General elections polling day

On the 7th of may, it was polling day for the general elections 2011 for Singapore. The results starting coming in at 10pm where everything was counted. It was an exciting time seeing results of opposition winning seats in the parliament. However, there were some things that were quite saddening to see, an example is like Lina Chiam losing to Sitoh Yih Pin in the potong pasir SMC, she lost by a mere 114 votes- 0.8% to Sitoh Yih Pin, I believe that she should have won as she has Chiam See Tong as her husband and he can give her advice on what to do and what to say in the parliament so it is actually okay if she takes his place in the SMC. With Chiam See Tong losing in the Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, it was sad that we lost a political veteran in the parliament as Chiam See Tong is one of the most respected politician in Singapore's history of politics other than MM Lee. It was good to see that Mr Low Thia Khiang's double gamble paid off and that he has won the first GRC in many years, I hope that Mr Low Thia Khiang's team will carry out what they said they will do as said in the rallies and not take over the job from PAP yet do nothing. All in all, I think that this shows that the PAP will have to change themselves in order to garner votes from Singapore citizens in the next elections as Singaporeans are starting to learn that PAP is not as good as they say so and that Singaporeans are starting to think carefully about they decisions in voting.