Punggol East By-Election coming ? MP steps down
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Gooby:
Hm...I vaguely recall posting my reply here...and seeing this question here still standing makes me feel obligated to explain myself.
How do you define stupidity?
Anyway, since my older version is gone now, I might as well rephrase it.
In this case, it is equivalent to foolishness - lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgement; unwise. One sees so many other cases going on and still making the same foolish mistake; knowing the consequences that it has a tendency of destroying trust, a loving home, yet still do it; knowing it might jeopardize own career and reputation yet still do it, or perhaps even contract diseases and still do it - I just don't get it.
Perhaps I think they are stupid whilst they think I am the stupid one to believe that everyone has the ability to be above all these, that it can be done. -
Nebbermind:
But some scandals are criminal in nature mah.
MSM has been very kind to MP so far. Different treatment from all other scandals! Somehow, doesn't seem quite right.Fairy:
[quote=\"limlim\"]
Now that you mentioned it....
First, YSL.. (kena whacked the hardest).. MSM hitting hard at the man.. no attempt to dig out the woman
Then, the CNB and SCDF..?
Then.. lastly.. the MP.. with MSM hitting hard at the woman and all attention on her.. while the man's act being promoted as \"honorable\"..
The sequence of events.. seems to be in favor of the MP's exposure (which, could have been inevitable somehow due to evidences in someone's hand? How long was the affair and did it started before YSL?)
hmm.........
[/quote]Is YSL's case criminal in nature?
I hope the person responsible for publishing the screen grab of the initimate messages between the parties involved wont be 'punished' too severely. He/she must have struggled for a while before deciding to go ahead with the revealation since the info was sent to TNP 2 days before the official resignation of MP. It is unusual for a media to hold back such juicy news.
All Animals are equal, some Animals are more equal! -
Fairy:
Is YSL's case criminal in nature?
But some scandals are criminal in nature mah.Nebbermind:
[quote=\"Fairy\"]
MSM has been very kind to MP so far. Different treatment from all other scandals! Somehow, doesn't seem quite right.
I hope the person responsible for publishing the screen grab of the initimate messages between the parties involved wont be 'punished' too severely. He/she must have struggled for a while before deciding to go ahead with the revealation since the info was sent to TNP 2 days before the official resignation of MP. It is unusual for a media to hold back such juicy news.
All Animals are equal, some Animals are more equal![/quote]This case is unique in one thing - both personnel are under the umbrella of one political party. There are no law suits involved, no court case. Little chances of further information being dug out or disclosed that will put them under further scrutiny. For all you know, the case might be passe in one weeks' time or even less. BTW, has anyone read the article by Today that Punggol East Residents are not in a hurry for a by-election? Haha. -
octoberbaby:
I do not know her personally. But I do believe that success breeds jealousy, especially at the workplace, more so among the female species of homo sapiens. That explains for all the pictures of her that surfaced in the media...adding oil to fire.
know why? because internal info said that this woman is a what is english called for 'wolf something in chinese'?Fairy:
MSM has been very kind to MP so far. Different treatment from all other scandals! Somehow, doesn't seem quite right.
She climbed the corporate ladder very fast but in a wrong way which internal people found very disgusted.
Point finger to her is a natural human being reaction.
How bad she is as a person does not make the one who 'willingly falls into her trap' a victim. How about men who patronise women in the fresh trade? These women's virtue is questionable. But it does not make the men who go for them any more honorable.
Still, it does not explain the blackout on further news on MP! -
Fairy:
Still, it does not explain the blackout on further news on MP!
What other news you want? Or do you just want to have the same old news repeated ad nausem? -
Fairy:
Still, it does not explain the blackout on further news on MP!
You must see what MP is this? Whose GRC belong to? DPM leh...of course blackout further news on the MP. Attention diverted to the woman instead.
Another incident involving the same GRC, one of the MPs was caught in the photo using the cellphone instead of respecting Majulah Singapura song.
The next day, the news was blackout, attention diverted to the one who took the photograph. -
octoberbaby:
Heard that during the repeat telecast that scene was cut....
Another incident involving the same GRC, one of the MPs was caught in the photo using the cellphone instead of respecting Majulah Singapura song.
The next day, the news was blackout, attention diverted to the one who took the photograph. -
limlim:
Heard that during the repeat telecast that scene was cut....octoberbaby:
Another incident involving the same GRC, one of the MPs was caught in the photo using the cellphone instead of respecting Majulah Singapura song.
The next day, the news was blackout, attention diverted to the one who took the photograph.
Hey people, :offtopic:
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Tue, Dec 18, 2012
The New Paper
She remains adamant that it was "definitely not lust" that made sparks fly and left lives shattered.
Yet she concedes that she is "not that naive to believe that love had anything to do with it".
It was merely a connection between two people in a lonely battle for a common cause, says the demure, slim and attractive woman.
She knows what it’s like to be the other woman in a high-profile scandal. And she says she knows what it’s like for a man and a woman to develop strong feelings for each other when working closely together.
The Michael Palmer affair has reawakened certain ghosts she thought had been laid to rest, she reveals.
Ghosts she’s afraid will return to haunt her.
"No one really forgets such s***. What I want to avoid is for someone to dig up the past, put one and one together and then drag me into the mud again."
It took The New Paper on Sunday several phone calls and many more instant messages before she finally agreed to share her story.
No SMSes, she insists. "It’s too risky. Not that I don’t trust you or the newspaper, but these days, it’s scary to have SMSes produced as evidence."
She also wants the assurance that she will not be named. "There’s too much to lose. I’ve lost too much already as it is. I can’t afford to lose more."
At the height of the scandal, her marriage was severely tested. She and her husband are still married, but the relationship is cordial and they don’t live under the same roof.
"We’re not separated, for now. There are good days and there are bad days. On good days, we can sit down and have a meal.
"On bad ones, like when the Palmer story broke, the bad memories turn him into a total stranger.
"It hurts so badly because it means for every step we have taken forward, we go back another five steps.
"But I don’t blame anyone. I don’t have the right to do so. I blame just myself." -
Her affair, she recounts, started with pure admiration from watching the man in action.
"You have to agree, for someone to be in the public eye, it would mean he has some kind of charisma."
She was drawn to the way he worked with people. He was friendly and easy-going, with the right touch of humanity.
She pauses for about five seconds, then says: "You know the saying, we were all drawn to him like a moth to a flame.
"We just couldn’t help it."
The "we" refers to colleagues, teammates and even strangers.
And, most importantly, she says: "He never once gave you a reason to doubt his sincerity.
"He was always earnest and he was kind. If you approached him with a problem or an issue, he sat down with you to rationalise and work things out.
"It didn’t matter if it was day or night, he was never too busy or tired for anyone."
Power, she confesses, was a draw. "That he was not an ordinary person was already a hook."
Add a bright future to that, she says.
"I’d be lying if I claimed that aspect wasn’t an attractive point."
She insists she cannot really pin down how the affair started.
"There was no specific date or moment. But there was a growing attraction, that much I can tell you.
"I began to look forward to seeing him at conferences and meetings. And when there were events to attend, I’d make it a point to go if I knew he’d be there.
"You just want to see him. Catch a glimpse of his smile. A ‘hello and goodbye’ could also send me to cloud nine. I was like a young school girl nursing a huge crush."
He’d shower her with little acts of kindness and concern. Like when he gave her a lift home and because she was so tired, he sat in the car and "waited for a full hour as I slept".
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