Alea iacta est

Not so recalitrant after all

As an addendum to this entry.

Mum and stolen child reunited

Gee, the Australian press isn't shy about using the word "stolen", isn't it? 'Course, it's fun to piss off Malaysians, as Paul Keating well knows.

Jacqueline Pascarl-Gillespie and her daughter have spoken of their joy at being reunited after 11 years apart and how they used the net to connect.

And I thought it was only good for porn!

Weirdness abounds in the article, though:

"I got her email (address) from a website and I emailed her," she said.

"It was a bit weird at first because I got an email back from her good friend, who was acting like a filter.

"They gave me a pop quiz of about 10 questions – and only things I would know – or my brother would know, my brother Iddin.

"I got all of them right."

Kids, remember, the person trying to email you after getting your address online may not be stalker - it may be your mother!

Ms Pascarl-Gillespie said since that initial contact she had secretly rekindled her relationship with both Shahirah and Iddin, 22, via emails and telephone calls.

"I have had contact with Iddin much less frequently, but still for three years, and it was just the three of us that knew about it all this time," she said.

Daddy didn't know? Tsk, tsk, tsk....

Their story is familiar to many.

Ms Pascarl-Gillespie married Malaysian Prince Raja Bahrin in 1980, and they had two children who were born in Malaysia.

Yes, we've all had the experience where we've married a Malaysian prince, and....wait a minute...

I like this subtle jab though:

The first three days we had free of media, yeah, those were beautiful days."

Whoops.
(via Rupert)

Posted by Quentin George at April 7, 2006 09:40 PM