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GET off - you'll fall and hurt yourself badly.
Relatives and neighbours would warn Mr Mohd Alias when they saw him sitting on the third-storey parapet outside his Marine Terrace two-room flat.



But the warnings fell on deaf ears.

After all, sitting on parapets became a habit with him since he started working, sometimes at construction sites as high as 50 floors.

But on the night of 5 Feb, as he was horsing around with relatives while sitting on the wall, someone tickled him. He slipped and fell.

Relatives tried to hold on to him but failed.

Mr Alias, 44, fell. His left leg hit the second-storey parapet before he landed at the foot of Block 16, Marine Terrace, on a grass patch.

Mr Alias, who fractured his left leg and left thigh bone, was rushed to the hospital, where, in another twist, he ended up in the same ward as his son, who was discharged just a week ago.

It was an accident Mr Alias, who'll have to wear a spinal brace until he is discharged from hospital, thought would not happen to him.

Now he counts himself lucky because he survived the fall.

And no, he won't be sitting on the parapet anymore.

He said: 'I regret it. Now I realise how silly it was to sit there.'

The odd-job labourer told The New Paper that he was sitting on the parapet talking to some relatives and friends when he lost his balance.

He said: 'They were playing with me and tickling me. Then I just lost my balance and fell.'


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As he fell, he managed to hold on to a part of the parapet and began to yell.

Mr Sani Hassan, 54, his stepbrother, was in the kitchen when he heard the commotion.

He said: 'I rushed out and saw some friends trying to pull him up. I tried grabbing his hands but before I could hang on, he slipped and fell. I thought that was the end of him.'

When The New Paper visited his flat, a neighbour, who wanted to be known only as Madam Veera, said she heard a commotion and rushed out to see Mr Alias lying on a grass patch.

Worried, she called the police and ambulance.

Another neighbour, who declined to be named, said it was an accident waiting to happen.

She added: 'He (Mr Alias) was the only one sitting on the parapet and they were also tickling him.'

'This is not the first time we have seen him sitting on the parapet. It's really silly of him to have done this.'

A police spokesman confirmed that they received a report on 6 Feb about a man who had fallen from the third storey of a Marine Terrace block.

She said: 'We received a call at about 12.40am. When the police arrived, we saw a man lying face up on the grass patch with leg injuries.'

Mr Alias said he had always thought that there was nothing wrong in sitting on the parapet.

Said the divorced father of three: 'Many people discouraged me, like my stepmother and my stepbrother.

'But I did not think anything was going to happen because it's just three storeys and I am used to working on higher floors.'

The cast on his left leg is now a reminder of his folly. A metal plate has been inserted in his leg and he is expected to remain in hospital till the end of the month.

Mr Alias said: 'When I was being warded, the nurses took a look at me and could not believe it. The week before, I had visited my son here.'

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MR Mohd Alias' elder son - Mr Mohamed Nazri, 21 - was in the same ward just a week before his father was admitted.

He had fractured his hip bone.

The pest control technician was standing in front of a van, talking on his handphone, when his friend, who was in the driver's seat, accidentally stepped on the accelerator.


The vehicle lurched forward, hitting him and pinning him to the wall.

A metal plate had to be inserted in his right hip bone.

Visiting his father was like deja vu for Mr Nazri.

He said: 'My father was admitted just four days after I was discharged. His bed is two beds away from where I was.'

But now the family is worried about the medical bills.

Mr Nazri's medical expenses, which came to nearly $2,000, were paid from his father's Medisave account.

Mr Alias had also used it to pay for his stepmother's five week-stay in hospital after she suffered a stroke last month.

Mr Alias now says there aren't enough funds in the account to pay his own bills.

That apart, he is worried about the loss of income for the four months that he will be unable to work.

He often pays the utilities bill of the flat which he shares with his stepmother and stepbrother and his two teenage children.

His eldest child, a 26-year-old daughter, is married and lives separately from him while his two sons, Mr Nazri and a 19-year-old, live with their mother.

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violette

heng ah.. 3rd storey nia.. if 10 storeys high, it would have cost him his life.. he shld have known it better than others... tis will happen anytime.. haiz..

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finaldust

it is crazy to sit there bah he really quite lucky or else gone liao

to fall in love is always easy
to start a relationship is always simple
to build it, is always tough
to maintain it, is 'better said than done'
to break off, is 'easier said than done'
to remain friends after u broke off, is never possible
to forget the memories is 'always doing but never succeeding'
to heal the pain within is hard and tough and never near simple
but one has to try to heal your own heart...