Singaporean film-maker Roystan Tan made a short, vampy rap-style music video clip -- "Happy Dragon" -- on red-light district safe sex, all in Hokkien (with English subtitles). It went viral, of course ("I like this very much. It's so hyperlocal," gushed one fan). Here it is, courtesy of insing.com:
http://news.insing.com/tabloid/sexy-women-and-rapping-uncles-in-new-hiv-video/id-0b363f00
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Meanwhile, ST reader Dr Wong Mun Tat ("Illogical to link marital fidelity with managing a firm", 5 March, page A20), in his letter on people who cheat in love and finances, also (provocatively?) pointed to the role of testosterone, as shown by research:
The reasons for cheating in love and finances are simply different. The generalisation that cheating in one makes one more inclined to cheat in the other is facile and errorneous. We will rue the day when we adopt an umblemished marital record as the sine qua non for choosing a CEO. Such a parochial attitude will exclude many high-calibre CEOs.
A professional should be judged on his job performance rather than on traits and characteristics that are not germane to his functions.
Research on the link between testosterone and successful financial traders found that these people tend to make more money on the days when their testosterone levels are higher. Looking at traders' profits over a 20-month period, researchers found that those exposed to the most testosterone in the womb earned six times as much as those with lower exposure, and their careers tended to be longer.
If testosterone is responsible for both marital indiscretion and successful trading, should we not use the former as a surrogate marker for a good CEO?
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Finally, my thanks for some recent comments, but for which I had not responded, having missed spotting them. Thanks especially to Ethan M. Long for pointing out that the Suffolk University in question, in an earlier blog entry, was the one (a private university) in Boston, not Britain.
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