Serious Fat Fuck Pauper John Shu Gives $6000 To MILF Drug Addict Stranger! Guess Why? Denies Having Affair With Her!

[JohnTan]

Things were looking bleak but a chance meeting with a stranger helped Ms Jaycie Tay, who was twice incarcerated and dropped out of school, defy the odds to achieve a diploma. And the 32- year-old twice-divorced mother of four is now gunning for a degree, as well as a brighter future.

It was late 2013 and Ms Tay had attended a course funded by the Government and a halfway house earlier in the day. She was training to be a florist.

Ms Tay, who was on the last leg of her 18-month sentence for drug offences, was waiting for a bus in Yishun to return to halfway house The Turning Point when she met Mr John Shu, a now 50-year-old mechanic. He had to take a bus that day as his motorcycle was in the workshop. The pair started talking and soon struck up a friendship.


She began to confide in Mr Shu, who is married with a 22-year-old daughter in polytechnic and a 19-year-old son working as a chef.

She shared her life story and her desire to pursue a diploma to give her children a better future. She had worked as a waitress and a retail assistant, among other jobs, but they paid less than $2,000 a month.

She said her parents, who are divorced, were not supportive of her plans to upgrade herself. And she did not have the $5,000 needed for the course fees.

Besides, she was getting treatment for depression then and the people around her felt she could not cope with handling a messy divorce, caring for her children and going back to school all at once.

Mr Shu said: "Her wish to get an education is a good thing. And since her family is not supporting her and no one supports her, I thought I would support her and give her a way out."

THERE IS HOPE IN LIFE

He never asked for his money back or for anything in return... I never thought a stranger (who became a friend) would help me so much. I hope that by sharing my story, other former offenders can also feel there is hope in life.

MS JAYCIE TAY, a 32-year-old twice-divorced mother of four, on her benefactor John Shu.

NO NEED TO BE CALCULATING

Why should I calculate so much about helping others? I already have one foot in the grave and if I need help in the future, others would help me... I see Jaycie as a family member, like my younger sister.

MR JOHN SHU, a 50-year-old mechanic.

Mr Shu, who earns just over $2,000 a month, gave her about $6,000 to pay for her diploma and other expenses. This was a few months into their friendship. He said he and his wife, who works as a hawker, can get by on their income.

Ms Tay began her studies shortly after her release in 2014 and graduated with a diploma in marketing management from Kaplan Higher Education Institute eight months later.

Hitting the books was a huge change for a girl who was introduced to drugs by her friends as a teenager. She was only 18 when she was jailed for one year for drug offences. When she became a mother at the age of 20, she quit drugs.

But she returned to drugs to escape from her woes when her first marriage broke down. She has two children from that union, a 12-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. Her first husband has custody of them.

Her second husband was also a drug abuser and they were arrested at the same time for drug offences.

About four years ago, the couple was jailed and their daughter, only a baby at the time, was left in the care of her in-laws. The girl is now five.

Ms Tay's second sentence, served at the Drug Rehabilitation Centre at Changi Women's Prison, "shook" her up. "I saw how the other drug addicts ended up with nothing. Their children did not want them; they had no house and no money. I did not want to be like them."

Behind bars, an inmate encouraged her to further her studies. And with Mr Shu's help, she became a diploma holder.

His help did not end there. While studying for her diploma, she found herself unexpectedly pregnant with her fourth child - with her second husband. Their marriage was on the rocks. She wanted a divorce and was worried about her finances.

Mr Shu said: "I encouraged her not to abort as the baby is innocent. I told her that if she can't afford to raise the child, I will help her. I will help her all the way."

Ms Tay said Mr Shu paid for her visits to the gynaecologist and even cooked for her when she was recuperating from the childbirth during her confinement month.

"He never asked for his money back or for anything in return," she said. "Others have made unpleasant remarks (implying we are having an affair) but we are clean."

Ms Tay, who is working as an administrative assistant, said she has offered to repay part of the sums that he gave her, but he has declined. She declined to reveal her pay.

"He has helped many people, not only me... Some (of his friends) have taken advantage of him."

Mr Shu, a primary school graduate, said in a mix of Mandarin and Hokkien: "Why should I calculate so much about helping others? I already have one foot in the grave and if I need help in the future, others would help me."

He said he is just glad that she managed to get her life back on track, adding: "I see Jaycie as a family member, like my younger sister."

Last month, Ms Tay started a part- time course - Bachelor of Business Studies in Management - at Kaplan. The degree is awarded by University College Dublin. She won a bursary from the Yellow Ribbon Fund Star Bursary to pursue the degree. She said the fees cost over $20,000.

