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When we were children, we often made mistakes because we were too young to tell right from wrong.
But for local actor Chen Hanwei, it wasn’t just immaturity that led him to steal.
It was also envy and the fact that he had no toys growing up. The 51-year-old, who grew up in Johor Bahru, revealed that the only toys he had were inherited from his neighbors and relatives. What he got were just bits and pieces, like a head or an arm.
And that’s why he stole a box of toy trains from a store called Emporium when he was in elementary school, he admitted to local TV host Quan Yi Fong on the latest episode of the meWATCH Hear U Out talk show. .
However, he was caught.
“I stole a box of toy trains because I always wanted to play with trains. I saw people building train tracks [and letting the train run]and it was fun. I went out happily [of the store] when suddenly someone ran after me and told me to stop. I was scared as shit. My legs wouldn’t stop shaking, “Hanwei recounted.
They took him to a cold office and questioned him, but he couldn’t say anything. He just took out some money, gave it to the store, and left with the toy box.
But it wasn’t a happy ending either, she recalled, as she didn’t dare to play with the toys and threw them away after a few months.
That’s not even the trick. He added that after joining Star Search in 1988, he had to declare a criminal record before signing the employment contract, and was very concerned that Mediacorp would find out about his wrongdoing.
He said to Yi Fong: “Wah, gunman (Hokkien slang referring to yourself in the third person) I was scared to death. I was worried that they would check with Emporium and find out that he had stolen something. I’m not lying, it’s true, Yi Fong. I was so scared that they might not want to sign me because I stole a train. “
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