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The 44-year-old’s death certificate, obtained by The Sunday Times last Friday, indicated that the cause of death was ‘multiple iatrogenic punctures of the intestines due to liposuction’.
Plastic surgeons whom The Sunday Times spoke to said that while it was not unheard of for a doctor to accidentally tear or puncture a patient’s intestines during liposuction, such incidents were ‘extremely rare’.
| Diary of a sex addictThis is an account fleshed out from information provided by a counsellor who treats sex addicts at Raffles Hospital. -TNP Mon, Feb 01, 2010 The New Paper It is not an actual diary but a representation of what typically goes through the mind of a sex addict each day Fri, 1 Jan I made my New Year resolutions at 00:01 alone, while the family was enjoying the fireworks. I’m really going to try this year especially after the kids saw those pictures I had left on the desktop(computer). I guess staying up till 3am so I could surf while everyone was asleep made me so tired I forgot to close all the windows I had opened. Sat, 2 Jan
I have to spend a long time in the bathroom deleting everything. I am not going to turn on my computer. After playing on the beach with the kids, I go to sleep really early. I am trying not to drink on this holiday trip. Wendy says it makes me bad-tempered. I know I have problems staying away from the computer too. Sun, 3 Jan Last day of holiday, going back to Singapore tonight. The kids and Wendy are sad but I feel excited. I am trying not to think about the usual habits, but it’s very difficult. I start to feel agitated and anxious. I tell Wendy I am heading back to the room to check my e-mail. I go online and then I lose control. It’s been three days since I had that release, It seemed like a lifetime. After lunch when the kids are playing, I send some SMSes to some girls to wish them Happy New Year and ask them if they want a present from me. They all say yes! Mon, 4 Jan I leave for work early and turn on my computer before anyone else gets in. Wow, so many e-mails and I still have those subscriptions to online porn sites. There are so many different categories to choose from. I used to think that watching more than two people having sex was exciting but that’s not so exciting anymore. There are some pretty crazy stuff out there. By the time the other staff come in, I would have relieved myself. They tell me what a hard worker I am. On the way home, I meet the kakis at a pub. Wendy is texting when will I be home for dinner. I tell her I am working late. The kakis share photos on our phones of porn or girls we had sex with. I know I am getting excited again. I go into a corner and pay for oral sex. Then I am ready to go home. The kids have had their dinner. Wendy is in a bad mood. I have a shower and go to bed. Tue, 5 Jan Wendy is not speaking to me. I am in the office early again. One of the kakis gave me some new websites to try. I can’t wait. This time I don’t close the office door all the way and I am disappointed that no one walks past as I get my release. I SMS a girl at lunchtime and ask if she wants to meet for coffee. She tells me it will be hot, strong and expensive coffee. I say okay. She is very pretty and knows just what to say to get me excited. We got to a hotel. I tell my boss I have to leave early because one of the kids is sick. I tell Wendy I have to work late again. She slams down the phone. When I get home, dinner is in the fridge and Wendy has gone to sleep. I sleep too. Wed, 6 Jan I feel so lousy today. Wendy is not talking to me and the kids were fighting at breakfast, asking why I am always out. I am really tired and just want to spend the day sleeping but I know I won’t get any rest. I feel like a cheat for the things I have done. I am always hiding or locking my phone and lying all the time. No energy for porn today. Mid-morning, my kakis calls. I tell him how low I am feeling. He says he knows what I need to cheer up. He will pick me up after work and we will go and try a new pub recommended by his friend. Beautiful girls, he says, very nice. I start to feel better. Anyway what is the point of going home if my wife won’t speak to me and the kids are noisy? Thu, 7 Jan Wendy and I have a big fight. She tells me that she knows about the porn. She has seen the charges on the credit card bill. I thought I had hidden everything well. I tell her that it’s a man thing and everyone does it. It’s normal, I say. She screams at me that I am sick. I tell her that if she was nicer to me I wouldn’t have to. Anyway, I give my family everything, I should be able to do what I like. When I get to work I know I have to have a release quickly as I feel very agitated. I go to the men’s room and call one of the girls and tell her if we can have phone sex and I will give her a present later. I masturbate in the men’s room. This article was first published in The New Paper. |
A 53-year-old white-collar worker talks about her attempt to take her own life
January 25, 2010
By Richard Tomlinson and Gregory Viscusi
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Francis Le Bras discovered he’d become a corporate nobody when his name disappeared from the organizational chart on the wall of his Paris office. In 2008, Le Bras’s employer, France Telecom SA, cut his job as a writer of software applications for Minitel, a pre-Internet information service for telephone users. While Le Bras, 56, stayed on the payroll, he had no job title, and he says he was shunned by his colleagues.
