Singapore GE 2006
Today is polling day in Singapore and i get to vote for the first time since i have "come of age" so as to speak. But how much does the general elections mean to ppl of my age.. say those between 21 and 25? Those who are not exactly teenagers but not yet adults with much political or working experience as yet... From what i gather from general consensus.. seems that no one really cares apparently. Here are a few responses i have gathered from my friends; people who range from university students to the usual crapsters who waste their lives away roaming causway point shopping mall in woodlands:-
1) "Well, I feel that we need to appreciate the enormous effort put into the current elections by the opposition parties and its time to recognise their efforts."
2) "Elections.. dono laaaa.. jus go there and vote only... prob follow what my mother say la..."
3) "Oh... i confirm voting for opposition la... why u scared ah? Scary cat!"
4) "Don't care la... eh.. if voting for who then got more poges pakesh not?"
5) "My area contested not? Anyway what's my area ah?"
As you can see (from my small group of "surveyed" individuals), people of my age don't really have an acute sense of what exactly democracy means. They are more concerned with matters such as having more fields opened for sunday football games and stuff like that. So am I. And their claims that these elections are a waste of time, useless and what not just indicates their ignorance to local matters. So how did i choose my vote? Well the way i did so would probably give you an idea of who i might have voted for and since voting is secret, i shall not give away anything.. haha..
However, i do wish to give comments to Singaporeans in general.
Singaporeans generally are unable to appreciate the many things that we have in our nation. So much so that (according to the forum section in the new paper), someone wrote that 'the road signs on the expressway have all capital letters and it seems like the sign is "shouting" at road users and we should adhere to the standard of having only the first letter of the world in capitals'. Now if this isn't what you call ridiculous, i don't know what else is.
The very fact that we can drink water straight out of our tap is in itself an impossibility in most countries! And they can complain that NEwater is not healthy!!!
I am not saying i am a perfect "adapt to surroundings" person. I have my flaws too but not to the extent where one complains for everything under the sun. And having seen army recruits and how they behave in camp first hand, i am not too sure about the robustness of our future generation.
Come on guys, please beef up a little.. both physically and mentally and not whine for every thing!
1) "Well, I feel that we need to appreciate the enormous effort put into the current elections by the opposition parties and its time to recognise their efforts."
2) "Elections.. dono laaaa.. jus go there and vote only... prob follow what my mother say la..."
3) "Oh... i confirm voting for opposition la... why u scared ah? Scary cat!"
4) "Don't care la... eh.. if voting for who then got more poges pakesh not?"
5) "My area contested not? Anyway what's my area ah?"
As you can see (from my small group of "surveyed" individuals), people of my age don't really have an acute sense of what exactly democracy means. They are more concerned with matters such as having more fields opened for sunday football games and stuff like that. So am I. And their claims that these elections are a waste of time, useless and what not just indicates their ignorance to local matters. So how did i choose my vote? Well the way i did so would probably give you an idea of who i might have voted for and since voting is secret, i shall not give away anything.. haha..
However, i do wish to give comments to Singaporeans in general.
Singaporeans generally are unable to appreciate the many things that we have in our nation. So much so that (according to the forum section in the new paper), someone wrote that 'the road signs on the expressway have all capital letters and it seems like the sign is "shouting" at road users and we should adhere to the standard of having only the first letter of the world in capitals'. Now if this isn't what you call ridiculous, i don't know what else is.
The very fact that we can drink water straight out of our tap is in itself an impossibility in most countries! And they can complain that NEwater is not healthy!!!
I am not saying i am a perfect "adapt to surroundings" person. I have my flaws too but not to the extent where one complains for everything under the sun. And having seen army recruits and how they behave in camp first hand, i am not too sure about the robustness of our future generation.
Come on guys, please beef up a little.. both physically and mentally and not whine for every thing!
posted by Shyam at 11:00 PM
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