PM Lee and his wife are SO HUMBLE!

• archkiller

  12 Jan 06, 18:22

  Day I witnessed PM and wife's humility
  
  The Straits Times
  Jan 12, 2006
  
  I AM apolitical and I have no ulterior motive in writing this letter. Nevertheless, I am certain that my letter will set many a tongue wagging.
  
  Last Friday, my wife and I were in for a surprise when we accompanied our son to the Basic Military Training Centre on Pulau Tekong for his enlistment into full-time national service: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife, Madam Ho Ching, were also there to send their son off.
  
  The humility displayed by PM Lee and Madam Ho was indeed exemplary. They did not claim any privilege, which rightly they could as Mr Lee is no ordinary citizen.
  
  During a tour of School 2, they were treated in the same way as the other enlistees' parents. By this, I concluded that PM Lee must have given instructions that he was not to be given any red-carpet treatment.
  
  What was most gratifying was to see PM Lee and his wife sitting with the other enlistees' parents in the auditorium for a briefing by the school commander, eating the same food, riding in the same bus to and from the jetty on Pulau Tekong to School 2 and taking the same launch to and from Pulau Tekong.
  
  As protocol dictates that PM Lee and his wife be protected adequately from harm and danger, they were escorted by a team from the Police Security Command. Nevertheless, their bodyguards were unobtrusive and carried out their duties in an even-handed way.
  
  I left Pulau Tekong feeling proud to be a Singaporean for two reasons: I heard my son and the other enlistees taking the oath of allegiance to defend Singapore and, if necessary, to lay down their lives, and I witnessed the humility of PM Lee and his wife as they rubbed shoulders with the people for more than four hours.
  
  Lionel De Souza
  
  http://www.sgboy.com/sgboyx/index.php?showtopic=19220
• LinYu

  12 Jan 06, 18:33

  did they really abolish the white horse?
  
• dragg

  12 Jan 06, 18:37

  hahahaha.
  
  
• ^tamago^

  12 Jan 06, 18:56

  the Lionel De Souza seems familiar... he write to forum everytime one, right?
• SMAPLionHeart

  12 Jan 06, 18:58

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  the Lionel De Souza seems familiar... he write to forum everytime one, right?

  His son , LionHeart de Souza will receive good treatment from now on liao
  
  
• ^tamago^

  12 Jan 06, 19:00

  haha. just checked him out.... apparently he's "a retired police officer with 26 years' experience and now a private investigator (PI)".
• Aveme

  12 Jan 06, 19:02

  so yeah now everyone who is in the same company as PM lee's son will know he is PM lee's son,so even if PM lee and his wife is not given special treatment,you can be sure their son will be given ultra special treatment.
• sinicker

  12 Jan 06, 19:40

  Lionel De Souza everytime send in letters to forum one. at least once a month. haha.
  
  PM Lee's son is same platoon as my friend. my friend say he quite alright ah, archery president in rjc, bla3, just dat he doesnt work out.
• lem0nade

  12 Jan 06, 19:54

  Originally posted by sinicker:

  PM Lee's son is same platoon as my friend. my friend say he quite alright ah, archery president in rjc, bla3, just dat he doesnt work out.

  Haha... bet he'll be very good at arrowing ppl when he becomes officer.
• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  12 Jan 06, 20:05

  Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:

  His son , LionHeart de Souza will receive good treatment from now on liao
  
  

  ur father not longanathan ar
• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  12 Jan 06, 20:12

  izzit bcoz election is near?
• SMAPLionHeart

  12 Jan 06, 20:13

  Originally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:

  ur father not longanathan ar

  long-anathan is your father right?
  how cumm you forgotch him?
  
  
• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  12 Jan 06, 20:16

  Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:

  long-anathan is your father right?
  how cumm you forgotch him?
  
  

  no la. u see... longanathan is dumb right? and thus u belong into the same league as him. therefore he's ur father. omg ur stupidity has made u forgot about him.
• SMAPLionHeart

  12 Jan 06, 20:20

  Originally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:

  no la. u see... longanathan is dumb right? and thus u belong into the same league as him. therefore he's ur father. omg ur stupidity has made u forgot about him.

  I am LionHeart De Souza lah
  You are Dilip Kumar
  
  
• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  12 Jan 06, 20:21

  Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:

  I am LionHeart De Souza lah
  You are Dilip Kumar
  
  

  i dont belong in the same league as him. you do.
• SMAPLionHeart

  12 Jan 06, 20:25

  Originally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:

  i dont belong in the same league as him. you do.

  There's nothing in this thread which implies that im in the same league as him
  
  
  
• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  12 Jan 06, 20:26

  Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:

  There's nothing in this thread which implies that im in the same league as him
  
  
  

  there are things in this forum which implies that you are in the same league as him
  
• er_liang89

  12 Jan 06, 20:27

  dont pai ma pi la
• stellazio

  12 Jan 06, 20:34

  i wonder whether pm lee and his wife got talk to the other parents anot..
• TooFree

  12 Jan 06, 21:09

  PM Sir, ...
• dragg

  12 Jan 06, 21:16

  frankly who will expect a PM to be obnoxious when he needs votes.
  
  
• vito_corleone

  12 Jan 06, 21:23

  ah lee probably got de souza's son into a white horse company in return for the good publicity.
• gorby107

  12 Jan 06, 21:52

  You must not only focus on PM Lee's son but also on other minister too
  
  Like Teo Chee Hiean's son
• klishcia

  12 Jan 06, 21:59

  Got photo of his son? handsome? how old is he?
• Simon Dean

  12 Jan 06, 22:11

  teo chee hiean son was in sji and the same age as my bro, he should be 19 plus now.I heard from my bro that he is NOT pampered at all and treated the same.