Lee Kuan Yew was My Dad’s Colleague

Lee Kuan Yew was My Dad’s Colleague

Written by Jerry Lee (8 May 2020)

The above family Photo taken in Church when I was young. My family attends this church called Geylang Gospel Hall in Lor 29 Sims Avenue in Geylang. It is a branch of the Bethesda Group. It is now the church near Kembangan MRT, named Bethesda Chapel.

 How lovely the old American cars looked. Also you can see how youthful and handsome my father was. My mom too....... really beautiful Peranakan Lady. My father worked in Laycock and Ong ........a Law firm  as a Lawyer's clerk. 

Lee Kuan Yew was interned there too.  He did not brag at all. But there was an instance when I asked him if Mr Lee Kuan Yew knew him. He humbly replied, of course. "We worked in the same office."

He said the letter of Lee Kuan Yew being called to the Bar was typed by him and also signed by him as the clerk in charge. Lee Kuan Yew learned Politics from John Laycock who started the first political party in Singapore called the Progressive Party.  John Laycock is a very close friend of my grandfather.

My father practises the same philosophy as Mr George Yeo. He doesn't divulge secrets he amassed whilst in the midst of work or learnt about while at the office. So I only get scant information. He only tells me things he feels comfortable about telling.

My elder sister is an American. She is now an online English teacher and Missionary in Belize. She holds a Master degree in Education. She married an American Chinese Missionary. My younger sister holds a Master degree in Nursing and is a citizen of New Zealand but currently doing online Medical Training in Brisbane, Australia.