Lee Kuan Yew walks away as Tin Pei Ling starts to speak

[corneyAmber]

phtthp:

how old is LKY this year ? past 90 ?

He turned 88 on Sep 16,2011.

[phtthp]

Time and tide is cruel to one’s health. We can’t control aging.

[corneyAmber]

phtthp:

Time and tide is cruel to one's health. We can't control aging.

But we don't have to be cruel and accelerate aging with unkind remarks. No old folks deserve that, what more LKY....... :torchme: the unkind

[Chenonceau]

ksi:

Funz:

Not just that, I heard snippets of his interview on his new book on bilingualism. His speech was slurred and his voice shakey.


This is life and ageing. I feel twinges of sadness when I see how much he as deteriorated. And if you read Sunday Times, his daughter has a column and she has alluded to his failing health as well. :sad:

Makes me wanna run home and hug my daddy now.

So moral of the story is we should give LKY more positive feedback and give him the reason to press on more energetically. I find the recent bashings on the Net about his comments and all very uncalled for. If we want to see a more energised him, we need to give more cheerleading and not all the unwarranted rude remarks about him that I have read.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :stompfeet: :stompfeet: :stompfeet: :rant: :rant: :rant:

PS: Funz, I am not refering to you, just using your post of his failing health to reflect how some nasty feedback about his remarks on some issues can contribute to his poorer health.

:goodpost:

[phtthp]

ksi,


clarify - i am just stating a fact of life. pls dun misunderstand, get upset. Thank you.

Mr Lee is our great founder of Singapore, many of us respect him. without him as a great leader, there won't be Singapore. :salute:

[corneyAmber]

phtthp:

ksi,


clarify - i am just stating a fact of life. Thats all, Ok ? pls dun misunderstand, get upset. Thank you.

Mr Lee is our great founder of Singapore, many of us respect him, including myself.

And I was not referring to you either and I am not upset with you at all.

[Sun_2010]

Funz:

LKY has really aged a lot since his wife's passing.

Yes :sad:
He looks so fragile...

[Angelight]

I have the utmost respect for Mr KY Lee too. Without him, Spore would not be what it is today. And it’s sad that the younger generation do not realise this. They are just enjoying the fruits of our forefathers’ labor without appreciating or thankful for the sacrifice of our forefathers.

[fusioncat]

Dear all,


I respect your views.
Yet I believe you have the right to know the other side of the truth.
Like the Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant, I am not denying your side, the contribution and sacrifices he has made, I want to provoke your thought into looking at the other side.
\"A heart of gratitude is a beautiful heart, but lets not forget the rest of the team\"
\"Success Is Not A One Person Sport\"
\"\"Success Is Not A One man's effort\" (Yes, that includes your wife a woman, vice versa)

Mr Goh Keng Swee
Source:
http://www.pap.org.sg/petir_articlepage.php?id=52&articleid=6744&cid=84
Mr Lee has admitted on different media (after many years), that the man behind many of the excellent projects is actually Mr Goh. PSA, Separation from Malaya, Export, Currency, Defence, Jurong Island, etc. (the list is endless)

Now here is another interesting blog (random search)
http://leetucksing.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/who-is-dr-goh-keng-swee/

There are many other important key personnel which this post does me allow me the space to include and unfortunately just as the author, I came from schools that only wants me to remember what I should.

How about Mr Lee's wife?
I believe her love and support for her husband is admirable. \"Being there\" for him at his every moment. Truly \"Till death do us part\"

What about Mr Lee's parent?
Filial piety is world's number 1. Many of you are parents too. Shouldn't we also be grateful to them?

What am I trying to say?
I have been through different \"world(s)\" Don't take this literally. It means I have seen people hating the same person right to the core (& they have good reasons which I shall not say) and I have seen people who \"worship\" the same person like you folks here do.

I just want to say. When you have gratitude, it would be nicer to also understand.. That success is not just the hard work of a SINGLE ENTITY. There are MANY people (including your parents, grandparents) who have made Singapore success a reality, a possibility. A good leader cease to be a good leader if he does not have responsible, innovative, supportive followers. That is also the reason why I ensure that I treasure all my colleagues and friends. They are what I have become today. I am grateful to both the people who have hurt us and the people who love us.

Yours truly,
FusionCat

[fusioncat]

There is another point I would like to highlight.


Its not that the younger generation do not appreciate nor are they not grateful.
I want to stress a point.

I hope the ladies here understand.
When you nag at your husband, it still shows that you love him, because the day you stop is also the day you give up. That is why I tell a lot of men, please listen and love your wife more when she complaint or nag.

We all have blind spots. True some of us do not have that wisdom or compassion to nag in a wise / kind / constructive way.

That is why the wise always say, we should be grateful to our "enemies" for they are the one that taught us many things and build us up.

For Singapore to remain competitive, we cannot remain complacent.
Singapore is smart to portray positive images (the law of attraction)
Take for e.g. the local media would put Bangkok flood on the front page, but thomson flood at the bottom left (on the same day newspaper).

Positive attracts positive. yet at the same time in this positive images, we HAVE become complacent. Like a frog in the well. Many of our youths are not able to compete globally against foreign talents who have gone through much harder hardship.

I have an ex-supervisor whom I highly respect for his modest, decent, upright nature. He shared on "Fire-Fighting" is not productive. He said that people will only take notice when something "big" happened, unfortunately by then it is already too late.

That is what happened in the recent one-two years. SMRT, flooding, buses, etc. (all which I subconsciously had wished). Not because I want to wish for the worst (like the negative) but I do hope this be a good lesson to us that contentment is good, NOT complacency. To LISTEN.
We are not even aware, that Singapore HAS been overtaken in many areas. There are many statistics out there, you can google yourself. The world’s largest number of billionaire are found in China, Russia, India (as well as other countries which we think are behind us). Lets not go into the colour of the money.

Take another good example.
I rather my child fail, then to have a borderline pass. I have a primary school friend who was "labelled" to be "hopeless", last in class, class bully, Mono class student etc. He is now very successful, with a 2nd class honour from a local reputable university, while I the "average" still remain average.

My point is we should LISTEN. The day people stop, the day your wife or husband nag, is the day they leave.

Lastly, I believe as parents, teachers, we learn from our students and children too. Never be afraid of being too humble or modest.

Yours truly,
FusionCat