"I never thought a stranger (who became a friend) would help me so much. I hope that by sharing my story, other former offenders can also feel there is hope in life," she said.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/help-from-a-stranger-turns-her-life-around

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN John shu sure knows how to choose the correct target for long term "song" investment which need not to be sexual activity KNN

 

[winnipegjets]

PAP's message to sinkees ...don't ask us for help, ask strangers, friends, anybody but us.

 

[bobby]

PAP's message to sinkees ...don't ask us for help, ask strangers, friends, anybody but us.

PAP also say...don't spend what you cannot afford.

Salary as mechanic $2K pm, wife is hawker and can give away $6K to stranger.

Indranee please do something......

 

[syed putra]

If this was in scandinavia, education and health is free so no need to ask for any help. They may even supply the girl with drugs if she wants to remain a addict.for free.

 

[Confuseous]

And what do people like Wooden, Disgrace Fu, and the other ministers think? $2,000 can do charity. $2,000,000 they say underpaid.

 

[KuanTi01]

Why our people's government never help her? Too many forms to fill and qualifying interviews too, is it? Ah Pui Chek should be lauded for lending a helping hand with no strings or sex attached. This stranger to her is many times better than the highly-paid government who promises that "no one will be left behind" but in the end, so many fell by the wayside.

 

[virus]

Garment say dog tell them dog only help those who bark themselves.

 

[po2wq]

earn oni $2k but got $6k 2 gif 2 strangers ...

sinkies say moni no enuff? ... dun bs! ... muz squeeze mor moni from u blahdy peasants 4 bigga gahmen celery ...

 

[Froggy]

Very heart warming

 

[grandtour]

If you have volunteer your time with Cancer Society or any other societies for donation collection before, you will know the main profile of benevolent donators are actually Blue Collar, Ethnic Chinese, 20's to 50's. The most self centered stingiest scrooge in Singapore are the Ethnic Indians

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/cabby-donates-liver-to-stranger-after-reading-facebook-appeal
Cabby donates liver to stranger after reading Facebook appeal

Donor TONG MING MING. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERNST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN


Mr Tong Ming Ming, 34, was on a tea break during reservist training in early March when an SMS and a Facebook post by his secondary school friend Regina Lim caught his eye.

She wrote that a mutual friend's colleague was likely to die within days if he did not receive a liver transplant. The family was urgently looking for a living donor who, among other things, had to weigh 80kg or more. Could anyone please help?

Mr Tong, a big, burly cabby and former police officer, messaged his old friend immediately to find out more.

The patient, civil servant Toh Lai Keng, 43, from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), was a colleague of their mutual friend from their Peicai Secondary School days, Ms Leow Shee Yin.

Within minutes, Mr Tong was on the line with Ms Leow. "She was in tears, saying the illness was very sudden and that he had a very young son," recalled Mr Tong.

By then, Mr Toh's wife, Samantha, 40, and brother, Jeffrey, 42, had failed the tests to be donors.

"Time was running out. I just knew that I had to help," Mr Tong recalled.

He made that decision on March 11. After four days of tests, checks and interviews, he underwent a nine-hour operation at the National University Hospital (NUH) to donate most of his liver to Mr Toh on March 15.

Today, nearly five months on, both donor and recipient are doing well.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that this was the first altruistic liver donation here by an unrelated living donor - someone with no blood or emotional ties to the patient.

To most people, including the man who received the gift of life, the genial, soft-spoken bachelor's generosity is beyond comprehension.

"What can I say? He's a great man," said Mr Toh, his voice tinged with emotion. "Human beings are selfish. I can't think of anyone else who would do this for a stranger."


Sudden illness

Before his brush with death in March, Mr Toh, a food-loving father of a three-year-old son, had no history of liver problems. In fact, when he first fell ill with high fever and was hospitalised at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in early March, he thought he had dengue fever.

But tests showed his liver was failing rapidly. By March 7 - a Thursday evening - he was transferred to NUH which has liver transplant facilities. By the following Tuesday, he was in a coma.

The cause of his liver failure remains unknown. "They told my wife I had a week to live," said Mr Toh.

It was serendipitous that his colleague, Ms Leow, confided in her friend Ms Lim about his desperate situation, and that Ms Lim in turn went on Facebook, and her post touched Mr Tong.

The cabby needed extensive tests and interviews, including one with an independent ethics committee, to ensure he was psychologically sound, not coerced and no money had changed hands, before the operation on March 15. The risks of the procedure were also explained to him.

"Things just fell in place when Ming Ming came on the scene," said Mr Toh, a deputy director at MHA. "I guess it was a miracle."

Both men hope their experience will show others that much-needed organs can come from people who are not friends or family. "With his kindness and generosity, Ming Ming has shown that even strangers can step forward to save lives," said Mr Toh.

