On The 25 Mar 2015, I made an effort to take a trip to J link, the nearest place I could go to offer my condolences for Mr. Lee (since I do not have the time to visit parliament house to pay my respect.
I reached the place around 1810hours. I queued up to get a small black ribbon ( the crowd was pretty small at that time ( probably all gone to parliament house??). it took me one minute to walk in and pay my respect to the elderly, and the other 10 minutes or so watching TV (about The Struggles Mr. Lee faced during the early days of Singapore ), the content was relatively similar to watch I saw on Channel 8 . lastly , I left a note thanking Mr. Lee for his contribution in one of the memorial books and left .
The word I have been thinking is the word “Legacy “, or to be precise, the Legacy Mr. Lee left behind. There were people believing that without LKY, Singapore world have perished or had remained as a fishing Village. Although LKY done a great deal for Singapore), but to say Singapore cannot survive without one particular man is simply weird. Fortunately (or otherwise), history don’t repeat itself, thus there’s no way we can know how far Singapore can progress if Mr. Lee wasn’t the PM, Will it get worse? Or will it gets better? Only GOD knows. Nevertheless, I still felt very fortunate to have Mr. Lee on the Helm as PM.
After a long week of mourning, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew finally left us. The deeds he has done, whether good or bad, had become history. The more important part is what Legacy did LKY left behind. There is a Chinese saying, 人死留名，豹死留皮, when a man dies, what kind of spirit or virtues does he leave behind??
1) Anti corruption campaign, I found this part as the best merit I see in Mr. Lee which is lacking in many country leaders. In many countries, a country that cannot go forward or probably even goes backward in the result of corruption. Mr. Lee is able to stand by his anti – corruption stance and even walk it (by refusing millions of dollars of bribes in the early 1960s). This is exactly why Singapore is able to prosper due to the right ethics being brought in way from the start.
2) Racial harmony, Mr. Lee was right to promote racial harmony (whether he exactly walk the talk is rather controversial), as we see in riots in other countries due to racial intolerance. Our HDB policy had integrated certain amount of Chinese, Malays and Indians, allowing us to understand each others beliefs. As a Chinese, I was rather grateful to LKY initiated policy that I come to know more about Malays and Indians
3) Cheap housing for the public. This is another plus point for MR Lee in his early years. People at that time can afford to buy a house and fully pay for the installments in less than 10 years. Although this is mainly the credit of Mr. Lee’s colleague (Mr. Lim Kim San), but it is also Mr. Lee credit for using the right people. Unfortunately nowadays, people need to do installments up to 50 years for buy a house probably the same or smaller than the house in the 70s.
4) Sacrificial for public spirit. During the early days, LKY was selfless, and had helped a lot of people (particular the labor Unions in the late 1950s and early 1960s). he and his cabinet ministers are doing a lot for the low salaries they are getting and people are giving them support ( by voting in Pap for many years). But things start to change, when Mr. Lee started to enrich himself with high pay raise over the years, resentment gradually increase as well. The reason behind the pay raise given by Mr. Lee is that High salary will entice more talent to join public service. I cannot say if this sentence is wrong, but when we look at the substance of the ministers nowadays (and the kind of mistakes they make); I seriously doubt Mr. Lee’s belief. While the salaries is in Millions, but PM Lee (junior) had found more difficulties getting talent. I seriously think high salaries erode public spirit.
Policy making wise, it’s hard to say whether it is a plus point for Mr. Lee (or a minus one). I sincerely believe Mr. Lee intention is good at the time when decision was made, but rather when side effects came in ( example of 2 children policy ), Mr. lee failed to acknowledge his part of the mistake . The privatisation issue, the GRC systems etc are some policy we found hard to consume.
I was also baffled when Mr. Lee mentions “what wrong with making more money “(on the COE issue). Is Singapore fast becoming a company rather then a nation? When Mr. Lee’s opinion that aljunied resident will need to repent for 5 years (when they voted Workers party) that several people that I know was pretty upset for. Isn’t election about voting a better party?
