004 Election Fever

In the wake of the recent Singapore General Elections, I am now right in the middle of another tide of election fever in school. In the Singapore GE, the incumbent party PAP won with a majority of 82 seats out of 84, and by using complex mathematicl formulae and statistics, we can conclude that the opposition has won 2 seats. The PAP won with a landslide victory and 66.6% of votes. But all this is not important now.

Currently, in my school, certain students who have been selected from nominations, and interviews are running for student council, the so-called most prestigous and exciting Co-curricular Activity in school. Of course some of us couldn't be bother to trouble ourselves with it, despite all that aforementioned benefits because we have better things to do. Not really, it's because after the interviews, there is a wonderful and fun social activity called campaigning for elections, and everyone just enjoy watching the candidates doing ridiculous stuff around the school like sticking stickers on people's lockers, chairs, clothes, ties, toilet seats, uriners in boys' toilets, dustbin and who knows where else. Oh, and there are also crazy publicity stunts by supporters of the candidates, but let's not go there yet. So, anyway, as the neutral observer and would be voter who will exercise my voting rights in about a week's time, i can't help but observe what some people do, amid all that sticker sticking, shouting, screaming, and talking.

So, here's the first scenario...

You walk into the toilet, hoping to urinate or do whatever people do in toilets nowadays, and as you enter the cubicle, you close the door. Lo and behold, as the door shuts, you catch a glimpse of something pink stuck on the door. Out of curiosity, you look closer and it reads, "vote of X". "Oh, well", you think, as you relief yourself. Then, as you flush, you notice something on the flush, and i guess you know what it reads. Fine then, you leave the cubicle and you wash your hands at the washbasin, and guess what, another sticker. No point reading it, you say to yourself. Hoping to get away from the craziness, you leave the toilet. As the toilet door swings shut, you notice something strange. Turning around, you see a sticker on the toilet sign (where the head of the man or woman figure used to be), and ,congratulations, you are halfway to insanity.

Not convinced how bad it is yet, here's another example...

Once upon a time, students used to have a bad fashion sense. There go around in outlandish styles, and skimpy clothes, so skimpy that any passing man (in a woman's case, of course) would immediately lose his orientation and hit a passing car, MRT door, dustbin, pillar, another amorous guy, unidentified flying objects etc. So, to avoid accidents, injuries, death, explaining to insurance companies about injuries, facing members of the press and alien sightings and abductions, schools have introduced uniforms so that all students actually look decent for a change and of course, to avoid accidents. However, despite all that effort, students have found new uses for school uniforms i.e. as some notice board, or billboard to place stickers on them (oh, you know what stickers) and once again displaying the bad fashion sense inherent in them. I mean, they walk around with stickers, ice cream sticks, cardboards, files, little pieces of papers and masking tape on virtually every part of the body. Of course, I don't have to mention that they look ridiculous, but as a consolation, they are actually more colourful and nicer to look at, and you find yourself staring at people whom you do not know and they produce a lot of rubbish, as in a matter of days, you will find pieces of goodness know what all over the floor. Frankly, they look like black or blackened pieces of party streamers strewn all over the floor, as if someone had a really big birthday bash. Oh, and after a few days, you will either be in a health institute or immune to all those stickers. In most cases, it is the latter, but i'm not denying that the former can happen.

Now that you know how happy i am during the election campaigning periods. I should further provide examples of the silly stunts people do in the coming blogs, if i'm not mad by then. So long...