It's over

Today was the final send off.
We watched glued to the TV from 12.30 to 5.00.
This is a time of reflection
Before the start I watched the video of our separation from Malaysia and I was moved to sobbing tears..

Just to think about how lucky, how blessed we are to have had a leader who cried for us , who took it upon himself as a personal responsibility , that he has a few million lives to account for.

Minister heng 's article about the red box and how if he saw a tree dying he would type our something to go on the box , that even while mourning for his wife if he saw rubbish in the river he would take note and get someone to act on it... to have leader think of the trees and rivers as his.

Pm Lees eulogy was so moving .
Singapore people were so moving
They stood in the rain just to wave bye calling out Lee Kuan Yew.
Over the four days public were allowed to pay their respects half a million people turned up queuing for 4 to 10 hours just to shuffle past for a few seconds.

The best of Singapore emerged.  Free water stalks of flower .
We queued too. For 5 hours with aisha in the wee hours of the morning pram in hand saro had just turned up at midnight . We left home at 1.30. I was determined.  So what of the wait was 10 hours I would still make it before the cut off time.  But aishu didn't sleep from 3 to 5.45 and I was worried for her. The queue had been suspended since 11 and we didn't know if they would open it at all. I nearly wanted to leave. But spoke to a saf man who reassured me it would Def open maybe 6 or 7 am.  That they were trying to clear the padang completely before letting in everyone again. 
The queue management was fantastic.  They responded as situation grew and grew. They did not expect such a crowd. It was so moving so amazing. We appreciated our stamina to wait.  For something that we all felt was important as a nation.