Hazy weekend

(This post was written and completed last Monday, 14/9, but I just didn't get it published somehow.  Today's 21/9, another weekend had gone by.  Better late then never...)


Another long weekend came and went.  Back to Monday blues and work and endless deadlines..

This long weekend,

(1) There was a joke circulating on polling day, that says "Breaking News:  PM will be changed tonight.  At midnight, PM will change to AM". 

The night (pm) on polling day turned out to be much longer than usual for a lot of people, because we stayed up to the wee hours to watch the election results.  It was super fun and exciting.  I thought I won't stay up past 12am, but I was hooked, and I tahan to 2.30am.  Then I slept with the TV on.  At slightly after 3am, WK's phone rang.  We woke up to see LTK giving half hearted thank you speech for winning Aljunied.  Finally, I can switch off the TV.

(2) I'm getting really old.  Sat, I woke up at about 9am, sent Lynn to class at 1045, and savoured my Cappuccino and the newspaper reports of a landslide win for PAP till 1pm.  By 2pm (after lunch), my body reacted violently to the late night.  I fell ill. And I was ill for the whole of Sunday

(3) The haze returned, so I stayed in and in bed for the whole of Sunday, till dinner time.  Lynn was so sweet.  She voluntarily did some house work, and gave me quite a lot of downtime on Sat and Sun. 

After thoughts about the election.  There were a lot of analysis about why the opposition lose big time.  I am happy that my prediction that the overall % for our incumbents will increase is right.  It also proves that those extremely nasty govt bashing junks on internet are indeed not from the majority of our population.  As for what is the real reason for the swing (LKY effect, or silent majority effect, etc, whatever), it is anybody's guess, cos nobody has any data to prove it.  And it is for the govt and the oppositions to figure it out.  I like LHL's saying that we vote more PAP to make the oppositions work harder.  I still like LTK and SL, so I hope they figure out that they can't be as complacency as they had been from 2011 - 2015.  They need to contribute constructively to our country too.

Finally, I like to believe that the real reason is that we, the silent majority, made the difference.  Here's an analysis that I like most, because it's what I like to believe:
https://atans1.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/must-read-jg-explains-the-results/