Raise your glass to our unsung heroes - Lee Wei Ling

[cass888]

it's a long story before the H_O guy came into the picture, I attended a friend's wedding, as his father is some sort of "glass loot", lim, vivian and his china wife were also there.
As lim was making exit before the dinner end, i turned my head and try to take a good look at him( that time i was still naive thinking PAP is the best), he suddenly turned and stared at me, give me the " dun mess with me" look, the impression he gave me was "hey, young punk, I am PAP, dun you dare!" Only he know if he did!:oIo:

You are utterly delusional. I do't think LBH gives a flying hoot about you. :oIo:

 

[hotbot]

i have nothing else to say, you are right that i am delusional!

You are utterly delusional. I do't think LBH gives a flying hoot about you. :oIo:

 

[cass888]

i have nothing else to say, you are right that i am delusional!

What more can I say? A full minister even bothering to hint to a taxi-driver-to-be not to mess with him?

 

[hotbot]

My father was such a person, his land acquired by the gov. was below market value-never mind. The best part was after they acquire the land, URA left the land vacant for more than 5 years and a condominium was built instead of HDB. And this was not solely one piece of land, 2 pieces to be exact and in prime areas.:oIo:

I can relate to that. My grandfather was sad when his land was acquired and they had to move to a HDB flat. He said he would not live long without his soil, streams and trees. He developed cancer a few years after moving into his flat and subsequently died.

 

[hotbot]

this only show what kind of a person he is! i better stop replying to you cos' i think you are a dumb fuck!

What more can I say? A full minister even bothering to hint to a taxi-driver-to-be not to mess with him?

 

[cass888]

this only show what kind of a person he is! i better stop replying to you cos' i think you are a dumb fuck!

You're the dumb fuck. Oh, I know you've been through more than anyone else on earth. H_o K_um H_ean screwed your life - made you incapable of doing your Japanese job and forced you to quit. Now you're blaming LBH who doesn't know you from Adam giving you the "don't mess with me look". LBH is someone we know personally and he is nothing like that.

I'm glad you think I'm a dumb fuck. Because you're the real dumb fuck. :oIo:

Why don't you go jump a KTM train (after the causeway please). And please don't take your taxi.

 

[nickers9]

Yeah I think they can sung praises to Mdm Kwa Geok Choo for 2 things that she directly or indirectly did to Singaporeans.

1. Women's Charter Law

2. Estate Duty

So now they can do changes to Estate Duty but not Women Charter Law. That is very strange right?

 

[cass888]

So now, the famiLEE can do changes to Singapore Laws anyhow they like. They can do changes to Estate Duty but not Women Charter Law. That is very strange right?

Stop harping over the Women's Charter. You losers think 2.5 years of NS is equivalent to bearing 2 children.

 

[exSINgaporean]

Scroobal:

If Chan Chee Seng was that good, then why were there so many prostitutes in Desker Road, off Jalan Bersar under his Jalan Bersar Constituency, where I was born and raised up till 30 + years old before I immgrated in the early 90s?

Why the 08 gangsters were so strong under him as the MP?

If he is a hero then everyone can be a hero.

 

[hotbot]

you por Lim boon heng's lum par until become stoopid fuck,izzit? I won't be surprised that you are the type who will bend over for him?

You're the dumb fuck. Oh, I know you've been through more than anyone else on earth. H_o K_um H_ean screwed your life - made you incapable of doing your Japanese job and forced you to quit. Now you're blaming LBH who doesn't know you from Adam giving you the "don't mess with me look". LBH is someone we know personally and he is nothing like that.

I'm glad you think I'm a dumb fuck. Because you're the real dumb fuck. :oIo:

Why don't you go jump a KTM train (after the causeway please). And please don't take your taxi.

 

[cass888]

you por Lim boon heng's lum par until become stoopid fuck,izzit? I won't be surprised that you are the type who will bend over for him?

