The big juicy red apple was too good to believe. People have this uncanny feeling that something is wrong but could not place where exactly has gone wrong. In the meantime the apple keeps rotting from the inside.
Finally we are seeing an open sore. The worms are crawling out and it is looking very ugly.
In the days of Goh Keng Swee or Howe Yoon Chong, or Pang Tee Pow, they would be screaming