Happy Birthday Lee Kuan Yew - LKYTour Walking Tour Singapore

Every single time we watched the video of our Mr.Lee Kuan Yew crying on occasions such as NDP or his birthday, I just can't help it to stop and think about how would Singapore be without this man.

Image from TheRealSingapore

I am no fan of certain policies in the country these days, but yet I can't deny the fact that I give my respect and gratitude to this man especially for how Singapore is today. Some tell me that he is not the only man that made things happen because he had a team and not all credits should go to him which I can't deny but he is the face of it all isn't it?

We all heard negative stories about him as well but I guess there's no way a man don't attract haters especially at such status. Even I have haters. :p

Amazing it seems but it sure is no David Blaine's magic, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew turns 91 today and he was still seen at the NDP just a few months ago!

The Founding Father of Modern Singapore Tour - aka LKY Tour

In tribute to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, local tour agency MeGuideU has created a walking tour open to the public to be part of it! (More details at the end of article on "how to sign up")

It might sound like a publicity stunt to you (by my company) but the truth is the lady behind this tour sure ain't about that!

This is Miss Chia Bee Lian. I must say this woman is one of the most interesting as well as passionate woman I've ever met. When she 1st created this tour, she came down to the office days after days just to share with us the facts as well as her research. I can't say how much I respect her too!

The tour will bring us down memory lane of 91 years and more. We will also get to see and learn more about Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's father as well as family line. Fun facts that I never was delivered in a light hearted way by Miss Chia. I would have done so much better for my history lessons if she was my teacher!

Miss Chia in action with some of the bloggers during our media tour.

Even as a Singaporean, I must say that the tour was very informative. There's so much that I didn't know about Singapore as well as Mr.Lee. The newspaper cutting that Miss Chia was holding is not reprinted versions from the library but it's the actual prints, which means she has it as her collection all this while. She is some huge fan of Mr.Lee I must say.

Me doing my ah beng thing again not because I think it's cool but it's really tiring. It's a 3 hours walk so I suggest you better bring water, comfortable walking shoes as well as sunglasses. Thank me later for saving your life. :D

 Nope, she didn't bring us to Cathay for any shopping but why is Cathay part of the tour?

What about Queen Elizabeth Walk? Do you know the story about this place?

How To Sign Up

Interested in the tour as well? The good people at MeGuideU (Which includes me) is offering this tour as a tribute to Mr.Lee as well as a benefit to all Singaporean and visitors FREE! Simply sign up and account at the site and apply. It's going to be free from now till end of October. This walk is happening on every Monday 9am!

Quickly sign up here before it's all gone! 

Here's some other links about this tour:

• Blog Post by Priscias 
• Featured by ST Online
• Sauus.com

Mr.Smith, Happy Birthday Mr.Lee Kuan Yew!!

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I time travelled to the 60s and the 60s got better. #TrueStory

So few days ago my buddy Marty came looking for me. You guys know him, Marty... Right ?!

Bruce Willis in Try very very hard to die but still die hard. (Die Hard episode 87634123)

No. Not Mati (Die in Malay) but Marty.

Yeah me. From the movie - "back to the future". If you don't know him, you are way too young.

So he came to my place with his car and he was telling me he could bring me anywhere. And I joked about going to the 60s and god knows how he did it. We went back to the 60s.

Any time, any where.

We all know the 60s. One of the greatest era of current mankind and modern culture. The love, the music, the art, the movies and the historical events. Simply putting it, it's the turning point of what we are seeing, doing and loving today. There were a few places, time, people and things I wanted to meet or be part. It was suppose to be a very fun adventure trip but we kinda mess history up by getting all high and drunk at a party with some hipsters hippies. I don't know how but I kinda left my footprint all over even without social media in the 60s.

Music - Forming A Band.

I always wanted to be part of a band. I met this 4 youngsters and they were kinda like forming this insect band thingy but they only needed four person. So I might have said something bad about one of them "accidentally" and instead of him I was offered to play with them. We got pretty popular after that. Not too sure if I should be part of this though. I could hardly remember their names or the band's name as well, the weed sandwich was really strong. But I think we played some really awesome tunes like "Yellow Submarine", "Hard day's life" and "Come together."

I've no idea what I'm doing.

Art

Before I knew it, Marty got me to some factory place and I met this weird looking guy. Although he is a little weird but we had fun and we were partying. And we were betting on a game's result and coming from the future, I kinda know the result and I won. For losing the bet, he painted me in one of his silk screen painting thingy. When I returned to 2013 and googled about him, I realize that my painting was actually part of his exhibition and one of Singapore's famous blogger was there and actually shared my picture.

Singapore Famous Blogger.

One of the main pop art piece from the exhibition.

Event

I remember from some TV show that one of the darkest day of America in the 60s was the assassination of John F Kennedy.

I had no idea they took this picture of me but can you spot me?

I might have accidentally save him and because he didn't die, poor Lyndon didn't get to be a president and because of that, way too many historical event at USA changed and last I read George Bush is currently a professional basketball league coach instead. And as for me, I was named the America greatest hero of all times and I think they have a cartoon or some sort made after me. They even have a song like "Here I come to save the day, it's Smith Man and he's here to stay!."

Sports - NBA

After screwing all these up, I told Marty all I wanted is to watch a game of NBA and not be sported or be part of anything. We went to 1962 to watch the best game of NBA ever. The 1 and only 100 point game by a single man. Wilt. I don't know what happened but when I was going thru some of my old collection of NBA books yesterday, I found this!

LIKE WHAT?

Singapore News - 

I am not too sure what happened again (In the 60s, sandwiches are so so so common, and good, and strong, and cheap, and good.. and common).. but if you do a search on YouTube - "Smith Leong Crying 1965"; you will find this video...

Don't ask.

Overall it was an awesome trip. One of the best ever that Marty has brought me to. Doing and visiting all the things that I am interested in. From Music, Art, NBA, Event to even Local news. All these inspiring people and events that took place right in front of my eyes. Can you imagine how 60s will be if Social Media already existed there like today?

Will the Beatles be even more famous with Youtube? Will Andy Walhor's art be stolen by online IP thieves like me)? Will John F Kennedy really escape death because they got a tipoff from online source? Wilt would not even need to publish a book about his 100 points, he could have just blogged about it. And would MM Lee's crying video be auto-tuned?

I can't tell you how much I love our current life of technologies and how I might die without it but if given a choice, I would really travel to the 60s cause that's where modern culture first started and there is no way we could beat living in that era.

Mr.Smith, we all live in a yellow submarine.

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