Lee Kuan Yew: never too old to be embarrassed

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 08:47

  CNN 10 top stories that shape Asia in 2010
  

  1. Red shirts protest in Thailand

  2. China-Japan relations strained over Senkaku Islands 

  3. Shanghai Expo success

  4. Korea military hostilities

  5. Commonwealth Games failures in India

  6. Natural disasters rock Indonesia

  7. Asada beats Kim figure skating

  8. Lee Kuan Yew, others, embarrassed by WikiLeaks

  In November, Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew was added to the list of diplomatic embarrassments released by the global whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.

  In a 2009 conversation with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, the 87-year-old referred to North Koreans as “psychopathic types, with a 'flabby old chap' for a leader who prances around stadiums seeking adulation.” 

  The shocking remarks made headlines around the world. Lee also felt sympathy for North Koreans, adding that “he had learned from living through three and a half years of Japanese occupation in Singapore that people will obey authorities who can deny them food, clothing and medicine.”

  Lee was recently re-elected to the government cabinet post of “Minister Mentor,” a position he's held since 2004.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew: never too old to be embarrassed
  

  9. Hong Kong tourists killed in Manila bus tragedy

  10. First of Khmer Rouge hierarchy sentenced

  for further reading:

  http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/stories-changed-our-world-2010-694444?hpt=Mid
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 09:42

  please retire, enuf said.

  

• sbst275

  30 Dec 10, 09:45

  but the cult leader up abv 38th parallel axis is really....

  in any case, recent articles reported tat e cult leader's son's bday gift got sabotaged.

• Hitman 778

  30 Dec 10, 10:03

  38TH PARALLEL GALS ARE CHIOBUS !

• theWEIRDme

  30 Dec 10, 13:24

  LKY FTW!

• Vote PAP OUT to Save SG

  30 Dec 10, 13:40

  just an anglo dog and a traitor.

• Edd1

  30 Dec 10, 19:56

  .....Double post

• Edd1

  30 Dec 10, 20:03

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  please retire, enuf said.

  

  He retire ah...Difficult.......He like the Thailand king...never retire one even sick....

• C751A 70049/70050

  30 Dec 10, 20:05

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  He retire ah...Difficult lor...If he retire he will get senile like his wife....then die.

  Everybody will die one day. In ancient times, people greet Emperor "皇上万�万�万万�" (May Emperor live ethernally / literally means having 10k years old), but none of them can past 200 years old. So this is not an excuse. Or maybe, he is setting a good example of 活到�，学到�，�到� (Live til old, Learn til old, Work til old).

• Edd1

  30 Dec 10, 20:09

  Originally posted by C751A 70049/70050:

  Everybody will die one day. In ancient times, people greet Emperor "皇上万�万�万万�" (May Emperor live ethernally / literally means having 10k years old), but none of them can past 200 years old. So this is not an excuse. Or maybe, he is setting a good example of 活到�，学到�，�到� (Live til old, Learn til old, Work til old).

  Yeah..everyone will die one day but this also applies to the King of Thailand..

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 20:09

  Originally posted by C751A 70049/70050:

  Everybody will die one day. In ancient times, people greet Emperor "皇上万�万�万万�" (May Emperor live ethernally / literally means having 10k years old), but none of them can past 200 years old. So this is not an excuse. Or maybe, he is setting a good example of 活到�，学到�，�到� (Live til old, Learn til old, Work til old).

  time to let go...

• Edd1

  30 Dec 10, 20:11

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  time to let go...

  wait until he's 95..

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 20:13

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  Yeah..everyone will die one day but this also applies to the King of Thailand..

  king is different, succession only when the king dies; rarely the king abdicate unless of public pressure eg like King Edward VIII of England.

  Anyway LKY is not king, no succession is necessary.

  

   

   

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 20:14

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  wait until he's 95..

  live up to the title: never too old to be embarressed.

  

• Edd1

  30 Dec 10, 20:17

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  live up to the title: never too old to be embarressed.

  

  I can predict that he 96 will die..

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 20:19

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  I can predict that he 96 will die..

  

• Edd1

  30 Dec 10, 20:29

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  

  If i correct....wah..i 神仙。。liao lor.... :D

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 20:31

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  If i correct....wah..i 神仙。。liao lor.... :D

  if so accurate better predict toto or 4D, don't waste time.

  

• Hitman 778

  30 Dec 10, 20:34

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  He retire ah...Difficult.......He like the Thailand king...never retire one even sick....

  
  the thai king is much respected and king is honoured by most people in thailand.he is loved by all in thailand.

  lky demands u honour and love him or else......!!!!kind of like how some guy force a chiobu to honour n love him.

  what do u call a guy who force a gal to love him?

  1)a monster

  2)a rapist

  3)a loser

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 20:34

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  If i correct....wah..i 神仙。。liao lor.... :D

  if incorrect; not 神仙 but 仙头..

  

• I-like-flings(m)

  30 Dec 10, 20:51

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  I can predict that he 96 will die..

  
  but i can also predict that he will only retire when he is 97 leh..u believe bo?

• Edd1

  30 Dec 10, 21:04

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  
  but i can also predict that he will only retire when he is 97 leh..u believe bo?

  LOL!!!97..hmmm.now going 90 liao.2018 he die..maybe see the next next election lor..whether he can make it anot lor..

• I-like-flings(m)

  30 Dec 10, 22:01

  Originally posted by Edd1:

  LOL!!!97..hmmm.now going 90 liao.2018 he die..maybe see the next next election lor..whether he can make it anot lor..

  
  u didn't get my joke.... sighz....

• Clivebenss

  30 Dec 10, 22:12

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  
  u didn't get my joke.... sighz....

  he's just a kid lah...

  

• Herzog_Zwei

  30 Dec 10, 22:36

  Originally posted by Hitman 778:

  38TH PARALLEL GALS ARE CHIOBUS !

  
  I think Singaporean girls are now ready to ram your anus with a anti-ship torpedo. Hope you like the phallic symbol in your rectum.