Dark side of Joey Yap

On the eighth anniversary of this picture appearing on facebook (it appeared originally on 27 January 2013), I want to say this: the seated person is an obnoxious character whose head has gotten far too big for his hat. 

I'll tell you why. Ever since the pandemic struck last year, he has switched his talks online with great success as he can now reach out easily to participants from around the world. That's very clever of him to see the opportunity to promote his business amidst the health crisis.

About a week ago, his team sent an email to invite people to sign up for one of his online talks yesterday, that is, on 26 Jan 2021. (As an aside, I must stress that there was nothing in the email to suggest that the talk would be in anything but English. Even the email content itself was written in English.) 

But to the surprise of many, his talk was conducted in the Cantonese dialect. To those people who asked why he was talking in Cantonese instead of English, he repeatedly called them "saw hai". Trust me, this is a derogatory term. You wouldn't use it on your mother, your sister or your wife, much less on people that had signed up for his online talks. 

No apologies at all for the oversight in the email which was clearly his and his team's alone. He thought so highly of himself that he even asked his team to kick out a participant after a comment was made. In my opinion, it wasn't even a rude comment at all, just asking him to admit his mistake, I think. 

But that's Joey Yap for you, obnoxious to the point where he has lost his empathy for the people who had contributed to his success over the years.