Our (non) Polling Day!

Even though we couldn't vote, no reason why we couldn't join in the fun by tagging along with the friends who could vote. Election parties were going on all day and night! Armchair commentary is no fun on our own. Best to round up people to do a sort of group-think and scold random people. The sun blazed fiercely today. It's too hot and humid to be doing anything outdoors except for swimming.

I've never voted before. As long as I don't move out to someplace further, I'm probably never going to vote in this life as long as the GRC system stays tightly in place. So excuse me if I'm excited about voting. It's serious business to me, and I really can't help rolling my eyes when people ask me "what's so exciting about it, and why do I bother". My replies have been short and almost brusque, "Because it is, because I do." There isn't a point in explaining further.I don't care that they don't care. I don't care if they do.

We finally have decent popcorn in town! What's a party without good popcorn? Early in the morning, we trooped out to Garrett Popcorn to buy different flavored popcorn in jumbo packs to munch on. Junk food all day FTW. But there was proper food at lunch too. The friends' parents fed us well before driving out to their polling station. We put on the stopwatch. From the time they walked through the gate, queue to vote and come out, it was exactly 8 minutes. WAH. So fast! Rather anti-climatic. But good. Can faster crawl back into air-conditioning in the car and back in the house. VERY HOT AH!

The next half of the excitement will come tonight, in the form of announcement of results. There's going to be live telecast on television and radio, but at the rate it's going, I'm quite sure that the online media and sources will be more effective than waiting for tv and radio to officially present the results in fancy formats.