Singapore has successfully outlived Lee Kuan Yew by one year.

This was confirmed on March 23, 2016, after the Republic did not go to waste, investors have not fled and there is no blood on the streets.

Over the last 365 days, sources confirmed Singapore has withstood being pushed around by other foreign countries in the region, there is still running water coming out of her taps, and despite increasingly going digital, some 6.4 million pieces of paper could still be printed and distributed island-wide in a one-day exercise.

Further sealing Singapore's fate of being Lee Kuan Yew-less, hundreds of Singaporeans were still able to wake up in the morning to gather in a large group in public, even though there are strict laws against mass gatherings, and walk around town unhindered.

All these signs bode well for the relatively young city-state that has breached its 50-year-in-existence milestone, as other locals displayed a frame of mind positive enough to consider planting 21 mempat trees that will be expected to grow big and strong in a country devoid of the presence of the elder statesman.

Others, however, have been more ambitious.

Looking way ahead into a crystal ball-gazing future, hundreds of young Singaporean entrepreneurs and experienced mentors are pledging to keep Singapore going beyond SG100, even as a committee has been put in charge of conceptualising a soon-to-be-built memorial to honour Singapore's founders.

As debate still rages on about whether it is eventually ironic that the remnants of the Machiavellian leader's past should be preserved or destroyed because his word should not be the last on the subject in a Lee Kuan Yew-free country, this parting of state and man looks set to be a work-in-progress as Singapore steadies herself to pull off another miracle of outliving Lee Kuan Yew by two years next.

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