However, some things like our Singapore history needs to be put in perspective though and the truth needs to be kept and be told.....
My grand-parents lived in Katong area and Katong Park was already around....and Sea View Hotel was already there, which many old folks I'm sure have fond memories......
My grand-parents have a black and white TV and we have pulse telephone and tape recorder, radio and Redifuson and we're living in a big bungalow and cars. (Yes, a few cars and not one car with high COE).......and there're quite a few mansions along the sea-front......and the East Coast was pretty well developed by that time....
And all this progress at the turn of the 20th century (meaning 1900 onwards) has nothing to do with LKY or PAP, as it only came to power only in 1959...
In any case, in spite of the incessant propaganda this week, it is better to keep to the truth at all costs, in this technological age, better not to lie so blatantly.
Here, read my article....
http://www.fom.sg/Passage/2009/05seasidewalk.pdf
We only want the truth and nothing but the truth.....so help us God.
Yes, there were atap houses. But there were also zinc houses, concrete houses and terrace houses, bungalows, two-storey houses and houses with gardens and cars and buses already by 1965.
Every society has poor people, not so poor and the rich. But the majority are immigrants and some are already 3rd generation Straits Settlement settlers by the turn of the 20th century.....so Singapore was never a swamp or a fishing village in 1965 or 1959. No need to lie until like that. Some of the children and grand-children of the folks of that era are still alive. I happened to be one of them.