Sum up GE2011

It has been 35 hours since all the Election Results were released. This shall be my last post regarding GE2011.

During the announcement of results, i was fully active on the twitter. Apart from tweeting the upon the official annoucement of results, i also keep in contact with friends from the elections and keeping an eye on the TV about the speech given after the result release.

We finally re-write history. With an opposition party winning a GRC, we finally have 6 seats from the Worker Party. Reading through the GE History of Singapore, i realise that this was a great improvement. However, GE2011 Results makes me sad. Some final thoughts to close my mind from the GE2011/

1. The lost of George Yeo
Yes, i cried. To some, it make felt silly but he is one great man. Though some ppl may felt that he was snobbish at the begining, but i know he is good now, and he has changed. This shows that he can changed and he will change the government. However, he lost by 9.41%. No blames to the Aljunied GRC resident. It was really a good battle. Both Low Thia Kiang and Sylvia Lim are good politician and i truly believed that they will bring happiness to the A-GRC residents. Though said so, i'm really concern about George Yeo's next step. I do not want to see him missing in Singapore Politics, but if he goes for upcoming Presidential Election, i will also feel that it is a lost of talent. He will be able to make use of his talent better if he is a Minister or MP. With the lost of A-GRC, what is going to happen to him now?

2. 2 parties government.
With the lost of Potong Pasir SMC from SPP to PAP, and Mr Chiam losing the batter in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, we no longer have SPP-MP for the next five years. I always feel that NCMP and MP are very different due to the voting rights in certain issues. Having more oppositon voice in the government may be what we wanted, but i want different voices from different party. Now it literally down-graded from 3-parties gov to 2-parties gov, is this still a first world parliament?

3. 44,714 baka
Among the 2,057,690 votes this year, 44,714 votes are rejected. I heard ppl saying that they mark a TICK on the voting slip in the Polling Station that i went. Why are there such ppl? Cannot follow simple instructions? Maybe before reprimanding such ppl, our political party SDA is also having the same issue. In their early posters (one of the SMC) tighted to the lamp post, they actually asked ppl to tick beside their party logo. Oh dear, if the politician/party make such a mistake, i guess i cannot blame the 44,714 citizens. Afterall, it is a virgin vote to man of us.

4. An airhead
There is no need to talk more about the airhead. I do not know how much is her contributions to the grassroots. She may be good, as a grassroots leader. Then stay so. She is still a bit far from be coming an MP. But since elected, i'm looking forward to her great improvement (if any).

5. MP whose wife is US citizen
For those who followed my tweeter, my apologies. Today when reading the newspaper, i notice that his children are sg citizens. Seems like the old internet source are unreliable. Previously i read about the US citizenship of his wife & children on the internet and i concluded that it will be damn easy for him to get a green pass in the event of crisis etc. However, with the new information from the newspaper, i no longer know if it is easy for him to get a green pass. May he fufill what he say to the press.

6. Will the 6 WP MP tackle the existing issues?
With this new combination of the Parliament, i'm looking forward to the first Parliamentary Session by this new government. I'm wondering how the 6 MP will tackle the existing issues. I hope they put their focus on the issues related to the people of Singapore, and don't put all their focus on the minister pay. Seriously speaking, i don't care much about the pay part. If there is one thing that i'm concern, it will be the huge number of FT in SG. In fact, i realise this is one that caused the singaporean daily frustration when commuting to & fro the workplace.

7. Goodbye Mr Chiam, Hello NCMP Lina Chiam, Hello MP Sitoh Yih Pin
I assuming that he is retiring. I think the Bishan-Toa Payoh Battle is really a good one. I think this is one of the best way for his retirement. Lina Chiam's Potong Pasir fight was probably a small interesting story as compared to the A-GRC. But it is probably one of the most re-counted in the history with the results annoucing at 3am, 7hours after the close of Polling Station. with 114 votes difference and 247 invalid votes, i believe it wasn't a beautiful win for Sitoh Yih Pin. Many will still think and wonder about the 247 invalid votes, are they for Mrs Chiam? But well, Sitoh Yih Pin finally made it. His 3rd fight in Potong Pasir SMC and he finally won. I'm looking forward to see how he is going to change the Potong Pasir and his contribution toward the parliamentary session.

Last but not least, let's take a look at the video of our biggest lost for GE2011