On the final thought, although Mr. Lee made some mistake here and there, but I believe his good legacy had indeed propel Singapore to the state we have now
Looking forward, I hope the government would strive to improve on the good legacy and amend those not so well. So that Singapore could move ahead together as a nation, and lives made more affordable for all Singaporeans
讲到自已，日子还是一样吧。多五天就是
春敏生日(四月三日)，大概不能送她礼物了，只能在心中祝福她，希望她婚姻美满，早生贵子吧
什麽都要看放得下，一个人也要很开心
４月４日
我回到马六甲参于一年一度的清明节。早上，0545分起床，吃了二姨煮的米粉之后才出门。时间本来讲好0630分到山上，但二姨认为大家应该不会准时，所以到0635分才出门。0650才到山上，这时大家都已经到了。学了一些东西，那就是准时要从自已开始，下次应该要准时吧。
这次参于的有外公、二姨，汉忠、大舅、大舅母，二舅和一家人（３人），三舅和一家人（４人），五姨和她男朋友（２），共１６人。我们开始先整理太婆的墓，三位舅舅忙着要把墓旁边的树给砍断，说树的根会弄坏那坟墓。其实那树已经在那里好一段时间了，真的会有影响吗？讲了三位舅舅都不听，好不容易把一棵小树给砍下，大树砍不了，只好砍树皮，希望树会自已”死掉” ，自已反而希望树明年还活着吧。
The word I have been thinking is the word “Legacy “, or to be precise, the Legacy Mr. Lee left behind. There were people believing that without LKY, Singapore world have perished or had remained as a fishing Village. Although LKY done a great deal for Singapore), but to say Singapore cannot survive without one particular man is simply weird. Fortunately (or otherwise), history don’t repeat itself, thus there’s no way we can know how far Singapore can progress if Mr. Lee wasn’t the PM, Will it get worse? Or will it gets better? Only GOD knows. Nevertheless, I still felt very fortunate to have Mr. Lee on the Helm as PM.
After a long week of mourning, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew finally left us. The deeds he has done, whether good or bad, had become history. The more important part is what Legacy did LKY left behind. There is a Chinese saying, 人死留名，豹死留皮, when a man dies, what kind of spirit or virtues does he leave behind??
1) Anti corruption campaign, I found this part as the best merit I see in Mr. Lee which is lacking in many country leaders. In many countries, a country that cannot go forward or probably even goes backward in the result of corruption. Mr. Lee is able to stand by his anti – corruption stance and even walk it (by refusing millions of dollars of bribes in the early 1960s). This is exactly why Singapore is able to prosper due to the right ethics being brought in way from the start.
2) Racial harmony, Mr. Lee was right to promote racial harmony (whether he exactly walk the talk is rather controversial), as we see in riots in other countries due to racial intolerance. Our HDB policy had integrated certain amount of Chinese, Malays and Indians, allowing us to understand each others beliefs. As a Chinese, I was rather grateful to LKY initiated policy that I come to know more about Malays and Indians
3) Cheap housing for the public. This is another plus point for MR Lee in his early years. People at that time can afford to buy a house and fully pay for the installments in less than 10 years. Although this is mainly the credit of Mr. Lee’s colleague (Mr. Lim Kim San), but it is also Mr. Lee credit for using the right people. Unfortunately nowadays, people need to do installments up to 50 years for buy a house probably the same or smaller than the house in the 70s.
4) Sacrificial for public spirit. During the early days, LKY was selfless, and had helped a lot of people (particular the labor Unions in the late 1950s and early 1960s). he and his cabinet ministers are doing a lot for the low salaries they are getting and people are giving them support ( by voting in Pap for many years). But things start to change, when Mr. Lee started to enrich himself with high pay raise over the years, resentment gradually increase as well. The reason behind the pay raise given by Mr. Lee is that High salary will entice more talent to join public service. I cannot say if this sentence is wrong, but when we look at the substance of the ministers nowadays (and the kind of mistakes they make); I seriously doubt Mr. Lee’s belief. While the salaries is in Millions, but PM Lee (junior) had found more difficulties getting talent. I seriously think high salaries erode public spirit.
