Tuesday, May 02, 2006

lamented my dear.

Are you voting this time round? I'm not and so are alot of my friends.
anyway, I dont see the purpose of any contestants in my area because everybody is oh so supportive of Dr. Tan who has been the Mp of the area where I'm living for the last 20+ years. Everytime somebody try to contest the area, he still have got 90++ % of the vote.. what a huge margin over the opposition's less than 10%.

So this time round, its walk-over for us folks.
So it is for the Bukit Panjang/Holland constituency and of course the ever so famous Bishan district with Mr. Wong who can't sing. *paiseh paiseh!* I know the joke's kinda cliche but I can't help it!

Of course there are other areas too, but these are the places my good friends reside!

So my dear lamented... "Aiyah! Walk over no upgrading lor!"

That is so not true. This is because the people's hearts are so easily swayed.

Dr. Tan for example, worked hard at his meet the residents night. Often over staying listening to the common folk's complaints and fought hard to get their views heard in parliament. That is what I call good government. We have got En Bloc upgrading, old 2 rooms were demolished and the residents were given better flats at a meagre cost.

Of course, upgrading to my flat have been minimal, since its an Executive Maisonette, perhaps the only thing they can do to our flat is to add lifts for the erm.. 4 storey flat in view of the residents who will very fast contribute to part of our increasingly aging population - like my dear parents.... who are really fast getting old...

So his win over the past few donkey or even mammoth years were hard earned and well deserved!

so I think Mps whose areas are not contested this time round need to be extra vigilant for people could be oh so easily swayed - like how they listened to the rally in Hougang and suddenly become riled and cross out the ang gong wrongly.

And what is this I heard about the opposition party asking for merger between M'sia and Singapore? HAvent he/she/it-ever, read the social studies textbook of our young these days? I'm sure they could tell you.. what were the reasons for merger in 1963 and what caused the eventual separation in 1965!

My goodness, I was so dumbfounded when my parents discussed it over dinna yesterday.
I hope the people's eyes would be opened up wide and know that the calls for merger is the same as the previous attempt. That is to get more jobs, to let us have a bigger share of market, to solve the problem of unemployment.

And as the primary 5 who would tell you.. all these did not materialised and the other races were given 2nd citizen status. And that eventually led to the separation!
Would you want being treated as a 2nd class citizen?? Would you want to sit and wait for your Mp to speak to you but allow the favoured races to be heard first while the 2nd class citizens have to wait and wait?!

Excuse me but I prefer meritocracy anytime!

so those of you who are voting... bak jiu open big big...
dont cross out the salah picture ah! Else I will hamtam you for being so short sighted!!

*bak jiu = hokkien dialect for eyes
SAlah = Malay for "wrong"
Hamtam = Malay for "beat"