Today is our nomination day..after today,it will determine how many of us will need to vote.. It has now announced that out of 87 seats,82 are contested which means tat onli GRC is uncontested..Only Tanjong Pagar remains uncontested..Reason being, the joker missed the deadline for filing the papers...I guess they must be trying to come out the deposit money and at the last min, they manage to get the full amount but missed the deadline, this is only my speculation la, otherwise who will file the papers late?
This election is the most hotly contested in our history and is the 2nd time tat PAP didn't return as ruling Party during nomination day..I am interested to see the outcome of this election..
With more younger generation voting for the 1st like me,I believe the government have alot to worry about..This younger generation Y that we are known as are more higher educated lot den our parents..With more plp
receiving overseas education where they are exposed to other countries'government ruling, had a broader horizon den their parents..
600,000 plp within the age grp of 21-35 will be going to vote with an esitmated 1/3 being GE virgins..I am 1 of them too..Since turning 21 6yrs ago, I neber got a chance to vote..The last GE, although with more opposition parties, but sad to say, no 1 wanted to contested in the area I am staying in...
This year, however will be different..Unless u r the suay 1 staying in Tanjong Pagar GRC where plp didnt go to vote since 1991, u r entitled to cast ur 神圣的一票 come 7th May..I think our opposition parties realli come out in full force le la...
My area will be contested by SPP if the earlier reports are correct, as of now the news on the contestants are not out yet...Well, this part is lead by Mr Chiam See Tong, 1 of the 2 opposition parties that I find to be more establish..
Be sure that I will be attending the rally if they ever held 1 in my area for I am interested to know what the oppositions have to offer or at least tell us about our government. I personally think that we are too busy with work to realli bother with what our government is doing, not that they are not doing a good job, like plp always say, they need to be check and reminded to do a better job in serving the residents from time to time..Give them a sweet victory, they will soon forget bout checking themselves..
This time, it makes me feels like I am finally part of Singapore, I finally get to exercised my right as a citizen of the country, a resident of my estate. My vote afterall, plays a part if not a tiny wenny part in the outcome, this in turn, makes me sit up straight and listen to our opposition on things they wanna tell us..
Just 2 days ago, I click on a link on Chee Soon Juan's hokkien speech out of curiousity of what he's gonna say.. He, is not exactly, my favourite candidate on the other side of the field, in fact, I quite dislike him from this track records, but still I went ahead n listened to the speech..It was hilarious, in fact to hear him speak in hokkien..CMI..But gotta applaud him for his efforts, and things he bring out, some of it did have a point..And for the 1st time, I dun find him as irksome as before when he acted like a mad man scolding the government on the streets..For the 1st time, he speaks like what a matured candidate shd do like Mr Low and Mr Chiam..But dunno he can maintain for the next 9 days or nt..wahahah
This is, the power of the new media, besides reading newspaper, I will click on the links my fwens shared on FB usually, they are not for my area but still its interesting..Even Mr Love, who dun usually read the news got excited and keep asking me to update him, he too, listened to CSJ's speech..
Voting is compulsory and is a secret, and I am not gonna say which side I will cast my vote to. But I will listen to both side on what they gotta offer n say, juz treat it as a general knowledge lesson..This is gonna be a precious lesson for it onli happens every 4-5 yrs and may not have a chance to have an opposition party willing to contest at my area..
Looking forward to 7th May where I will be lining up at the polling station, waiting to cast my vote for the 1st time :).
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