2013 was the worst year of my life: NSP’s Nicole Seah
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SINGAPORE — She strode into the political limelight as a confident, young opposition candidate in the 2011 General Election, but Ms Nicole Seah has laid bare the frustrations her political involvement and activities have caused her, in a lengthy, candid Facebook post.
Her life took a “sharp detour” after the elections because people became more interested in “what I was doing politically than professionally, which was annoying because I was doing pretty well at work”, and there were expectations of her to be “as active as an elected MP (Member of Parliament)”, she wrote on Saturday.
There was the pressure of keeping up appearances, with whether each thing she did would help her get elected in 2016 weighing on her mind.
She was also worn out from juggling work and going for house visits and walkabouts, “feeling like I was reading off a script every time I met a new resident because my brain was so dead I was on autopilot”.
The 27-year-old also said she was “naive, arm-twisted into making some pretty bad decisions”, citing the Presidential Elections, during which she lobbied for Mr Tan Jee Say, as an example. “Terrible, irreversible mistake, completely underestimated what my lobbying could do,” she said.
When contacted, Mr Tan said he was caught by surprise by Ms Seah’s remarks and said he had “no idea” what she was referring to. “We can understand the stress that she has gone through ... We are all here to support her,” he added.
Ms Seah, the Second Assistant Secretary-General of the National Solidarity Party, could not be reached for comments.
When contacted, party chief Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss declined to elaborate, other than saying the post was “self-explanatory”. She confirmed that Ms Seah was still with the party and her activities were still “status quo”. Party comrades also declined to say whether they knew what prompted Ms Seah to write her post.
Ms Seah also gave a glimpse into her personal battles in the last two years. Describing this year as the “worse (sic) year of my life”, she said there have been rape and death threats against her and her family. “I was on the verge of snapping. That was when my meltdown began.”
When she heard that her grandmother was diagnosed with third-stage stomach cancer in February, she suffered a physical panic attack. She also lost two jobs and contracted dengue fever.
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Her FB post still there I think...
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Nicole supported Tan See Jay in the presidential election but he now says he has no idea what difficulties she had been going through!!!
Imaging this guy got elected....would he know the agony of those people who elected him?
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get well soon.
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can imagine how much it must have affected her to publicly share her feelings, knowing there might be risks of upsetting her career totally
and it is nice to know what goes on BTS of politicians and she has braved all that, at this age.
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https://www.facebook.com/nicoleseahnsp
Nicole Seah (佘雪玲)
There are news reports in BOTH English and Chinese mainstream media that I am seeing a married man.
This is NOT true at all, and an example of gutter journalism at its finest. Nobody even called me to clarify this and went to town with the story.
To the mainstream media - If you're looking to sensationalize your news in order to increase your readership at the expense of tarnishing a person's reputation, please do so based on fact and have the decency to at least verify your sources before running off to print.
This is grossly inaccurate and unacceptable. -
yeah. sue!
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Someone at SPH is gonna get fired
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
Someone at SPH is gonna get fired
Sack Meredith Woo. She does a shit job. -
AsiaOne apologises to Nicole Seah
AsiaOne would like to unreservedly apologise to Miss Nicole Seah and to Mr Steven Goh for any distress and inconvenience caused by an article posted on AsiaOne on Tuesday, November 26, 2013.
The headline of the article, "Nicole Seah uploads photo of her with a man believed to be married", as well as the first line of the article which mirrored the headline, did not correctly reflect the rest of the article's content, which indicated that Mr Goh, the man in the photo, is divorced and not presently married.
Adrian Tay
Editor, AsiaOne -
Asia One did not clarify about the "Sneaky" change of title incident???
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Before:
After:
If they think that Nicole is feeling down, dying, desprate or wat-so-ever due to the post that she made, if they think now is the best time to land a final blow to her, they are dead wrong...
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can't believe our level of journalism has degenerated to such gossip level! I always believe the personal life of politicians or any other person should be separate from his political / work life. Who should be the moral judge of another person's character? My boss wanted to add in a clause in the employment handbook for ground of dismissal - "any conduct deemed to be morally impungnant". But are they of such high moral ground to judge others? Nicole Seah is just a normal person in private, so just give her the privacy. Judge her based on her political performance. Give people a break.
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election coming soon?
Oppo all getting bad press big big recently.
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Originally posted by shirt_less:
My boss wanted to add in a clause in the employment handbook for ground of dismissal – “any conduct deemed to be morally impungnant�.
But are they of such high moral ground to judge others?
This only shows how exploited the workforce is. Business owners can do whatever they want, but nobody can ask them to back down. -
Originally posted by charlize:
election coming soon?
Oppo all getting bad press big big recently.
2 more years away.
AFAIK, the only oppo who deserve bad press are CSJ and KJ. The others are more level-headed than they.
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asiaone apologised liao
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Wanbao has apologised as well, but naturally, for a "politician", she wants more.
Nicole Seah (佘雪玲) I am waiting for Lianhe Wanbao to publish a formal public apology in the print edition of their paper, failing which I am fully prepared to take legal action against SPH for unduly tarnishing my political credibility and professional reputation.
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go go go!
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Haiz.
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u oso meltdown ah
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Who meltdown?