SOME billed the landmark visit of Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew to Malaysia as 'a trip down memory lane.' It has been anything but that.

For a start, the Minister Mentor of Singapore is not the sentimental sort, and second, this particular lane in history does not exactly hold pleasant memories for him.

This elder statesman probably left for home on Monday after his eight-day visit armed with insight and perspectives about this country and its politics that no other contemporary leader in Singapore has ever been privileged to have.

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