sang nila utama was just a marginalized and disenfranchised prince of palembang who landed at the mouth of the stinkie river in self-exile, and he called it stinkyputra but decided to change it to sinkiepura after mistaking a chow chow-baboon crossbreed for a lion. it might actually have been a masked palm civet. he owed his lordship of the island to tiongland as the emperor in tiongland recognized him as a local ruler in 1366.
raffles was making a name for himself while being a kiss-ass servant of the east india company under the sponsorship of british royalty. his imperialist and colonialist agenda was predictably one-sided and boring. notice that his schlong was long and ang mo tua kee, and he parked it to his left. he ended up being a royalist stooge and was awarded knighthood by virtue of sacrificing much of his life traveling to and fro south east asia, establishing a base for pillage and plunder, and dueling with the dutch for control of the spice trade in the indon archipelago. he was not really there for sinkiepore.
on the other hand, we have lky. true son of sg, part pioneer and founder of independence and democracy in sg, willing to fall into longkang for the sake of a nation. he is quadruple secret squirrel, in bed with all in power and at the same time out of bed if he senses weakness and gullibility. he is the only quadruple-timing secret agent in world history who ultimately rises to be not only pm, but sm, mm, and bdsm. his résumé includes the kempeitai, allied intell agencies post-war, oss, british special branch, american cia (still unclear), and soon the public security bureau of tiongland (most likely post-humous and post-humorous). due to versatility, contortionist agility, yet with iron-handed execution of uncompromising and unpopular policies that benefit all known species in the universe, i award him the title of "the founder of sinknpour", a visionary who captures every drop of rain water, clears all the shit in sg, and transforms a sleeping fishing village to a modern metropolis.
