Warning: Sensitive topic ahead. Please respect my thoughts thanks.

I have not talked much about this topic even though it was the topic of most conversations the past week. Why? It's not that I do not respect Mr LKY, but I feel that this is a little too sensitive topic to talk about. Politics. Having two extremely contrasting political viewpoints can easily cause conflict between friends. Even though people these days are considerably more open-minded towards political debates, I feel that people are still not ready to fully accept a viewpoint that opposes theirs, whether or not they are pro or anti-government. This is just how sensitive this topic is. That's why I think it's very hard for a couple with differing political views to live together.

Posting on FB, changing my profile picture, dedicating an instagram post to Mr Lee, going down to the parliament house to pay respect to him.... I didn't do a single of those. (Except going down to Tanjong Pagar tribute site yesterday but that was because of SHG.) It's just not me to do such things. If anything, respect first comes from the heart. Of course I know that there are many people who genuinely feel sad over his death and are really sincere in paying respect to him, but I don't like how some (maybe just the minority) people are simply joining the crowd and crying devastatingly over his death when they probably didn't do a single shit even when he was ill all the while. While watching the state funeral process on TV, people started cheering lky's name when the cortege (?) passed by. You. Have. No. Idea. How. Baffled. I. Was. Idk man, it just felt so weird. I felt that it was being disrespectful, even though the people didn't mean it. I feel that a funeral should be something solemn and not meant to be something noisy, even if it is a state funeral.

I admit I'm not exactly a very patriotic person, neither is my family, but I do respect him for what he has done. It's not a simple thing to build up SG to where we are today from practically nothing. It's not something that any random person you find on the streets (or even any random law student from the University of Cambridge) can accomplish in their life. To those haters, please shut up unless you can achieve as much as him. I'm not saying that everything he did is right, but like what he himself said, he did what he thought was right at that point in time.

R.I.P.