Professionalism and acting one's age

It came as an amusing update from Yusheng, a fellow volunteer in Project:Senso that the ever eccentric Bill Ang Siow Chen of SmartVirtualOffice graced the book launch and mini-talk session held on the 14th of June 2008 and, before entering Geek Terminal, had the following short conversation with Yusheng.

Bill Ang Siow Chen: I am here for the event, (looks around suspiciously) does Nicholas have anything to do with this event?

Chew Yusheng: No, he is not the organizer for this book launch, what's about it?

Bill Ang Siow Chen: That's good, because if he is here, I don't want to attend (throws a pout).

Apparently he ran away from the last event where Abang Abu was speaking because he saw me by peeking out of the corner of the lift. While this may be put aside as his irrational, intense hatred and bad blood for me for having repeatedly exposed his con jobs in his early days in the ACE Forum of which he created multiple accounts in an attempt to fool users of the wonders of his newly formed virtual office company, and the subsequent threatening calls and strange baseless allegations of my intention and supposed action to harm his family of which eventually nothing could be proven, what irked me most was his constant nipping at the heels of me and my old classmate Peter Tan, CEO of Virtual Office Singapore which ranged from his constant vandalism of Peter's wikipedia entry to his constantly inflammatory and defamatory blogs and other actions which honestly appear to be nothing more than the act of a 6 year old lout.

Not even police reports with recorded evidence of his threats over phone, printouts of his postings on forums and pages upon pages of threatening emails sent from him to both me and Peter Tan was able to stop him, not even when his partners pulled out totally in name and in investing from his firm barely weeks after SmartVirtualOffice went live, it baffles me on what drives a maniac hell bent on making life hard for people who exposes his lies.

While much proof can be easily obtained via google on his increduous lies, such as going to the USA with not a single cent and having stayed there for years and built a business empire there while simultaneously serving his Keppel Scholarship bond in Singapore is beyond me. Such people sully the good name of entrepreneurs, but sadly in a world where anyone who is vocal enough is assumed to be an expert, or anyone free enough to blog is naturally assumed to be "the real deal", and where people who are busy making a living and can't spare the time to bother writing prose, there is little that can be done of such scum.

Perhaps someday there will be a way where such individuals can be publicly named and shown in their full unadulterated glory of lies and deceit, and of which the public warned of their existence. Until then, we, the consumers and entrepreneurial community will have to live with their unprofessionalism and childish antics as a stubborn blemish we can't remove.