Election Schmelection

Having wandered around the past couple of weeks in a sort of guilt-ridden stupor which grew exponentially with the many incidences of the following conversation:

Person: Where are you registered to vote?
Me: (mumble)
Person: Hah? What? Can't hear you laH?
Me: i'm not registered
Person: THE SPR DIDN'T PROCESS YOUR REGISTRATION!!! OH HOW THEY THWART DEMOCRACY!!! THOSE DEMOCRACY PIRATES!!!! HIJACKING OUR COUNTRY!!! THEY KNOW YOU WILL VOTE OPPOSITION!!!
Me: acherlly... i never got around to it. (ashamed)
Person: o_O
Person: Communist (angry face)

So yesterday I decided I had Enough. No longer was I going to walk the walk of Irresponsible Voter Shame. I would pay my penance and do some volunteer work in DAP PJ Utara office. Go Rocket! ! Of course it being a working day, I had to... 'take leave*'. 0-0

*In some organizations, taking leave, without filling up an official form, or without informing your supervisors, or without telling anyone in the office where you are going would be considered, WRONG and Grounds For Dismissal, but I am proud to say that I do not work in a company that is so Narrow-minded and Archaic.

DAP's Rocket bears an uncanny and unecessary resemblance to our neighbor's one... salah. so salah

Anyway so I found myself at the DAP office where there were many little excitable people pottering around doing national service. I have to say that it was a really bare-bones outfit, with a ratty little couch, couple of basic tables, and the World's Slowest Printer (seriously).

A couple of people asked me if I was there because I wanted to help out Tony Pua, to which I would reply, "Tony WHO?" which of course immediately branded a large IDIOT sign over my forehead.

After a while, I realized that one of the fellows pottering around the office, looking vaguely like 78% of all my male high school classmates (they all looked arike) was Tony Pua The Superstar! I don't need to go into details of why he is a superstar, you can check it out at his website. (Also because I'm very lazy).

Tony Pua and his fashion faux pas ... Ei it rhymes!

Anyway, they thought it would be 'safe' for me to man the phones (iaitu, Kesalahan Besar Yang Pertama). So there I was merrily giving WRONG directions to people heading for the ceramah that night.

Note: I'd just like to say, to all the DAP supporters who tried to make it to the SS4D ceramah last night, if you had the unfortunate luck of asking ME for directions on the DAP hotline and ended up on the side of the LDP which I told you to go, and found yourself looking across the massive 6 lane highway to find the ceramah on the OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY, I sincerely apologize. I am NOT representative of the DAP people, most of them are pretty competent. Some slip through the cracks.
To all the Barisan supporters who wanted to go to the DAP ceramah in SS4D last night, and found yourself on the other side of the road, well, sucks to be you.

After a while, they realized their grave mistake and delegated me to the job of shifting things into tidy little piles and typing (both skills which I excel at). Anyway, during my little stint on the phone there were alot of excitable aunties and uncles who wanted to know where Lim Kit Siang was, which I duly told them, "In Puchong and Cheras" which was of course just slightly off from where he ACTUALLY was, in Klang and Bukit Bintang (about oh... 30 km away and 1hrs drive away)

And there was SURPRISINGLY AROT of people (read: guys) asking me about Hannah running in Subang, so I asked around a bit about her. Everyone talked to me about her being a feisty, smart, charismatic, fresh young blood for DAP. It wasn't until I googled her that I found out she was also a, as they say, HOTTIE, always a plus. Although I did find it strange that the people in the DAP office had completely skirted around the issue of her being a major Babe. INTERESTINK .

Yay!

That's too long a post and a half.