Two years ago, after her husband was killed in a freak accident while working at Changi Airport's Budget Terminal, she received nearly $1 million in insurance payouts and donations from the public.
Today, that money is all gone.
Madam Pusparani Mohan, 34, is now looking for work in Singapore to support her four young children back in Johor Baru.
"I made a mistake. People knew I had so much money and they all came to me. I am so stupid. I never buy house and finished all the money meant for my children," Madam Pusparani told The Sunday Times from her home in Skudai.
She gave some of it away to relatives when she returned to her hometown in Kedah, then spent a portion of it on a holiday in Genting Highlands with her family. She also lost a chunk of it to a bad business investment - all in the span of a year.
"Now I don't have enough for my children's future."
On March 17, 2012, her husband, Mr Chandra Mogan Panjanathan, 34, was operating a floor-scrubbing machine outside the terminal when he was hit by a taxi hijacked by a Chinese national.
The driver is now serving his jail sentence of two years and one month for voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery.
Donations poured in after the tragic accident was reported in the media. Many sympathised with Madam Pusparani, who was also working as a cleaning supervisor at the airport, for having to raise four children by herself.
The Malaysian couple's youngest daughter was barely three months old then. Today, their children are aged two, seven, 10 and 11.
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How stupid could it be to loose 1M SGD in 2 years while your children are still very young. The woman is very stupid to give the money to her relatives. The money is for her children. I even suspect that her gambled the money when she had holiday at Genting. Why you chose genting? there are so many holiday destination like cameroon hi-land and end up she chose genting because she tot that she could double up the money there. .
In my opinion, the money should be invested in houses and put in the fix deposit account till the children need it.
She even didn't buy a house. 1M SGD is a lot of money if you bring back to Malaysia. It's still a lot of money if she still stay in Singapore....Now her children can not get proper education, they will still be a poor family. What an idiot.
If you give money to an idiot, no matter how much you give, they will still loose the money because of their idiocy.
