There's nothing like an ongoing sex scandal to shake away the Monday blues.
Bukit Batok MP David Ong, 54, has resigned, citing "personal reasons." This could mean many things, of course, but in his case, it's a way of acknowledging that he messed things up by having an affair with a married woman, who is said to be a grassroots activist in his constituency.
The People Action's Party's "decisive action" to relieve Ong from his post was because "there are standards which I think that the party wants to uphold," Chan Chun Sing, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, said yesterday.
The sad thing is that, as a politician, Ong was actually well loved by his constituents (and obviously, his mistress too).