A*Star scholar committed suicide over PRC girl
January 16th, 2009 | 
Author: Translated from Wanbao by Cheng Siew Peng
An A*Star scholar jumped to his death from 9 storeys after his love was rejected by a China girl. His parents were devastated at the scene. Both the China girl and her boyfriend kneeled down in front of them to beg for forgiveness.
The A*star scholar Lin Zhi Qiang (25 yr) and his good friend both were going after the same China girl. The China girl eventually chose his friend which devastated Lin. Lin then ran to her place (blk 407, sembawang), hoping to change the girl’s mind, but was rebuffed. He then jumped down from 9th floor outside the girl’s flat. Lin died immediately.
According to Lin’s father, when he and his wife heard the news, they went to the girl’s place immediately. She and her boyfriend (Lin’s good friend) were there too. The couple were in tears with heavy heart.
When the couple saw Lin’s parents, they felt sorry and knelt down in front of the parents and apologized. However, the couple didn’t say anything about the whole incident. Mr Lin asked them what was the cause of his son’s death but the couple kept quiet.
When the reporter asked Mr Lin if he would forgive the couple, the devastated Mr Lin did not reply.
Mr Lin said that earlier, he had asked his son to let go. But it was a pity that he son did not which resulted in this tragedy.
Father: “Son never had a girl friend, didn’t expect him to be so stupid”
The deceased father said his son had never had a girlfriend for the past 25 years. His results were especially good and was a gifted student. The family never expect their most obedient son to break their hearts like this.
“Zhi Qiang from small till now had never fallen in love. I had never heard him spoke about any girl he liked. If not for last year’s incident in which he fainted and went into coma for 48 hours after being rejected by the China girl, we will never know he had a sweetheart and he loved her so deeply.”
Mr Lin said he doesn’t know the existence of the China girl except that her son knew her through a mutual friend when he was studying in the United States.
“From what I know, the China girl and my son’s good friend were from the same university, I didn’t expect that both good friends will end up going after the same girl.”
Mr Lin believed that the China girl was his son’s first love and he thought after counselling him several times, his son is able to accept the reality of him being rejected. Maybe the trauma was too big for him to bear, leading him to take the wrong step.
From Raffles Institution to Hwa Chong Junior College, academic results had always been excellent
The deceased is the third child in the family and is the smartest of all the 4 children. Mr Lin said his son was very smart and his academic results had always been excellent from his secondary to junior college days.
“He was the pride of my family. The two sisters were proud of him too.”
Mr Lin said his family’s cohesiveness is strong. His eldest daughter who is working as a teacher and youngest son who is studying are currently preparing for Zhi Qiang’s funeral and his second daugther who is working in the United States has already booked a return flight to Singapore to attend her brother’s funeral.
Source: Lianhe Wanbao
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System error. All IQ. No EQ.
Pretty sad, guy is pretty familiar … though.
AN HERO.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=an+hero
hey carelle, that was really uncalled for.
RIP Joshua.
What a waste. With academic results like this, coupled with such a fantastic IQ, I don’t see why this guy would jump over the China girl.
Seriously, I would marry this guy and live as a rich ‘tai tai’ as the rest of my life… if I were a female.
Did he even think of the misery he will be causing his parents before he jumped?
I think carelle was right, all IQ, no EQ indeed.
The girl is damn bloody ugly.
Need to teach life skill in school.
No loss, all scholars will end up another bureaucrat.
8,
it’s a good idea, but life skills is pretty hard to teach… has to be experienced. That must have been SOME rejection, wow.
When a student always scores excellent results and get As in school all the time, he or she are a pride to schools and parents. He or she will have wishes fulfilled most of the time meaning that these children would not experience rejection like other students who don’t do so well in school. Rejection is a important experience to counter advesity. This is one of the weaknesses of our education system.
Do you guys really believe that trashy tabloids like this will give you the whole story?
For those of you who say he has IQ but no EQ, good job stereotyping scholars, you are just as GOOD as the tabloids! Obviously they are trying to play up the “scholar” theme and portray Joshua as some kind of sad loveless loser nerd who can only study.
And every time you fall in love, you will tell your father meh? How does the father know he hasn’t fallen in love before this girl came along.
Hi Give Him A Break,
The story was translated in full from Lianhe Wanbao.
Perhaps you would like to check with the reporter who wrote the original article if it was indeed the “whole story”.
Please do not be bias against PRC girl lah…as if they or she is the cause of this unfortunate event. Such “loves to death” things are commom in such situation. Got IQ and no EQ…allow his decision rule by his emotion rather than his head. He failed to consider his parents and sibling feeling when he took the
plunge. Game over for him and may Good Lord forgive him for taking his life as the each body is a Temple of God lah.