Policy making wise, it’s hard to say whether it is a plus point for Mr. Lee (or a minus one). I sincerely believe Mr. Lee intention is good at the time when decision was made, but rather when side effects came in ( example of 2 children policy ), Mr. lee failed to acknowledge his part of the mistake . The privatisation issue, the GRC systems etc are some policy we found hard to consume.
I was also baffled when Mr. Lee mentions “what wrong with making more money “(on the COE issue). Is Singapore fast becoming a company rather then a nation? When Mr. Lee’s opinion that aljunied resident will need to repent for 5 years (when they voted Workers party) that several people that I know was pretty upset for. Isn’t election about voting a better party?
On the final thought, although Mr. Lee made some mistake here and there, but I believe his good legacy had indeed propel Singapore to the state we have now
Looking forward, I hope the government would strive to improve on the good legacy and amend those not so well. So that Singapore could move ahead together as a nation, and lives made more affordable for all Singaporeans
讲到自已，日子还是一样吧。多五天就是春敏生日(四月三日)，大概不能送她礼物了，只能在心中祝福她，希望她婚姻美满，早生贵子吧
什麽都要看放得下，一个人也要很开心
看着非诚 (冈上下载)，不觉得就看了差不多一年的时间。在我活着的三十八年，很少会有什麽电视节目(除了梁智强电影以外)，能让我看这麽久。这是为什麽呢？或许是孟非老师的幽默和冷静、黄菡的智慧等等。但在女嘉宾方面，肯定会有比五朵更漂亮的，但都现在为止(刚看完2013年的非诚)，没有一位女孩在我心里，真正能喜欢，可以把照片放进自已电话的女孩。希望有一天，这样的女孩会出现吧。
现在开始对女嘉宾(和男嘉宾)作了一些简单的记录，总觉得牵手率太低了(少过百分之三十。之后，本来有爱转角的24女生 ，可以提高牵手率，到接近百分之五十( 不到一年的时间，又被拿掉了), 心里难免还是有些失望。但希望那些没有牵手的男女嘉宾在台下会遇到自已的幸福吧。
五朵的生日要到了 (1990年3月8日)
。希望她能继续美丽，笑容会一直都在，希望有机会到成都去看她。虽然去成都的机会是少之又少。去到那里，她也未必会见自已，但一点希望，拿来做梦就足够了。
最后，讲到自已。最近，有同事问起自已关于择偶的条件 。已自一时也讲不出一些具体的东西。在心情沉淀下来之后，就在想这样的问题。虽然我同事 (或朋友们) 都不会来这里看我的部落格，但我想写一下，
让我自已清楚，自已要的是什麽
我希望的女孩是感觉上的漂亮(眼缘)，有颗善良的心，喜欢素食，有点小女孩，会「笑」也会孝顺父母。可以的话，希望和自已一样高( 不太矮，也不要太高，脸圆一点，身体中等吧。希望不要住得太远(以这要求来说，中国的女生应该不考虑吧 ) 但还会有例外的吧 (五朵就是其中一个)，最重要的，一定要喜欢讲华语。应该不会想到缅甸，越南的女孩，就算在新加坡找不到，而必需单身，那也就也算了。讲了这麽多，这样的女孩，相信这世界会有，但会喜欢自已吗？大概比登天还难。写下来，只是给自已做梦的力量。(反正最近都在看周公的书)
往前看，我还是会看非诚，希望牵手率会有所提升，爱转角能再回来。
什麽事都要学会得开，一个人也要很开心，
写到这里，
慧台
晚上才到大舅母那里拿回留在日月譚的日記。晚上又可以寫日記了。
沒有情人的情人節也就這樣過了。有發了一些祝福給我的朋友，但沒有收到祝福。想想，有時親戚還比朋友重要。什麼事，要先想到親戚，再想到朋友，大概就是這樣吧。
多兩天就是過年了。不用期望有人來拜年。呆在家里，也是好事。本來按在十月份泰國行改去六月了（日期不是很好），看就不去了。今年不出國。就省些錢，希望到２０１７年的時候會有戀情，如果還是沒有的話(單身)，再打算一個單人的旅行吧。
今年的目標，一個人也要很開心。
GOD BLESS
慧台
回想去年寫過的東西，拿來提醒自已吧！
如果在旅行中，可以带回一件纪念品，我会带回什么呢？ 有人会选择当地的特产，有人用相机记录美丽的风光，有人学到了独立，也有人学会珍惜，无论是那一种，在旅行开始的那一刻，这些成长与失去，就熔印在我们探索世界的步伐里，成为了生命。
很快的，情人节和新年都要到了，情人节还是一个人过，这次连作卡片的对像都没有，和自已说，忍一下就过了。过年也是一样，总感觉，今在过年的气氛大不如前，大家都不喜欢拜年，本地也没有亲戚可以去，朋友都没空。和自已说，不用勉强，一定要出去，就躲在家里，看书，看非诚，写毛笔都行，做自已的东西。努力，没有不好的.
