Couldn't believe my ears

Well, I decided to looks for some statistics that would back up what I thought I heard on TV last night. But what I found was different from what I heard!


Here goes:

The population 'bulge' is moving upwards but over 70s are not as big a bloc as I thought I heard the CNA presenters say. My fault!

Our Sun Times finally arrived and so we could have our Sunday 'read'.  

Back to Boring

Woke up to more of the same. 

On the surface nothing has changed in post-Presidential Elections Singapore of August 28, 2011.

Toadie Tan won by a margin slimmer than a skimping restaurant’s slice of jamon iberico.

But hope springs eternal and I hope that the ruling party and government do not continue to deny the presence of the elephant in the room.

It has grown from little Dumbo to a huge Jumbo.

The people of Singapore want more value for their money and less elitism; the Pyramid Club is not the only society with brains and ability. In part, thanks for this must go to our new citizens.

I suspect that my fellow Singaporeans are not going to be satisfied with the status quo.

Toadie was expected to win comfortably but the margin suggests that even new Singaporeans think before they cast their votes.

The majority of old, the very rich, the inner circle, the kiasu continue to vote for the ‘safe’ choice. 

Paradoxically, the "uncles and aunties"  form a significant bloc (CNA said last night that The 70+ or 75+ years of age account for something like 25 or more percent of Singaporeans). 

I say that because this is the group that has a less than  comfortable old age - having trouble making ends meet  -evIdenced by many of them working clearing tables in food centres.

A win by Dr Tan Cheng Bock (“Doc”) would have meant a new spring in our collective step. 

Hobbled though the Presidency might be, he would have brought fresh air into our our tightly controlled bubble.

This election also showed that the obedient mainstream media was not a match for the updates from the likes of Facebook (I don’t tweet). 

The paucity of news at 7:00am this morning and the feed was from the wire services shows what a lack of competition can do.

No doubt editors were hotly debating headlines and photographs but in the meantime early risers had themselves for company at coffee shops on our tiny speck of an island.