Famous Singaporeans
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Can give me some examples?
Thanks.
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Goh Choo San (deceased)
well, he was a very famous dude
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lee kuan yew (yes yes yes...)
sim wong hoo
tan kah kee -
famous or infamous?
Originally posted by wuming78:lee kuan yew (yes yes yes...) -
infamous?? annabel chong lor... who else can beat her??Originally posted by the Bear:famous or infamous?
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are you going to try?Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):infamous?? annabel chong lor... who else can beat her??
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haha try?? 1)mi not a gal.. so i can never win her in her record... and 2). i dun wish to die after screwing 251 gals in 10hrs..Originally posted by the Bear:are you going to try?
maybe u can try if u wan... -
nah... if there is to be any sensuality between me and any woman, it's going to be the woman i love... and her only...
in the theme of Liberty here, it is the liberty of love for one woman and the liberation that comes with her love for me
Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):haha try?? 1)mi not a gal.. so i can never win her in her record... and 2). i dun wish to die after screwing 251 gals in 10hrs..
maybe u can try if u wan... -
Before we can to question abt pple being in the famous or infamous list, ask ourselves wat have we done to be able to criticize abt them... yes, LKY can be a famous person or he can be an infamous person, depending on how u wanna see it.
Similarly one can go around mocking abt the taiwanese govt... but stop, look at yourself first... haiz... some pple never learn their lessons...
haiz... ditzy u r damn right....
Some pple just mock and downgrade their bosses here... but if so, mi just wonder why they still working under they so call "useless bums"... haiz
Famous or infamous, is in the eyes of the beholder... just hope those who post here take a look at themselves first before trying to mock at others... -
Famous Singaporeans???
Hmm...
Can't tink of any... -
Patrik lor...whahahahaaaOriginally posted by Patrik:Famous Singaporeans???
Hmm...
Can't tink of any... -
HAahahOriginally posted by sgboy2004:Patrik lor...whahahahaaa -
Lim Yew Hock
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Originally posted by the Bear:nah... if there is to be any sensuality between me and any woman, it's going to be the woman i love... and her only...
in the theme of Liberty here, it is the liberty of love for one woman and the liberation that comes with her love for me
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wow, the first Chief Minister of SporeOriginally posted by NeonTetra:Lim Yew Hock
* go flip mi history book * -
Originally posted by NeonTetra:Lim Yew Hock
"The man who thumped the reds" -
dun understand?Originally posted by sgboy2004:Similarly one can go around mocking abt the taiwanese govt... but stop, look at yourself first... haiz... some pple never learn their lessons... -
no need to lahOriginally posted by wuming78:dun understand? -
Thanks ar....btw what am i famous for??Originally posted by sgboy2004:Patrik lor...whahahahaaa
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hahha...then u hav to create something for us to remember u for lorOriginally posted by Patrik:Thanks ar....btw what am i famous for??
LOL
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Hmm....
What can i do??
Hahahaha....
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Dr Wee Kim Wee
Some short facts:
Dr Wee Kim Wee was elected President of the Republic of Singapore by Parliament on 30 August 1985.
Except for 3.5 years during the Japanese occupation of Singapore and 10.5 years as High Commissioner to Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur and Ambassador to Japan and the Republic of Korea in Tokyo, Mr Wee has worked in the news media.
Born in Singapore on 4 November 1915, he received his early education at Pearl's Hill School. In January 1930, at the age of 15, he left Raffles Institution after only two years to join the Straits Times as a clerk in the circulation department, later moving to advertising and reporting. Eight months before the outbreak of the Pacific War (1941), he resigned from the Straits Times and joined the United Press Association, an American news agency, which set up its office in Singapore for the first time.
During the attack on Malaya and Singapore, he served in the ARP (air raid precautions). During the occupation of Singapore, he worked as a clerk in Japanese military establishments. When the war ended, he was supervisor and cashier of a large canteen catering to Asian seamen of Japanese merchant ships.
When Singapore was liberated in 1945, Mr Wee rejoined the United Press Association. In 1959 he joined the Straits Times as Deputy Editor (Singapore), heading the editorial department in Singapore. The other editorial executives had moved to Kuala Lumpur.
While at the Straits Times, Mr Wee covered the civil war in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) at the time when Malaysia sent a special force to join the United Nations Command's peace-keeping force. He also covered the official visits of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to Indonesia and to several countries in Eastern Europe.
In 1966, he was the first Singaporean journalist to enter Jakarta during Confrontation and interview Lieutenant-General Suharto and Foreign Minister Mr Adam Malik when President Sukarno was still confined to the palace in Bogor. Through reports of his exclusive interviews Singaporeans and Malaysians learned for the first time that Indonesia was keen to end Confrontation.
In 1973, two years before he was due to retire from the Straits Times, the Singapore Government offered him the post of High Commissioner to Malaysia. It was to have been a three-year term, but Mr Wee stayed at the post for seven years, the last two years as dean of the diplomatic corps in Kuala Lumpur. Mr Wee also served as a member of the Singapore delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1977.
He was appointed Ambassador to Japan in September 1980 and concurrently Ambassador to the Republic of Korea in February 1981. He returned to Singapore at the end of April 1984 and assumed the chairmanship of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation.
In his younger days, Mr Wee was an active sportsman. He played badminton, table tennis, basketball and soccer. In 1937, he was junior singles badminton champion of Singapore. He spent many years serving various badminton bodies of Singapore and Malaya (later Malaysia), and ended up as president of the Singapore Badminton Association and vice-president of the Badminton Association of Malaya.
He had also been active in social services serving in various clubs and associations. For several years, he was chairman of SATA (Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association).
Mr Wee served on six statutory boards: Rent Control Board; Film Appeal Committee; Land Acquisition Board; Board of Visiting Justices; National Theatre Trust; and Singapore Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1966, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. In 1963, he was awarded the Public Service Star for his public work and in 1979, the Meritorious Service Medal for his diplomatic services.
Mr Wee was married in 1936 to Koh Sok Hiong. They have seven children, one son and six daughters. -
You'll be surprised but 2 of our ex-presidents weren't born in Singapore. They are namely:
Encik Yusof Bin Ishak, first president of Singapore, was born on 12 August 1910 in Perak. He was married with his wife, Noor Aishah with 3 children, a son and 2 daughters.
He received his early education in the Malay school in Kuala Kurau, Perak. When his father, a civil-servant, was posted to Singapore, Encik Yusof came over too. While in Singapore, he studied at the former Victoria Bridge School . Mr. C V Devan Nair, third president of Singapore, was born in Malacca on August 5 1923. Together with his family, he came down to Singapore in 1933.
He received his education in Rangoon Road Primary School then at Victoria School.
He was elected president by Parliament on October 23 1981.
Other than our current president and Dr Wee Kim Wee mentioned above: Dr. Benjamin Sheares, second president of Singapore, was born a Singaporean on 12 August 1907. He had 3 children and of course his loving wife.
He received his education in Saint Andrew's School and Raffles Institution.
He was elected president on 2 January 1971. Mr Ong Teng Cheong, the fifth president of Singapore was born in 1936 in Singapore. Mrs Ong, sadly, has passed away just recently, leaving her much-loved husband and two grown-up children behind.
He entered school late because of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Although this, he was also a very outstanding student during the period of his education.
He was the first president to be popularly electedby the people on 1 September 1993. He stepped down as our president the year, 1999. -
OMG ditzy u are teh r0x0r , lol! thanks
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TX the yandao kiaOriginally posted by boariggy:Can give me some examples?
Thanks.