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    Buzz over new Tin Pei Ling video

    A new video featuring Marine Parade MP-elect Tin Pei Ling is quickly making its rounds online.

    Shot and uploaded in Sep 2008, it appears to be a promotional video shot in conjunction with the National Youth Forum of 2008, which was entitled "Changing Perspectives".

    The amateur YouTube video shows Miss Tin, then 24, dressed in jeans and a yellow spaghetti top, acting as a love-lorn girl who plays the "he loves me, he loves me not" game while counting down the many rings on her hand.

    The 39-second video then ends with an unidentified man kneeling down beside her in a make-believe marriage proposal with Tin nodding in acceptance.

    The video ends with the message, "NYF 2008: Be Engaged".

    Although uploaded in 2008, it's not known how or why the video, which has been seen over 300 times as of Monday, has surfaced at this time although netizens have been quick to distribute the video via Facebook.

    One user, Claudio Chock, wrote, "splendid acting skills from our new MP" while another, Sylvia Lim said, "I have no words."

    Watch the video here.

    Ms Tin has been actively involved in the NYF and chaired the organising committee of the 2006 event.

    The NYF began in 2004 to address Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long's call to enhance the level of youth civic participation and nation building in Singapore. In NYF, youths from different backgrounds have a chance to debate national issues and spearhead initiatives to benefit the community at large.

    Ms Tin was part of Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's winning People's Action Party team in Marine Parade GRC in the recent elections.

    Although expected to serve the residents of the McPherson ward, she has been heavily criticised in recent weeks for being too inexperienced to become an MP.

    An ongoing petition to remove her as an MP is also circulating online and has collected over 17,000 signatures.

     

    1,321 comments

    • Jeanie  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Marine Parade residents trust her.... trust her not... trust her.....trust her not....
      • denise 1 year 0 months ago
        ROFL!!! thanks - I needed that :D
      • A Yahoo! User 1 year 0 months ago
        ms tin,
        stop acting cute. you won't steel our heart. u don't deserve to be an MP
      • kenluckyl 1 year 0 months ago
        Hahahahhaaa....
    • Concerned  •  1 year 0 months ago
      That reminds me of Ms. Tin broke the rule of Election Day's cooling down rule. Can PM Lee enlighten us if any action will be taken against her?

      Please disqualify her as MP since she shows disrespectful to the Singapore Law.

      Please? PM Lee, show us you are fair and impartial. Thanks.

      Majority of Singaporeans just can't accept Ms. Tin as MP especially with this breaking of law.
      • lyden 1 year 0 months ago
        war lau ? ...lin lou ma ya !...rule also can be broken...and get no punishment........i just park my car for five second and was fine ....can some one enlighten me
      • Kee Kin 1 year 0 months ago
        my heart bleeds,man..my head bang wall SOOO.... just signed petition 5 minutes ago
      • Justice Bao 1 year 0 months ago
        Doubt the PAP is like me. They are very forgiving and forbearing - of their own people's mistakes - just as they forgave Wong Kan Sing. They will be glossed over - even if she breaks the law, she's a newbie...
    • Singapore Our Home Our Co ...  •  1 year 0 months ago
      This is a big joke and what a stupid video is this even it's a campaign to get Singaporeans to marry early.
      • Kum Man 1 year 0 months ago
        This is a big joke and what a stupid video is this even it's a campaign to get Singaporeans to marry early.

        Looking at TPL, i wonder if any reasonable singaporean male would even want to get marry............. having TPL as your wife?????? !!!!!!!!

