I am been reading my twitter regarding the election. I suddenly remember few years back, one of my China colleague asked me some political question.

He asked me, “Do Singaporean vote for opposition party?”

I still remember what I answered to him. I told him, we have no opposition party to vote. My area have been walkover for a few elections.

However, this elcection I do see good opposition but sad to say my area do not have one. This means you can just guess who I will vote for. Seriously, I do still hope PAP still be in control of the Parliament and have some opposition party in it too. Like what the government, being solo is not good. See the casino example, Singapore built 2. I dun find a need but the government wants to built 2. So they they can be challenge to one another.

Even though I am happy with PAP on the whole but I must say I do not wish my GST to increase to 10% and my HDB to be even more expensive. Even if u tell me my HDB is still the same price 10 years later, I am relatively quite alright since I dun plan to see my HDB. I work in construction industry and let me just tell u. The construction cost itself is only about 50% of the selling price. Let me just plus some misc cost of 20%. Our flats is still hike up higher by 30%!! HDB do earn your interest from the loan they provide for you to buy. I am really sorry but I do not accept any reasons from HDB. It sound like excuses to me. Singapore is encouraging couples to get married earlier but with the high flat cost. We tend to consider before marrying. My bf and I belong to middle low income group which just exceed the 3K income celling for 3 room flats. It is actually not easy for us to pay for the loan plus have kids. As such, many couple who just get marry will usually be paying for wedding cost and flat loan. With these in mind, who will want to have kids?

Second thing is the living cost. I believe I do not need to say anything regarding this. We do not earn that much to spend so much. I remembered last time S$50 can buy lots of grocery but now maybe some meat and little veggies is about all. I always tell people that if your income is not increasing by more than 5% per year then you are actually earning lesser per year because the inflation rate is about 5% per year. This is why now people like to buy in bulk to enjoy the discount. I can’t imagine that one day Singapore GST become 10%. Believe it or not, Britain do not have these shit. Want to compare with a similar country? Hong Kong do not have GST too. Imagine during dinning where have to pay 20% for a meal. I guess I will start learning not to dine outside. It will become a bad cycle because once people dun spend outside, the economy dun grow. We learn that wall street crash on 1929 before and it will do again if we return to such situation again. You might not know that Singapore is actually one of the country who doesn’t have much spending power despite our country is rich.

I consider quite sometimes before posting this entry but I really would say I vote for PAP again not because I feel that they are fantastic but because my MP is really doing his job so far in making my neighborhood nice and solve some of my family problem last time. I am thankful to them for the safe and peace country. Today I finally feel quieter because it is cooling day and no more advertise of parties. A small advise to the opposition party is to appear more in the community and not just before the election.