The One and Only

There might be numerous Li Kuan Yews in Singapore. More still Le Kuan Yews and Kuan Ewes and Kwon Yews. No restrictions on any combination of these of any number and any form. All perfectly legitimate and above-board. No caning, fining or admonishing involved; not a worry. What one must however most certainly avoid is any attempt at naming a fond, dearly loved new-born Lee Kuan Yew, certainly on this territory of the Republic of Singapore—Lee Kwan Yew-land. There cannot be formally registered such a child's name, male, female or indeterminate gender. Under no circumstances. If in the privacy of your HDB flat you pamper your child thus with the hero's emblem without being picked up by the microphones or CCTVs that's your own affair. Try formalizing it by documentation at the designated authority and Watch out for your neck Buster! There cannot be tolerated another LKY on the little red dot spot on the equator. Seems there is no formal law instituted. That was not required in a place like this. Omar told of the matter—received from impeccable sources, a former public officer with the title of Registrar….— this morning at one of the usual Mr. T. T. tables, during this long rundown to the imminent event that will be felt with great sorrow in some quarters.