Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew celebrates his 86th birthday today – 16 September.
Below is his interview with Charlie Rose where MM Lee spoke about various issues.
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Happy Birthday MM Lee… We support you even though you are not good in some cases, you are better than our current Burmese military leaders.
All the Best.
Did the combined loss of Temasek and GIC amounted to $86 Billion ?
It could have been used as the old man’s angpow to all Sporeans to celebrate his birthday……with enough change for the grandest funeral and a mausoleum when he decides to kick the bucket………LOL
From The Smiths song Unhappy Birthday:
I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday
‘Cause you’re evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
But I won’t cry
Now we see why the MIW book is released just so recently before his birthday. It is strategic move to make him happy and in time for his birthday ! So it is not hard to imagine that among his birthday wishes is to sell a million copies and hoodwink and brainwash those naive Singaporeans.
to 1) A Kaung O,
OF course MM is better than your Burmese Military Junta ! They are still learning from the master. I hope they have named something in Burma after MM to celebrate his birthday. Remember MM does not like to be loved but feared.
So the Burmese Military Junta should name some detention centre after MM.
“Happy Birthday MM Lee… We support you even though you are not good in some cases, you are better than our current Burmese military leaders.”
Are you really a Burma citizen ? Or did you just converted into Singapore citizenship ? Have you forgotten that it is LKY who sell weapons to Junta to terrorize your people, friends and families in Burma ? Who else can make the ultimate authority and decision of doing business and even name a orchid in botanic garden other than the emperor of Singapore ?
It is easy to condemn the man. Opportunities for doing this are aplenty. However this is one occassion we should just wish him: “A Happy Birthday”, if nothing else.
“one occassion we should just wish him: “A Happy Birthday””
Right.
Happy Birthday, LKY.
May you live a thousand year. WAN SUI WAN SUI WAN WAN SUI.
go up to heaven or down to hell, either way just “moo-ve on”!!
stop sucking S’pore’s blood just to keep you alive. :?
Daniel
post #4 on September 16th, 2009 12.51 pm
“Now we see why the MIW book is released just so recently before his birthday. It is strategic move to make him happy and in time for his birthday ! So it is not hard to imagine that among his birthday wishes is to sell a million copies and hoodwink and brainwash those naive Singaporeans”
MIWs will just hire people to “buy” the books, they got storerooms big enough, pockets deep enough for that. ;)
to Gemami and Daniel,
I would like to wish LKY ‘Happy Birthday and Long Life for a Thousand Years’ on behalf of those old folks who collect cardboxes, in-charge of public toilets, those who have lost their jobs, etc ,including those beggars not visible to him.
sigh……..I have nothing to say. Please let go and make yourself happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vSwgOeGZiw
LKY doesn’t need any birthday greetings from me.
It will be more meaningful for LKY to receive birthday greetings from people like Chia Thye Poh, “Marxist Conspirators”, Francis Seow, Tang LH, CSJ and sibling.
Each time LKY celebrates his birthday, I hope he thinks about the 32 years Chia Thye Poh spends his alone.
It’s late in the day but before it’s over, I would like to wish Mr Lee Kuan Yew a ‘Happy Birthday.” Thank you for all that you have done for Singapore. Nobody’s perfect, you have made mistakes and made decisions that made alot of Singaporeans unhappy. I did not agree with all your decisions but hey, which country’s leader is perfect and which country is perfect to live in? Mr Lee, you have built this little country into what it is today and nobody can deny that. I’m proud to be a Singaporean and always will be. I have travelled and worked overseas and I’ve concluded that it’s nothing like home – Singapore. If not for you, Singapore would still probably be a little ‘village’, perhaps governed by one of our neighbours and ‘we’ wouldn’t have existed. For those who continually gripe about how ‘horrible’ it is to live in Singapore, they should give up their citizenship and settle down somehwere else whihc they deem as greener pastures. Singaporeans should stop complaining and start appreciating. I’m glad I was born when I was born, because I don’t really want to be around when Singapore will be governed by the future generation of young leaders who have not experienced hard work, hardship and have been brought up in a cushy world.
Mr Lee, once again, THANK YOU! I wish you and your family good health and happiness.
I wish MM Lee a healthy long life on his 86th Birthday.
It is time that MM Lee retires and enjoy the musics his citizens
sing and are going to sing about SIN to him.
Music is the love of man, said Shakespearce.
Do enjoy it.
patriot
What I did as a conman, I could not get away, so I have to repent.
What LKY did, he got away, so no need for him to repent. He is the best around.
So from one conman to another, let me wish him belated “Happy Birthday”.
Good job TOC! This is way better than watching some idiot being hammered in the groin by his girlfrd.
on behalf of all those jobless singaporeans….we managed to get a cake for u…close your eyes NOW!
Happy Birthday MM Lee! All Chinese under the Sun feel proud of your achievements.
#15 Juliana
“Singaporeans should stop complaining and start appreciating. I’m glad I was born when I was born, because I don’t really want to be around when Singapore will be governed by the future generation of young leaders who have not experienced hard work, hardship and have been brought up in a cushy world.”
You have hit the nail on the head, dear girl! Yeah, we all worried too — the great man is gonna leave behind a bunch of young PAP chappies “who have not experienced hard work, hardship and have been brought up in a cushy world”.
Singapore will surely go down the tubes with such softies at the helm.
But there is still time. Enough Singaporeans are aware that we have to bring back alternative thinking — and constructive debate — so that a new generation of able leaders will evolve.
We want our Singapore to transform itself into a better place for our children and their children to inherit.
