Really that hurry to post negative remarks on him?...
Read the post on top of me....
Rbs 兄弟，就让我给大家上载一些李光耀的另一面的故事吧！
A modest home rich in memories Fri, 27 Mar 2015 NOT many people
have been inside Lee Kuan Yew's bedroom. But five years ago, I
stood within its austere walls and learnt a little more about the
great man. It was April 11, 2010, and I was among a group of
friends who were visiting Mr Lee's daughter, Lee Wei Ling, at their
Oxley Road home. When she showed us her father's bedroom, we could
hear him in the adjoining room reading to his wife, Kwa Geok Choo.
She had become bedridden after a series of strokes. The former
prime minister, known for his fiery speeches, spoke in a gentle
voice as he read to her from The Sunday Times. She was not able to
answer him but, without fail, he read to the love of his life every
single day - alternating between news, her favourite poems and
novels - for 18 months until her death in October 2010. His room
was spartan. A single bed was the main piece of furniture. On it
was a thin towel blanket and a small bolster. I did not see a
pillow. The screen of his computer, on a desk beside the bed,
flickered as e-mail arrived. Sitting on the floor was a solid red
briefcase, the subject of our visit to his bedroom. It was a
"parliamentary red box" used by ministers in the British
government, and Queen Elizabeth II herself, to hold and transport
official documents. Mr Lee was probably the only person in
Singapore to still use it. Amused that we had not seen one before,
Dr Lee had asked "Pa" for permission for us to see the box. He did
not object. But he did not interrupt his reading to come out from
the room. The rest of the old two-storey house was equally spartan.
The downstairs bathroom, for instance, still held a humdangong
(Cantonese for barrel or tub used for making salted eggs), a large
clay urn filled with water for bathing, old-school style, complete
with a plastic scoop. Its mosaic tiles, some a little chipped, had
been popular in the 1970s. The chairs in the house were mismatched,
giving off an eclectic feel. An ancient exercise bike stood in one
corner, gathering dust. It was nothing to look at - a bicycle
mounted on a stand, but I learnt that Mr Lee had exercised on it
for decades, well into his 70s, until he fell off one day. Although
the model had been replaced by a more modern one, the trusty old
bike still retained its place in the 100-year-old home. Between
1960 and 2011, Singapore's per capita gross domestic product surged
more than 100-fold. But the Lees' modest home remained largely
unchanged in that time and had become dwarfed by the
multi-million-dollar, multi-storey bungalows that sprang up around
it. Its floor was made up of longitudinal strips of wood with the
varnish already peeling off. Its garden was lush with trees and
plants that had flourished over the years. The family cat, Manis
(Malay for sweet), sat quietly licking itself. The home was filled
with memories. Its basement dining room witnessed the beginnings of
a political party that would go on to shape modern Singapore. One
could imagine the thoughts and conversations that went on within
its walls, and would translate to actions to take Singapore from
Third World to First. In another room in the house, another son of
Singapore has grown up, like his father, to become prime minister.
Like its occupants, its foundations have stayed true and strong.
The visit brought home to me what really matters in life. THE NEW
PAPER