Couple kicked out of flat by son find new home

dragg SG

A Singaporean couple who were kicked out of the home of their eldest son after an argument moved into a three-room rental flat in Taman Jurong on Wednesday.

Foo Thin Tak, 62, his wife Tham Swee Kheng, 55 and their 27-year-old youngest son moved into their new home after spending two nights at McDonald’s outlets in the Woodlands area.

Earlier on Monday, a heated family argument had prompted the couple’s eldest son, a 33-year-old army regular who wanted to be known as Foo, to kick his parents and younger brother out his five-room flat in Woodlands Drive. Foo is married with two daughters.

He had claimed that his father had threatened to kill him with a knife during an argument, in which police were later called in, reported The New Paper. But this and other allegations made by Foo were refuted by his parents who labeled him as hot-tempered.

Desperate to find a temporary shelter, the couple went to HDB Hub in Toa Payoh on Wednesday morning and managed to select a rental HDB flat managed by a private operator.

Together with their youngest son, who is employed as a security guard, they will be sharing the place with another family, with rent costing around S$245 a month.

However, the couple were initially selective in choosing the flat for various reasons. For instance, they initially refused a flat on the 16th floor, claiming that they had to walk up the stairs as the lift did not stop on the floor. And when shown a flat on the 13th floor, they also rejected it saying the west-facing room in the house was too hot.

Eventually, they chose the former flat after the private operator declined to show them other flats as the policy states that residents will be allocated the rooms instead of being allowed to choose.

This was not the first time Foo had thrown his parents and brother out his house. They first moved into his flat in 2007 but stayed only for six months after constantly getting into arguments over the state of his brother who was unemployed then.

The couple had no home of their own as they had sold their 4-room Teck Whye flat a few years ago after failing to pay the monthly instalments. In 2010, Foo reconciled with his family and offered them to stay in his flat. However, constant arguments over money led them to the current situation.

Now clearly estranged with their eldest son, Tham said she will be picking up the rest of the family’s belongings from his house later this week, adding that she also does not want to maintain any ties with him.

from yahoo news

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

why does this type of drama family dispute also get into yahoo news???

dragg SG

cos singapore has very little excitement.

nothing more important i guess.

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

cos singapore has very little excitement.

nothing more important i guess.

Well different ppl have different defination of important...

I do agree that we are very less happening here... which can be considered a good thing for us and bad for the media

Hwaimeng SG

wait for more news for ppl to drown at bedok ??

Hitman Factory 1 SG

army regular?sounds like not goin to be army regular soon.

Rock^Star SG

Maybe it's just me but if he had treated his son well when he was growing up, who with a conscience would kick their parents out?

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

Maybe it's just me but if he had treated his son well when he was growing up, who with a conscience would kick their parents out?

A spoilt rotten brat...

just my opinion...

TehJarVu SG

i think more or less everyone in the family is a bit cock up

mancha SG

cos singapore has very little excitement.

nothing more important i guess.

When you have a large population every day something dramatic happens.

Small population, something dramatic happens once in a while.

If you have a 100 million people, someone get murdered, raped, robbed every few seconds.

When 5 million only, the events will be spaced out.

mancha SG

A spoilt rotten brat...

just my opinion...

Who is the spoilt rotten brat?

There is so much one can tollerate, whatever the relationship.

Army Regular Foo, his wife, and two daughters are also staying in the house. They are entitled to a certain degree of peace and comfort, and also be spared from mental anguish.

And if the family, i.e. father, mother, and younger sibling cannot behave in a give and take manner and cause nuisance to the Army Regular Foo, his wife and daughters, they should be kicked out.

deathmaster SG

at 24, the youngest son, and somemore working, he should be ashamed that he is still depending on his parents and elder brother.

And as for the parents, they are living in their son's house, and not the other way round. The son paid for, and owns the house, and therefore is the head of the household, and his parents are just guests freeloading on their son's hospitality. They have no right to argue with their elder son.

Its not as if they sold their flat to pay for son's flat. They had onced owned a flat, but its too bad that they are not responsible enough to pay for the installment of their own house. At 62 and 55, they have not yet reach the retirement age, and are therefore expected to continue working.

And beggars can't be choosers. Their attitude with HDB's rental flats tell all.

Many people who are more worthy of rental flats are still way behind in the queue. Those single parents, families with disabled members. etc.

They are extremely lucky that HDB allocated them a cheap rental flat at just $265/month, in such short notice, and yet they still want to be choosy, complaining about climbing stairs, that a room is too hot.

Out in the market, $265 won't even get you a storeroom.