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Here I am giving Nicole Seah the place of honour for today's GE post, ha ha.


Actually, I was getting really sad thinking about the GRC situation. It is the main, major, mighty reason why I have not voted in past elections. It was only in recent days that I realised how disgruntled I feel about this. To think that I will be a first-time voter (i.e. if things happen as we think they will) only this year. At my age... hmmph...

As we know, there are many people in this 21st century world, who do not have the privilege of voting. Some will still never get a sniff at it, even though this is the 21st century, and some are right now going out to the streets, risking their lives and even losing their lives, to fight for this privilege. To think that here in - ahem - First World S'pore, so many of us have not had this privilege for so many years.

But things are looking up. The colour and feel of this year's GE make me remember the colour and feel of elections ante-GRC.

And I look at the spruced up parties and young people like Nicole Seah, as well as the older ones who have come forward, and I feel that maybe I will no longer have to be so glum and gloomy after all. Because the colour and feel are not completely like the elections ante-GRC; there is a new touch of class to today's colour and feel, at least from some sectors, and I warmly welcome it.

Let's go, fellow countrymen and women!
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