#கதம்பகுடும்பம்

Somewhere in January 2007... மதுரைல நா பொண்ணு பாக்க போனப்ப...

மாமனார்ists: அப்புறம் தம்பி... சொல்லுங்க... நீங்க தங்கமான புள்ளை'னு உங்க சொந்தக்கரங்க எல்லாம் சொன்னாங்க??

தாய்க்கிழவி: You will know him soon....😊

உழைப்பே உயர்வு...

#ஆப்பீஸ்

#இல்லறமதிகாரம்

அதுதான் கடைசி பத்தை தேங்காயாம்... நான் எடுத்து தின்றுவிட்டேனாம்...

In 1965, a few months after independence, an economic planner whom the Indian government had seconded to us presented me with a thick volume of his report. I scanned the summary to confirm that his plans were based on a common market with Malaysia. I thanked him, and never read it again. He did not understand that if Malaysia was not willing to have a common market while Singapore was a part of it, it was hardly likely to agree now we are independent.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

Dr Albert Winsemius, our Dutch economic advisor, first came to Singapore in 1960 when he led a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) mission to advise us on industrialisation. I remember his first report to me in 1961 when he laid two preconditions for Singapore's​ success: first, to eliminate the communists​ who made any economic progress impossible; second, not to remove the statue of Stamford Raffles.

To keep Raffles' statue was easy.

My colleagues and I had no desire to rewrite the past and perpetuate ourselves by renaming streets or buildings or putting our faces on postage stamps or currency notes.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

#கண்டபடி_புரிஞ்சிக்கோங்க

எனக்கென்னமோ இந்த பேரண்ட்ஸ்தான் குழந்தைகளை நைஸாக TV பார்க்க அனுப்பி விடுகிறார்களோ'னு doubt வருது...

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Umanath Selvan

மழைக்கால இரவுகளில்  அதிகமாக செய்திச்சேனல்களை பார்க்கின்றார்கள் குழந்தைகள்

#verified

#இல்லறமதிகாரம்

தலைவி, ''ஹலோ... உங்க மீட்டிங் முடிஞ்சுதா..?''

தலைவன், ''முடிஞ்சுது... இதோ கிளம்பிட்டேன்...''

தலைவி, ''எல்லாரும் கிளம்பிட்டாங்களா..?''

தலைவன், ''யெஸ்... நாந்தான் கடைசி...''

தலைவி, ''சரி... அப்ப வர்றப்ப ஒரு குயர் A4 sheet, ஒரு pencil box, ரெண்டு sharpener கொண்டு வாங்க...''

Prayers be like: யப்பா ஐயப்பா... அடுத்த தடவை இவன்டேருந்து என்னை காப்பாத்துப்பா...

To have both brains and brawn, Keng Swee and I started to induct some of our ablest students into the Singapore Armed Forces SAF in 1971. We selected some of the best officer cadets each year for SAF overseas scholarships to study at Oxbridge and other universities in Britain where they did a full academic course in the humanities, engineering or the prifessions. During their student years they received full pay as lieutenants, besides a scholarship that paid for all fees, board and lodging and other needs abroad. They had to sign a bond to serve for eight years after graduation. But within that period, they would be sent to America or Britain on two, often three courses: first, specialist training whether in artillery, armour or signals; in mid-career, staff and command in America or Britain; and finally a course in public or business administration at a top American university such as Harvard or Stanford.

By 1995 four former SAF scholars, have risen to senior positions, entered politics and later became cabinet ministers.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

Photo: October 8, 2015. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean meeting Singapore Armed Forces soldiers undergoing jungle training in Temburong, Brunei, yesterday. He was on a four-day visit that ended yesterday as part of the 3rd Young Leaders' Programme, jointly organised by Singapore and Brunei to encourage exchanges between the younger generation of political office-holders. The team included Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli, Senior Ministers of State Indranee Rajah and Sim Ann, and Minister of State Chee Hong Tat.

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