Comments on: Dr Allan Ooi’s farewell letter and last words before his death: Questions for SAF to answer

By: MarieAnne

MarieAnne — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:13:59 +0000

I sincerely hope that people with nothing civil to say please kindly refrain from commenting or speculating on Allan’s demise, or his motive behind it. Hopefully all discussion on it would ceased as well. Spare a thought for his family, the pain of losing a son/brother is already unbearable. How do you think they would feel if they stumble upon this website or relatives and friends come across and blurt out to Allan’s family about all the nasty and hateful things that some commentors felt compelled to post it on here? I strongly hope that people who DO NOT know Allan personally will not pass judgment or make assumptions about him.Please let the Ooi family grieve in peace . It has been a very dark and depressing time for the family, so please respect it. Allan will be missed dearly.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:18:42 +0000

I am very sure that most of you people here have suffered in SAF. From what I can remember, the moment when I booked-in, I felt like going AWOL. I am not sure about how the others felt but I am just so glad that I have ORDed without going DB for any senseless reason.

hmmm, now if you ask, how do we prevent this kinda incident to happen again? It’s very simple. lol

We needa educate young lads not to fall into the traps of SAF because at their age, most of them wanna get financially stable asap and to obtain a higher education at the same time. The offer from SAF is just too good to be true!!! However, theres a cause for it, of course but it is usually hard to comprehence it, until when you are in the force or when u are done with it.

So what i think what we can do is to advise any young lads who have the intention of joining the force on this.

Hope this will help. : D

By: lim

lim — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:46:02 +0000

To add: they forbid resignation without their approval.

By: lim

lim — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:45:21 +0000

DSTA, a subsidiary of MINDEF forbids scholarship holders to resign during the bond period, so I suspect MINDEF to be no different. It is specifically stated in a clause in the agreement signed.

By: Mich

Mich — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:38:26 +0000

R.I.P Dr Allan Ooi

By: sharon

sharon — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:36:56 +0000

I seriously doubt Dr Allan would end his life simply out of boredom. He is probably not revealing the entire spectrum of problems he faced with SAF. I honestly can say SAF, like our political system, is deformed. High-handed, just like the new ex exco at AWARE. Sadly, the system creates such arrogance and is proud of it.

I have a very dear friend who is about to perform his hopefully “final” low key reservist, at his age of 48 !!!
He has been studying and working overseas before for some years and he was called up for reservist duty very irregularly after that. Then all of a sudden, the SAF made him “pay” back over the years with a vengeance, recalling him back for as many as 3 high keys (3weeks each) in a year, counting only as 2. Although I dun quite understand his pain but even I find it ridiculous for him to still serve reservist at 48 !!??. He is extremely stressed by this constant disruption to his professional life but he has no choice but to tough it out. He requested continuously to his unit and HQ to use reason and discretion for non recall at his age as he does nothing but watch the hours pass each day in his unit. He was even threatened by his CO that he would be posted far away to a Kranji camp if he did not stop pestering the unit. My friend even joked that the SAF probably would only leave him alone if he were in his grave!!! So, I really do understand and feel sorry for all the nonsense our men has to tolerate. Still, it is sad.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:41:51 +0000

I’m trying to understand his motives. A suicide in anger? A suicide because of a job with no joy, no satisfaction? I should kill myself tomorrow then.

If the email truly represents his state of mind, then his suicide was to punish Mindef for imprisoning him.

The image of a child throwing a temper tantrum comes to mind.

But the email does not tell the whole story. It is after all his justification and he admits it would lack insight and substance. So all the email is, is what he is willing to say about why he killed himself.

There is probably a lot he has chosen not to say.

By: pikacute

pikacute — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:25:33 +0000

My reservist next month le. Singapore guys who underwent rigors of NS will earn the rights to lament about the sucky sh*t and inhumane treatment inside. Ignorant outsiders who knows nothing better shup their trap up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:43:11 +0000

Apparently there are more out there, wanting to break their bonds but couldn’t… sighz… everything is fake

By: argh!

argh! — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:56:54 +0000

Die la SAF! Die la MINDEF!! WHY THE HELL YOU CAUSE SOO MANY PEOPLE TO SUFFER??????

ok, im surprised abt the extention of the bond thing. THATS 100% TOTALLY DESPICABLE! bunch of 2 faced sneaky hypocritic self centered $#%^&*@#!!!