In another bizarre ruling, our HDB now requires homeowners to
check and make sure that the windows that they BUY from HDB
conforms to regulations, meaning that the Windows which HDB BUILT
has to be checked and paid for by homeowners. Than to add the icing
on the cake, HDB owners must find contractors to license the
Windows so that if the Windows crash, the contractors get the flak
or if not, the homeowners get the flak ... so HDB takes a walk in
the park and act blur. To get the license for your Windows, you
gotta pay $40, which going by Sg standards will soon have to be
paid only via EZ-link. Even for the contractors, which on normal
occasions, would be happily laughing their way to the bank as this
guarantees them fixed income, is curling their mole hair and
wondering, walan eh, the taiji skills of HDB is really quite solid
... they cover their ass, than who cover MY ass.
This is like buying a Windows XP OS from Microsoft and than
Microsoft telling you that for all patches and service packs (SPs),
to rectify the glaring construction errors or bugs in the OS, you
pay for them yourself. Worse, this SPs must be licensed and paid
for yearly and that these SPs are licensed by another business
entity, Netscape, so that if your Windows crash, its Netscape's
fault. The business logic here is kooky to say the fucking
least.
As a monolitihic entity that has a sole monopoly on cheap housing
in Singapore (the parallel to EZ-link is unnerving), HDB is clearly
lacking in the basic fundamentals of business logic. Any private
condominium slapping this ruling on potential buyers is committing
death by jumping out the windows ... but HDB can do it .. coz there
is NO CHOICE ... LPPL (lan pa pa lan) for the majority of
Singaporeans already squeezed to dessicated husks. And if the
contractors dun agree to this ruling, how? Ask SM to hold a tea
session with the PCKs of Singapore?
Next ruling will be asking for a licensing bill on the Gates of
your HDB flat too after they get through with the Windows. In my
opinion, the biggest virus that causes Windows crashing is not
MyDoom, but HDB.exe ... bring out the Norton anti-virus
please!
See Guai Lan