Elections 2006: Aftermath
Grr Chua Chu Kang voted for whatshisname from the PAP. Steve Chia was so much better! And if you look at whatshisname and Steve Chia, who do you think looks better (literally)? Shouldn’t a leader have charisma and passion?
The people fronting the PAP are just a bunch of small, uncharismatic, dispassionate people. One look at them and you KNOW this isn’t what a leader is supposed to be. The 3 Prime Ministers so far have embodied the qualities of a leader, and let’s face it: looks play a very important part in likeability. The remaining people from the PAP do not look right. They just don’t look right.
Chiam See Tong is one of those people who looks exactly like a leader. I saw his picture in the newspaper, and knew this was a good guy. Then Dad and I attended the CCK rally where Chiam spoke for a few minutes. You cannot not vote for this guy. So no surprise there when he won back Potong Pasir (and the votes for him increased too!)
But grrr… CCK! What’s going on?! *shakes fist*
Anyway… Back to Mom.
Did I mention that the disagreement between us (actually, it was her versus the 3 of us) was because of the Gomez incident?
Haha… tomorrow’s headlines: “Gomez destroys families”.
Apparantly she didn’t like uh, Gomez lying because it triggered some long forgotten memory of how her first boyfriend cheated on her or something (it was a joke. I really dunno). Since Gomez was part of the WP, she thus hated the WP.
I always root for the underdog. Dad wants a true democracy, and thus he wants more opposition members in Parliament. Sis doesn’t really care much for elections, but she sympathises with Gomez.
So the Female Hormonal Instincts began to play.
Just to note that my mother has never been politically inclined. Never. All she did was wonder why her colleagues vote for the PAP automatically. And she herself said that she was a little more inclined towards the opposition.
Then after the argument, she did a 180 and became Pro-PAP.
When Hougang was won back by WP, she just exploded. Oh God. Said something along the lines of ‘Hougang people are so stupid. Li Ao was right, Singaporeans are stupid.’ She never stayed up to even watch the elections 5 years ago, and never cared about Hougang belonging to WP, but NOW… She’s becomes so pro-PAP.
Then when the PAP won back Aljunied with 53% (only!), she clapped her hands and exclaimed she was so happy. And it wasn’t genuine happiness. It was a ‘HAHA I WON’ at Dad and I. Those ‘rub it in your face’ antics.
It was just another plot to grab attention.
I can’t stand how my mother acts so childish whenever she’s angry. It’s extremely agitating.
I LOVE Keira Knightly.
I think she’s a beautiful, beautiful girl.
Dear Mom
One thing I dislike about my mother is that she doesn’t speak very good English, but insists on speaking it because she doesn’t want be percieved as a Chinese (as in a person who was born in China). Problem is, the more broken English she speaks, the worse the stereotype gets.
And then when she gets agitated, her voice grows higher and higher. Her voice is literally shrill. You can feel your eardrums vibrating with the 100 decibels she emits from her mouth. Accompanied with her broken English, it’s not exactly the most pleasant sound one needs to hear.
And then there’s the emotion that comes with agitation. If she senses that the person she talks to doesn’t agree with her (me, who else) she’ll do all sorts of things. Throw pots and pans, slam the door (twice in a row, in that she opened the door and slammed it again), talk to herself (very loudly) about how ungrateful her children are… I remember at one point she broke the frying spatula and threw it at me (but that was a really long time ago). And then there’s the ’silent treatment’, where she won’t talk to you for a week.
The thing is, We Don’t Really Care. Dad and Sis included, although the former tends to apologize and the latter cools the situation before anything bad happens.
I know my mother. All these actions are just an attempt to grab attention, or for someone to say sorry, or do something to make her feel better. Dad may do that, because he loves her more than anything in the world. But I don’t feel any sympathy towards my mother, instead, it’s just indifference. Because I KNOW what she wants. And I do all in my power not to give it. Because I haven’t done anything wrong.
Haha… I guess I got that extremist attitude from my mother then. Two stubborn, uncompromising people in the house, sharing the same trait. Something is bound to go wrong.
EDIT: Oh yes, make sure to read Sis’s dream. It’s hilarious. I laughed til I cried.
Ooo. Memory loss.
JJC people, remember Valerie Tan? The one who became Prom Queen or some shit? The popular OGL? The really skinny girl with long pretty hair and really good skin?
Apprantly I’ve been with her for 12 years. She was schooled in Raffles Girls’ Primary, then moving on to Crescent, and finally JJC. So did I.
Huh. Don’t remember her in Crescent. Then again, I never remember anything in Crescent.
I think I was one of her classmates in primary school during one of those years. Can’t remember. I used to think she was very attractive, except that her eyes were too far apart. The only encounter I remember I had with her was some argument. She was standing in front of the blackboard while I was sitting down. Then while she was arguing with me she produced a bubble from her mouth. You know those times when you just talk and then you feel a bubble in your mouth, then it bursts? Yeah, I remember seeing that, and I thought to myself, ‘She must talk like that all the time. Bubbles in her mouth 24/7.’
So her argument didn’t seem very serious after that. So wtvr.