Check with the reporter?? Are you trying to make me laugh or cry? How long has the reporter known Joshua that I should go check with him? Oh wait right, he NEVER knew Joshua because by the time he cared, Joshua was already DEAD. I knew him as a friend and I can promise you the article doesn’t tell the whole story, as is to be expected from tabloids who have nothing better to do than disturb recently bereaved families on slow news days.
So if you ever wanna climb the elitist ladder, dump your EQ and emphathy. That’s what the current incumbents are doing to fellow citizens here!
It is sad. But just wish the rest people recover from it soon.
Agree that they should teach lifeskillz to our scholars..They are our brightest but yet the most fragile.. Not many are used to rejection.
Most come from good homes, are loved, pampered by friends, family, teachers.. They are agressively pimped by the media, put on a pedestal by society and their corporate/govt sponsors by virtue of their academic grades..
Time spent in an insulated environment behind books and Xboxes does little to improve one`s social skills.
Red flags should be raised last year when our deceased fell into a 48hr coma after rejection -sounds like a dissociative state to me- should had sought counselling or psychiatric attention then..
As for the girl- her PRC background shouldn`t be an issue at all. I`m actually welcome PRC girls into the local dating pool,if they make good wives/partners, they are citizens eventually. Girls have a right to play whichever suitor whos vying for her attention.But ladies, if you think one particular suitor is too obsessed(Chi1 Qing2),too naive or stalker type, please back off ASAP to risk harm to self or suitor. Also keep your boundaries very clear. Don`t lead the guys on further then necessary.
Gentlemen,if you shower attention/money/time for the ladies(worse approach actually), ensure that the resources you comit are that which you are willing to lose..just as in the search for wealth,the hunt for love(pussy)is an investment..please take it as a life lesson and the resources spent as “tution fees” if your approach is not reciprocated.
It is a real waste of life..I hope our scholars can attain their positions of power with at least some street cred- so I can feel safe that they will not implode, sell out ,over something like BGR/divorce etc.
Most of what I said involved a lot of presumptions and I know it is not fair. The real story may be entirely different. But I `ve merely want to express my perspective so such a tragedy would not recur.
Condolences to the deceased`s parents..
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Check with the reporter?? Are you trying to make me laugh or cry? How long has the reporter known Joshua that I should go check with him? Oh wait right, he NEVER knew Joshua because by the time he cared, Joshua was already DEAD. I knew him as a friend and I can promise you the article doesn’t tell the whole story, as is to be expected from tabloids who have nothing better to do than disturb recently bereaved families on slow news days.”
i surmised the same thing from the article from the way it sought to portray the entire incident.
China Girl = China Milk = Toxic
Not a story about PRC girls or EQ or IQ.
Just a tragic love triangle with such a sad ending.
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Not a story about PRC girls or EQ or IQ.
Just a tragic love triangle with such a sad ending.
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Cannot agree more.
A scholar in studies, but a failure in life.
Maybe we should revise the definition of SCHOLAR….. and use it more CAREFULLY, else we will end up defining any loser as a “scholar”
and stop giving me the crap about being sensitive….
frankly speaking, anybody who does not value his own life – most surely aren’t gonna get any respect/consideration from me!
hey GIVE ME A BREAK, why don’t YOU give us the whole story instead?
for the LULZ
Tony get my vote…took his own life with no consideration for the feeling of his parent and sibling ..that loved him all his life.
I find it offensive the way you refer to the girl as “China girl” instead of by her name.
Hi James,
This article was translated word for word from the Chinese Wanbao which did not mention the girl’s name.
Please refer to the original Chinese article here:
http://www.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory200901161537-35711.html
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The people involved should be treated with compassion and dignity. If you are unable to do that, then I suggest you spend more time considering your own circumstances rather than theirs.
I used to copy his chemistry and bio homework. He used to be our class “Chem-bio Shen”. No need to study also get A+.
When asked why I never did my homework, I told him that I was always chilling at some KTV, hang over from Martell green tea. If he had followed me to the KTVs and got a taste of what it was like in those places, he would never commit suicide over a China chick!
i know who you are you ktv shit
I don’t think he is that smart. A-Star award, so what?
Only smart to study – i.e. good memory.
But not smart to win over girl’s heart.
And not smart to fight for survival
That’s why he has to die a miserable death, and an early death at that.
Meritocracy is not working. It has failed miserably! Simple as that.