Woke up this mornign to sgp’s 38th birthday…wow we’ve really come a long way from “a small fishing village to a metropolitian city” List of famous figures to thank: Sang Nila Utama for founding Temasek Sir Stamford Raffles for founding Singapore Lt Gen Yamashita for invading us n showing the brits how to fight a war properly (i dun condone the jap atrocities) David Marshall, 1st chief minister for leading a often fruitless political battle with the brits for sgp to become self-govt Lee Kuan Yew for being there to lead us all these yrs..without him, we will definitely not be where we are today Last but not least, the SARS warriors who led the nation in fighting the new enemy.. w/o their sacrifices (for some of them, losing their lives) we would not have been able to see the daylight @ the end of the long long tunnel