Since the operation, the men have visited each other at home, shared meals and are now friends.

They also discovered a long-lost kampung connection - the extended Toh and Tong families used to live near each other in the Braddell area when they were children. "It's really unbelievable," marvelled Mr Toh.

Ask Mr Tong why he stepped forward and he points heavenwards. "It's a calling," he said with a laugh, referring to his Christian faith.

But dig deeper and other reasons pour forth.

Having grown up with an absent father, he kept thinking of Mr Toh's wife and young son, Terence, who could have lost his dad before even getting to know him.

Also, he was satisfied that the procedure would be safe. "The liver can grow back, so I will be fine," he said.

"As a cabby, there is probably a greater chance of dying in a road accident," he added with a laugh.

Friends like Ms Lim and Ms Leow, both 34-year-old mothers who met Mr Tong in school more than two decades ago, are not surprised by his large-heartedness.

"When we were urgently looking for a donor, I did not think of Ming Ming," said Ms Leow. "But in hindsight, if anyone could have done this, it was him."

She remembers his zeal to help others during the compulsory community involvement programmes of their schooldays. "Most of us stopped volunteering after secondary school, but Ming Ming never gave up. He really, really wants to help others," she said.

A graduate of Temasek Polytechnic, Mr Tong has long been hooked on helping. As a taxi driver since January, he has ferried amputees for medical appointments, kidney patients for dialysis and poor older folk to church.

He said he usually waives the fare, but some regular passengers pay a token sum.

He has donated blood in response to urgent appeals, helps to clean homes of the elderly in one- room rental flats in Upper Boon Keng, and leaves food packets for immobile old people in Chinatown.

"There is a lot of need in Singapore if you know where to look," he said. "I do what I can to help."

His choice of jobs so far also reflects his passion to do good. As a boy, he saw police officers coming to his family's three-room Hougang home when they were harassed by loan sharks. His cabby father, a gambler, would chalk up huge debts.

"The officers were kind and would protect us. From then on, I always wanted to be an officer," he said.

He joined the police force after graduation in 1998. He has also worked in the social service sector, looking after abandoned, abused and delinquent children.

The youngest of three sons also recalled how his parents and grandparents were forced to sell their adjacent HDB flats to settle his father's gambling debts.

His role model is his mother, Madam Neo Teng Huay, 63, who raised her sons by working 12 hours a day selling curry puffs in a coffee shop. "She has faced hardship, but is never bitter. She always helps others."

Mr Tong said that although the family always had food on the table, his hardscrabble childhood has helped him form lasting bonds with some of the bruised and broken boys he encountered while working in youth homes.

Many may think that with so much hardship and suffering, it is impossible to change the world, but Mr Tong said: "If you can help even one person in need, you would have done just that."

 

[Froggy]

For me even in Thailand and working as a lost screw salesman I regularly make a point set aside some funds to help Thai students too. You never know how lonely, scared and in need these student can get especially those from the provinces.

 

[winnipegjets]

PAP also say...don't spend what you cannot afford.

Salary as mechanic $2K pm, wife is hawker and can give away $6K to stranger.

Indranee please do something......

He is helping and it is within his means. If government was doing its job in helping sinkees, this good Samaritan would not have to step up.

 

[winnipegjets]

If this was in scandinavia, education and health is free so no need to ask for any help. They may even supply the girl with drugs if she wants to remain a addict.for free.

Need to appreciate social democracies?

 

[sweetiepie]

If you have volunteer your time with Cancer Society or any other societies for donation collection before, you will know the main profile of benevolent donators are actually Blue Collar, Ethnic Chinese, 20's to 50's. The most self centered stingiest scrooge in Singapore are the Ethnic Indians

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/cabby-donates-liver-to-stranger-after-reading-facebook-appeal
Cabby donates liver to stranger after reading Facebook appeal

Donor TONG MING MING. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERNST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN


Mr Tong Ming Ming, 34, was on a tea break during reservist training in early March when an SMS and a Facebook post by his secondary school friend Regina Lim caught his eye.

She wrote that a mutual friend's colleague was likely to die within days if he did not receive a liver transplant. The family was urgently looking for a living donor who, among other things, had to weigh 80kg or more. Could anyone please help?

Mr Tong, a big, burly cabby and former police officer, messaged his old friend immediately to find out more.

The patient, civil servant Toh Lai Keng, 43, from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), was a colleague of their mutual friend from their Peicai Secondary School days, Ms Leow Shee Yin.

Within minutes, Mr Tong was on the line with Ms Leow. "She was in tears, saying the illness was very sudden and that he had a very young son," recalled Mr Tong.

By then, Mr Toh's wife, Samantha, 40, and brother, Jeffrey, 42, had failed the tests to be donors.

