"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau
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This is quite a funny cross-examination:
Those payments were love gifts: William Tan
"Dr Chee, a divorcee with three daughters, flatly denied allegations that they had been lovers and insisted that the two had merely had a 'Christian platonic kind of relationship'...
Dr Tan's lawyer, Senior Counsel Jimmy Yim... pointed to e-mail sent by Dr Chee to Dr Tan, which contained terms of endearment such as 'darling' and 'love you always', as evidence of the relationship. Her response: She used similar terms with other friends.
In one e-mail, she talked about living together in a big house 'with grandchildren running around'. Her reply: She was referring to her grandchildren, not theirs.
Another said: 'You are priceless. You deserve everything on earth. You are marvellous. You are my hero.' Her reply: He was indeed admired by many Singaporeans.
Mr Yim asserted that they first became 'intimate' in her office in 2000, and later went to hotels where she footed the bills - which she vehemently denied. He also pointed to a birthday card sent to Dr Tan in 2000, in which her youngest daughter referred to Dr Tan as 'daddy'.
Dr Chee replied that her daughter did so only because she knew Dr Tan could not have children due to his disability and pitied him.
Mr Yim, noting that the girl was then just 10 years old, remarked: 'I have to compliment your daughter for her precocious understanding.'"
In other news, I didn't know William Tan Kian Meng was not a Medical Doctor in 1999.
According to Bright Happy Power™, he was a PhD holder at the time.