I stumbled upon a blog. And then this - Jamie Yeo getting candid.
As I recalled the infamous “Tammy NYP” sex video scandal, I realised how even now, three years to the day, it’s still hard to forget that incident. Probably because this is Singapore and sex scandals are few and far between here, and this really rocked Singapore at the time.
A random search even led me to find this – imagine! People making money out of the girl’s video. It was just another case of “I-forgot-to-delete-my-private-stuff” a la Edison Chen. ”Tammy NYP” is still a popular search and people are selling DVDs of her video on the streets.
As for Jamie Yeo, well, her confessions about losing her virginity and masturbating at six years old is going to be immortalised on the web. And if the Tammy video furore is anything to go by, no one is going to forget it. The web will make sure of that.
Like this – I searched randomly and found this video.
I’d forgotten all about Annabel Chong till I saw it. I was young then, and wouldn’t have remembered much of it, but this jolted my memory. Come on, this was 10 years ago!
The web is fantastic, but it also spells hell for people trying to forget shady pasts.
Or else it’s fantastic, because it never lets anyone forget.
You can add how Malaysian Politician Elizabeth Wong got sacked because:
She is part of the opposition and the ruling party had no problem showing her private pictures (just innocently sleeping in bed) taken by her so called boyfriend.
Which boyfriend purposely goes to the newspaper to distrubute pictures?
Although the pictures are not even half as reveiling as the other examples you metioned here, ruling party has treathened to “show a complete video” if Elisabeth Wong doesn’t resign.
If there is a video or not is not even sure, but this is another way how people’s private life can ruin them.
Hi Linky Love, thanks for the comments. Definitely agree with you that it’s terrible what’s happening to Elizabeth Wong. Whether politically inclined or not, politics is dirty. Very disappointing.
Most welcome
If politics keep on being this dirty here, your country is going to get even more flooded by Malaysians getting out at all cost.
Elisabeth was hands on cleaning up the mess in the recent Bukit Antarabangsa landslide.
Unlike the government that says “we need to build on hills because we haven’t enough land…”
As a Singaporean you must see the irony
Irony indeed!
And as new media begins to grip our countries, i won’t be surprised if more dirt is dished on other politicians as well. No escaping it. I do feel Elizabeth was unfairly harassed. But tis the (beauty?) of new media – pervasive and invasive. On the flip side, I hope it will serve to do your country good in the long run. No government can fully control new media. =)