Singapore was not a fishing village before PAP came into power
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despicable. must thank the british for the education system that enabled the "pioneers" to move up!
Excerpt from "Singapore a “Barren Island” in the 1950s? Absolutely False"
Posted on September 24, 2012
The impressive Raffles Place has long been a bustling financial district (1920s)
The lovely Collyer Quay area which served numerous ships calling at its port for centuries (c 1931)
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
[video=youtube;FvvhY6DtfZs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvvhY6DtfZs[/video]
In the above video, at around 5:33, look at those boats on the Singapore river; are those fishing boats?
[video=youtube;nw7toyYrqjs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7toyYrqjs[/video]
Posted on September 24, 2012
I never cease to be amazed when I come across incredulous claims made by the PAP and their devoted supporters. One wonders if it is sheer arrogance that makes them say things that are clearly not true and yet they think they can get away with it? Examples abound with the most glaring example being erroneous claims made to enhance the reputation of the MIW. Some of these erroneous claims include assertions that Singapore was an ulu backwater, swamp, slum before the PAP came along and saved the day.
I thought I had heard it all until I read ex-Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew asserting in a speech to an international and local audience that Singapore was “a barren island” when the PAP first took control in the 1960s!
Mr Lee had made these remarks earlier this week while hosting a French oil company to dinner at the Istana. He said: “We were suddenly confronted with the challenge of making a living for two million people on a barren island at the southernmost tip of Asia, which gives us the advantage of servicing all the ships that cross the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Excuse moi! I laughed when I read this in the mainstream media reports. Was this another of his “hard truths”? His claim of “barren island” went beyond stretching and spinning the truth. To those who grew up in the mid 1900s, they will know this is completely untrue. While numerous Singaporeans have disputed and mocked his claim online, his defenders said that perhaps LKY meant Singapore had no natural resources? Well, nowhere in his speech, as reported by the MSM, did he justify the description of Singapore as a barren land.
Should we give the Supremo Leader some benefit of the doubt that it was a miscommunication? If it were George Bush I might, but not LKY. Why? Simply because LKY is a master of words, a genius orator and a shrewd politician who is adept at the use of words to paint a picture and to manipulate perceptions. He knew very well the implications and image it would paint by describing Singapore as a barren island. Obviously, it would also make his achievements seem even more glorious. And as everyone knows, when LKY speaks with fire in his words and steel in his eyes, he can sound impressively convincing.
But to those who are familiar with the charades played by the PAP and with Singapore’s history, I am sure they are sick and tired of such deceptions. Personally, I am appalled by the ignorance displayed by many young Singaporeans who actually believe the tall tales that Singapore was an impoverished fishing village until the PAP came along. Some of this ignorance came about no thanks to the brainwashing National Education and Social Studies taught at schools which paint a skewed history to portray the PAP as saviours and LKY as a legend bigger than life. Yes, there were poverty issues in Singapore back then as with every young developing country struggling to cope during the post-war years. But Singapore barren and a fishing village in the mid 1900s? Absolutely False!
I thought I had heard it all until I read ex-Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew asserting in a speech to an international and local audience that Singapore was “a barren island” when the PAP first took control in the 1960s!
Mr Lee had made these remarks earlier this week while hosting a French oil company to dinner at the Istana. He said: “We were suddenly confronted with the challenge of making a living for two million people on a barren island at the southernmost tip of Asia, which gives us the advantage of servicing all the ships that cross the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Excuse moi! I laughed when I read this in the mainstream media reports. Was this another of his “hard truths”? His claim of “barren island” went beyond stretching and spinning the truth. To those who grew up in the mid 1900s, they will know this is completely untrue. While numerous Singaporeans have disputed and mocked his claim online, his defenders said that perhaps LKY meant Singapore had no natural resources? Well, nowhere in his speech, as reported by the MSM, did he justify the description of Singapore as a barren land.
Should we give the Supremo Leader some benefit of the doubt that it was a miscommunication? If it were George Bush I might, but not LKY. Why? Simply because LKY is a master of words, a genius orator and a shrewd politician who is adept at the use of words to paint a picture and to manipulate perceptions. He knew very well the implications and image it would paint by describing Singapore as a barren island. Obviously, it would also make his achievements seem even more glorious. And as everyone knows, when LKY speaks with fire in his words and steel in his eyes, he can sound impressively convincing.
But to those who are familiar with the charades played by the PAP and with Singapore’s history, I am sure they are sick and tired of such deceptions. Personally, I am appalled by the ignorance displayed by many young Singaporeans who actually believe the tall tales that Singapore was an impoverished fishing village until the PAP came along. Some of this ignorance came about no thanks to the brainwashing National Education and Social Studies taught at schools which paint a skewed history to portray the PAP as saviours and LKY as a legend bigger than life. Yes, there were poverty issues in Singapore back then as with every young developing country struggling to cope during the post-war years. But Singapore barren and a fishing village in the mid 1900s? Absolutely False!
The impressive Raffles Place has long been a bustling financial district (1920s)
The lovely Collyer Quay area which served numerous ships calling at its port for centuries (c 1931)
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
After the Great War, the British government devoted significant resources into building a naval base in Singapore, as a deterrent to the increasingly ambitious Japanese Empire.
