And would it be her dream come true?

In a provocative post, The Almost Daily Grind takes on The Big Man Himself, King-for-Life “Senior Minister” Lee Kuan Yew, and in so doing manages to make a total laughing stock of the once mighty city-state.

I was told when I started blogging about Singapore that I could pretty much say what I wanted — as long as I didn’t criticize LKY. Popagandhi seems to think she is above the law.

She starts by citing today’s newspaper headline, “Lee tells forum he didn’t realise importance of those who think outside the box when he was building Singapore,” and a quote from Lee, “I didn’t know this when I started, I know this now – you need both.”

Hurrah! Now, in order to allow us to “think outside the box”, they will tell us where the perimeters of the box are and where and what exactly to think when we’re outside it. I daresay this will be achieved through “creativity workshops” our schools will send us to (funded by the Teach Our Children To Think Holdings, part of Singapore Inc., also a Government Linked Company, but don’t tell anybody that because they’re really a private firm).

Also, doesn’t “when he was building Singapore” make it all sound like a game of Lego? I can’t say that is too far from the truth, even though I desperately wish I could.

(sidenote: “He challenged his audience to find another South-east Asian country where visitors could fly in, be out of the airport in 10 minutes, arrive in the city in another 15 minutes, attend a conference and fly out the same evening.” – the marvels of being small, I guess, and that’s about it.)

Wow, can she write or what?

In a few slicing syllables she manages to capture the very essence of Singapore, the do-as-your-government-tells-you-to-do mentality, the inability of Lee & Co. to keep its fingers out of absolutely everything, the way it is scraping rather pathetically to instill an “entrepreneurial spirit” after brainwashing its citizens for nearly half a century that stupid is better.

(Popagandhi, I am presuming if you get away with this I can, too. I’m not going to get in any trouble, will I?)

Thanks for giving me my only laugh in a long hard day. (Once she takes over for Conrad, will we ever want him to come back?) (I misunderstood; the winner was Hemlock.)