popular climbing...
View Article[BREAKING] MOE: BODIES OF 5 STUDENTS, 1 TEACHER IDENTIFIED BY FAMILY
We are deeply saddened to inform that the bodies recovered by the Malaysian authorities have been identified by their next-of-kin as five students and one teacher from Tanjong Katong Primary School....
View ArticleTKPS STUDENT: MY INJURED TEACHER SHIELDED ME FROM FALLING ROCKS
Student Amal Ashley Lim, 12, said keeping calm as the rocks rained down on her group near the summit saved her life. A teacher bundled her and several other students under a shallow overhang for...
View ArticleS'PORE NETBALLERS WIN GOLD MEDAL AFTER NARROW VICTORY OVER MALAYSIA
In a nail biting final at the OCBC Arena Hall, Singapore finally gained revenge on arch-rivals Malaysia to capture the SEA Games netball gold medal. At the 2001 Sea Games in KL, Singapore lost to...
View ArticlePM LEE: DAY OF NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE ON 8 JUNE TO MOURN KINABALU VICTIMS
STATEMENT FROM THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICEThe Prime Minister is deeply saddened by the deaths of eight Singaporeans in the earthquake at Mount Kinabalu. They were one teacher and six pupils from...
View ArticleSTOP BLAMING THE TEACHERS, TKPS, MOE & GOVT OVER EVERY SINGLE THING
Dear Editors,It is an utterly terrible tragedy that a group of TKPS students and teachers lost their lives on Mount Kinabalu. I am close to one of the deceased and words cannot represent the sorrow I...
View ArticleSCH TEACHER: MOUNT KINABALU IS SUITABLE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS
As I await news of the missing teachers and students (one of the missing teachers is the husband of a good friend of mine), I got rather pissed with some armchair critics who blamed this incident on...
View ArticleMINISTER HENG SWEE KEAT MUST RESIGN & GIVE $1 MILLION COMPENSATION FOR EACH...
Dear fellow Singaporeans,Thank you one and all for agreeing with me. Except for a few who are foreigners I suspect.I was almost tearing when I saw the following news. A moment ago there was an update...
View ArticleOPPOSITION VETERAN GOH MENG SENG: BRINGING 12 YO KIDS TO CLIMB MOUNTAINS IS...
When I was young, I used to be very active as an Adventurer, conducting training and bringing group of young people to climb Mount Ophir. Not a very tall mountain but still, periodically there are news...
View ArticleANG MOH: SINGAPOREANS DON'T SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH
English as a first language is just propaganda - a legacy from Singapore's dead dictator's regime.No one in Singapore speaks English properly, nor are they able to think in English properly, because...
View ArticleDECEASED STUDENT PEONY WEE SAYS GOODBYE TO PARENTS IN LAST RECORDED VIDEO
Hoping to record a video for a blog documenting their Kota Kinabalu expedition, Tanjong Katong Primary School student Peony Wee and her friends set up a camera and recorded what they thought would be...
View ArticleBLOOD ON MOE & TKPS PRINCIPAL'S HANDS FOR APPROVING OMEGA CHALLENGE 2015
Dear Sir/Mdm,Singapore is mourning the recent Mt Kinabalu tragedy with a significant number of victims (Death toll: 6 students, 1 teacher) from Tanjong Katong Primary School (TKPS), and several...
View ArticlePRC GIRLS ALLEGING MOLEST TO BLACKMAIL S'POREAN MEN FOR COMPENSATION
Got This from a friend.The email below has been circulating around cyberspace.Please forward this to all your male Singaporean loved ones and friends. This is something that actually happened to me and...
View ArticlePARENT: STOP TREATING OUR CHILDREN LIKE THEY ARE MADE OF GLASS
It was supposed to be a celebratory weekend, with Singapore hosting the SEA Games. Then out of the blue, horrifying news emerged that a team of Tanjong Katong Primary kids with their teachers was...
View ArticleS'PORE IS IN A MESS DUE TO FIFTY YEARS OF ONE PARTY RULE
The writer lost all credibility when he said “One of the reasons Singapore managed to become a First World nation within a short period of time is that it has been ruled by the same party all that...
View ArticleHENG SWEE KEAT: REMEMBER OUR TEACHER'S SELFLESSNESS & CHILDREN'S BRAVE SPIRIT
Dear colleagues,We are deeply grieved by the deaths of our fellow Singaporeans – our students and teacher from Tanjong Katong Primary School, and an adventure guide who was with them in Kota Kinabalu....
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