My Day on the 12th General ElectionThe house was almost empty at 11am, morning of the election. Parents already out and about, the youngest one was still sleeping while the other one was most probably playing basketball at the court. Since I can't vote yet, and have survived my horrifying finance finals on Friday, I went out with sheeann, nat n puiyan to Sunway Pyramid at 12.30pm. There, we walked all day, ate twice and had a lot of 'chores' done. After that, sheeann dropped puiyan off at usj3, and called the rest out to mamak. Puimun and karine hopped on board while winnie didn't want to follow because she wanted to watch the elections on tv. At that moment, we thought that it was kind of weird to 'watch the elections on tv'. I mean, I personally thought that the elections was there and done, what else is there to watch? In just a while later, I discovered that I was wrong.
We arrived at Makbul and sat in front of the tv. Eating fried meehoon, which was surprisingly not bad to my liking, we watched the elections on tv too. It was then that we found out that it was actually quite exciting to watch because instead of just plain reporting of who won, or lost, the news was somewhat made into race for the parliamentary seats, with figures and shocks popping out here and there. A little while after we have warmed up the seats, winnie called and delivered the shocking news of the opposition winning the Subang Jaya state seat. Then other messages and phone calls begun to flood in, some from worried parents calling to rush them home, and others from friends bearing the latest updates.
With all these updates, and newscasters' reporting voices at the background, we begin to feel an icy chill slowly creeping down our spines. Is it still safe to be out here in the open, now that the opposition has won the seat? Our loud discussions before this was now hushed to soft whispers. All of us huddled closely, which was pretty silly to think of now, we were just scaring ourselves with imaginary chaos. I quickly stood up, went to the cashier's, and paid the bill. Then quickly half-walked to the car, half running, locked the car doors the moment we were all in and went home.
It was as though we expected some mad men running the down the neighborhood streets with long samurai swords , slicing everything in sight. lol
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