Well done Chiam and Low!

You both have gained on percentages and shown that you have the support of your constituency. That is a seat worth sitting on unlike the blokes who would like to represent my area.

I am sure there will be a PAPy spinning of the results. Given that I was switching from the channelnewsasia.pap.sg to National Geographic and CNBC, there was a very interesting number that appeared. On National Geographic, they were showing an episode from "Secret Bibles" and in that there was a section that talked about the anti-Christ and mentioned stuff like the 666 as being the mark of the devil. Wonder where else the 666 appeared? The average that the PAPy got was 66.6%. I am sure the astute among the PAPy will find a way to change it - and will probably use the overseas voters to make the number look less sinister.

I can help them here. If they were to take the total number of votes in their favour and divide it against all of the voters assuming that there was a minimum of 20% across the board for the "walkover" wards, then it might not look so sinister. But then, who would want to use a silly western liberal idea?

I was channel surfing and it was apparent to me that there is really no interest or care by the mediacorp.gov.sg folks to ensure that the voting coverage is in all four languages. They only did it in 3 with the Tamil station being a copy of the Chinese station. Maybe I am being dense here. Maybe not.

After Jay Leno's slot from 10 - 11 pm, CNBC carried a show called "American Made" in which the current Chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises was being interviewed. She is the daughter of the founder of Playboy and what was very interesting is how she was able to hold her ground and defend the business and also emphasize that it is the US constitution's first amendment that makes for the strength of the US and the business they have. Juxtapose that with the suppression we have here. Firstly, no freedom to blog, podcast, run opinion polls, exit polls etc.

It is great that the pork barrel politics done by the PAP at Hougang and Potong Pasir backfired. I am disappointed that Chok Tong, of all people, said all that.

Who will be the NCMP? By the constitution, we need to have 3 opposition MPs at a minimum. We have 2 already and the 3rd has to be filled in by the loser with the most votes. By the looks of it (and the damn elections.gov.sg site is freaking slow - running on Windows I think), it will be the WP team from the Aljunied GRC. So, would it be James Gomez or Sylvia Lim?