Overheard: "Mind you, I was born in 1974 and for the first few years of my life I lived in a kampong in Punggol, near the Nativity Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where some of my neighbors continued to shit and pee in outhouses till we were relocated to modern HDB estates in the early 80s. Modern my foot. Modern was what Mr Lee Kuan Yew gave us. We never, NEVER inherited "modern" from the British."
Some people have tried to make light of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's achievements for Singapore by saying that Singapore was already a well-developed country when Mr Lee took charge, that it was a modern city and so on.
Well, perhaps by the standard of that time, it was considered a modern city, but then a picture speaks a thousand words, so they say. So let's take a look at the Singapore that Mr Lee took charged.
Some people have tried to make light of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's achievements for Singapore by saying that Singapore was already a well-developed country when Mr Lee took charge, that it was a modern city and so on.
Well, perhaps by the standard of that time, it was considered a modern city, but then a picture speaks a thousand words, so they say. So let's take a look at the Singapore that Mr Lee took charged.
