Month: May 2006

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Ivory Towels

How stupid can I be? I want to document the election fever with pictures. But what good is that intention when one forgets to put batteries in one’s camera? Luckily I got my MP3 player with me and recorded the moods and sounds of the SDP rally.

For at least one third of the rally, it was drizzling away. Yet most people there did without umbrella.

My overall impression is that this Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) rally at the Woodlands Stadium was better attended than the SDA one at Yio Chu Kang Stadium the previous night.

However, I felt the audience was more vocal, less polite and also more distracted. There were many more people having personal discussions, or talking on their mobile phones while speakers were on stage trying to make their points. I say less polite because there were several instances of “PAP bullshit!” being yelled out. Continue reading “Ivory Towels”

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Enough on Gomez already

Okay, yes, I know. It sounds like Gomez is a mess when it comes to paperwork. He’s already apologised for the mistake. Can the PAP stop going on and on and trying to milk everything out of this?

PM Goh says that the PAP has got a track record. Fine. Then let the track record speak for itself.

Surely the PAP doesn’t have to bend so low and ridicule every single one of the opposition. Are they so unsure of their footing in this GE?

Then again, when you buy a unit trust, they always put in fine print that historical performance does not guarantee future performance. Buyers of unit trusts should consider other factors and not base their decision on historical performance..

Is voting for the PAP like buying unit trusts?

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God Bless You Mr Chiam!

On Sunday, the last day of April 2006, I decided to visit the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) rally to find out what Yip Yew Weng (Yio Chu Kang, single seat) had to say.

I have only been to one rally before, in the previous general election. That day, many years ago, it also rained. So I learnt my lesson. I would wear slippers.

Muddy soggy grass, but people still turned up. Luckily, there was no rain, not even a drizzle.

The SDA did not raise many new issues – most were pertaining to bread and butter issues – the cost of living, medical expenses and upgrading.

Theoretically, all this made sense. However, it was only amongst the people that I go a sense of what this really meant. It wasn’t so much what people said, but it was just a sense from their cheers or jeers. Continue reading “God Bless You Mr Chiam!”