Local singer Nat Ho's father has gone missing. (Photo: Nat
Ho's website)
Local actor-turned-singer Nat Ho has taken to Twitter to
ask for help to find his missing father, whom he fears may be on
the verge of suicide.
In his first tweet — which was published at around 4pm on Monday —
Ho wrote, "My dad may be depressed & left a suicide note. He's
left home w/o any form of contact. Pls tag me his whereabouts
pls".
The tweet, which was accompanied by a photo of his father, was then
re-tweeted by actors George
Young and Randall Tan as well as local
bloggers Xiaxue and Benjamin Lee. At
press-time, it has been re-tweeted over 3,000 times.
Nat Ho's father (Photo: Nat Ho's Twitter
account)
A few minutes later, Ho followed up with "No, this is not a joke.
Much help appreciated. His name is Shih Meng or Daniel".
Ho, 27, told Yahoo! Singapore in a phone interview that
he was alerted to his father's disappearance through an e-mail from
the latter titled "Goodbye forever" with its contents looking like
a suicide note.
Sensing that something was amiss, he then alerted his mother to
check on his father. According to him, his parents had just gone
out for lunch earlier and nothing was out of the ordinary. His
mother did not realise her husband was missing as she had been
doing laundry.
"I rushed home [after reading the e-mail] and we don't really know
where to find him because he left everything behind including his
wallet, iPad, phone and passport and house keys," Ho said. He added
that it's possible his father may have brought an EZ link card
along with him.
In subsequent tweets, Ho described his dad as being 1.68m tall,
weighs about 73kg and left from Jurong East, possibly wearing a
black T-shirt.
Ho, who sounded calm throughout his conversation with us, said his
family is "trying to be as calm as possible" to explore all leads
for his father's disappearance.
"Normally, I don't like to spread this kind of things to the media,
[but] between saving face and doing this (tweeting his father's
disappearance) so that more people can look for my dad and
potentially save a life, then I'm willing to do so," said Ho, who
has also alerted the police about his dad's disappearance.
Ho said his dad had been unemployed for the past few months and
that may have sparked his father's depression.
