oh well done! 57 seats contested by the opposition! it isn't so much who wins - of course the pap will - but it will get a lot of apathetic voters off their behinds, who find that they have to vote for a change, instead of just saying, aiyah whatever lah, walkover right, who cares what happens in potong pasir, we live in jurong and don't have to vote. just the opportunity and experience of going to the polls for young people like ourselves would be wonderful in itself. (ought i say young people like ourselves? or am i effectively an old boot? cindy, as i recall, went about advocating the joys of being in one's "twilight twenties." oh give over, my darling, we're nearly thirty and had better damned well face it. and remember, von says i haven't got the beauty or the brains to find a man. shelf! she cries wildly, climbing onto one.) based on this tentative list of contested wards - well yen lives in tampines and cindy is either yiochukang or angmokio or sembawang. julian and su-lin are surely bukit timah. that leaves addy who i understand under tanjong pagar so obviously no go. i suppose poach is the only one who won't be going to the polls because she is probably marine parade or bedok? (see! the fact that i know exactly where everyone lives but don't know where they vote shows that the election boundaries are ridiculous and arbitrary and unclear to the man on the street.)