an excerpt from my favourite, Malaysia Today website. by RPK.
"The Umno ‘Wow Factor’
A
farmer named Lakbir Singh was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture
in Bolehland when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud
towards him.
The driver, a young Malay man in an Armani suit,
Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and
asks the farmer, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you
have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Lakbir looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The
yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens
the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image
processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within mere seconds, he
receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed
and the data is stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an
ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and,
after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a
full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
printer and finally turns to the farmer and says, "You have exactly
1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Lakbir.
He
watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as
the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then Lakbir says to
the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is,
will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a graduate from Oxford and a Member of Parliament for Umno," says Lakbir.
"Wow! That's correct," exclaims the yuppie with the customary Umno's Wow Factor, "But how did you guess that?"
"No
guessing required," answered Lakbir. "You showed up here even though
nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew,
and to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter
you are, and you don't know a thing about cows. This is a herd of
sheep. Now give me back my dog."
Well read the full thing here
"The Umno ‘Wow Factor’
A
farmer named Lakbir Singh was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture
in Bolehland when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud
towards him.
The driver, a young Malay man in an Armani suit,
Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and
asks the farmer, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you
have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Lakbir looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The
yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens
the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image
processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within mere seconds, he
receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed
and the data is stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an
ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and,
after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a
full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
printer and finally turns to the farmer and says, "You have exactly
1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Lakbir.
He
watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as
the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then Lakbir says to
the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is,
will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a graduate from Oxford and a Member of Parliament for Umno," says Lakbir.
"Wow! That's correct," exclaims the yuppie with the customary Umno's Wow Factor, "But how did you guess that?"
"No
guessing required," answered Lakbir. "You showed up here even though
nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew,
and to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter
you are, and you don't know a thing about cows. This is a herd of
sheep. Now give me back my dog."
Well read the full thing here
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