A while ago, I picked up Peh Shing Huei’s Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story for a little bit of reading.

One of the great things about owning a lot of books is that you get to see random things like this, and you get to explore a whole lore and see so many other things that you may not have even considered before – one of which is this.

Here we see father, son, and holy Goh together, three generations of prime ministers all sitting at one single table fighting for Singapore.

This is the kind of thing that is non-existent in Malaysia – and even if it were to exist for a liminal amount of time, it undoubtedly would soon be torn apart by politicking.

Learning of Goh’s story was interesting for many reasons, and the book was filled with some insights on his relationship with LKY, LHL, the questions of nepotism, and that good bit of shade thrown against Mahathir, whom I will be meeting again shortly; it’s definitely not every day that you learn about that dynamic and have your guesses about what must have happened in the course of the way that these people related to one another.

All in all, I would say that it is a solid 7 out of 10. I will not lie and say that it is transformative or incredible – Not because the book is badly written, but maybe because my standards have elevated themselves over time.

In any case, as a result of making this post, I ended up RM87.90 in the hole because I ended up immediately buying the next volume from Kinokuniya – Such are our human failings T_T

I realized through writing about this how much wasn’t included in this little snapshot of my day. There is so much more, but I can only share so little today.

Well, I’m not sure if you generally will even be spending time reading this, but if you do, and if you’re one of the rarer few who decide to get these books, I hope you will enjoy them!