SMRT’s bad luck just would not go away

When Khaw Boon Wan mentioned that it was bad luck that caused all the
problems in SMRT, or something like that, many took it with a pinch of
salt or laughed it away as market talk. How can technical problems be
attributed to bad luck?
 
With each passing day, this bad luck thing seems to get more real.
Whenever the media quoted Boon Wan or someone in the SMRT management
claiming that