GE2011-Cooling day

How ironic, today is cooling day but the weather is anything but cooling..Gonna melt under the hot sun.

The past 9 days had been interesting, to see the various parties campainging for this election, it should be by far the most exciting election is Singapore's History and I am not sure whether we will have another such exciting election in future or not.

PAP has announced that they will aso focus on the sandwich class and the youngesters (21-35yrs) group. Our PM had apologised on behalf of his government. I am impressed that PM is now eating the humble pie. But you know what, it would be good if the apologies comes from the person invovle not the big boss.

I notice that PM is more humble, more willing to listen more than his peers. When some of the ministers speaks, it still strikes me that they still dunnno wat went wrong..If you dunno what went wrong, and dun listen and dismiss our complaints as noise, den you cannot blame us for wanting another voice in the governement.

One of the new candidate for Sembawang GRC commented that when he was young, the exchange rate for Greenback to us is USD 1 to SGD 3, now the exchange rate is USD 1 to SGD 1.22. It shows our currency is getting stronger blah blah blah...But why is that our inflations are aso getting higher? A stronger currency should results in a lower import cost and thus inflation should be able to be controlled and not getting as high as every where in the world. Isnt it the case?

But it is not, isn't it? When we buy crude oil, we are using USD rite? But when the oil prices rises, all petrol, electricity rises too. If our currency is strong as compare to 20yrs ago, den we shd be able to absorb this rises rite? How come the prices of the necessity still rises? It onli goes to shows that it is the Greenback tat is getting weaker, not SGD getting stronger. In fact, alot of countries are at their peak on the rate VS the greenback. This are the comments of the people who cannot convince me. Try harder next time.

Not only the PAP brings up invalid points, the opposition does that too. I mean, it is good to have another voice in the parliment but I am not asking you to oppose to every other thing the government had. For instance, there is a call from NSP to either reduce or scrape our GST. I mean, get real! How is our government gonna generate their revenue from without GST? It juz sounds so tempting, but then it is not pratical at all..I would be grateful enuff if they are not going to hike it up anytime soon..In fact, our country has 1 of the lowest GST in the world, look at Msia, I think their government tax is at 10%...not to mention the 17.5% VAT of the European countries..I am oredi counting my blessings.

Also there is this party who wanted to use 60bil for some project they suggest...I mean, HELLO u wanna touch the reserves?Haven get elected and you are toking on our reserves...This is what my mum always scold us when we are young, 还没有学赚钱就要学花钱。。。This is totally unacceptable...This is a dangerous concept to be frank, a dangerous thinking..

The topic of the length of our national service has been touched on, to reduce to 15mths. As I did not went through it, I cannot comment much, but for my 5 cents worth, we should not reduce it even further, this will not allow ample time for the soldiers to get trained properly. Yes, it may seems to be a waste of time, but then in times of emergencies, proper trainin will realli get us far..Defence is an important issue to our tiny island surrounded by the many big countries. Defence budget shd nt be cut too. This is not a matter to be compromised.

At the past few rallies, quite alot of tears flow, you get the old PAP uncle crying in the rain in midst of his speech, you get the young NSP star crying while doing her walkabout and relating the sob story during the rally...

Seriously, I dun find all the tears necessary, it may due to ur real reactions but still to cry on national TV is abit like 博取同情。。

After hearing so many talks, interviews, speeches from both sides, tomorrow is the day we would make our choice. I will be waiting anxiously for tmr's outcome. No matter how grateful, impress I am with PAP, I do hope that WP will get their 1st GRC seats tmr..This, will be a milestone for Singapore's politics and will be a wake up call to the arrogant chaps..Good luck to all tmr!!