Friday 17 April 2015

He Lives A Spartan Lifestyle



Mr Lee Kuan Yew worked to give Singaporeans a good life but cared little about the luxuries in his own life.

This is a ham dangong, or salted egg jars in Cantonese. People used it to store water and then ladled water from it to wash themselves.

Do you know that right up to 2003 before Mrs Lee Kuan Yew's first stroke, Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his family at Oxley Road were still using the ham dangong? A water heater was installed in the bathroom only after Mrs Lee had a stroke so that she could have a warm shower.

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