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What kinds of developments do you see for Singapore in the future? In areas of migration/housing/transport infrastructure. Do you thing 6.9mil is sustainable for singapore's pop?

I think 6.9mil is sustainable, but not before we complete serious changes to our city.
You need to move people away from the city, was the congestion downtown, and have all this little other self-contained cities in the heartlands. Increase the number of public transport options, and increase underground spaces plus have enough residential options. Basically, infrastructure. The infrastructure must be there.

HAHAHAHA. Never. HAHAHAHA. I'm a girl and 9 years younger. But thanks for replying. Your answers were ... perspective, I would say. :')

Aww girl. Hello! Take my answers with a pinch of salt okay. I'm not always right.

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Are you a religious person? What does religion do for you? I feel estranged from my faith. ><.Maybe be I'll get it back in time to come.

I rejected religion.
Religion can be good. It can hold good sets of moral compasses. But the people of religion can be the most selfish, hateful, discriminating and ignorant of the lot. I do not want to be associated with them.

Do you think you were very different from when you were 18? Like has your perspective of the world changed? and how?

18. A bit more idealistic, a bit more callous, driven to destroy things that didn't fit into my view. But that's normal for any young idiot at that age. We felt good when someone says we're mature. We thought we knew the world already. Nope. So wrong. Worried too much about the little things, romance was a fantasy, not grounded into practicality.
27 now, I've learned to accommodate different views, accepted it all, and understand I, and other people, won't always be right about things. It also doesn't hurt to be nice to strangers. I smile and nod a lot to our cleaners, kopitiam aunties and service people. Doesn't cost you anything to give that moment of grace to someone.
... this answer can go on forever so I'll just stop.

Do you keep up with any sociopolitical sites? Eg Thehearttruths(I think this one is always BS w lots of smoking actually)/alvinology/online citizen/tre/Jeraldinephneah. etc etc?

THT is by Roy isn't it? Why would you read that crap?
I keep up with Mothership, and recently The Middle Ground, but I'm not very loyal. Usually they appear on my news feeds. I share whatever makes sense (or doesn't make any bloody sense).
I tend to stay away from personal blogs of drama queens who obviously can't learn to be happy anymore and are overly cynical about the things around them.

You lurk on sggayconfessions quite abit do you~~ hahahaha :)

A bit? A lot, actually. I leave comments only when I find something so stupid.

What's a typical work day like for you? and what is your job scope like?

I wake up at 6-7am, reach work about 930, but depends whether or not have I have a shoot in the photo studio. A good day has me ending at 6-630, then a long bus ride home, reaching about 8. Shower, dinner, I do my leisurely stuff, or catch up on my other work, then sleep around 2am latest.
On more busy days, I could be at work around 7am, and maybe be home by 1030pm or more.
I do what you expect from production work. Carry things, set up sets, make things look pretty... stuff I can do with my eyes closed.

meh. 😑😑. I wonder whether studying is really the best times of my life before I enter the horrors of the working world. 😑😑😑 A couple of years before that happens tho. Formal schooling. I mean. Miss it?

I hated studying. Coming out into the real world was a better choice for me. Sure, you have to spend quite a bit of tie trying to navigate the land, but that's why I like it. There's freedom. If you feel like doing something, you find a way.
In school, I could run far from things I thought was wasting my time, such as classmates, lousy lecturers, and subjects I just wasn't interested in. Obviously some of my choices then were naive, but the world is larger than the school compounds. You can almost always recover.
Some people can do with a lot of freedom, others can't. It's really up to the individual.

so true. i wish i had my political awakening in sec sch. i wish i learnt about governance (well there's social studies but i dint take it as my subject combination). everyone should have discussions about policies and economic and social problems in SG from a fairly young age.

it should be compulsory also for all final year O level kids, or first year Poly students to take finance modules too. Need to teach them how to do basic budgeting and how to save money from early.

if you were to be a politician, what would you fight for?

Education reform. We need to broaden our education experience, and teach critical thinking from a very young age. You need to instil a culture whereby the desire for knowledge is great. I find this a huge obstacle today through online comments and fights. People just don't want to broaden their minds. After the age of 30, their minds close. Not open to new ideas, new thoughts.
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the PAP are so good at praising themselves wtf. they're using tactics like gratitude vote seeking and also scaremongering. like if ppl dont vote for PAP and if the ward falls into the hands of the opposition, the days to come will be dark or smth..it's quite smart but also very manipulative.

This has been going on for decades and I think people can see past that already.

So they just compare the difference of the results from the previous election and the 2015 one? But that's unfair because there are people who want to vote for opposition, but the opposition competing in their ward is incompetent (like singfirst, reform party smh), so they vote for the incumbent.

They can abstain from voting, or spoil their vote. We have 46 thousand spoilt votes this year. I guess that says something.

what does "swing" stand for in the context of this election???? i see words like "swing", "landslide win", "new citizen voters" which i dont understand haha. help me?

The electorate (voters) are made up of three key groups; the pro-PAP, the pro-opposition, and the ones sitting on the fence, described as swing voters. They account for about 50% of the electorate. These are the people who are not committed to any party, or are apathetic, and vote for a variety of different reasons whether on a rationale, faith, or emotional level. The point of rallies, really, is to convince these swing voters to vote for either party, because the pro-PAP will always vote PAP, the pro-Opp will always vote for opposition. The deciding factor is really is the people who are on the fence. You want them to jump off into your side of the field.
Landslide win pretty much means a win with a huge margin between either camps. When you have a 70-30 win, that's quite a huge gap. A landslide. Overall for PAP this year was 10% more than opposition, which in the context of 2.5 million votes, is pretty huge.
New citizen voters are your new citizens lah. Your Indians, PRCs, Malaysians who have dropped their citizenships and became Singaporeans.

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as a malay, i am quite unhappy that ltk is the sec-general of the wp. his command of English is atrocious and he is not as eloquent as lhl, who can speak more than 2 languages. his rallies are mostly all in mandarin, i feel so left out because i can't understand him.

This was actually the same feeling I got from attending WP rallies, or watching it online. This is important. It seems pretty much that the WP is geared towards a Chinese-centric audience. And I don't just mean ethnically Chinese, I mean the kind who were Chinese-educated, Chinese-speaking and a Jack Neo-ish demographic. Just look at their supporters. What about the Chinese English-educated, English speaking? We can argue the other candidates are bit more.... 'modern', but when your party head is like that it doesn't give a good impression nor a good outlook as to who they will represent for Singapore.

You're very opinionated and I really like that. It was nice while our political discussions, albeit anonymously, lasted :-)

It's been fun too. Sorry I couldn't go into deeper detail as I've been so busy catching up with the news.

Is it possible for a Malay politican to win the support of voters without championing Malay-Muslim causes?

Yes. it is tiring to hear. I think when we keep focusing on certain problems and calling it 'our community problems', it tends to form some sort of bias. For example, Malay-Muslim problems in Singapore - Cannot study, no job, drug problem. It perpetuates a stereotype. If they want to fix it, fix it, fine.
But I think when you're on a higher level, in a rally for example, you need to go beyond, look at the overall picture and see beyond race and religion. If one wants to champion the people, you work for the people, not for one race. Everybody gets the benefit.
I haven't had my coffee so this answer is all over the place.
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Interesting, I like how you changed your opinion on casting a spoilt vote. It's good to have a core position but it is even more critical to be able to evaluate and rethink your stance. Respect 🙌🏽

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