D day.....

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……