Thank you MM Lee!

[OF]

Dear friends,

 

 

A year ago, I realised that I never told my dad how much I love him. I never said how grateful I am. He and my mom toiled for decades to provide a stable, loving home for my siblings and I.

 

When I finally got around to telling him, it made his day. And since then I'd feel closer to him.

 

 

 

MM Lee is not my dad. In fact, he and my dad used to go head to head, fist to fist sometimes.

 

MM Lee is the father of modern Singapore. So, it's only fitting that as a Singaporean, I acknowledge him for his contributions:

 

http://sirfong.blogspot.com/2009/11/thank-you-mm-lee.html

 

I hope those of you who'd in one way or another benefitted from living in Singapore can acknowledge him in your own ways too!

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Otto

[HiHo]

Now this is an odd post for such a site. I wonder what is the
occassion?

But I'm puzzled. Is Chinese really not spoken enough in Singapore
(killing Chinese)? I'm in a school with many foreign Chinese (as well
as many other nationalities), so Chinese is heard and spoken so often
that there is no lack of it.

[HiHo]

And in addtion, it is not as if the local Malays have stopped speaking
Malay, or the older Chinese generation no longer speak in their
dialects.

Unless your friend mean that Singaporeans no longer speak good
Chinese........I guess it is the same with English. Not everyone will
have a superb grasp of language.

[OF]

Hi . . . Hiho is actually Chengtju?

There really isn't any 'best' occasion for saying thanks. I realised that
when my friend commented on LKY's news today. I wanted to say something good
about the Man, but never found the right occasion nor platform. Then I
realised that I can make it the right occasion and use my platform.

Besides, I drew LKY in comic form as a young student of Telok Kurau before,
so the post is more of a Why Not?

LKY's relationship with local comic artists goes back a long way, isn't it?
I guess most of the time, comic artists are either portraying him in one
extreme or the other.

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[HiHo]

Hey Otto,

I understand your point about thanking him. I'm really glad you
brought this topic up. I can avoid comics this way.

I hardly see any cartoon portrayal of any one specific Member of
Parliament, the most memorable being that one panel in the first
volume of Kiasu Krossover which has SM Goh.

The thing about him being extreme, I believe he did it all for the
good of the nation. Drastic action has to be taken sometimes. I don't
know how local cartoonists have portrayed MM Lee as, but I'm aware of
the "anti-PAP" intellectuals. I believe the PAP have no choice but to
implement policies that are not popular. I mean, what democratic
government would gladly implement such policies when it can affect
elections negatively.

I'm not really sure what those cartoonists you mentioned were like,
but I'm not going to argue against them or anything. It is not as if
they can really do anything terrible, besides drawing some not so
funny funnies.