tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249019585569184552.post7649468031441938630..comments2023-12-04T10:18:10.776+08:00Comments on The Wise Old Owl: A nation grieves, with deep Respect and Admiration...Mrs Lee Kuan Yew, wake, Istana.Unk Dickohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07050766265321887439noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249019585569184552.post-86714871181409803482010-10-08T00:55:35.335+08:002010-10-08T00:55:35.335+08:00S Rajaratnam passed away on 22 February 2006. At t...S Rajaratnam passed away on 22 February 2006. At that time, I was in great pain recovering from a major operation on my right Achilles tendon. I was then still in a wheelchair and using a pair of crutches to hobble around. Despite all this handicap, I asked my wifey to "let's all go pay our utmost respects to this dearly beloved Son of Singapore...with our 2 grandkids ". <br />We had to park very far away, no choice, too many people. I did not realise it was that far! Remember, I was using a pair of crutches to amble along. That walk to Parliament house, turned out to be the longest, toughest struggle I had endured all 8 months of my recuperation!<br />The policemen there helped to carry my grandsons who were so exhausted by the long walk.<br />Showing respect comes from deep within our hearts and cannot be forced in anyway.Unk Dickohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07050766265321887439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249019585569184552.post-69248052788451085352010-10-07T20:08:20.336+08:002010-10-07T20:08:20.336+08:00You are right! I remember my father and I going to...You are right! I remember my father and I going to see Yusok Ishak's funeral cottege. There were so many people. It has stayed in my memory all these years. I was also there when Sheares died. Nobody forced us!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249019585569184552.post-19441263408252727122010-10-07T19:41:44.966+08:002010-10-07T19:41:44.966+08:00Good Grief! How could anyone give such an order an...Good Grief! How could anyone give such an order and not expect repercussions later?<br />Yes, as for my "kakis" and I, we went freely...to pay homage and honour to the leading lady in our land for nearly 6 decades.<br />When our late former SM, Mr S Rajaratnam died and was lying in state at Parliament House,I even brought my young grandsons along to pay homage. My purpose was when they grow up, at the least they'll remember<br />the great S'porean who wrote the PLEDGE...as I encouraged them to write in the Memorial Condolence Book.Unk Dickohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07050766265321887439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249019585569184552.post-34657868757307498912010-10-07T19:05:54.671+08:002010-10-07T19:05:54.671+08:00Dick, it's good you visited the wake with your...Dick, it's good you visited the wake with your kakis without being forced to do so by any organisation. That's why I find it distasteful that MCYS staff were 'forced' to line Thomson Road and bow their heads when the cottege went by. This is the act of an over-zealous, misguided civi-servant. It smacks too much of Communist North Korea!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249019585569184552.post-12855926018254002892010-10-06T17:51:51.378+08:002010-10-06T17:51:51.378+08:00I like your sense of humour Icemoon!I like your sense of humour Icemoon!Unk Dickohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07050766265321887439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249019585569184552.post-81460953864488216742010-10-06T15:08:49.100+08:002010-10-06T15:08:49.100+08:00Uncle Dicko, you had my belief suspended for a mom...Uncle Dicko, you had my belief suspended for a moment.<br /><br /><i>> Unk Dicko was one of those who taught her class. </i><br /><br />I thought you taught the late Mrs Lee, that would make you as old as that 97 years old lady who taught her at MGS!Icemoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08174805596607457468noreply@blogger.com