This year's general elections is largely living up to its billing.

Like a favorite storybook, each page leaves constituents in awe, sitting on tenterhooks, and waiting for the next surprise.

Candidates are crisscrossing their constituencies and performing unimaginable stunts, ostensibly to woo voters-stunts that many insist are necessitated by the demands of the time.

Some constituents have had their hair braided, clothes washed, and meals cooked by either their "revered" Member of Parliament or an opponent.