Are you Stupid or What?

B.S. of the Day
Someone wrote to the newspaper to complain that the new HDB 5-room flats are too small for their price.

What a coincidence! My friend told me that he would have to keep paying for the next 30 years to purchase a $300,000 flat. The accumulated interest would cost more an additional $300,000. And at the end of 99 years, you have to give it back to the Govt. He said his Malaysian wife can buy a landed bungalow at 1/4 of the price.

Don't complain too loud, my friend. It's already subsidied by the Govt. Don't think your $300,000 is as big as the lorry's wheel? Without the subsidies, you probably can buy a house, the size of a cubicle or prison cell. Thank the govt for the subsidies. Chant the mantra, "It could have been worst" a hundred times. A sure cure for whiners.

So the authorities replied and said the size of 22 sqn m of living space per person is favourably compared to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul where the average space ranges from 7 sq m to 15 sq m.

Just wondering why the authorities did not compare with Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Malaysia or Indonesia?
See, I told you, statistics are a wonderful management tool to pacific your customers. You select the statistics you want to portray.

If there's so much B.S. like these everyday, it would be great stuff for a writer like me. Then I would have enough to compile into a book called, "A bullshit a Day Keeps the Sh!t Away", a compilation of 365 stories of this sort.

Are you Stupid or what?

Well readers, if you like what you are reading, let me know and I will collect it and have it compiled into a book. Stupidity is the most abundant resource of mankind. It provides a lot of laughter for the readers who are already so stressed.

The other day, there was an advertisement for a 1-day workshop on Public Speaking. Cost: $500. That's a week's salary.

I laugh to think of how some trainers promised a route to wealth as a certified professional speaker. Pay this highly qualified trainer more than a thousand dollars to attend a few days workshop at a posh hotel room. At the end of which you can awarded a certificate which says that you are now a certified professional. Go forth and start earning your millions!

In workshops like these, you learn the techniques and the tricks of the trade, but it takes years to master them. It is just like a kungku school. The master can show you the techniques of all his moves, but it would take you years to master the moves and to apply them effectively.

Just because you are a certified master trainer doesn't make you a master. Got it?