        Is this a counter-propoganda???
    • Born n die Singaporean  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Dear Mr PM Lee,

      We have lost George Yeo, MM Lee and SM Goh. In return we have her. Is this the new PAP where meritocracy was criteria for success ?
      The public would ask how she was chosen. Many in PAP youth will ask likewise ( I hope ) and many in grassroots will ask.
      I feel very sad.......
      • SgCapricorn 1 year 0 months ago
        Marriedtocracy .. Singapore's version of meritocracy.
      • FJL 1 year 0 months ago
        which civil servant or PAP youth dare to ask PM how TPL was screened & selected ?

        once decided , it's there till rot man , who dares to challenge ??
      • ST 1 year 0 months ago
        Hi guys, I saw quite a lot of people dislike TPL and inevitably I felt sorry for her. TPL maybe young and still have a lot to learn. It is not fair to compare her with MM, SM or ----. I hope we can all give a chance to prove herself. Thks.:)
    • Mr Boxy  •  1 year 0 months ago
      This is serious... this will be a laughing stock if other nations gonna put this on their news n papers...

      imagine CNN playing this clip while quoting her as a elected MP in Singapore GE 2011...

      OMG....
      • teo 1 year 0 months ago
        @Poo Bear

        Do u think CNN will play this clip???? Internet is great. A lot of historical facts can be had from youtube. Please see ge2011 and others in you tube.
      • Diana Nightingale 1 year 0 months ago
        OMG! OMG! O-M-G...!! Stop it lah TPL... Haizzz
      • WD 1 year 0 months ago
        They better cover us when we all throw bloody tampons at her in the shower. It'll just show us Singaporeans have grown past juvenile mindset.
    • kools  •  1 year 0 months ago
      I want my 0.38 sec back!
    • À±Ã¢  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Please give her credit when it is due.
      She single-handedly responsible for GCT resignation.
      Can anybody else do that ?
    • E  •  1 year 0 months ago
      I do not want Tin Pei Ling in Parliament!!!
    • bryan  •  1 year 0 months ago
      She is a joke.... the people who vote her as MP is a joke...
    • Tim  •  1 year 0 months ago
      This is a real silly video! ... it will not encourage ppl to get engage or married.
      Show that women are greedy for diamond...what an insult to all ladies! I am sure this is a very wrong misrepresentation of our intelligent modern capable ladies!

      How to trust our nation and govt to such a person? !!! HOW!!! HOW!!! HOW !!!
    • Justice  •  1 year 0 months ago
      so what 2008 clip!!! I thought our leaders love to mention track record...
      Didn't they go and trace all these childish track record before interviewing and recruiting her?
    • George  •  1 year 0 months ago
      I want a 15K pay On Job Training Job to PROVE myself.

      Ignore everything I did in the PAST too.
    • max  •  1 year 0 months ago
      What a shame! it takes one ordinary average girl to bring down the rock solid PAP foundation in one term.
    • rukthai  •  1 year 0 months ago
      No need 15K I am 58 and l can act cute if l am paid 1.5K
    • Mark  •  1 year 0 months ago
      She hasn't quit yet?
      Can someone tell her, she has to step down!
    • David  •  1 year 0 months ago
      All she need to do is to follow instruction and end of the month she will get 15k. PAP just need people that can follow instruction. They don't need any leader who can lead the country. Whatever @#$% is decide by the Lee family.
    • fattyzhang  •  1 year 0 months ago
      My god, that was only 3 years ago when she was 24..
      Stringent screening process? My foot!!
    • CAGE  •  1 year 0 months ago
      This is why the GRC system has to go. We lost 3 office holders from Aljunied in return for raw candidates getting into parliament either without contest, or riding on the strength of their senior GRC members. If Marine Parade had not been contested, the public would not have seen the weak side of Tin Pei Ling - until she has to stand up to contest years later which may be too late - as demonstrated by Lim Hwee Hua, who had performed the worst in Aljunied. Ironicaly, Lim Hwee Hua first entered into parliament also via Marine Parade which was uncontested at that time.
    • Sharon Wong  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Why are they using our money ($15,000 x 12 months x 5 years = $900,000) to pay TPL's salary??????
    • Observer  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Excuse my being candid but that clipping appears more like a prelude of a japanese blue film if it runs for another 30 mins.
      Singapore is in deep @#$% with Mps like this.
      The only duty I can think of constructive for her in parliament is running an in-house nursery to look after children of other Mps who are busy with real work of running the country.

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