Yes we will

Since the time i've touched down in Sydney, he and she have been the biggest celebrities on national tv and yahoo.au website, regardless of which day or what time it is. Yes, the biggest coverage on Australia news now is none other than the Election - the battle between Gillard representing the Labour Party and Abbott leading the Liberal Party.

I am for Gillard on the simplest grounds that familiarity breeds love, especially if its love at first sight. I see her so much more often than Mr Abbott (she probably is under greater scrutiny than Abbott because of the controversy surrounding her and the ousting of Kevin Rudd - Gillard's predeccessor). How can she not be on my mind when i hear her the minute i turn on to ABC news in the morning and hear her again when i sit in front of the TV with/after my dinner?

Sorry Abbott, i really do adore you for your boyish looks and those really cute huge ears...not forgetting those watery sparkling eyes of yours which are just so mesmerising...BUT sorry, my operating system functions on a weighted average basis. your charisma just gets diluted away because you are not a female and your background is just not juicy enough for the sensational media.

What's making this whole series of political propaganda so captivating for me is not just because Gillard is a seemingly over-dosaged botoxicated female who never stops to dig Abbott in her speeches vs Abott who is such a lovely boy-man yet doesnt appear to know what he stands for except to play his role well in standing against Gillard and her party. It should probably be more attributable to the the drama that is being staged, thanks to the freedom of speech and press over here. Yes drama, thats what we need to see and love to feel, but so deprive in our warped lives that are so bogged down by mundanities...thats what make us welcome any drama that comes along the way.

Based on my last follow-up on the Gillard-Abbott forum held at Brisbane, it does appear that taglines work. Whether they are recycled or renewed, as long as they are catchy, they cling on to your brain cells and the air you breath in, just like leeches to blood and moths to fire. Yes we will...yes we will...yes we will....yes we will....yes we willl....(I cant get this off my head!) Indeed, the best politicians probably make the best tagline gurus and marketeers. And for the first time after hearing Gillard speak for so many times, i could finally feel the power in her words. Nonetheless, please have some originality - we dont need another China down south to contest for the best replica award.

Interestingly, Australians are generally passionate about talking politics. I've been asked several times about my views on the election and was ashamed to find myself stammering and finding the right position to stand for. Well, there shouldnt really be any right or wrong to begin with since politics is all about ideas and ideologies and how much you want to align to a particular school of thought. And at the end of the day, we could probably only hope that that idea or ideology which we are for would turn into something more economically, socially and even environmentally beneficial for the general good. But if it doesnt happen, it doesnt happen.

Most of the Australians i spoke to are for Abbott, primary reason being Gillard's party has been in the reign for the last semester yet has nothing to show on its result slip. Blank. It is with disillusion and disheartenment that votes are turned to Abbott with the hope of a new promise, a nirvana. It is with the same voice that had spoken to Gillard three year ago, that is now speaking to Abbott.

However, I am not sure if it makes sense for such a shift because what Gillard fails to deliver in her last semester does not really preclude her from what she can do for the next semester. And having Abbott as the new PM if that occurs, does not neccessarily mean something good will happen from what is currently not. Anyone and everyone can say anything and everything in big moments like this but how far can such political fervour take us?

Yes, a change, a fresh start is what we need when things are bleak and grey. But to choose on the premise that one is a lesser evil than the other or to seek asylum with the unknown because the current state is bad cannot be considered a wise choice. Does it sound more like escapism? Give it a thought please people, a deeper thought where you should search within yourself about what you believe in and have faith with and who and what you can match it to to realise it.

It is essential that we do not lose our footing nor our sight of what our utopia should be. It is only when we have the map and the compass in our own hands that we can navigate through the way of life and the quality of life we desire.