Yeah lah ... we can never understand how badly your life is screwed, how sad your life is. You went through hardships the rest of us can only imagine. In short,

1. H_o K_um H_ean screwed your life by helping you get an ST job.
2. He also hypnotised you to quit your lucrative Japanese job.
3. What did he do to your taxi, by the way?

 

[po2wq]

... So now they can do changes to Estate Duty but not Women Charter Law. That is very strange right?

dey wil quikly change it if n wen dey notis dat dey r going 2 experience disadvantage by dat law ... :(

 

[hotbot]

that's why i say you are stoopid fuck! this H_O guys has never found me a job, let me get this straight. sometimes, you make me feel like talking to a moron! Anyway, i am still thinking if i shld press file police report against him.

Yeah lah ... we can never understand how badly your life is screwed, how sad your life is. You went through hardships the rest of us can only imagine. In short,

1. H_o K_um H_ean screwed your life by helping you get an ST job.
2. He also hypnotised you to quit your lucrative Japanese job.
3. What did he do to your taxi, by the way?

 

[cass888]

that's why i say you are stoopid fuck! this H_O guys has never found me a job, let me get this straight. sometimes, you make me feel like talking to a moron! Anyway, i am still thinking if i shld press file police report against him.

Yes, we can never understand how much you suffered. Now you're suffering so much from angonising about whether to file police report or not. You poor poor thing, H_o K_um H_ean did so much harm to you hor?

 

[streetsmart73]

i think election really coming...

No matter how good she portray PAP to be, I am very sure that I will not vote for them! PAP is in my context disgusting! With ministers like Lim Boon Heng around, I will not even have the slightest thought of voting for them.

Lim Boon Heng, do you remember how you stare at me, giving me the idea that I should not mess with you.
Of all PAP cahoots, you are the worst! Maybe that's why PM put you now in the PMO. But I really hands down for you cos' you are the number 1 actor. Not joking, if you join TCS, you will make it!

Oct 24, 2010
Raise your glass to our unsung heroes
It is important to honour the people who work behind the scenes to help leaders succeed
By Lee Wei Ling

I have been wondering how to bring to the public's attention Singapore's unsung heroes. Many of them remain unsung until some event brings them to the public's attention.

One example would be my mother, Madam Kwa Geok Choo, who passed away on Oct 2. She had been at my father Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's side for more than six decades, and had, in her quiet way, imprinted herself on the Singaporean psyche without intending to do so.

When she died, there was such an outpouring of goodwill from people from all walks of life. Nothing will take away the pain her passing has caused my family, but we take comfort in the fact that her contributions to Singapore were recognised.

Early last week, The Straits Times portrayed another unsung hero - PUB veteran Yap Kheng Guan, 58, who helped design the drainage system that reduced the flood-prone areas in Singapore by 98 per cent. He carried out his duties quietly and diligently over decades, and most of us would not have known of him if this newspaper had not written about him.

Another example of long, devoted service is PUB chairman Tan Gee Paw, who topped this year's list of National Day honourees. The 67-year-old Mr Tan devoted his entire career to the environmental and water sector. Under his leadership, the PUB undertook a number of initiatives, including the Newater programme.

Mr Tan's predecessor at PUB, Mr Lee Ek Tieng, 77, cleaned up the Singapore River, among his many accomplishments. Singapore's economic adviser then, Dr Albert Winsemius, had told my father: 'The day you find live fish in the Singapore River, that day you would have made a big leap forward from the old Singapore to the new.'

It was Mr Lee, PUB chairman from 1978 to 2000, who helped my father attain that vision.

I remember my first overseas holiday in December 1967, when my brothers and I accompanied our parents to Cambodia. Mr Jek Yeun Thong, then Labour Minister, was also on the trip. I remember him exclaiming when he encountered Evian water for the first time: 'What is so special about Evian? It tastes like Singapore tap water.'

This was a tribute to the PUB. Singapore had potable water early in its history. Our purification process was so effective, there was no need to add large amounts of chlorine. Hence the water is pleasant to drink, even straight from the tap.

