Wednesday, April 05, 2006 @3:36 PM
from gayle to bonnie and now me.. check this out
http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/index.htmlthe other side of singapore politics or the other view on singapore politics. of course, what they say tend to be biased but they do have profound backing. i really admire the democrats sometimes. being driven to bankruptcy or humiliation most of the times, they are still determined to stand for the cause. truly it's all about free speech and freedom to vote.
i asked my mum the other day, why not she vote for the democrats if we don't have a walkover. my mum's reaction "are you crazy? you will be black-listed!" so much for voting. i think i asked jo who lived in the opposition party who their family voted for. apparently, they just gave a null vote. i'd do that too. it's not because i am anti-P A P or pro-S D P, i'm definitely not very interested in singapore politics nor would i like to put myself in hot soup. definitely P A P has provided us lots of goodies, but it's really a socialist state when we are trying to claim ourselves to be democratic. we are not democratic. period.
and sometime i've doubts about L K Y. if you read our history sbq notes, you will realize that he was actually a english-speaking ah-beng. pointing fingers at opposition, shouting, collaborations to achieve his ultimate aim, steathily converting to a different path when the communists lose their value. and gayle was telling us how he was indeed a communist when in the 1960s, mind you, guys were not allowed to have long hair, and they were made to do OT in the back scene to achieve this equality thing.
yes elections are here. and my parents got their progress package. i'm doubtful about the govt spending so much money to pacify their citizens. after elections, it's gonna be a time of gloom, and oh, we need pay cuts. we need to tax more.
politics is such a senstive issue to talk about in singapore. i might be a suspect of the opposition. have seeyun arrested.