Monday, August 25, 20084:11 PM
EDITED*Found a website about the two boys die from fall & copied from the website this news, quite sad de lorr...16 years old only, hope they rest in peace..... suddenly felt that life is precious we won't know what will happened to us tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow. THE two boys had apparently written diary entries with words like 'goodbye' and 'last day'. LAST WORDS: The boys wrote entries with words and phrases like 'goodbye' and 'last day' in their diaries. They are believed to have fallen from this window. Grafitti sprayed by Witaya can be seen on the sill. Yet, some of those around them said they had not noticed anything unusual in their behaviour. The day before the two 16-year-olds died, one of them had even asked for extra lessons at school. To add to the mystery, the other boy was said to have dabbled with the occult. The two had been friends since childhood and went to the same school. Sia Chan Hong and Ku Witaya also played basketball together. Yesterday morning, they were found at the foot of Block 667, Jalan Damai, off Bedok Reservoir Road. Some exercise books and foolscap pads were found behind pipes in a utility closet outside Witaya's ninth storey flat in the block. Final entry They carried the boys' names and seemed to be diary entries. The last entry was on Friday. Chan Hong, a class monitor, had apparently written that his goal was to go to university. This was crossed out with 'Kiss Goodbye' written over it. And this, also dated the same day: 'Last day being a emperor of my class (sic). 'I have to kiss goodbye to my studies, Good Academic Award for this year, my teachers, my prepared exam which is the final-year exam, my dream for studies and of my classmates.' The entry, which was labelled 'Last day on earth', ended with thanks to his classmates and teachers for their love and help. Both boys were students of Tampines Secondary School and lived just four bus stops apart. Witaya had apparently written, in an entry dated 21 Aug, and labelled 'Last Words': '0 days to world war. 0 days to meet my love. Today will be the day I will be writing my dairys (sic).' Was it some kind of a ritual gone wrong? Another entry, labelled 'Thursday', said: 'Finally, today meditation session has six people...' Was there some kind of computer game involved? The entry said: 'I could see that Chan Hong is trying to work hard for slayer and he is improving bits by bits which is very good too. 'If he continues on like this, he will be able to soar out high very soon.' There was also mention of 'SLF'. An Internet search showed this could be an abbreviation for a multi-player computer game. There were also many references to 'slayer'. One neighbour, who asked to be known only as Madam Yin, said: 'Witaya's paternal grandma was a medium and the boy was very interested in learning from her.' She said he often invited other boys into his flat to attempt trances together. She said: 'I often heard banging and knocking sounds in the middle of the night and when I asked his grandma, she said it was because of his trances.' Madam Yin said Witaya lived with his younger brother, his younger sister, his parents, his grandmother, and his paternal aunt and her husband in the five-room flat. She said: 'I heard a loud thud sometime and when I woke up, I saw him lying on the grass patch below the block.' One of the boys' friends had found them at 5.20am and called the police. Paramedics pronounced Witaya dead 10 minutes later. Chan Hong, the elder of two sons, was rushed to Changi General Hospital, where he died at 7.50am. Police are investigating the cases as unnatural deaths. Chan Hong's father, Mr Sia Leng Chye, 44, a hawker, said he does not understand how his son ended up dead, especially when the Secondary 4 Express student had not appeared troubled. Mr Sia told The New Paper on Sunday: 'I know all my son's friends and there were six of them who often came to my home. 'I never worried about his studies. He had ambitions of becoming an accountant but my wife and I never pressured him to excel.' The boys' principal, Mr Neo Tick Watt, visited both families yesterday afternoon with the school's vice-principal, operations manager and a counsellor. Model student He described Chan Hong as a model student. 'I've lost a very bright student. He had dreams of going to a junior college that has a strong basketball team.' Mr Neo said both boys were on the school's basketball team. So driven was Chan Hong that he even asked his humanities teachers for extra lessons last Friday, though he was not struggling in the subject. Witaya was a Normal Academic student who was repeating Secondary 3. His father is in the construction business, and his Thai mother works the night shift at a factory. One of his neighbours, student Tham Kok Wei, 17, who lives two units away, said they used to play together as children. He said: 'After we went to different schools, we drifted apart. 'He wasn't well-liked among neighbours because he was fond of spraying graffiti on the wall and making noises while walking along the corridor.'
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