I was upset when the gov disguise condescension as affirmative action. I was distraught that my community was taken as a pawn in a political manoeuvring.

When I heard news that Lim Tean has resigned from NSP, I wasnt surprised of the reasons for his resignation. Curtailment of his freedom of speech is one of it. Often times, it's the alternative parties that espouses freedom of speech but in reality, fall short of implementing it within its own organization. I encountered many times where alternative parties feel uneasy when its members are vocal about issues they feel strongly about. Issues like LGBT, Tudung issue, discrimination, religion, 377A, article 154 etc.

But of course not all of the alternative parties hold such unwritten rules. It depends on the leader at helm. Some may argue that members need to toe along the party lines to achieve unity within the organization but by doing so, it instead create artificial harmony within its rank. These parties are then no better than the PAP, the very one they hope to replace. In this aspect, I'm proud to be a part of The Reform Party where its leadership never once tried to curtail my freedom of speech as long as it is done in a responsible manner. I wish Lim Tean all the best. It is better to move away than to be in a party and gets zipped up. That can spell the end of democracy.

Last Monday; I went to the Meet the People Session to seek help from Amrin Amin; the MP for Woodlands.

Despite myself being a civil servant for 20 years; he told me, "Nobody owed you a living and nobody owed you anything" which implied that even when I'm in dire situation and needs some life line; nobody is obliged to help me ?.

The Reform Party's candidate for Radin Mas SMC, Mr Kumar Appavoo, has criticized the government's reliance on the Group Representation Constituency (GRC) system, which they say contributes to a lack of minority members of parliament contesting in single seats.

This morning at the Nomination Centre, the Reform Party's nominations papers contained an error. They had not deleted the words "We are standing as a group of independent candidates" in their declaration before a Commissioner of Oaths. Our PAP team spotted the error and I informed Mr Kenneth Jeyaratnam of the Reform Party so that they had enough time to correct it. If the error wasn't corrected, we were advised that the Reform Party team would have been disqualified on technical grounds. We the PAP team do not want to win on technicalities.