TR EMERITUS

Back in the days of my first marriage, everyone wanted me to become a teacher. My parents felt that I had an “academic” personality rather than a commercial personality. My then wife and her family kept drilling in the fact that teaching was an “iron rice-bowl,” and then there were people told me that teaching was great... 

I was having dinner with my family just a couple of days ago in my AMK neighborhood coffeeshop when a group of people wearing PAP's white party uniform came to our table and left a bag of "goodies" which has a logo of a charity organization, telling us "Happy Mother's Day, this is a little present from our MP!" (Spoken in Mandarin). Well... 

Editor's note: This article is an verbatim excerpt of a longer article by the same author and can stand on its own without a change in meaning or context. The other part of the original article has also been scheduled for publication. In the 1980s, our first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew had "trouble" with foreign publications...