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Have been busy lately from work. I have fully recovered from my stomach cramp, gastric pain. However, i lost 3kg during this period. Cant believe it. I am already VERY skinny. Imagine losing another 3kg, i look like a skeleton. Yucks! Well, a couple of my colleagues acknowledge that i grew thinner.

Will be resuming my eating habit slowly. Will also visit the gym more often to gain my muscle mass. During this period, i stopped visiting the gym. Spent most of the time at work or at home. By theory, you should grow fat, but for me it work the other way. ha...

Anyway, election is coming soon. Everyone is gearing up for the upcoming election. The incumbent party is coming strong, hoping to get a strong mandate from us. The opposition, hmm, still struggling but not sure if they can make it.

PAP has been introducing its new candidate over the media lately. All of them have good credentials, clean background, willing to serve the people. However, i notice something. Most of them came from the upper class. Here i mean, either from well to do family or very educated pple. Here's the problem.

Can they really see what kind of problem the poor or low income family are facing. Well, they did help out in a few MPS but that doesnt mean they really know. I mean they based on wat they think to help pple out.

I see the sincerity in them except they can never really understand what the pple are going thru. Let me pose a simple question, "Have they ever feel how it is like to get retrench or probably on the verge of a retrenchment?" Pple may argue that u dun need to go thru all these to be a MP. Yes, that's true. But if someone who is more heartlander becomes our MP, of course, we are more than happy to accept.

How many of the new candidates are heartlander like us? Come on, they are either lawyers, doctors, senior civil servant, lecturer or businessman. Can they be heartlanders? They might be one in the past. Now, things have changed esp after they moved up in their careers. Remember, most Singaporeans live in HDB flats.

In the past, many MPs were very grassroot. They are able to understand pple like us better. Eventually, they got a very strong mandate from us. Pple like Ong Ah Heng, i heard a lot of stories abt him. I respected him a lot. If he is in my constituency, i will give him my upmost support.

Anyway, it's my 2 cents worth. I shall not venture further in case i get into trouble. I am voicing out my little opinion from a young voter point of view. If there are pple from the incumbent or opposition youth wing, feel free to enlighten me. I am open to all kind of thoughts.