SINGAPORE: A video on TikTok from a younger Malaysian lady who’s presently interning in Singapore has gone viral, as she alleged that somebody had entered the room she rented and filmed her whereas she was within the bathe.
The lady, Adriana Yeong, who goes by @baldgirl23 on TikTok, posted a video earlier this month the place she instructed her story. Story brief: though Ms Yeong known as the police when she noticed that she was being filmed, the officers might discover no proof to show her allegations and will due to this fact do nothing extra.
Ms Yeong mentioned in her video that she needed others to be additional cautious when renting a room, even in Singapore, which she had all the time believed to be a secure place.
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There are incidents of voyeurism in Singapore, and girls would do effectively to pay attention to their environment, though it’s affordable to count on to really feel secure in your personal lavatory.
She started her video by speaking a couple of room she rented, the nicest she has stayed in “by far,” because it has its personal balcony. Ms Yeong known as it “a great place,” including that she noticed herself dwelling there for the subsequent few months.
The room additionally had a small lavatory with a louvred panel door.
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Ms Yeong mentioned that at some point, she took a bathe after work. Abruptly, she bought the feeling that she couldn’t shake off that she was being watched by somebody. When she circled, she noticed that a few of the slats that make up the door had been lacking, making a gap in her lavatory door.
She claimed that somebody had inserted an iPhone via the lacking a part of the door, filming her.
Ms Yeong mentioned that whereas what she might have performed was seize the telephone, she panicked as a substitute, and the individual filming her ran away. She then known as the police and her father.
The house owners, in the meantime, instructed her that she might transfer out if she needed to, which she did.
Ms Yeong added that she is aware of the one that filmed her, who’s a tenant on the similar constructing, and who, sarcastically, bought to remain whereas she selected to depart a month later, which meant she nonetheless noticed the person at instances outdoors her door.
“It’s such a horrible feeling to sleep and bathe and eat in the identical home the place somebody filmed you,” she mentioned. Fortuitously, she’s discovered a brand new place the place there are not any different tenants but, to date.
Whereas she felt that her aspect of the matter was not heard, she’s nonetheless glad to be out of that scenario.
“Earlier than I got here to Singapore, I had this notion that Singapore was a secure house. However finally, issues like this do occur in every single place on the planet,” Ms Yeong mentioned, including that for feminine overseas college students, it could be good to totally analysis locations earlier than shifting in, simply to be on the secure aspect. /TISG
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