ooh rallies are one fun get-together!

the worker's party is garnering strength and in my opinion, they have a good chance of clinching more places in parliament. went for their rally at serangoon just now and there was so much fanfare. haha. people were waving those little white flags with hammers and chanting worker's party worker's party! it almost overwhelmed me, noticing the extent of personal participation that singaporeans are showcasing. i must have been standing in the hard-core worker's party supporters' section, otherwise there wouldn't have been people wearing shirts emblazoned with 'YES! i'm voting for opposition' (yep that was quoted from the shirt, no 'the' before the 'opposition'), huge placards with 'I LOVE SYLVIA' on it or citizens clapping furiously at every sentence from the speaker.

well, then there was this group of ah bengs behind me who kept laughing at the 'wei guo wei min' yellow banners that accompanied low tia khiang onstage when he started his speech. hmm.

the best part was the way cars were parked in the area encircling serangoon stadium. there were cars parked on the kerb, on double yellow lines, on the left lane of the public road, on the grass patch beside the stadium where the occupants were still sitting in the car and there were people just standing around their car. never seen before in singapore, only surfacing during elections. brings about the worst in people, don't u think? in both everyday singaporeans and our election candidates as well. all these rallies where our ministers-to-be shoot down any opposition with any methods available, whether or not they are nice or nasty, personal or otherwise. you'd think they were incapable of being rude or demeaning given their polite, efficient ruling for the past 5 years. and then u finally see them getting challenged openly in a war of words, see the loopholes in their policies being prised wide open, and relish the pinpoint of their every slip of the tongue; which then makes you think whether or not you've been blindly led by them for these past 5 years.

well, tmr's polling day. we'll see the outcome inevitably. it's been a good election campaign season though, breaks the monotony of the monopoly.

ooh i kinda like the last phrase. hahaha.