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One of the reasons I care deeply about exercising my vote in the upcoming Singapore elections:
While I don’t consider myself a deeply patriotic person, I am deeply connected to Singapore. I have deep roots there. I know every nook and cranny of the land. I’ve lived and loved across the island. I love and hate it in equal parts.
With distance, I note that while I feel increasingly detached from it on the day to day level: in that I have not, in a decade or more, been a person from there who struggles with train breakdowns or increase in prices, but I care for it on a big picture level.
My leading political theory for Singapore in the ‘20s and beyond: I believe the Chinese state has increasing designs on Singapore as a vassal state. For more than a decade they’ve been throwing out the ideas of ‘y’all Chinese anyway’ (not true); seeded all kinds of spies, etc.
I’m interested, on a geopolitical level, in what it means to be a Singapore citizen. Exercising my right to vote in my own sovereign nation, feels important to me in that context. I think this is the single biggest existential crisis for the country in this decade and next.
Oh shit we have a crypto bro running as an independent in the upcoming Singapore elections. He wants to create a SGD denominated coin
‘34 year old retireee’
The Straits Times · GE2025: ‘PAP doesn’t believe in gambling,’ says Gho Sze Kee on Mountbatten rival’s Bitcoin ideasMany residents told her they rejected independent candidate Jeremy Tan’s ideas, said PAP’s Mountbatten candidate. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
I liked this video of the Leader of the Opposition, Pritam Singh.
The fact that we even have this official position at all makes me happy. When I was a teenager there, I vividly remember that Election Day was always just a holiday: the ruling party won almost every seat without contest.
There’s another video of his colleague Sylvia Lim, she talks about how she was spurred into action to join the difficult work of opposition party politics because of her shock at how we rarely had contested elections, 23 years ago.
I think Pritam has articulated a clear and attainable goal: of achieving 1/3 of the seats in Parliament (for them, or for any opposition combined). That’s a significant number because in our parliamentary democracy, you need 2/3 of the vote to change the Constitution.
I’ve found out this election season that people call our new prime minister Voucher Wong. (He likes giving out vouchers. I’m not opposed to getting regular money from my government, but they don’t address the structural issues of why we need them in the first place
CNAVouchers not a long-term solution, government spending much more on structural programmes: PM WongThe more sustainable way to tackle the cost of living is to ensure that Singaporeans enjoy higher real incomes, supported by a strong economy and productivity gains, says Prime Minister Lawrence Wong after a three-day debate on the Budget.
One of Lee Kuan Yew's sons (the one who didn't become Prime Minister) has a NYT op-ed where he says Singapore has gone from 'benevolent autocracy' to just autocracy. I agree.
Most of my life I lived right next to this food centre. When I was there I was so snooty about it, I thought it was genuinely the worst food and that I would never bother. (I would travel to other food centres...)
Now I'd be happy with a fraction of any of this hahah
https://sethlui.com/west-coast-market-square-food-guide-singapore/
The Singaporean ruling party leaked some ‘unsavory’ evidence about someone competing with them. Turns out it’s chats where he’s mad at the largest Singapore bank and telco, which actually maybe makes him more relatable. (fuck Singtel now and forever)
Meanwhile the ruling party is the one with a Cabinet minister in a bribery scandal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1kaskhb/wp_candidate_andre_low_previous_leaked_chats/
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Every once in a while I'm reminded I wrote a Huge List of Singapore Food so I can send it to people when they ask.
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Current round of conversations reminds me that I do find it funny that the nasi lemak is considered the de facto national dish of the country, to the point that people are very confidently stating it as fact, when I'm from the part of the country that gets slated for being "99% Melayu" and let me tell you, having decent-to-good nasi lemak is an actual recent phenomenon... Because it's not our food XD (and tbf there's a stronger connection between the south and Riau Islands, but Riau people share stuff like songket and nasi dagang with mine XD, though because of the Arabian trading history, ours is chockful of fenugreek seeds... To the point that apparently Kedahans* can't help adding them to their nasi lemak)
*Can't get any older Malay kingdom than them.
#tootSEA #malaysia #MakanApaToday (the thing about capital cities and their navelgazing)
Singapore prime minister tells a crowd of people who mostly live in public housing that a wealth tax will negatively impact people who live in ‘landed’ housing (that only the rich can afford). Silence ensues. Great.
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i'm always sad i don't have the negatives from my early film days. but this was from my first roll of film on my first solo travel, exactly 20 years ago in cambodia.
i was 18 and i decided to travel to cambodia by land. eventually, i made it here. All photography does this for me, but especially with film: it reminds me of exactly where I was and what I felt, at the time.
Malaysians bite back at Bill O’Reilly’s ‘poor’ claims: ‘we have free healthcare, grandpa’ https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3307939/malaysians-bite-back-bill-oreillys-poor-claims-we-have-free-healthcare-grandpa?utm_source=rss_feed
South China Morning Post · Malaysians poor? ‘We have free healthcare, grandpa,’ they tell Bill O’ReillyThe US political commentator drew the ire of Malaysians by suggesting they were too poor to buy a hat or afford a proper meal.
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My least favorite part of Singapore elections is the xenophobia.
We have ‘interesting’ xenophobia though coz it’s mainly from the Singaporean Chinese population towards those other Chinese people who are ‘not like us’, recent mainland Chinese immigrants who arrived in Singapore.. 20-80 years after our own grandparents did.
Every urbanist who praises my home country Singapore's 'social housing' should also be beat over the head with the EIP: there are strict racial quotas (and heterosexual marriage rules) for social housing
https://kontinentalist.com/stories/hdb-ethnic-integration-policy
my friend at UW has an exciting new book in the works:
"How to Kin an Animal: Malayophone Folklores and Race in Southeast Asia, is a decolonial project aiming to render visible epistemologies from the Global South. It examines animal lores and tropes in literature and film from the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia to articulate ‘the Malayophone’ as a bioregional imagined community that is interspecies and inter-Asian in nature."
asian.washington.eduThree AL&L Assistant Professors Awarded Simpson Center First Book Fellowships | Asian Languages & Literature | University of WashingtonThree Assistant Professors in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature -- Nazry Bahrawi (Southeast Asian Program), Ungsan Kim (Korean Program), and Joe Marino (South Asian Program) -- have been awarded First Book Fellowships by UW's Simpson Center for the Humanities. These fellowships provide funding for assistant professors to devote intensive attention to first book manuscripts that are near completion.
Overseas Singaporeans who registered to vote abroad just received emails with voting details containing their district information and logistics for voting.
For me, I will walk down the street to Market St to our San Francisco consulate, show my digital ID on my phone and cast my vote there.
I like the provision that anyone who registerd to vote abroad but happens to be home on the day of 3 May can also just go to a local in-person polling station. You just have to make a declaration that you haven’t already voted.
FOSS advocate @harishpillay is standing for elections at Singapore’s upcoming election! He will be contesting Bukit Gombak with the PSP