Singapore Naval Base, view of the Navy Office, which was the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief China Station and the Rear Admiral Malaya.
Originally announced in 1923, the construction of the base proceeded slowly at Sembawang until the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. It was completed in 1939, at a staggering cost of £60 million[1] – equivalent to £2½ billion in 2006. The base covered 21 square miles (54 km2) and had what was then the largest dry dock in the world, the third-largest floating dock, and enough fuel tanks to support the entire British Navy for six months.
It was defended by heavy 15-inch naval guns stationed at Johore battery, Changi, and at Buona Vista Battery. Other important batteries of smaller calibre were located at Fort Siloso, Fort Canning, and Labrador. Air defence relied on the Royal Air Force airfields at RAF Tengah and RAF Sembawang.
Winston Churchill touted it as the "Gibraltar of the East".
Singapore Naval Base, view of the Navy Office, which was the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief China Station and the Rear Admiral Malaya.
Originally announced in 1923, the construction of the base proceeded slowly at Sembawang until the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. It was completed in 1939, at a staggering cost of £60 million[1] – equivalent to £2½ billion in 2006. The base covered 21 square miles (54 km2) and had what was then the largest dry dock in the world, the third-largest floating dock, and enough fuel tanks to support the entire British Navy for six months.
It was defended by heavy 15-inch naval guns stationed at Johore battery, Changi, and at Buona Vista Battery. Other important batteries of smaller calibre were located at Fort Siloso, Fort Canning, and Labrador. Air defence relied on the Royal Air Force airfields at RAF Tengah and RAF Sembawang.
Winston Churchill touted it as the "Gibraltar of the East".
[video=youtube;FvvhY6DtfZs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvvhY6DtfZs[/video]
In the above video, at around 5:33, look at those boats on the Singapore river; are those fishing boats?
[video=youtube;nw7toyYrqjs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7toyYrqjs[/video]
It was worse than a fishing village, it was a slump
Yes, this was Singapore, back in 1954, when floods hit Geylang Serai, Bedok and Potong Pasir. T
This amount of flood wouldn't look out of place in orchard road...
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Whats wrong?that is just a waterfront property,we have many of those today in singapore.
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Hahaha....official Singapore history is one big screw-up..
Singapore was already an independent country in 1963 and we are oh celebrating SG50 in 2015..
Had it not for our resident clown historian, the whole world would have been ignorant of such an important date and milestone.. Merdeka...merdeka.. Merdeka
Singapore was already an independent country in 1963 and we are oh celebrating SG50 in 2015..
Had it not for our resident clown historian, the whole world would have been ignorant of such an important date and milestone.. Merdeka...merdeka.. Merdeka
Yah, the British colonialists at that time were famous for poking the backside of those pioneers to make them move up. When poked surely moved up, how can move down?
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The stupid Chinese sailors forgot to bring along the Chinese flag when they first came to the island. Raffles came well prepared with the Union Jack and he planted it immediately to claim he founded the island for the Queen. See the difference?
Chinese were not imperialists then but only sea voyagers. The Brits were roaming the Earth to create one mighty British Empire in that era.
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the brits also looked around for the dumbfounded clueless chieftain in the fishing village to get a treaty signed plus unlimited right-to-use (and ownership) of land and sea with the offer of useless gifts and british cannon fairy protection. in that regard ang mos are the best.
The dumb pappies should have preserved those beautiful colonial buildings in Raffles Place and Collyer Quay to remind future generations of the colonial history and to adorn sinkieland with an unique beauty of the architectural facade.
Which architectural group able to design such buildings again?
Which architectural group able to design such buildings again?
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ask the tiongs. they can fake anything. :p
Put it simply, the British were able to con the chieftain...They were just too good with their fairy tales...and the chieftain swallowed it whole, hook, line and sinker...The Chinese just gong kia...took back local princess to become concubine for the Emperor to screw...
No, they did not fake it; they preserved the buildings. Go to Shanghai, take a look. Even the sign...Dogs allowed, Chinese not allowed...
.....because their leaders did not have the fire in their bellies like LKY and the Old Guards to develop their countries for future generations...
What you see in sinkieland today is the result of nationalism that drove LKY and the Old Guards to make the island survive and prosper for sinkies but the present pappies are too dumb to do the same.
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The 60s was the best time, rich or poor every Singaporean had a smile on their face. Today, when i meet tos who enjoyed the 60s and 70s their first reaction is, KNN! tis bastards of PAP have made many lives miserable wit their bad policies, they hve only look aft emself and their cronies. One question i hve never fail to asked, who did you voted?
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nationalism is the key word,the feeling and pride of your country belonging to you and no one else and that your people are the greatest.that is what made Japan,South korea and singapore three countries devastated by war rise from the ashes and is what is also happening now to China.unfortunately singapore has lost sight of who she is,and is now a manufactured entity of foreign garbage.with that she will fall.
you will rise from the ashes of this world!!!!!!
[video=youtube;UvlIFVgdn1Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvlIFVgdn1Q[/video]
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