"Time was running out. I just knew that I had to help," Mr Tong recalled.

He made that decision on March 11. After four days of tests, checks and interviews, he underwent a nine-hour operation at the National University Hospital (NUH) to donate most of his liver to Mr Toh on March 15.

Today, nearly five months on, both donor and recipient are doing well.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that this was the first altruistic liver donation here by an unrelated living donor - someone with no blood or emotional ties to the patient.

To most people, including the man who received the gift of life, the genial, soft-spoken bachelor's generosity is beyond comprehension.

"What can I say? He's a great man," said Mr Toh, his voice tinged with emotion. "Human beings are selfish. I can't think of anyone else who would do this for a stranger."


Sudden illness

Before his brush with death in March, Mr Toh, a food-loving father of a three-year-old son, had no history of liver problems. In fact, when he first fell ill with high fever and was hospitalised at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in early March, he thought he had dengue fever.

But tests showed his liver was failing rapidly. By March 7 - a Thursday evening - he was transferred to NUH which has liver transplant facilities. By the following Tuesday, he was in a coma.

The cause of his liver failure remains unknown. "They told my wife I had a week to live," said Mr Toh.

It was serendipitous that his colleague, Ms Leow, confided in her friend Ms Lim about his desperate situation, and that Ms Lim in turn went on Facebook, and her post touched Mr Tong.

The cabby needed extensive tests and interviews, including one with an independent ethics committee, to ensure he was psychologically sound, not coerced and no money had changed hands, before the operation on March 15. The risks of the procedure were also explained to him.

"Things just fell in place when Ming Ming came on the scene," said Mr Toh, a deputy director at MHA. "I guess it was a miracle."

Both men hope their experience will show others that much-needed organs can come from people who are not friends or family. "With his kindness and generosity, Ming Ming has shown that even strangers can step forward to save lives," said Mr Toh.

Since the operation, the men have visited each other at home, shared meals and are now friends.

They also discovered a long-lost kampung connection - the extended Toh and Tong families used to live near each other in the Braddell area when they were children. "It's really unbelievable," marvelled Mr Toh.

Ask Mr Tong why he stepped forward and he points heavenwards. "It's a calling," he said with a laugh, referring to his Christian faith.

But dig deeper and other reasons pour forth.

Having grown up with an absent father, he kept thinking of Mr Toh's wife and young son, Terence, who could have lost his dad before even getting to know him.

Also, he was satisfied that the procedure would be safe. "The liver can grow back, so I will be fine," he said.

"As a cabby, there is probably a greater chance of dying in a road accident," he added with a laugh.

Friends like Ms Lim and Ms Leow, both 34-year-old mothers who met Mr Tong in school more than two decades ago, are not surprised by his large-heartedness.

"When we were urgently looking for a donor, I did not think of Ming Ming," said Ms Leow. "But in hindsight, if anyone could have done this, it was him."

She remembers his zeal to help others during the compulsory community involvement programmes of their schooldays. "Most of us stopped volunteering after secondary school, but Ming Ming never gave up. He really, really wants to help others," she said.

A graduate of Temasek Polytechnic, Mr Tong has long been hooked on helping. As a taxi driver since January, he has ferried amputees for medical appointments, kidney patients for dialysis and poor older folk to church.

He said he usually waives the fare, but some regular passengers pay a token sum.

He has donated blood in response to urgent appeals, helps to clean homes of the elderly in one- room rental flats in Upper Boon Keng, and leaves food packets for immobile old people in Chinatown.

"There is a lot of need in Singapore if you know where to look," he said. "I do what I can to help."

His choice of jobs so far also reflects his passion to do good. As a boy, he saw police officers coming to his family's three-room Hougang home when they were harassed by loan sharks. His cabby father, a gambler, would chalk up huge debts.

"The officers were kind and would protect us. From then on, I always wanted to be an officer," he said.

He joined the police force after graduation in 1998. He has also worked in the social service sector, looking after abandoned, abused and delinquent children.

The youngest of three sons also recalled how his parents and grandparents were forced to sell their adjacent HDB flats to settle his father's gambling debts.

His role model is his mother, Madam Neo Teng Huay, 63, who raised her sons by working 12 hours a day selling curry puffs in a coffee shop. "She has faced hardship, but is never bitter. She always helps others."

Mr Tong said that although the family always had food on the table, his hardscrabble childhood has helped him form lasting bonds with some of the bruised and broken boys he encountered while working in youth homes.

Many may think that with so much hardship and suffering, it is impossible to change the world, but Mr Tong said: "If you can help even one person in need, you would have done just that."

KNN heart warming to have people like Mr Tong. now did the hospital charge Mr Tong for his medical fees KNN