Prime Minister Lee
I have a new found admiration for our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long. I never realised he was such a man of stature until I met him in person today. He was tall and very articulate, and left a deeper impression in me than his father did. Maybe because I wasn't born yet during his father's best years. He looked like a jolly man who isn't all too comfortable in his skin. Maybe cos' he's taller than most people and he has the tendency to hunch. He didn't come across as someone intimidating or overbearing. He seemed very people-oriented.
Yes, I was very captivated by this man. I didn't catch him on television during his National Day Rally Speech, but I recalled having heard bits of it and I don't know what is it about his voice or his intonation, that made me just want to sit and hear what he has to say. I didn't think he used to speak so well before he became the Prime Minister, and he sounded quite muffled back then. But today in NTU, as I hear him over the live feed during his opening address for NTU 50th anniversary celebrations, I was amazed at how he just held my attention with what is typically boring speech. I wasn't paying attention so much to the content I must admit, but the way he was enunciating and emphasising words. It was easily comprehensible and very pleasant to the ear.
Maybe there are many Singaporean men who can speak like him. I just haven't had the privilege of knowing them yet, but I really think we could do with more local men, commanding their presence and leaving an impression through their confident yet not arrogant articulation (PM Lee's a perfect example).
Yea yea, I guess I have a thing for the "arts" man, someone who is literate. And by "literate" I'm referring to one of the definitions offered by Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs, Mr Raymond Lim, where he was referring to a well-read society. Bring that definition and apply it to man, I would associate him as someone who can also speak and write fluently, which really is a killer combination.
Back to PM Lee. I'm sure he is a cut above the rest, because he is after all, the Prime Minister. But that doesn't mean men out there can't acquire his stature just because they're not a politician. I don't think any man is going to idolise our Prime Minister the way they would Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods but there's no harm knowing that it is possible to command respect and exude confidence through good articulation without being loud, obnoxious and condescending.
Which is exactly what our Prime Minister demonstrated tonight.
Yes, I was very captivated by this man. I didn't catch him on television during his National Day Rally Speech, but I recalled having heard bits of it and I don't know what is it about his voice or his intonation, that made me just want to sit and hear what he has to say. I didn't think he used to speak so well before he became the Prime Minister, and he sounded quite muffled back then. But today in NTU, as I hear him over the live feed during his opening address for NTU 50th anniversary celebrations, I was amazed at how he just held my attention with what is typically boring speech. I wasn't paying attention so much to the content I must admit, but the way he was enunciating and emphasising words. It was easily comprehensible and very pleasant to the ear.
Maybe there are many Singaporean men who can speak like him. I just haven't had the privilege of knowing them yet, but I really think we could do with more local men, commanding their presence and leaving an impression through their confident yet not arrogant articulation (PM Lee's a perfect example).
Yea yea, I guess I have a thing for the "arts" man, someone who is literate. And by "literate" I'm referring to one of the definitions offered by Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs, Mr Raymond Lim, where he was referring to a well-read society. Bring that definition and apply it to man, I would associate him as someone who can also speak and write fluently, which really is a killer combination.
Back to PM Lee. I'm sure he is a cut above the rest, because he is after all, the Prime Minister. But that doesn't mean men out there can't acquire his stature just because they're not a politician. I don't think any man is going to idolise our Prime Minister the way they would Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods but there's no harm knowing that it is possible to command respect and exude confidence through good articulation without being loud, obnoxious and condescending.
Which is exactly what our Prime Minister demonstrated tonight.
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