I agree with Gemami (#7).
There is a time to be critical of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, to hold him – and his party – accountable for what he has done for, as well as, done to Singapore. There is also a time to set this momentarily aside to offer well wishes to another human being, regardless of what he or she has committed.
He may not have been decent to many on several accounts, but that doesn’t mean we have to be crude and vindictive about it.
The ill-wishes run in the face of our ideals about about human rights, about human decency. If we aspire to be matured, thinking netizens and citizens of Singapore, we cannot trample another human being like that, deity or dictator.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew.
Sincerely,
Eric
to 22) Eric,
It would make more sense for you to direct your advice to LKY on his birthday.
Ask him to send a birthday card to Chia Thye Poh, Francis Seow, Tang LH, CSJ etc, etc . Don’t you think LKY should set the example as mentor ? Remember JBJ’s passing away ? Any conciliatory comments from the mentor ?
Perhaps all Sporeans together with the incumbent govt should also send birhtday greetings to the Burmese Military Junta, Mugabe, Kim, Castro, etc.
Afterall these despots are friends of our political leaders, right ?
Come to think of it, I wonder whether Aung San Suu Kyi has done the same for the Junta members ? Care to remind and advise her too, Eric ?
Hi @23) not naive lah,
It is understandable that such sentiments exist but then again, ask yourself this: do you want to descend to the same lower level of evil of which the man belongs in?
Why not show him that we are a discerning people who know when to do the right thing when the situation calls for it? There is a time and place for all things. Recognize this and we are well and truly on our way to true maturity.
Hi Gemami,
25 comments including mine, hardly an overwhelming response with only a handful of negative comments which basically implore LKY to self reflect on his birthday. The majority obviously have no desire to wish him.
I believe those criminals sitting in jail cells do not receive special treatment on their birthday. So in a similar sense, I can understand the sentiments towards LKY. He is incorrigible and is one reason why I have to disagree with your approach even if it is noble.
I rather save my birthday wishes for his victims. Cheers !
The Musics and the Tunes here and elsewhere in Cyberspace are all made and composed annually for MM Lee Kuan Yew’s Birthday. The Citizens are, i believe, candid and sincere in their expressions as there is no reason for them not to be so.
Singaporeans acknowledge MM Lee as the only Founding Father of Modern Singapore and all the Others who succeeded him were and are considered second fiddles. Even his own son, the Present PM, is said by many, to have became the PM because MM Lee is his father. It is also the common belief and assessment that the Junior Lee is a far cry from the Calibre of his father and there is no doubt that this impression is widespread with the local citizenry as well as the International Communities.
It is not wrong to say that most older Singaporeans will express their gratitudes, respects according to their heartfelt experiences in the 50 years under PAP Rule. They will credit their happiness, sadness, joy, disappointment, success or failure to the great leadership of MM Lee who nanny them all these years.
Here, in this thread, MM Lee will get Annual Wishes from his grateful Citizens and obviously, participants and readers here wishes the best they can offer to our MM. May our MM Lee have more wishes in the coming years.
patriot
Hi not naive lah (#25),
I’m glad to see your views, and I hope we will meet in other postings or forums.
As for your views on Mr. Lee – to each his own. We agree to disagree with whether we should accord the same basic level of decency to every individual, regardless of the deeds and misdeeds the person has committed.
That is the process of an engaged citizenry on any public topic.
Gemami,
Glad to see you commenting too. I believe we’ll bump into each other at other postings or forums as well.
Folks, have a great day,
Eric
I get amazed by such posts? Are they from our own countryman, Singaporeans?I am ashamed, this is not cool at all, its pure ignorance! You people odd to wake up. Has it become typical of human kind that you only see the bad or what you assume to be the bad, judging people from information you collected from some marketplace or your so-call knowledgeble friends?
What makes you think you can eat in peace, sleep in peace, regardless how poor, you Singaporean definately have a concrete roof over your head? What makes you think it is your great blessing that you dont have to worry over bomb and famine and all. You guys odd to wake up, for your information, if you go to Bangalore, you travel on wide roads that are not smooth and has no lines draw like our lane 1,2,3 on PIE, If you are in Malaysia praying now you probably get bombed dead and if you were born in the poorer part of Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietname etc… Please wake up your idea, our good life is accreditable to MM Lee, without him, you think you know how to use the internet, if it was some selfish guy who won the seat of our 1st PM, we probably might now have been called Malaysia (outskirt) or some ‘kuku island’ and you will be wiping the boots of red-head tourist who visit our ‘island’.
PM Lee, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for all you have done. None of what we see today would have been possible without you.
Btw, I do know of a young lady who is borned on the same day as you who wished she can, for once in her lifetime, spend her birthday with you and everyone born on 16 Sept. , I know it sounds abrupt but if you will like to grant this young lady her deepest wish, do let me know.
Great health and happiness to you
“our good life is accreditable to MM Lee, without him, you think you know how to use the internet”
LOL ROLF LOL LOL LOL ROLF LMAO
thanks to lky, i’m able to reply and laugh at your post :)
Happy 86th Birthday to my most respect MR Lee Kuan Yew .
祝我最尊敬的李光耀先生，86岁生日快乐！
祝你福如东海，寿比南山！
Dear Mr Lee Kuan Yew,
Happy 86th Birthday to You!
Without you, we won’t be what we are today. I am very grateful to you!
I am very proud to be a Singaporean!
Cheers!
Dear Mr Lee Kuan Yew,
Happy 88th Birthday!
Wished you always stay young and healthy.