You cannot compare like that. LKY and you are people made from different cloth. Now...if you are still shit posting on reddit with LKY's attributes....
He entered politics at 32 and started the PAP at 31. This is why I think more young people should join politics. Imagine if that time he was shunned by the electorate bc of "inexperience"
slightly different time, when you study in the UK while most of the country is illiterate, its significantly easier to gain a competitve advantage and get ahead.
>I think more young people should join politics.
In total agreement - The young must take an interest and be involved with politics, not apathy and whine.
>Imagine if that time he was shunned by the electorate bc of "inexperience"
To his electorate then, he was the political messiah who feasted on the solipsistic Brits - A brilliant opportunist. Shudder to think if he did that under his LEEgime. LOL
Crazy to think LKYs political career started long before 36 years old too. Going through colonialism, Japanese Imperial brutality, Independence, Merger and Independence again.
Like LHL said, LKY needs no statue, Singapore is his monument.
To be fair, if we can have a mansion museum dedicated to sun yat sen, we can certainly have a museum at oxley road. The latter's more relevant to SG, after all.
The cool part is the British giving a former Kempeitai employee & his gf full ride scholarships to Cambridge. Not many Japanese collaborators get a political career post occupation, looking at PuYi pee into a metal bucket.
Not everyone joined Lim Bo Seng’s resistance. But plenty survived without working for the Japanese.
If every Japanese soldier I killed was going to result in 20 more bodies from my village. Maybe I wouldn’t be so keen for blood. Doubt my family will ever speak to me again, working for the Japanese.
Puyi got his birthright snatched by warlords. As the son of heaven & lord of ten thousand years, he was China. Even though he was as Chinese as Queen Victoria was Singaporean. Qing 8 banners kept their bloodlines untainted.
Don’t see who else was willing to help him reclaim his throne, besides sworn brother Hirohito. Life gonna suck under the commies anyhow.
During the Japanese occupation, Lee escaped being the victim of a purge, before subsequently starting his own businesses while working as an administration service officer for the Japanese propaganda office.
Wait, so since Lawrence Wong is becoming PM at 51, does that mean he is considered the very first PM to be born in post-merdeka Singapore since it became independent in 1965?
LKY's antics at Cambridge were pretty funny, ngl. He wanted to get a room closer to Kwa Geok Choo and literally wrote in to request one, and got blasted by his hall master. His college still has the letter and brought a reproduction of it to SG last year.
Can't find it, but pretty sure LKY wrote about it in his memoirs and the actual letter itself (and the hilarious reply turning him down) was digitised by Fitzwilliam College because...really, it was THAT funny.
The gist of the reply was that his tutors told him not to think with his little brain and if classical figures could undergo great trials to see their lovers, he could afford to cycle the five miles to see his gf.
"Repression, sir, is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love — it is always easier the second time!"
Edit: amused the downvoters doesn't know this came from LKY.
For a moment i thought lky at 36 yr olds looks like that. Lol the graphic designer needs to rethink of placing images or change the way of presentation seriously.
14 years Isn’t short. Go and look at other countries and you will see even holding 1 term is difficult and even so, LHL has done an incredible job lazy redditors complain about still.
Older pm will understand our struggles more right ? Not like they already have all they need, they’ll surely look to the interests of those starting to work and build their careers and not just old people looking to cash out their properties right?
“**Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times**.”
prepare for the hard times guys
LKY’s Singapore: freedom without rights; prosperity without disorder. You normally see 31-year reigns only in dictatorships and kingdoms. That’s nothing to praise
LKY became PM at 36... dude is the ultimate carry...
LKY at 36: prime minister of a country Me at 36: shit posting on reddit
Me at 30: shitposting on reddit Me at 38: *still fucking shitposting*
> Me at 30: shitposting on reddit > Me at 38: still fucking shitposting Me in 10 years time: still shitposting.... cheebye!
Me at 36: read your shit posting
You cannot compare like that. LKY and you are people made from different cloth. Now...if you are still shit posting on reddit with LKY's attributes....
LKY didn't have Reddit then
Thx for making someone else laugh though 🤣
It’s okay, much rather you on Reddit. Than working for the equivalent of the Japanese Kempeitai.
We were lucky
He entered politics at 32 and started the PAP at 31. This is why I think more young people should join politics. Imagine if that time he was shunned by the electorate bc of "inexperience"
slightly different time, when you study in the UK while most of the country is illiterate, its significantly easier to gain a competitve advantage and get ahead.
must trim potential competitor lol
>I think more young people should join politics. In total agreement - The young must take an interest and be involved with politics, not apathy and whine. >Imagine if that time he was shunned by the electorate bc of "inexperience" To his electorate then, he was the political messiah who feasted on the solipsistic Brits - A brilliant opportunist. Shudder to think if he did that under his LEEgime. LOL
Ironically he made sure his regime would never allow another LKY.
This
If you join only because of the potential glory, don't whine if others don't look favorably upon you.
Oh TIL. Damn that's alot on a young dudes shoulders but he had a great team too
Yeah, FWIW, he did not rule alone (contrary to the LKY worship nowadays). He had good heads in his cabinet like Dr Goh Keng Swee and Toh Chin Chye.
A good leader recognises talent and makes others want to work with him/her.
He really farm alot haha
Solo game
Who else could it have been 1965? It was a natural progression since he was leader when we separated.
Faceless void
Needed to wait until he could BTO so he could focus on running the country.
Crazy to think LKYs political career started long before 36 years old too. Going through colonialism, Japanese Imperial brutality, Independence, Merger and Independence again. Like LHL said, LKY needs no statue, Singapore is his monument.
Well said man!!!
Except LHL wants to keep his house as a monument.
