Thursday, May 18, 2006

the technicality issue

For most of the GE 2006, I ignored or skimmed through all the news reports on PAP except those where they bombard-ed the Alternative Parties. On the Friday before the Polling day, I went a jogging at Sengkang along the LRT SouthWest route starting from Cheng Lim station. Along the deserted road, there are many PAP and SDA posters hanging on the lamp posts, as they are both contesting for the Pasir Ris - Punggol GRC (I wondered how did SengKang fit into Pasir Ris - Punggol equation, but that's the UNIQUELY SINGAPORE GE thing when it comes to GRC boundaries).

So along the first few lamp-posts, the PAP posters shown was the 6-men team leaded by Teo Chee Hean. Funny why both parties bothered to hang the posters there as it is inhabited and the LRT stations are not operational too. Maybe they are targeting the joggers but I think it will most likely back-fired psychologically. How will you feel if u are panting heavily short of breath while all the candidates do is to smile at you fighting for air?

After a few hundred meters down the road, across 2 traffic junctions, I saw that the faces in the PAP posters changed upgraded from Teo Chee Hean to junior Lee?!? So SengKang is effectively split into 2 parts with 1 half under the Pasir-Ris - Punggol GRC and the other half grouping under junior Lee AMK GRC. And then I past by the construction site for the new SengKang Sports Complex, which is just beside the Sungei Punggol. And then I realized this the new SengKang Sports Complex that the Teo Chee Hean and his team members have said that "Residents in Pasir Ris and Sengkang can look forward to sports complexes" in his election speeches/interviews.

And while admiring the construction as I dream of swimming and/or jogging in the new SengKang Sports Complex, I realized that this SengKang Sports Complex is not within our Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC boundaries. IT IS TECHNICALLY LOCATED WITHIN THE AMK GRC, even though it is in called SengKang Sports Complex.

Not that I am very particular about the imaginary line drawn by the boundaries of both GRCs but hor, if it not within your GRC, please don't claimed that "It has been promised a sports hall and swimming pool in Pasir Ris, and a sports complex in Sengkang." It's a tiny weeny bit misleading, right?

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