SINGAPORE, Dec 21 — By dawn, the fluorescent lights of a McDonald’s outlet had already seen one anxious night through. A Malaysian man in his twenties, stranded in Singapore without his passport, had spent the night there because he could not return home.
With nowhere else to turn, he headed to Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange at daybreak. What followed was an outpouring of fear and relief that would soon ripple far beyond the passenger service office.
The man, identified only as Mr M, broke down in tears as he told senior assistant interchange supervisor Nithyananthan Palne — known to colleagues as Nathan — about his predicament.
“He was crying, saying he couldn’t return to Malaysia without his passport and didn’t know what to do,” the SBS Transit staff member recounted.
In a Facebook post yesterday, the public transport operator said the distressed traveller had approached the passenger service office seeking help, believing he might have left his passport on a bus.
