Friday, April 28, 2006
Election Fire set ablaze
The moment the candidates from both parties were announced, every single lamp post in my estate was plastered with the photos of the MP of my area (my mum said the posters would have been a good 'Darlie' Toothpaste ad.) and you can only spot a few pathetic Opposition posters average about every 10 lamp posts away. It has been a long long time since the residents last cast their votes. According to my parents, they have only voted twice during the whole of 18 years living in this estate. One was the Presidential Election and the other was the General election that took place donkey years ago.
Since yesterday, the MP and his town council have been working really hard. Not only doing walkabout, but also cleaning, scrubbing, painting every inch, every corner of the estate. For the first time in my life, I saw a cleaner coming late at night (10pm!) cleaning the corridor outside my unit with his supervisor tailing him at the back. But this 'strange phenomenon' only comes like about 5, 6 years, i supposed.
It might be nothing new to you if you stayed in a hotly-contested constituency. Finally after 10 years, there is some competition going on in our low profiled estate. Woah. So i expect the candidates will come knocking at my door soon and the truck with the loud hailers 'Pls vote for XXX.....' will come by any moment....
Since yesterday, the MP and his town council have been working really hard. Not only doing walkabout, but also cleaning, scrubbing, painting every inch, every corner of the estate. For the first time in my life, I saw a cleaner coming late at night (10pm!) cleaning the corridor outside my unit with his supervisor tailing him at the back. But this 'strange phenomenon' only comes like about 5, 6 years, i supposed.
It might be nothing new to you if you stayed in a hotly-contested constituency. Finally after 10 years, there is some competition going on in our low profiled estate. Woah. So i expect the candidates will come knocking at my door soon and the truck with the loud hailers 'Pls vote for XXX.....' will come by any moment....
Labels: Gahmen, Singapore. Elections
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