Win-win?

Dear Blog,

It's hard to try and imagine extra-marital affairs becoming a win-win-win-win situation, especially with a child involved.

Nobody knows this more than our local Sabahan TV personality, Daphne Iking.

Fairy-tale wedding to an exceedingly rich Malaysian businessman (this is code word for ugly, fat fart) overlooking a magical sunset in Bali.



Several months later, falls pregnant and has a beautiful baby girl.


Then shit hits the fan.


Less than a year later, husband files for divorce and sues the third wheel (a charismatic handsome, ALSO married man) for enticing a married woman.


Bombshell, DNA testing found the new baby didn't belong to the husband.

Dirty laundry is dragged through millions of tabloid-hungry Malaysians for months and months.


Now she's getting married again and converting to Islam.


I can't help but think, why couldn't she just wait 3 years to find this second husband (and marry him as the first) and convert to Islam, bypassing all the crap with the first husband and the affair and the bub?


But yea, I'm an engineer. The whole shenanigan just sounds very inefficient to me.

Realists will beg to differ. If she hadn't gone through with the whole affair, she would not have had her baby and saw her new husband and religion in a new light.

But listen, more power to her for embracing a new religion which has obviously helped her get through difficult times in her life. At least for now it does appear like a win-win-win-win scenario for all.