Grieving parents say goodbye to daughter who hid her pain

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Sim Hui Yi's parents bid a heartbreaking farewell to their daughter, a Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) student who tragically passed away after slipping into a coma just a day before the national examination.  On Friday (Dec 6), family and friends gathered to pay their final respects to the 17-year-old.   Among those in attendance were MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong and state executive councillor Ling Tian Soon.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2cppb3pm  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00This week, Sim Hoi Yee was supposed to sit for her Sijil Pelayaran Malaysia SPM examinations,

00:08but tragedy struck her family instead.

00:11The 17-year-old student from SMK Yong Peng who had achieved 10 As in her trial exams

00:17slipped into a coma on December 2, just a day before her first SPM paper.

00:24Despite medical efforts, she passed away early Thursday morning without regaining consciousness.

00:30Her mother, Lau Lee Liam, revealed that Hoi Yee succumbed to a ruptured blood vessel in

00:36her brain, which caused a fatal haemorrhage.

00:39She died at 9.40am on Thursday at Batu Pahat Hospital, where she had been transferred after

00:45initially being rushed to the Yong Peng Health Clinic.

00:54Hoi Yee's father shared that his daughter had been diligently preparing for her exams

01:07in hopes of securing a scholarship for tertiary studies.

01:11He recalled encouraging her not to worry about finances or put too much pressure on herself,

01:17but Hoi Yee had continued working tirelessly, often staying up late to study.

01:23It was only after her passing that her parents discovered she had been experiencing headaches

01:28since last month.

01:30Among those who paid their last respects to the teenager at her funeral on Friday were

01:35MCA President Datuk Shri Dr Wee Kha Siong and State Executive Counsellor Ling Tian Soon.

01:41The MCA President said he was saddened by the news and hoped that Sim's family would

01:46remain strong.

01:47I think it's a great loss to the family, especially the parents, the only child.

01:51So I'm here just to console them, and then they have to be strong, but whatever happens

02:00cannot change the fact.

02:02Just to give some words of encouragement.

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