今年的目标，一个人也要很开心。
写到这里，
慧台
早上坐捷运到动物圆(猫空的缆车), 坐到猫空站(花了三十分钟). 花了一个小时，走里面的地方, 樟树布道(由于时间不够，大概只走到四分之一吧),地方比较像鄕村的感觉(感觉不到猫空感觉), 但感觉很好(没有九份好)。
之后回到指南宫站，去看那里的镇南宫。那裡的庙很大，也很庄严，只是二楼以上的庙都在装修，所以上不了。没有求到签, 但都好吗。那里主要三个庙，仙公庙(道教), 大雄宝殿(佛教), 和祈福台，三教合一), 三个都有去，在祈福台吃免费午餐，也好吧。有机会到捐了一些钱，只希望心安理得，恋爱如果有就好，买了恋爱的牌，求了恋爱的愿，和自己说。我能努力的也只有这些，没有的话，就当作是命。改不了的，知足才会开心。
到1400才走完，有买了一个纪念品，给自己吧，希望自己开心就好。到大舅家，1500分了 休息一下，便准备，要回新加坡了，天伟临时说买两个泡面。所以去到便利店买,(还好没到机场买), 那裡没看到任何便利店) ，没有买到糖。到1620才坐到巴士。到飞机场1715分，飞机迟来迟了半小时，checkin 之后，去starbucks 吃cake. 也好吧。
到2030分进飞机, 行程也相当顺利，到新加坡0125剪了，搭德士(42元,), 到家0240分, 到现在。心情ok , 旅行告一段落了，现在要努力该做的东西，其他要多看开，一个人也要很开心
慧台
之后才慢慢走到台中花圆，这时候，自拍器坏了，只能拍风景吧，还好有见一见 热心中年女士(50-60岁), 好心帮我拍照,也介绍那里一些好的风景，真的要感谢她。自已在那里走了一个小时，经过一个小湖，(话说是台中小日月谭，还有坐船的服务，也因为周日，所以没有人坐)。也有看其他的景色。在台中的(不同)感觉，是见到大半都是当地居民，更接近当地民俗吧。
走到1200之后，用gps)找了附近一家素食(走了15分)，吃了之后，才搭巴士去到车站，到那裡1315分了，买了1335的票(去台北),日月 的人员这时才回应，说可以回去拿书，但自已回不去了。只有到台北，问大舅母，再看如何。
才到台北1555分了，之后坐捷运，但舅母的line 自己看错，走到了象山站,(过了两个站), 只好往回走。到大舅家1710分了，等到大舅回来，去附近的素食吃晚饭，也ok 之后，和舅母去附近的通化夜市走一下，感觉都不错，人也没这么多。晚上在大舅家过夜，第一天沒有日記可以寫，只能寫在電話上面，等拿回日記再打算，不然就買新的吧，什麼事都要看開，放下。一個人也要很開心
就写到这里。
