Let it be as you have said...

the campaign starts the minute they announced his submission of application for COE for Presidency

Buay. Tahan. Damn. Buay. Tahan. Kan. Si. Lang. Buay. Tahan.

The fucking very moment ChannelNewsAsia reported that Mr. Nathan "Singapore President Nathan running for second term", they follows with 2 reports immediately on:

NTUC backs President Nathan's bid for a second term - supported delightly by "NTUC and all of its 63 affiliated unions"

President Nathan's medical report shows he's fit despite old age - he is not super-duper-fit cause he is 81 years old (way past retirement age) but then he "can continue with his normal daily activities" by the Directors/Chairmen/Senior Advisors of the respective specialist centres.

All this was because there is someone who has submitted his/her application for a COE for running for President Election on Monday...

I was discussing with wife that we are seeing alot of Mr. Nathan in the media this year, actually, make it he was seen more in this year than ALL THE PREVIOUS 3 years.

My guess then was that

1) There will be voting for the next elected President - no more walk-over. BECAUSE we they need to test out the E-voting system and use this chance to proclaim that it is very secure, accurate and privacy of overseas e-voters are not violated. (And this will also be the chance that my wife will get her first go at voting at the age of 31.)

2) Mr. Nathan will be running again despite all the rumours that he will be retiring BECAUSE either

(a) they cannot find another more suitable candidate to take over him.

(b) there is actually someone who is qualified (out of the 400 or 4000 over people that passed the freaking strict criteria which essentially limits it to almost everyone who passed to be the elites).

so they better beef him up in the limelights to remind everyone what a nice and adorable President that he was. This is what the newspaper reported, I do not know how true it is when they say he is a super-duper-nice-kind-benevolence-man because I have never met him before.

So how? Next on - the election talks about e-voting and we'll get to see more and more reports/ comments by Political writers & MPs on how Mr. Nathan will be the PERFECT guy to go for the second term despite being at the good old ripe age of 81.

posted by the spear carrier @ 5:16 PM