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Quotable Quotes

What keeps me rooted to Singapore

Source: The Sunday Times PageĀ 27, 1 Feb 2009
Article by: Lee Wei Ling

My parents called a family meeting in their bedroom soon after Saigon fell. My father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, then Singapore’s Prime Minister, told us: “Mama and I will stay here to the bitter end. Hsien Loong is already in the SAF and must [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Live and let live

My e-mail mailbox has been piling up with more than the usual number of messages recently. I have had to sift through quite a number of them to get at the ‘real’ e-mails.

In addition to the numerous messages requesting me to come to the aid of Mrs Obutu or some similar name, there are [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Reincarnate as a Singaporean?

Last evening, my wife’s uncle – in response to my wife’s remarks about not knowing where her deceased father was or what he was now doing in the afterlife – said that most likely her father was now reincarnated as someone here in Singapore.

He added that reincarnation as a Singaporean was something very good – [...]