John Edwards - He's so pretty

Yup! It's a fact now. John Edwards is to be John Kerry's running mate. Boston Brahmin meets Southern Boy. This kinds links to the fact that a pretty boy image is good with the women voters. Just like Amphibian, or was it Vivian, Balakrishnan. Some of my female friends were telling me about him and how cute/hot he is. I guess sex appeal matters more than policy. Heh.

Talking about our beloved men in white, I think Lim Swee Say is the PAP's Ah Beng. No seriously, he has a people's touch. And I'm not saying that coz' he also comes form Catholic High (Gong Jiao). He's bilingual and, a new term I've heard, bicultural. That's right folks, he can either send the lawyers after you or send some friends from the chap sar thiam triad after you. Not bad for a men in white (most of them are such westernised folks). I personally think he'd make a good Prime Minister for Singapore, but, well, Mr. Lee Hsien Long, also from Catholic High, has been named the next head honcho. Lim Swee Say for DPM, anyone?

Talking about politics, I was grumbling over the 6 month reduction in NS, and some friends and I came up with a new party... The 6 months Party (6MP). The first line of our manifesto would read: " Reduce the reservist liability by 6 High Cycles or 6 Low Cycles and 3 High Cycles." Either way we look at it, it's 6 months. 6 months is a lot of time in my life! So we figured if I'm back for good the next time a General Election is called, we'll constitute the party and run for elections. The only problem is we have few minority candidates. Amongst our friends we have a Jew and an Arab. We thought maybe if we put the two of them together and ran on a "peace process" campaign along with the huan wo liu ge yue campaign, we'd grab most of the votes. Where should our first area be? I was thinking Changi, coz' it's nice and quiet, plus got a few Army bases there, good for campaigning. Probably work the Northeast Areas and Bedok/Tampines as well. So vote for the 6 months party, our party symbol on the ballots will be a 6. Easy recognise one. 6 months off reservist with each vote. Stocks are limited. First come First serve! First 100 voters get an aircon suit as well.