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Day before his death, DJ had asked band to play song he hated: My Last Night

THE signs were ominous.
During a birthday party thrown by colleagues on Saturday night, disc jockey Manap Sarlip made a strange request - asking the band to play a song that his colleagues knew he disliked.

Its title: Malam Terakhir, Malay for My Last Night.


Mr Manap, 29, repeated the words - that it would be his final night - several times at the party at the Amaran Club, his workplace.

He was right.

At 7.45am on Sunday, the father of three was found stabbed to death outside his Whampoa Drive flat.

At his funeral at his brother's home in Toa Payoh Lorong 1 yesterday , several of Mr Manap's colleagues were seen paying their respects along with relatives and friends.

His eight-year-old daughter was clinging to her grandfather, sobbing into his arm - while her two younger brothers were playing, oblivious to the grief.

At the burial site in Choa Chu Kang later, some relatives of his wife Aniza Essa came along to send him off.

Aniza, 24, and her colleague Muhammad Nasir Abdul Aziz, 16, were charged with Mr Manap's murder yesterday morning.

Contacted by The Straits Times, Aniza's brother, Mr Azmi Essa, 35, said he would talk to Mr Manap's family - a gesture which the victim's younger brother says he is waiting for.

Mr Dahalan Sarlip, 23, added that his brother had a tendency to keep his troubles to himself.

'I think he had a lot of problems he didn't want people to know...certain things that he said were beyond his control.'

Mr Vengadasalan, 47, a friend of the victim's who worked with him, said Mr Manap had joined the club after it started playing Dangdut (Indonesian pop music).

'He was a workaholic. Even though he was supposed to start work at 7pm, he would come in as early as 1pm. When I asked him why, he would say he needed to do light and sound checks,' he said.

Another of Mr Manap's friends - event manager and former disc jockey Franco Indrawan, 29 - said he was passionate about music.

Saying that they had been friends since they were 10 years old, Mr Indrawan added that Mr Manap had - in a rare occurrence - told him on Friday that he was having marital problems.

He said Mr Manap had tried to get Aniza to change her line of work but failed.

Both Aniza and co-accused Muhammad Nasir work at a Beach Road pub called Razcals - she has been a waitress there for a year and he a bartender for a few months.

At the Amaran Club at MacKenzie Road, meanwhile, the mood was sombre yesterday.

Resident band Kalahari's singer Wan Kalahari, who sang Mr Manap's last request, said he had later received cellphone messages from Mr Manap saying he was having trouble at home.

On Monday night, Mr Wan and Mr Manap's other colleagues paid him a tribute by observing a few moments of silence.

They also sang Malam Terakhir once again.

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Could thevictim have already sensed somthing amiss before his death, which explained his last strange request?? :confused2:

Life is full of ups and downs. But one has to learn how to stand up on his own and continue his path to attaining enlightment...:mellow3: :mellow3:

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