Goodbye Mr Lee Kuan Yew

I consider you as a hard-core, tough and no-nonsense politician.
That’s why I did not accumulate enough courage to draw you & publish your caricatures.
I'm afraid that if I did, someone would come knocking on my door & invite me for "coffee" inside a dimly-lighted private room without window.

I only started to draw your caricature in 2010 when I re-started my caricature drawing engine. 




Some people say, the older you get, the bolder & more in focus you become.
And I guess they are probably right.

I remember vividly the hardships and experience of our parents in the old days.
We had to stay indoors due to curfews during the 1964 racial riots. 

 We had to lower our canvas to cover our kitchen’s openings to shield the sound of fire-crackers cracking non-stop all night in the first early morning of Chinese New Year,  
I had the fun playing in the flood water outside our one-room flat at Indus road during the monsoon seasons.

 

And I had to jostle with adults and massive crowds to get a spot in front to watch black & white TV programmes at our community centre at Havelock road.

 

These things are no longer being experienced by our younger and millennian generations.

 

And they could never understand these hardships & appreciate our present.

Many say wise men think alike.

But you are so extraordinary different in your thinking & envision.

I salute you for your dedication, guts, determination and disciplines.

No doubt, there will be even more challenges ahead.

Just let your successors deal with it.  

You have had already done what you could. 

Goodbye Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

May your soul rest in peace.

 

A tribute to Lee Kuan Yew

Dear Mr Lee Kuan Yew,
Thank you for all the hard work.
You have done what you needed to do for this country.
And you have no mentors or consultants to guide or help you. I salute you.
Rest in peace.

LeeFH



 

Escalating Health Care Costs

I just cannot understand why they are implementing so many changes to the CPF all at once.

How does the layman understand all these ?

On one hand, the “so-called” minimum sum in medisave is to be removed.

On the other hand, a new scheme will be created with moving ceiling limits that will be increased year on year. 

Medical costs & insurance premiums are going up every year.

Medishield Life will have higher premiums and they said that medical cost is still affordable ???  

Look at hospitals. They are run like a business / hotel.

Occupancy rates are very high in hospitals. Otherwise who pays for the empty beds and staff wages ?

And they know you have medisave / health care insurance.

So they make people stay inside and pay for everything from your medisave account. You have no control who / what is deducted.
You just sign some blank forms, and they said “everything would be taken care of”.

The big question is who / how to control medical costs here ?  

Also, hospitals are full of in-house medical doctors that look like freshmen / new graduates out from schools.

I've seen the ugly scars left on hand after surgery, and poor visions / lost of sight after cataract operations.

 

I’m very worried. Are they competent ? 

Thinking about our health care escalating costs

Where are all the experienced doctors ?

They have all disappeared into private practice.

If you want good doctors, go to private.
But how many can afford it ?

Sigh !

Better stay healthy.  

From a Worried Singaporean Old Man

 

Determination

I’m very determined too.

Call me old-fashioned or stubborn,….. …I don’t care.

I still refused to change my behaviour.

You see, I don’t look at her or hold her when I’m walking or crossing the road.

Most of the time, I just ignore her unless she cries when she’s hungry or suddenly makes loud noise or shakes vigorously non-stop. I had to reach out to stop her.

I don’t play with her or poke at her during my free time or waiting time.

Usually, I just leave her alone.

And I refused to let her take my photo & post it on social media as I don’t like publicity.

I would never fondle or interact with her before bedtime. She would make me feel “energized”.

Every night, I’ll put her to sleep first.
But she would never sleep beside me unless I need her to wake me up in the morning.  

What’re you thinking, you crooked mind ?

I’m talking about my mobile phone !