News of Jack Neo's mistresses is the only thing people can talk about nowadays. Pictures of his press conference was splashed across the front pages of every Singapore newspaper for a week already. To me, it was just a scandal that finally gave the bored reporters in Singapore a chance to report salacious news and turn the newspapers virtually into a tabloid until I came across this article about it in Weekend Today; ironically because Today hasn't been credited for containing articles worth reading all this while. The article actually shows a different perspective from what I have been reading, about whether Jack Neo should apologise to the public (the journalist's stand is no), about his cowardice in dragging his wife along to the press conference in the hope for greater sympathy, how he should make a comeback into the media industry. I think Irene has the biggest and the most magnanimous heart in the world to forgive Jack Neo for this major betrayal. Not one mistress, but 2. Who knows how many more? Frankly, I don't think he deserves a wife like her. Who will forget to apologise to his wife after being discovered keeping mistresses, especially after putting her through further torture and humiliation by getting her to appear on public for the press conference? Disgusted. He is such a bad example to society, such a letdown to all who supported him. I definitely disagree with most that he doesn't have the need to apologise to public. He needs to.
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I was rather shocked when I saw this flyer shoved under the crack in my door when I returned to hall on Thursday night. 'The Death Penalty' is written in big font at the top, with a picture of a pair of siblings filling up half the flyer. For a moment, I thought it was some fright night advertisement; or a very bad joke. It turned out to be an ongoing effort to raise awareness about the appeal to abolish the mandatory death sentence for drug cases. http://sgdeathpenalty.blogspot.com I don't know how I feel about this appeal. Needless to say, even though Vui Kong was only 18 years old when he carried 47g of heroin into Singapore, the age of impulsive and hot-headed decisions that many regret afterwards, he did committed the crime. We really owe it to Singapore's stringent laws that we can live here safe and sound, keep our doors unlocked while we sleep, walk on the streets alone at night etc. Sentencing a teenage to death the moment he made a major mistake seems inhumane, but think of the harm those drugs can bring to innocent victims! On the other hand, his background really induces sympathy, for he doesn't have the chance to get an education, make something of himself and he had no proper guidance, nobody to turn to when he chose the wrong path. Moreover, this merciless mandatory death sentence against drugs and kidnapping no matter what the circumstances seem very not in line with the yellow ribbon project that Singapore is so actively promoting. Even the hardcore criminals will fear when the death penalty is stamped on them, when facing the gallows, never mind an 18-year-old! And what is to say that he will not turn over a new leaf? I fervently hope that he will be given another chance and the death sentence be removed. It will be too cruel to have raise his hopes in filing for an appeal and then his hopes dashed again if the appeal fails, especially when his life is concerned.
