Finall, the day
had come… it was off day for me and I woke up early as usual. I tuned into
Astroawani website and started to view the morning live show.
It was an exciting
day for me, after weeks of googling and gathering information. I concluded that
there was still a slim chance. The survey from Merdaka center was an
interesting one which shown a further down sloping of BN vote to 37.3% in the
Peninsular but still won the election.
I sent both the
kid to school settled back to the screen after breakfast with Ving. Everything
was calm but the voting rate was alarming. In the past, the opposition won more
if the voting rate was high. However the voting rate was still low at 2pm. I
called up my dad and my bro-in law. They have told me the same story, the
voting process was very slow. They had waited a long time to cast their vote.
The process of staining finger was time consuming and they had waited a long
time to finish the casting.
I took a nap and by
6pm after our dinner. I was sitting in front of the monitor; anxiously switching from webpage to webpage,
podcast to podcast trying to get the latest update of the final result.
The BN had the
lead but the seat came mostly from the east side. By 9+pm, the opposition had
retained Selangor and Penang. However the Parliament result was still sluggish,
the possibility of change was higher as the clock tick. Everything went
stagnant by 11pm. No new update was noted for the Parliament; BN had taken a
lead which was mostly contributed from the east. Perak, NS, Malacca had fallen
to the opposition I was pretty sure that a change
would be happening but yet I was very worried about a curfew or other tactics
being use to prevent the transition.
At 1am, no update
was noted and opposition had accused that the SPR was responsible withholding
the result. Even the palace had issued a statement requesting the SPR to speed
up the announcement. At that time BN had only retained Pahang. Kedah and Sabah
were at stalemate. The Hope Alliance had won the election apparently. BN had
cancelled its press conference and indirectly admitting their defeat. I took my
last sip of red wine from my glass and gone to sleep at 1:30am, praying that no
hanky panky staff will interfere with the transition……