We take all this for granted now, forgetting the toil of many who made all this possible. We owe the unsung heroes of the PUB a huge debt. Malaria, typhoid, cholera and malnutrition - these were some of the public health issues here that were resolved in large part because of the sanitation, sewage and the water processing and delivery systems that the PUB built up.

There were also many unsung heroes among the political Old Guard, people who risked their lives to bring about the society that we know today. Other than the famous 'sung' names we all know - Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee and the other 'founding fathers' - there were also many 'unsung' names, people I remember from my childhood.

There was, for instance, Mr P. Govindasamy, a mail officer, who was one of my father's earliest supporters from the early 1950s. He later became an MP in 1963, defeating none other than Mr David Marshall in Anson.

Haji Yaacob Mohamed was another among the early MPs who stood up to be counted. Born in Malaya and educated in a religious school, he came to Singapore in the early 1950s, working first as an itinerant barber before becoming a religious teacher.

He first joined Umno, but found it too conservative and not egalitarian enough, so he joined the People's Action Party (PAP) in 1957. He later became a parliamentary secretary and eventually a minister of state.

Along with a small band of Malay MPs, he remained committed to building a multiracial society - a Malaysian Malaysia first, and later a Singaporean Singapore - despite enormous pressure from Umno while Singapore was part of Malaysia. That took conviction and guts.

There were many others like Haji Yaacob among the PAP stalwarts of those days. I remember in particular Mr Ch'ng Jit Koon, 76, who helped my father in Tanjong Pagar, and Mr Fong Sip Chee. They both rose to become ministers of state. And in the National Trades Union Congress, when it was just a rump against the many unions allied to the Barisan Sosialis, there were stalwarts like Mr __ See Beng and Mr Seah Mui Kok. They later became MPs.

All these men - and a few women too, like Madam Chan Choy Siong - were people of rare courage. They joined the battle when there was no assurance of victory. Many expected to be defeated, but they fought on nevertheless. They were driven by principles, conviction and passion.

An archetypal figure from that era is Mr Chan Chee Seng, 77. He was Chinese educated, so the Barisan Sosialis assumed he would be an easy target for conversion to its cause. But Chee Seng was like a rock - immovable.

My father recounted to me recently how, when the pro-communist left split from the PAP in 1961 to form Barisan, they also took with them many PAP branches - including the furniture, such as it was, in the premises.

So my father and Chee Seng decided to retrieve the items. They walked into the hostile premises, including the homes of leftists, to which the items had been removed, retrieved the PAP's property and walked out.

Laughing, my father recalled that Chee Seng had a black belt in judo (second dan) and looked it. The Barisan chaps wisely decided to leave him alone. Even now, 50 years later, Chee Seng still has an athletic physique.

Chee Seng, incidentally, was also the reason why the PAP survived a vote of confidence in the legislative assembly in July 1961 by just one vote. It was he who persuaded a Malay woman legislator, Madam Sahorah Ahmat, who had been wavering, to leave her hospital bed and travel to the assembly by ambulance. History would have turned out very differently if Chee Seng had not persuaded Madam Sahorah.

In any organisation, there will be those who stand out, the leaders, and those who are followers. An important but small group in between consists of our unsung heroes - not among the foremost leaders of their times, but without whom the leaders could not have accomplished anything.

I believe that it is important to remember and honour such men and women - not because they want recognition, but to encourage more people to emulate them in doing what is good and right, regardless of whether the deed brings personal glory.

The writer is director of the National Neuroscience Institute. Send your comments to [email protected]

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1. looks like the rich poor prince believes that all sheep have no mother except she whom she blah to be the greatest and unsung.
2. come on!
3. all sheep's mothers are unsung heroes, past and present whom stand by her man, family and children except for some who are useless and worthless.
4. honest, this really reflects the circle that the rich and poor prince has, people that hovered around her brood, you know who!
5. there are countless unsung heroes in sheepishland and if she is objective as an author she alleged, she would have done a better job.
6. she is just naive and narrow-minded.