Vote like Dorothy's journey in the Wizard of Oz - with brains, heart, and courage
With this parliamentary election being the first time I'm going to vote, usually politically apathetic me has been very interested in politics recently. I want to make an informed choice, because it matters.
- attended a WP rally for my constituency tonight with my papa, the auntie next door, and papa's friend. (Well, it is walking distance from my house after all.)
- was late partly due to work and heavy traffic, but was in time for the candidates I'm more interested in :)
- walked to rally with dinner packed in a plastic bag
- we arrived in the middle of a malay speech. croooowwwwdddeedddd.
- Sengkang E/W(?) candidate talked about smaller classrooms, in chinese and I kinda zoned out while eating dinner
- Gerald Chiam roused the crowd into cheering with common local grievances
- Yaw Shin Leong spoke next, in teochew, mandarin and english. he got quite a lot of cheers.
- common issues I remember being covered - repeatedly by different speakers, ah well - include escalating housing prices, stagnant wages of low income groups in spite of inflation, the immorally biased upgrading queues, minsters' ridiculous pay, providing an alternate voice in parliament etc
- btw, smokers should be more considerate when thinking of lighting up in crowds D: lack of graciousness, it says
- then was Low Thia Kiang who spoke in teochew (I struggled to understand, but my father said it's pretty much the same as the subsequent English version) - he was cheered like a celebrity, wow.
- LTK explained why he was going "next door", and encouraged Hougang citizens to support YSL and to spread the "Hougang spirit" to their Aljunied friends
- generally, heaps of encouragement about the "Hougang spirit" and not giving in to threats and upgrading carrots, heh
- Chen Show Mao and Sylvia Lim gave their speeches between LTK's teochew, mandarin and english speeches (cheers for CSM were very loud too)
- both LTK and SL elaborated on the metaphor portraying governing Singapore as driving a car - rather than stepping down on brakes and disrupting the driver, the co-driver prevents the driver from going off-course or driving dangerously, because we're all in the same car, so that the passengers don't get "taken for a ride" (heh, rather apt twist of that metaphor)
- CSM spoke for a bit in Malay and even a few brief sentences in Tamil
- CSM compared voting to Dorothy's journey in the Wizard of Oz; how one should vote with brains, heart and courage (hah, nice comparison)
- ended after LTK's mandarin speech to choruses of "Workers Party, Workers Party" from the crowd
- as we left, I saw some people crowding the road through which the cars with WP members make their exits - like chasing idols! O_O whut.
- attended a WP rally for my constituency tonight with my papa, the auntie next door, and papa's friend. (Well, it is walking distance from my house after all.)
- was late partly due to work and heavy traffic, but was in time for the candidates I'm more interested in :)
- walked to rally with dinner packed in a plastic bag
- we arrived in the middle of a malay speech. croooowwwwdddeedddd.
- Sengkang E/W(?) candidate talked about smaller classrooms, in chinese and I kinda zoned out while eating dinner
- Gerald Chiam roused the crowd into cheering with common local grievances
- Yaw Shin Leong spoke next, in teochew, mandarin and english. he got quite a lot of cheers.
- common issues I remember being covered - repeatedly by different speakers, ah well - include escalating housing prices, stagnant wages of low income groups in spite of inflation, the immorally biased upgrading queues, minsters' ridiculous pay, providing an alternate voice in parliament etc
- btw, smokers should be more considerate when thinking of lighting up in crowds D: lack of graciousness, it says
- then was Low Thia Kiang who spoke in teochew (I struggled to understand, but my father said it's pretty much the same as the subsequent English version) - he was cheered like a celebrity, wow.
- LTK explained why he was going "next door", and encouraged Hougang citizens to support YSL and to spread the "Hougang spirit" to their Aljunied friends
- generally, heaps of encouragement about the "Hougang spirit" and not giving in to threats and upgrading carrots, heh
- Chen Show Mao and Sylvia Lim gave their speeches between LTK's teochew, mandarin and english speeches (cheers for CSM were very loud too)
- both LTK and SL elaborated on the metaphor portraying governing Singapore as driving a car - rather than stepping down on brakes and disrupting the driver, the co-driver prevents the driver from going off-course or driving dangerously, because we're all in the same car, so that the passengers don't get "taken for a ride" (heh, rather apt twist of that metaphor)
- CSM spoke for a bit in Malay and even a few brief sentences in Tamil
- CSM compared voting to Dorothy's journey in the Wizard of Oz; how one should vote with brains, heart and courage (hah, nice comparison)
- ended after LTK's mandarin speech to choruses of "Workers Party, Workers Party" from the crowd
- as we left, I saw some people crowding the road through which the cars with WP members make their exits - like chasing idols! O_O whut.