Although I’m here in Hong Kong, still enjoying my holiday, every time I switched on the TV and saw the advertisements showing the late Mr Lee KY’s past speech and quotes, I will feel sad.
I feel sad that I’m not back in Singapore to pay my respects to him. I feel sad that he had done so much for Singapore, yet there are still so many detractors who put him down and made a big hoo haa about how the general public mourns for him.
I feel apprehensive. I don’t know what will happen to Singapore now. Mr LKY has indeed built a successful Singapore, left a legacy, but I seriously doubt his son’s capability to continue with the legacy that was left behind by his father.
I really, really worry about Singapore’s future. Singapore is not ready yet for opposition to rule. Or should I say the opposition is not ready yet, to rule Singapore. However, at the rate the current PAP is going, many people are going to vote them out, just for a change and to see what opposition can do. That, will be a risk for Singapore, if opposition is gonna take up more seats in the Parliament.
But yet, the current PAP leaders are not up to the task.
No one can replace LKY. In terms of “having that iron in him”, in terms of ruthlessness, in terms of hindsight, no one can replace him. Who else can bring us forward to the next level, or even just maintaining whatever we have left now? No one.
Singapore can only go on auto-pilot for so long, before something will drastically shake things up for the worse. I really dread for that day to happen.
If only there is immortality, and if only there can be one person on Earth to attain immortality, I honestly (and selfishly) wish LKY will be the one. No one loves Singapore more than him, no one dedicates their life to their country more than him. After all, this is his legacy and he would want to protect his legacy for as long as he lives.
But alas, that was not to be.
After all his sacrifices and contributions to the country I call home, I can only bid him farewell now while in a foreign country.
Thank you, Mr Lee, for what you’ve done for Singapore. Thank you, for bringing Singapore from a “slum like” country to a first world country. May you reunite with your wife happily ever after… and may you finally have a good rest. =(
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