Instead of writing thrash about TPL and some other colourless people, journalists, authors and researchers should make an attempt to write an biography about Ho Kwon Ping from the day that he was born in Hong Kong. I can tell that there is no one else who stood in the middle of Singapore's history by fate, by coincidence, by choice and by a series of unexpected confluence of factors.
He did not change history, he did not even move history but he was on that seminal wave that brought the flower generation to the fore. He witnessed change, he witnessed events and he was not sitting in an armchair. He marched against the Vietnam war, he fought for class struggle, he stormed the Stanford classroom of a Professor who wanted to sterlise blacks (guess who else had similar ideas) suspended from Stanford in time and writing articles for Marxist organisation.
Raised in Thailand, only coming to Singapore to do his National Service. Son of multi-millionaire industrialist, who was a respected Ambassdor, an alumnus of Harvard and Cornell, a father that lost touch with him during the heady days of enlightment, Ho was not just born with a silver spoon, he ended up with silver handcuffs on two different occasions for entirely unrelated events.
Convicted at the age of 23, detained under ISA at age 24 while a 2nd year student at University of Singapore, confessed his lean towards Marxism just before he turned 25 and you would have thought he would ride into oblivion.
He was linked with American marxists, by coincidence with Euro marxists, worked for a British M16 spy, linked by intermediaries and associates who were mere acquaintances and by one degree with the Marxist conspiracy.
And I have not even talked about Banyan or his wife who became an NMP, his trustee status within the upper echelon of governing elite where he holds one of four pillars with the likes of Stephen Lee, Simon Tay and Koh Boon .
Now tell me, do you know your country, your fellow citizens or does life revolve around Jack Neo.
He did not change history, he did not even move history but he was on that seminal wave that brought the flower generation to the fore. He witnessed change, he witnessed events and he was not sitting in an armchair. He marched against the Vietnam war, he fought for class struggle, he stormed the Stanford classroom of a Professor who wanted to sterlise blacks (guess who else had similar ideas) suspended from Stanford in time and writing articles for Marxist organisation.
Raised in Thailand, only coming to Singapore to do his National Service. Son of multi-millionaire industrialist, who was a respected Ambassdor, an alumnus of Harvard and Cornell, a father that lost touch with him during the heady days of enlightment, Ho was not just born with a silver spoon, he ended up with silver handcuffs on two different occasions for entirely unrelated events.
Convicted at the age of 23, detained under ISA at age 24 while a 2nd year student at University of Singapore, confessed his lean towards Marxism just before he turned 25 and you would have thought he would ride into oblivion.
He was linked with American marxists, by coincidence with Euro marxists, worked for a British M16 spy, linked by intermediaries and associates who were mere acquaintances and by one degree with the Marxist conspiracy.
And I have not even talked about Banyan or his wife who became an NMP, his trustee status within the upper echelon of governing elite where he holds one of four pillars with the likes of Stephen Lee, Simon Tay and Koh Boon .
Now tell me, do you know your country, your fellow citizens or does life revolve around Jack Neo.
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