In Memory

For Darren Lim Kai Fun.

Some of you may have heard of him. The rest of you will learn about him now. You really should take some time to find out about his life until this point, since there won't be any more stories to tell about this unfortunate soul. Ever.

Darren Lim was a kid from my school. You know, Wesley Methodist. He was I think twelve years old, a Form One from 1P. I don't really know that much about him.

Well, the thing is that Sunday night... he died.

Yeah, that's right. Fell out the window of his 28th-storey condo... the Tamarind Condominium in Sentul, which really isn't too far from our school.

How did he fall? It depends on which version you believe.

The first version I heard came from Peak Sheng. Who heard it from my cousin, Joo Lee, who heard it from Mdm Grace Simon in class. They say he was playing hide-and-seek with his younger brother when he fell off the balcony. This is the story i heard from my sister.

The chinese newspaper says... well, for those of you who don't read Chinese, the below article states that he was (literally transalated) "playing superman". This I find an insult to his memory, but the chinese article has pretty good coverage. It even has a psyche section.


Another source is from the New Straits Times website. This matches what our principal told us this morning. It says he fell out an open window jumping on a couch... well read it yourself.

There is a final, unorthodox theory: he jumped.

Why, exactly, we have not ascertained. But the following conversation log may shed some light on the matter.

[δ] «±[ίἦ vἆlέntiΩξ's sρί®Ϊt]±» Tonight, a very special Skull Pandamonium:
people dont just fall for no reason...

banana rejection:
maybe he was leaning over to get the clothes

[δ] «±[ίἦ vἆlέntiΩξ's sρί®Ϊt]±» Tonight, a very special Skull Pandamonium:
what? the school uniform isnt that bad

Clarity.
She said, he was leaning over to get the clothes
I read, he was learning to get over the clothes

It might have started as a misread, but it raises an interesting question.

What if it was the mandated school uniform - with its high socks and pleated pants - that drove the boy to jump?

Scandalous.

Exactly how it happened might be a bit mixed up, but in the end, none of that matters. What matters is that a boy died. I might not have known him, but there were people who did. He had friends, and he had a family. Someday he might have become something... no one will ever know now.

I'm not really good at stuff like this so I'm just going to close now. For those of you who might have missed it, my Valentine's Day special is just down the screen. Next on Pandamonium... Wishworld Chapter One, and it will be dedicated to Darren Lim Kai Fun.

May his soul rest easy tonight.