KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — Controversial sex blogger Alvin Tan has
described himself as a fan of the sexual exploits of Datuk Seri Dr Chua
Soi Lek, unexpectedly dredging up the MCA president’s unsavoury past
when he was secretly filmed having sex with his mistress. “I used to look up to Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, sexually. Funny how things turned out,” Tan said in a posting on his Facebook page. While Tan’s suggestion that he is a fan of Dr Chua is clearly
tongue-in-cheek, it will be unwelcome news for the MCA president as he
prepares for elections already handicapped by the fact that his party
remains unpopular among the Chinese community.
In 2007, secretly recorded footage of Dr Chua having sex with his mistress in a hotel in Johor was leaked to the public. He was subsequently forced to resign as health minister in early 2008
and was not selected as a Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate in elections
that year. But he made a comeback to take over as MCA president in 2010 after a prolonged period of infighting in the party. Despite winning the party presidency Dr Chua has been unable to
secure a Cabinet position, largely due to the negative perception
surrounding his sex exploits.
Tan is the man at the centre of a controversy after he and his
girlfriend posted in a joint blog photographs and videos of themselves
having sex. Tan is a National University of Singapore (NUS) law scholarship
holder. After news broke of his joint blog with Vivian Lee, his
girlfriend who is also from Malaysia, the university said it would
investigate him based on disrepute charges. Tan will face his
university’s disciplinary inquiry on October 31.
Last week, he publicised on a Singapore forum the link to his blog. On the site “Sumptuous Erotica”, Tan and Lee said they loved posting
details of their sex life on the web “for everyone to enjoy” and that
they uploaded only self-made content. The blog has since been taken down. Tan moved to Singapore under the ASEAN scholarship in 2004 and
attended Xinmin Secondary School and Raffles Junior College before he
went to NUS.
In a separate posting on Facebook, Tan also hit out at his critics
and pointed out that media outlets carrying his story were making
profits at the expense of his girlfriend and him. “Shame on me as a businessman. They’re making a fortune out of Vivian and me,” he said. Malaysian Insider.
