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Stories of some of those who mourned LKY's death - TR

The death of Lee Kuan Yew did cause some surprises, interesting stories and even jokes for me and my friends to share around. These are true stories but for obvious reasons, the names are fictitious.

(1) Classmates

Despite having left primary school many years ago, a group of women remained in contact, especially through the WhatsApp Messenger. Many had married, given birth and currently pursuing different careers.

When news of Lee Kuan Yew had died spread like wild fire, topics of conversation between this group of former classmates drifted to him and post-independent Singapore.

Ex-classmate A insisted that without Lee Kuan Yew, there would be no prosperous and modern Singapore today. He was not only the founder of Singapore, he was the father of Singaporeans! "Let's wear black and tell all your friends to wear black to show the world that we are mourning our founding father!"

Ex-classmate B disagreed, saying that Singapore was too small and too easy a country to administer. Further, the ruling party was blessed with an efficient civil service system left behind by the British Government, not to mention the excellent geographical location of the Lion City.

As if a volcano had erupted without warning, the long friendship of these women was suddenly put under the strain of an unexpectedly hot debate on Lee Kuan Yew's contributions!

Ex-classmate C found and circulated among the group some online comments stating to the effect that unlike Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, the so-called democratic advanced nations in the world were financially ruined by their governments, China and Vietnam were corrupted, women in India were raped, men in Thailand were shot in streets ...

Ex-classmate D hit back, "Don't be naïve! Malaysia of Year 2015 is also far prosperous and modern than it was in 1965!"

Ex-classmate E joined in, "Come on, let's be honest, everyone in the world knows he is a great leader who made so much sacrifices for Singapore. I am not suggesting we go down and queue for hours under the hot sun. Just dress up in black for one day is surely not asking for too much, right?"

Ex-classmate F, "Sorry, I cannot be seen wearing black on that day or even today! I have to be sensitive to those people and their family members who suffered under Lee Kuan Yew's tyrannical hand!"

Ex-classmate A deleted herself from the group list. Ex-classmate C did the same. Then, Ex-classmate D, followed by E also left the group.

Decades of friendship ended just like that! And over a dead man - whom none of them had met personally! Unbelievable!

(2) A shop assistant from PRC

Madam Chen, a middle-age woman from PRC, works in a neighbourhood grocery store. Her boss is a grassroots member who operates several stores located in two GRCs. In that particular store I visited, there were about a total of 7 or 8 employees (all foreigners from PRC, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar).

I happened to visit the grocery store, days after Lee Kuan Yew's funeral.

Half-jokingly, I asked Madam Chen, "Your boss's God-father (referring to Lee Kuan Yew) has died. Did you join him in paying the last respect?"

She replied, yes. In fact she went twice - though in different community tribute centres; the rest of her colleagues went at least once. While their boss did not force them to go, he told his foreign workers that Singaporeans would be very touched when they saw foreigners paying last respect to their beloved leader. Bowing to Lee Kuan Yew took a few seconds, but the appreciations they (foreign workers) gained from Singaporeans would be everlasting, so they were told by their boss.

When Madam Chen parroted to me the typical lines of our local media, "Without Lee Kuan Yew, there would be no Singapore .... He transformed Singapore from a fishing village to a first world nation within a short period of 50 years", I decided to tease her :

I shot back, "Now there is no more Lee Kuan Yew, but why Singapore still exists? Beijing and Shanghai were transformed in less than 20 years, don't you think your PRC ministers were much better than Lee Kuan Yew?"

(3) Cousin Samantha's friend

My cousin, Samantha, has an old friend - let's called her Ms Teo.

Ms Teo came from Malaysia to work in Singapore. She has converted to be a Singaporean long ago. She telephoned Samantha and asked my cousin to join her in paying respect to Lee Kuan Yew in the parliament house.

Cousin Samantha is a straight forward lady. She will say whatever that comes to her mind. After Ms Teo told her why there were good reasons to pay tribute to the former PM, my cousin said Lee Kuan Yew had been over-rated and she advised Ms Teo not to simply accept what the state-controlled media reported.

To my cousin's surprise, Ms Teo slammed the phone!

Thinking that she might have offended Ms Teo, Samantha tried to make good by calling her old friend the next day, advising her against going to the public wake as the news reported that people had to queue up for 8 hours under the hot sun.

Again, Ms Teo slammed down the phone!

Till this day, she refused to talk to my cousin. Another close friend confided to Samantha that Ms Teo was very angry because she felt my cousin had insulted the intelligence of those who wished to pay tributes to Lee Kuan Yew.

According to this close friend, Ms Teo believed many of those who queued in the hot sun were graduates and PhD holders, and even Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing was humbled enough to pay tribute to Singapore's "Great Leader" - surely all those people were not idiots!

(4) Dr. Delphine's patient

I will make a confession now. It is upon hearing about this case that prompted me to write this article.

My good friend, Dr. Delphine, is a general practitioner. She must be good as she has so many patients seeing her. Occasionally, she would have strange patients.

Over a dinner, Delphine told me about a patient who went to see her regarding a heart condition. Her patient strongly believed that her heart problem was due to the death of Lee Kuan Yew! She told Dr. Delphine that upon learning of the former PM's death, she cried and cried for several days! She felt so tired, so emotionally drained - and yet couldn't sleep, couldn't eat!

I suggested to Delphine that her patient's problem was probably with the mind rather than the heart!

"Did you refer her to the mental hospital?" I asked.

Celia Lim

http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/04/25/stories-of-some-of-those-who-mourned-lky’s-death/
 
Time for S’pore to recognise LKY as a religion


These pappy goodus praised their dead god LKY to high heavens! Little did they know that this monster LKY is now rotting in hell...being punished for his evil deeds!
 
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