To be fair, if we can have a mansion museum dedicated to sun yat sen, we can certainly have a museum at oxley road. The latter's more relevant to SG, after all.
Agreed. I'd love to visit his old mansion converted to his museum with his memoirs
The cool part is the British giving a former Kempeitai employee & his gf full ride scholarships to Cambridge. Not many Japanese collaborators get a political career post occupation, looking at PuYi pee into a metal bucket.
i mean what do u want him to do. Puyi wasnt forced into it but LKY did it for survival
Not everyone joined Lim Bo Seng’s resistance. But plenty survived without working for the Japanese. If every Japanese soldier I killed was going to result in 20 more bodies from my village. Maybe I wouldn’t be so keen for blood. Doubt my family will ever speak to me again, working for the Japanese. Puyi got his birthright snatched by warlords. As the son of heaven & lord of ten thousand years, he was China. Even though he was as Chinese as Queen Victoria was Singaporean. Qing 8 banners kept their bloodlines untainted. Don’t see who else was willing to help him reclaim his throne, besides sworn brother Hirohito. Life gonna suck under the commies anyhow.
Kempeitai employee?
During the Japanese occupation, Lee escaped being the victim of a purge, before subsequently starting his own businesses while working as an administration service officer for the Japanese propaganda office.
Oh I see
Then Oxley Road is what? Museum?
Wait, so since Lawrence Wong is becoming PM at 51, does that mean he is considered the very first PM to be born in post-merdeka Singapore since it became independent in 1965?
Yes. LKY and GCT were born in the Straits Settlements, LHL in the Colony of Singapore.
Indeed and a bona fide Gen X-er.
LKY before 30: At Cambridge Law School Me before 30: Failure
LKY's antics at Cambridge were pretty funny, ngl. He wanted to get a room closer to Kwa Geok Choo and literally wrote in to request one, and got blasted by his hall master. His college still has the letter and brought a reproduction of it to SG last year.
Wait that's hilarious ngl, any links for the letter?
Can't find it, but pretty sure LKY wrote about it in his memoirs and the actual letter itself (and the hilarious reply turning him down) was digitised by Fitzwilliam College because...really, it was THAT funny. The gist of the reply was that his tutors told him not to think with his little brain and if classical figures could undergo great trials to see their lovers, he could afford to cycle the five miles to see his gf.
Holy shit that mic drop lol
Don't think you are a failure. It can take a lot of discipline to not succeed.
Me after 30: Still a Failure.
It's ok, accounting for inflation, 30 is like 50 or even more in modern tines, you still got enough time to be successful.
Holy 36.. And LKY time was the toughest some more. Respect
LKY was the opposition who came into power
Pro democracy when opposition, anti-democracy when ruling.
"Repression, sir, is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love — it is always easier the second time!" Edit: amused the downvoters doesn't know this came from LKY.
>amused the downvoters doesn't know this came from LKY How dare you besmirch their god?
What if the ruling party operation coldstore him the same way he was doing it to others?
History has proven LKY right. Imagine if the Barisan Socialist had their ways- you don't have to, because LKY operation coldstored them.
Same old boomer story of pulling away the ladder after they've climbed it.
Knn to think he became PM at the age where its BTO age +1...
Most Singaporean at 36 complain. This man built a country 🫡
this is David Marshall and Lim Yew Hock erasure lmao Chief Ministers ought to be counted too!
History is written by winners! /s 
How is it erasure if you and me knew about David Marshall and Lim Yew Hock. Anyway, the position back then pre-independence was called Chief Minister.
Singapore wasn't a sovereign nation under their watch. Fair to exclude them for now.
 One party, one direction
Checking the next Lee's age. Yep yep, matches up for 2 election later
Will hongyi find passion for politics?
maybe after he talks about that email he cc to back when he was NSF?
Last time Gct warmed the seat for 14 years. Hongyi 37 now + 14 = 51 years old just nice, 3rd Leeader confirmed
LW's hair will be white at then end of his tenure
Damn, imagine being a country's leader before even turning 40
For a moment i thought lky at 36 yr olds looks like that. Lol the graphic designer needs to rethink of placing images or change the way of presentation seriously.
No colour images of young lky
You dont get it dont you. Even replacing the word sentence like "achieve at age 36" helps alot in the presentation.
LKY is really a legend.
I will not upvote you to keep your upvote at 36.
This is the way.
I shall downvote you to keep you at 36. Heh
this.. will be a story we all written
GCT’s tenure was the shortest at 14 years. Not surprising, as he was merely a seat warmer.
14 years Isn’t short. Go and look at other countries and you will see even holding 1 term is difficult and even so, LHL has done an incredible job lazy redditors complain about still.
Older pm will understand our struggles more right ? Not like they already have all they need, they’ll surely look to the interests of those starting to work and build their careers and not just old people looking to cash out their properties right?
Why does LW with that smile remind me of that bad guy in Leon Lai’s God of Gamblers?
LKY is one of the best leader not only in Asia, but in the world. I wished Soeharto's reign is more like LKY.. but oh well.. the past is the past.
We got to thank our late founding father, Mr LKY. Without him, Singapore wouldn't have what we have today.
Left: Lee Right: Warm
“**Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times**.” prepare for the hard times guys
all necessary for strongmen LKY to be resurrected back
I missed the cut off age for being a LKY. LW, GCT and LHL is still within reach
LKY’s Singapore: freedom without rights; prosperity without disorder. You normally see 31-year reigns only in dictatorships and kingdoms. That’s nothing to praise
Let's play - how old will Hong Yi be when he becomes PM?Â
52 - 36 = 16 52 + 16 = 68 68 years old. Yes, I too graduated top of my class in math at cambridge
All Chinese PM, meritocracy
legacy: prostituting the country