By the way, I have lived and worked in Singapore for a few years too, and my experience there is quite recent. I was a member of the media, so I was under unusual scrutiny. I didn't live the high-life like your average partying corporate expat. I was the media - I was the enemy.
But I still can tell the difference between a hellhole and a decent place, and Singapore is much closer to a decent place. Much much closer.
<< By the way, I have lived and worked in Singapore for a few years too .... I didn't live the high-life like your average partying corporate expat ....
But I still can tell the difference between a Hellhole and a decent place, and Singapore is much closer to a decent place. Much much closer. >>
Absolutely. Singapore is my home from home and Saint Andrews Cathedral is my home church. Otherwise sounds pretty much as if you and I are first cousins, at least. But hapless Harry's still everything I said he is and but for his essentially Trotskyist tendencies Singapore would have left Hong Kong in its dust.
In 1956 Lee Kuan Yew "joked" that he wanted "an intimidated press and a government-controlled radio to regularly sing (his) praises" so that "slowly and steadily the people (will be) made to forget the evil things (Lee has) already done or, if these things are ever referred to again that their (reporting" will be) distorted -- and distorted with impunity -- because there will be no opposition to contradict (Lee)."
In encyclopedic detail in his 1998 book, 'Media Enthralled,' my Singapore hero, former Attorney-General, Francis Seow, detailed the institutionalization of Lee's "joke" into Singapore's reality.
And, finally, Stanford Raffles was and is and always will be Singapore's "founding father."
And Harry Lee Kuan Yeo was, is and will ever be but an elitist and authoritarian lawyer/politician.
Blessings - Brian