Despite the midweek polling day, people still travelled far and wide back to their hometowns to exercise their right to vote. I know friends who flew back from overseas to vote (and also to binge on Malaysian food, frankly).... But whoda thought that people died trying to do their part? Even my uncle fractured his wrist when he was covering Tun M's press conference on election night. But at least there wasn't a bloodbath.
Admittedly, I went to bed (thinking about having to go back to work the next day) while they were tabulating the results (I thought I would have more trouble staying asleep than I did, heat exhaustion and apathy considered). Only to find out that the next two days was gonna be a public holiday when I woke up the next morning. So yeah, I had to go back to the office for a bit on Thursday to get some stuff done so that it'd be less kecoh on Monday FOR ME while the sibling was also there cos (of all things) Patch Tuesday.
I'm glad people are excited that there's a new political party in place of the old one, but I don't know if I can be happy/relieved/excited at this stage, it's too soon. At best, I'm cautiously optimistic.
If nothing else, this 4 day weekend meant that people didn't have to rush back to work Thursday and Friday and traffic was good those two days, I gotta say. As a local, I always enjoy the heck out of these mass exodus-es.
- Only managed to redeem a few free F&B offers nearby before calling it a day because it was too damn hot.
- Saw Margaret Cho at HGH on Friday night. Kinda glad that it was a public holiday so I didn't have to deal with having to go to work and also rush hour traffic.
- The Nasi McD came out this week, which is basically their take on nasi lemak..? It's basically the same sambal as the burger, one piece spicy Ayam Goreng McD, with whole boiled egg and lettuce instead of cucumber.
- RIP, Lai Meng. No, not Leon Lai.
- I don't know whether to laugh or cry that Kam Raslan's been receiving props from Malaysian Twitter-verse, thinking he was his brother's re: his Astro Awani performance on election night. And that's he's just gonna take it (the comment thread is pretty funny, especially the banter between himself and Na'a Murad).
- It's that time of year where TV shows are getting cancelled left, right and centre. Kinda glad some of the shows are getting renewed, but also kinda relieved that others are not getting renewals.
- Happy Mother's Day...?
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