In Memoriam: Ms. Lo Hwei Yen (Facebook Group) reached 10,000+!!!

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In Memoriam: Ms. Lo Hwei Yen

http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=In+...988b2cecb3e#/group.php?gid=52642605469&ref=ts

"The loss of any life to terrorism is sad, and the loss of a fellow Singaporean is a pain more keenly and closely felt by every Singaporean." Professor S Jayakumar.

Ms Lo Hwei Yen, a 28-year-old lawyer was tragically killed during the Mumbai terror attack in November 27, 2008. Ms Lo was taken hostage in Oberoi Hotel and her body was found by Indian authorities on Friday.

This Facebook was set up to remember her loss and share her family's grief.

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Hwei Yen's funeral service will be held on Thurs 4th Dec 08.
Please be dressed in BLACK GLAMOUR, the way she would have wanted.

For those who would like to be part of the service but are not able to make it,
you may choose to wear black in remembrance of Hwei Yen and the victims of the Mumbai attacks.

In your own way, you can also observe a minute of silence to reflect on what her passing has meant to you.

May her passing, as the first Singaporean to have lost her life to terrorism,
serve as a reminder to everyone, Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans alike,
to treasure life and the loved ones around us.

Yen lived her life with passion and she treasured her friends & family dearly.
Let us cherish the zest for life and through us, she lives on.

Yen, thank you for your smiles and for touching our lives.
We miss you dearly.

"You're in the arms of the Angel, may you find some comfort here..."

 

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No wonder I can't find the discussion board!!


http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,185923,00.html?

STREET TALK
Flame war at Hwei Yen's memorial
By S M Ong

December 07, 2008




IMAGINE you're dead.

And you died in some sensational way that makes front-page news. It also helps if you're a cute 20-something female lawyer.

So you become an overnight media celebrity, albeit posthumously.


People you have never met before when you were alive attend your wake, moved by your story in the papers. Gawkers. Maybe they'll get 4D numbers too. Would you feel exploited?

Consider this:

Three Facebook groups have been created in the memory of Singapore's first terrorist victim, Ms Lo Hwei Yen, the biggest of which has more than 10,000 members.

She might have been a very popular woman, but who has 10,000 friends? Even on Facebook, she has only 313.

One of the other Facebook groups has more than 1,000 members and is called 'Memorial for Lo Hwei Yen, the Singaporean killed in Mumbai terrorist attack'.

Talk about attacks, there is a ferocious flame war going on in this group.

On the discussion board are the topics 'Micah Lim and Aaron Yeo have no shame' and 'Michelle Quah is slandering people here'.

Who are these people? Micah Lim is the group's creator. He and Aaron Yeo are listed as the group administrators. Both of them seem to know Ms Lo only through press reports.

Ms Michelle Quah claims to be a former colleague of Ms Lo.

The dispute began when Ms Quah called out MrLim and Mr Yeo for putting links to their online businesses on the 'memorial' page.

'How touching that your 'memorial' to Ms Lo Hwei Yen must include a sick attempt to publicise a business,' she writes in a post. She wants the links removed.

Mr Lim's defence is that Facebook also places advertising on the page and he is upset that Ms Quah did not message him privately to ask him to remove the links. He called her a 'pathetic lonely attention seeker'.

Ms Lo's tragic death may have reminded us of the preciousness and frailty of human life - but apparently not of civil discourse.

Other posters agree with Ms Quah that the links are inappropriate. However, one of the links remains up as of yesterday.

Is this exploitation?

At least, unlike the Mas Selamat case, no one is selling Lo Hwei Yen T-shirts at cafepress.com. Yet.