WOMAN NO ENOUGH: JACK NEO'S NEW MOVIE PROJECT

Not too long ago... far, far away... the whole world came to know that internationally acclaimed champion golfer Tiger Woods was whacked by his Swedish wife, Elin Nordegren, with a golf club after she had discovered his many extra-marital romps.

Just last week... closer to home... a local tabloid, Lianhe Zaobao, shocked the nation with the revelation that our locally acclaimed comedian-turned-movie maker Jack Neo, 50+, married with 4 kids, got entangled in a two-year extra-marital tryst involving a young model-actress, Wendy Chong, 22.

[Jack Neo rose to fame because of his several commercially successful 'Money No Enough' & 'I No Stupid' movies, among others.

Ironically, his latest movie, 'Being Human', is currently still showing in Singapore's cinemas.

It seems that the line between the reel world & the real world doesn't exist.]

Why did the two smart guys, with their wholesome public image, do it?

More specifically, why do men do it?

One of my social buddies has offered an interesting explanation. He calls it the Rooster Effect, drawing from a book he has read.

The book is 'Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps', by the husband-&-wife team, Allan & Barbara Pease.

Here is a quick recap from the book, with fascinating analogies from the animal kingdom:

1) A rooster is a very randy male bird, which can copulate with hens almost incessantly, more than 60 times in a given mating. He cannot, however, mate with the same hen more than 5 times in one day.

By the sixth time, he completely loses interest & cannot ‘get it up’ but, if he is presented with a new hen, he can mount her with the same enthusiasm he did with the first.

This is known as the ‘Rooster Effect’.

2) A bull will lose interest after copulating 7 times with the same cow, but can be fired up again by the introduction of a new one. By the time he reaches the tenth new cow, he is still giving an impressive performance.

3) A ram will not mount the same ewe more than 5 times, but can continue to mount new ewes with tremendous zeal.

Even when the ram’s former sexual partners are disguised with perfume or bags over their heads, the ram still cannot perform. You just cannot fool them.

This is nature’s way of ensuring that the male’s seed is spread as widely as possible in order to achieve the highest number of conceptions & ensure the survival of that species.

4) A healthy young man can also go around 3 times with the same woman on a good day but will usually fail to give a fourth encore.

Introduce a new female however, &, like roosters & bulls, his interest (along with the vital part of his anatomy) can rapidly rise.

It seems that, biologically speaking, & with due respects to the ladies, men's brains are already prewired for 'Variety is the Spice of Life' philosophy.

Does that mean 'cheating' is a man's prerogative? I really don't know.

All I know is that, just before I got married during the early 80's, I had heard a piece of smart advice, during a regular sales managers' meeting, from the late Datuk Eric Chia, my Big Boss at that time in the UMW Group:

"Don't eat & shit at the same place!"

You can interprete it in as many ways as you want, but the message was - & is still - very clear to me:

Don't fool around with your second most important organ.

By the way, according to newspaper reports, Jack Neo has promised to "tell all" once the "storm has settled down". I reckon he certainly has a lot of excellent raw material for his new movie project, 'Woman No Enough'.