People who have frequent sex are generally healthier.
Researchers have long known that not only is sex fun (when done with the right person, of course), but that people who have frequent sex tend to live longer and have healthier hearts and lower rates of certain cancers.
These studies also show that men with an active sex life have healthier sperm, and sexually active women have fewer menopause symptoms.
In a British study, people who had intercourse twice a week or more were less likely to have heart attacks and other fatal coronary events.
Every year, thousands of women – and increasingly men – subject themselves to liposuction at a clinic or hospital here in a bid to attain an enviable, svelte figure.
This surgical procedure to remove fat through suction is a burgeoning multimillion-dollar industry, but not one without risks, as the recent death of property head honcho Franklin Heng has shown.
While details of what caused his death have not been revealed, it has nonetheless cast a pall on a controversial industry that has, in the last few years, been the subject of much heated debate that has split the medical fraternity and seen the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) eventual intervention.
Hi Gilbert,
I’m one of the readers of your blog and also got myself unemployed involuntarily.
During this period of unemployment, each and every single day of staying at home becomes an increasingly difficult task to manage.
I was “enjoying” the first month of unemployment and by time the second month comes, every single day becomes an increasingly difficult task when you wake up in the morning, switch on the computer, search the jobs web directories for new postings (many were actually repeated postings) and have nothing else to do.
A study shows that people who have a university or postgraduate qualification and earn $5,000 or more a month are the happiest.
But they are also dissatisfied with their achievements and enjoy life the least, compared with those who are less well-off.
Indeed, it is the Singaporeans earning less than $2,000 a month who enjoy life the most, concluded the three academics behind the study.
OCALA, Fla. — Ilse Telesmanich, 90, sprained her ankle hiking in South Africa last August. She tried to keep going on the three-week trip, she said, hobbled as she was.
“I got very good at hopping on one foot the last time I sprained it,” she said.
But the guides had unfortunately failed to bring along any crutches — let alone walkers. So Ms. Telesmanich cut the trip short, but she is planning on leaving her home here in central Florida this summer to complete what she started.
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica
Hmmm. You think it’s a coincidence? Costa Rica is one of the very few countries to have abolished its army, and it’s also arguably the happiest nation on earth.
There are several ways of measuring happiness in countries, all inexact, but this pearl of Central America does stunningly well by whatever system is used. For example, the World Database of Happiness, compiled by a Dutch sociologist on the basis of answers to surveys by Gallup and others, lists Costa Rica in the top spot out of 148 nations.
THE Ministry of Health (MOH) has ordered the Orchard Road clinic that performed cosmetic surgery on Mr Franklin Heng, just before he died last week, to cease the type of treatment involved.
Mr Heng, 44, the chief executive of a $1 billion company, was rushed by ambulance to Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Dec 30 but was pronounced dead there despite efforts to revive him.
The former CEO of YTL Pacific Star, a property management firm, had undergone ‘liposuction’ treatment that afternoon at Reves Clinic. Broadly, the procedure involves sucking fat out of the body.
THE chief executive of a $1 billion property firm died last week, following cosmetic treatment at an Orchard Road clinic.
On Dec 30, 44-year-old Franklin Heng was ferried by ambulance from the clinic to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
TTSH chief executive Lim Suet Wun said the case has been referred to the coroner.
‘The patient came from a GP clinic and had had liposuction done earlier that afternoon,’ he told The Straits Times.
Although Mr Heng showed no signs of life when he arrived at the hospital just after 5pm, doctors spent almost an hour attempting to resuscitate him, said Dr Lim.
