This reporter (Nur Dianah Suhaimi) obviously needed to find a young super rich spoilt brat for her story. It appears that she ended up asking her sister if she had any rich friends (maybe “any of your friends carry LV bag or not?”), interviewed her sister's friend Agnes Lin, and then proceeded to write the story below, essentially turning her into Singapore’s most hated and famous “rich spoilt brat” overnight.
In her personal blog (and also TOC), Agnes gives her side of the story.
Who do you believe?
ST Reporter
"Rich spoilt brat"
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(From http://www.asiaone.com/Business/News/My%2BMoney/Story
Nur Dianah Suhaimi
Tue, Oct 28, 2008
The Straits Times
Mum & Dad will provide
For 20-year-old undergraduate Agnes Lin, the recession could just be academic.
The Nanyang Technological University first-year student has never been in need: She carries a $2,000 Louis Vuitton handbag to school and uses only Shiseido cosmetic and skincare products.
She carries around the latest mobile phone and goes on overseas vacations with her friends where she would bust $1,000 on shopping alone.
Twice monthly, she shops at her favourite stores - Topshop, Zara and Forever21.
Mum, a private tutor, and Dad, a businessman selling polythene bags, pay for her expenses.
Miss Lin is aware that Singapore faces a recession but the news does not bother her.
She said: 'I think it is okay for me to maintain my current lifestyle. I may be spending a little bit more than my friends but I don't think I'm overspending.'
At the moment, she has her eyes on the latest mobile phone in the market, the HTC Touch Pro, which costs about $700.
Although her mother has said 'no' to her buying yet another mobile phone, Ms Lin has an inkling she will still get it.
'I think my mum will still buy it for me. My birthday is coming up!' she said with a giggle. She confessed that since young, she has never run out of cash. Her parents give her money whenever she asks.
Since she was 16, her monthly pocket money has been $500.
She has an older brother, also an undergraduate. The family live in a four-room flat in Marine Parade.
She thinks a friend of hers, who is left with $20 to last until the end of the month, is silly to consider taking up a part-time job to earn some extra cash.
'I don't understand why she cannot just ask her parents for money,' sighed Miss Lin.
She will enter the working world only after three years but she is already planning ahead.
With her first pay packet, she will buy a $4,000 Chanel bag. 'After that, I will probably get more bags and watches,' she added.
This article was first published in The Straits Times on October 26, 2008.
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(From http://twinkletooes.livejournal.com/76598.html)

I asked Adilah (reporter's sister) and you know what crap she said?
She
said " I can't write that down because She (meaning me) did not want me
to write that she is bonded, and if i write that she is paying her own
bills, it will show because this means that she is drawing a salary"
HELLO ASSWIPE!
drawing a salary means bonded meh?
I cannot work part time meh?
Drawing a salary does not necessarily mean that what!
pls la, pls....
don't give me crap like this just to cover your own shit.
This
whole shit is twisted to the point because she wants to compare between
teens who are spoilt fucks and do not need to worry for shit and others
who are more concerned.
ISN'T IT OBVIOUS NOW THAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT?
i was misquoted and i want my justice done.
MARK MY WORDS, TOMORROW WE WILL SEEEEEE
WHO GETS THE LAST LAUGH.
first!!!![]()
first post.
sudden jason do hate threads?
Fwah, very messy.
I think can tidy the post up abit?
Originally posted by kenn3th:first post.
see properly lar ![]()
havent finish Os already phd issit?
i tink the reporter jealous of the girl's wealth.
i dun think her case is anywhere near rich, spoilt or brat yet....... ![]()
It's ST, what do you expect?
i still on the reporter's side
of cos, usually when a human is pushed to a corner, she will try all ways to defend herself
reporters usually blow the whole matter up, but the spoilt is still there
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looking at the ST report alone
rich yes, spoilt..maybe...brat??
alamak, the reporter social circle sibei small
she know the meaning of spoilt brat or notch???
She neh go interview the "get out of my elite uncaring face." ger?
Wee Shu Min her name. Father is MP
It is plainly obvious that the person who wrote this article has one motive in mind and one only; and that is to score points with the readers.
The article is as badly written as a TCS chinese drama script, the intentions are so obvious, character with no depth, out to spread propaganda.
Do u tink a stranger will reveal all those information to a reporter? even if she is a spoilt brat? Come on, no one will be so stupid to reveal all that to a reporter.
She may be a brat. But it is the authors fault for sensationalizing the stories based on twisted truths. No integrity. LAZY!
Okay, now we know that stories from this reporter have a 9/10 probability that it is fake
First of all.. why the reporter so kaypo? Kpkb so much for what? Envy people rich?
They can afford to spend larget amount of money, that's their problem, you need to step in and make things big meh?
2nd, I choose not to believe in the news for such personal news. They're always blown up big.
Super obvious the story is exaggerated. Who will be that stupid to admit to all those stuff to a reporter? Dumb phark
Am I missing something, or have four-room flats in Marine Parade suddenly become Bukit Timah mansions while I wasn't looking?
The ST article smells like sensationalist bullshit to me. Perhaps this Suhaimi character should seek employment at The New Paper or whatever ragsheet happens to be in town.
Not too surprising that such an issue will crop up sooner or later.
The media always has an incentive to sensationalize news in order to increase viewership. Heck, thats where their revenue come from!
Yet another compelling reason why no one should fully believe what they read but should fully question the sources instead.
Why do you think companies need a Corporate Communications Dept or a PR Director to handle the media???
wah lau da start thread. mus pong chang...
Aiyahhh.. Agnes Lin, report to TNP if u wanna get a free phone since your HTC is in unstable condition. FREE HANDPHONE LEHH....
Originally posted by FireIce:i dun think her case is anywhere near rich, spoilt or brat yet.......
like that call rich? spoilt or brat??? wah.... then all those children of our elite how??? no name to call already leh like that
Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
like that call rich? spoilt or brat??? wah.... then all those children of our elite how??? no name to call already leh like that
yr english comprehension super fail...
the power of twisting words. so i guess all those statistics in ST are fake too?