Tuesday, September 06, 2005

just how old is he anyway?

Answer me this, is Lee Kwan Yew really so lowly regarded that most people can't even find it within themselves to post him a birthday wish? Was on the bus home today when this woman who sat next to me suddenly turned and asked how I felt about Lee Kwan Yew, his politics and the things he's done for this little island we call home. Unsurprisingly, I was..well..surprised, and, I'll admit, wondering if she was perhaps a few wires short of a circuit. Anyway, she proceeded to tell me how she built a website in commemeration of MM Lee as a sort of birthday tribute with the expectation that it would be mobbed with people wanting to declare their respect and gratitude for his work and its evident fruition and her subsequent despair when only a few hundred actually found MM Lee worthy of a birthday wish. Her dreams of presenting the website with a long signage list as a sort of birthday present to the man himself went down the drain with an audible gurgle. But as I found out, this woman is something else. To garner some publicity for the site, she started telling anyone she could about it and asking them to consider showing ol' gramps a bit of face, which explained why she'd suddenly started talking to me out of the blue.
Anyway, enough talk.

www.happybirthdaymmleekuanyew.com

Well you have to admit its pretty accurate, as far as names go, and descriptive too. But a tad lacking in imagination eh. Come on people, he's really not such a bad guy. And lets face it, the term 'Singaporean' wouldn't carry the weight it does now if not for him.
We owe him at least that.

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