oh boy.. check out today's Straits Times - Home section, the article on the front page. This was zack's case.

16 yr old boy was found dead in bed on the morning of his 16th bday. His parents and brother wanted to surprise him with a bday song, they barged into his room in the morning, musical instruments and vid cam in hand.. sang the song but he didnt stirred (his back was towards them). Then his mum realised his arm was blue..

remembered a couple of days back zack was telling me about this interesting collasped case he got that day - the abovementioned case. He was describing it to me (yes, over dinner, i got an iron stomach now).. how the boy was all blue when they arrived.. the term he used was 'synose' (not sure on the spelling though). Meaning there's no oxygen in the blood and bcos there's no oxygen, blood turns dark (almost black).. resulting in a bluish tinge to the skin. They couldnt do much cos he had prob collasped (medical term for stop breathing) for 2-3 hours but due to his tender age they tried to do whatever they could.. pumping in drugs and wat not.. It was so tragic.. unneccesary death to such a young promising boy. Realised the papers didnt state the cause of death..