bah! if, as the straits times tell me, a general election is not going to be announced any time soon, (and it's very ci di wu yin san bai liang isn't it? oh nono, we're telling you wer're not having an election, we're just getting ready for when there is one. by the way i love saying "gahmen." or probably, this being singapore, "Gahmen" with a capital G.) then why should there be a specific registration period for overseas voters? i have just been to the elections department website and found i missed the overseas voting registration deadline, which was, hah, between 28 sept 2004 and 18 oct 2004. suspicious indeed. are they already anticipating an election and so needed a cut off date so that they can tally the overseas register? why can't registration be rolling up to the point that polling day is announced, and then having a retroactive cut-off date from the announcement of polling date? but then this could just be like julian and his NAC auditions.

although it emerges that i probably wouldn't have been able to register anyway because i haven't got myself restored to the registry of electors yet. we were all in college the last elections, but hougang was actually contested, so i got struck for not voting. i don't actually know how to restore myself to the registry. i have a passport photocopy but i'm not sure what virginia documentation i actually have to show i was in schoo then. transcript? (costs money!) acceptance letter? (threw that out though) hm.

also, i would have to go to dc to vote, which is a nuisance, but i guess i can stay with christine, and getting out of school is always a good thing.

was looking at the map of constituencies - isn't it pathetic how few SMCs there are. and hougang which is that little splash of dark pink half swallowed up by aljunied. we look tiny, don't we? *sniff* i want to go home and i want to vote, if there is a general election. i hope it's not till july or something, but that's probably too close to national day?