As I mentioned in my earlier posts a couple of days ago, I have been politically apathetic for a long time, about 21 years to be frank. 2 weeks ago, I still haven’t had the slightest clue about which party to vote for, and even thought of forfeiting my vote. To put it simply, I didn’t care about whichever party that wins. It didn’t seem important to me in the past and present, and I reckon so for the future as well.
Thankfully, during the last day of my school, the whole class was buzzing with the upcoming general elections. And at that point in time, I was still clueless about whatever was going on, and just nodded my head when I saw my classmates agreeing with one another about the rally news. It was then when I felt too ignorant, and as a Singaporean, a young one, the supposed pillars of our society, I figured its never too late to catch up with the ongoing news about the election. With that, I began to start youtubing rallies by the various parties, read the newspapers (on a daily basis) about the elections (I don’t suscribe to the Straits Times so reading about it daily has been a big step), googling and visiting the GE website for latest updates about the elections and so on.
I must say that, one of the push factors, besides the excitement in school, would be the fact that a young Singaporean, only 24 years old, is actually an Opposition candidate and she is doing a great job at that. That put me to shame, simply because I’m only 2 years younger yet what do I know about politics? Shame – not in the sense that I should participate in the politics too, but rather I should be aware of what’s happening around me, afterall I’m a Singaporean. Continue reading
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