Comments on: LKY bitchslaps Badawi, politely

By: xpyre

xpyre — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:20:41 +0000

Talking about books, feel really bad. I’m going to get down to buying a copy of Syed Akbar Ali’s new book (he wrote “To Digress a Little”, it’s an interesting read I reviewed over here) and reply emails..!

By: sigma

sigma — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:32:11 +0000

LKY: 1
BN: 0

When will our half-baked BN politikus learn NOT to challenge a 1st class Cambridge-educated lawyer on these kinds of issues?

Considering BN refects us, it is just an embarrasment to us now. That’s why I’m bent on voting them out come next GE (hey, one can wish, can’t one? :P)

Neways, read LKY’s biography, “From Third World To First”, and its sequel. Great read. Especially on the early years when Singapore was in the Malaysian Federation.

By: suanie

suanie — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:24:54 +0000

btw yeah i’m from BP … nvm whenever u come to KL just gimme a holler :D

By: suanie

suanie — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:24:25 +0000

seriously i still think it’s a tug of war between lky and tm. lky having the last laugh.

By: xpyre

xpyre — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:22:03 +0000

Today’s NST reiterates the government’s stand:

“We’re pissed off, but whatever. Let’s move on.”

Since the letter’s in the public domain, perhaps our newspapers should publish LKY’s reply in FULL? Oh, and the govt tells LKY:

“Don’t be notti again, hor?”

pfffft.

By: Zer0

Zer0 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:59:17 +0000

I hope sometime in future, they can produce a 148-epsiode drama on Cross-causeway relations.

By: lucia

lucia — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:34:01 +0000

i wonder is badawi now regretting that he wrote to LKY? that he asked LKY to explain his remarks? maybe badawi is nowhere as smart as LKY so he shouldn’t have write in the first case. methink LKY was only too happy to receive AND to reply back badawi’s letter via a letter (black and white, see) released to the press.

way to go, harry lee kuan yew!

By: El Farto

El Farto — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:50:30 +0000

Best part of LKY’s reply: “PS: The fact that you have written to me is now well publicised. As I have been asked about my reply, I will have to release my letter to the media after you have received it.”

Political damage to retired senior statesman of Singapore: ZILCH
The look on Malaysian PM’s face as he realizes he’s been challenged to publish a letter in the papers that condemns him to hypocrisy: PRICELESS

@xypre: DUDE! Haven’t kept in touch because I sold out! :P

By: xpyre

xpyre — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:06:10 +0000

wah the site blacked out, for a moment there… hmm..

@suanie: hmmm your hometown’s in BP issit? i’m chained to the desk till i’m done with my papers. :(

@lulu: and think of what expats in singapore will say when they read that long, long list….

By: what a lulu

what a lulu — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:20:39 +0000

the smartest thing that the bapa mertua did is to lay that matter to rest.
If it was to drag on, SM Lee would easily be able to swat him down, just like how he did in his brilliant “apology” letter.
it’s like we kena pukul pun tak sedar. masih nak jerit “he’s sorry! he’s sorry!”
in his letter, with the seemingly innocent p/s, he had free air time to point out our own stupidity with some major newspapers so stupidly headlining it as “I’m sorry”.
really tabik this old man.

and of course, the stupidest thing the politikus did was to pick a fight with SM Lee.

btw, i’m sorry for any one of you who are not able to understand what i am saying.