Success stories today: Mr. Porno Sakkuporn

22 May, Bangkok - Thai advertisements are renown for either being very touching:

Or very funny:

Even Namwee, kind of the Malaysian and more talented version of Roy Ngerng, sang an entire song about a Thai girl.

So, to the shock and horror of fellow Thai countrymen and bored office workers and students all over the world who rely on Thai ads and the 3 Thai words we know for a source of entertainment, Mr. Porno Sakkuporn, an advertising executive, couldn't live up to the expectations and created a Thai ad that was neither funny nor touching.

He was outcast by his friends and felt like a social misfit, he says. Even his foreigner friends gave him dirty looks, and didn't believe him when he told them Thai people don't eat tom yum soup everyday; he felt he had lost credibility.

However, Mr. Porno picked himself up and is now studying for a degree in the prestigious Southern Pacific University, and will be invited by the Singaporean government to fill a professional position that Singaporeans don't want to fill. "I belieeve, that, Singapore is great country!"

Minister Amy Khor urged Singaporeans to pursue new careers at 50, promised exciting upgrades to jobs

Security jobs too mundane, cleaning jobs to unglamorous? Fear not! Many PIG careers" will go through incredible changes in the coming year.

In an career fair held at the Singapore Expo today, the Senior Minister of State for Manpower and Health Dr Amy Khor has called for elderly Singaporeans to embark on a new career at 50 years old because “it is common to see seniors living past 80 years old”

Dr Amy Khor promised exciting new changes to our current limited selection of jobs by launching a new programme called Pioneer Innovation Genre (PIG) Dr Khor explained, "Before we launched this initiative, we spent $2 million dollars and conducted an intensive survey to find out how we can bring the silver haired generation back to the workforce."

"A survey was carried out with one representative from common sunset careers such as security guard, taxi driver, cleaner, big sweep ticket vendor etc. We managed to arrive a a meaningful conclusion to our survey and strive to hit the hammer right on the nail. It was money well spent," beamed Dr Khor.

Security guard Mr Chin Suan Siao was one of the interviewees in the survey. Mr Chin shared with CN, "Eh, I told the chiobu that day uncle jin sian lah. Everyday carry walkie talkie jin bo seh. If they can give me gun better lah!"

The PIG committee will look closely into the feedback of the representative members of various sunset careers and make the necessary improvements. Citizens can expect the new initiative to be launched by 2016.