<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811326.post-7013718762810305838</id><published>2008-03-08T14:06:00.010+08:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T14:03:19.938+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='general election'/><title type='text'>HCFoo votes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9I6UiJqR9I/AAAAAAAABcw/yA-6d9gTR4Y/s1600-h/who+do+u+vote.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9I6UiJqR9I/AAAAAAAABcw/yA-6d9gTR4Y/s400/who+do+u+vote.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175263046241241042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Today is the day that Malaysia decides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike states like Penang or Kelantan, it's pretty obvious which party dominates the electoral campaign in my hometown, Kuantan, Pahang. The situation here are completely different than what I've read about other 'hot states' as the people here seems to show undivided support for Barisan Nasional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JfRSJqR-I/AAAAAAAABc4/-y8wNwLNoRU/s1600-h/election+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JfRSJqR-I/AAAAAAAABc4/-y8wNwLNoRU/s320/election+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175303672336893922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt;Mom, Dad and I walking towards SK Semambu passing by BN camp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;My family and I decided to go out early to cast our votes. The five of us went to different schools. The time taken to cast our votes were pretty fast. We spent only about 5 minutes, almost doesn't need to queue up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JfuCJqR_I/AAAAAAAABdA/W6256NxiwMM/s1600-h/election+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JfuCJqR_I/AAAAAAAABdA/W6256NxiwMM/s320/election+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175304166258132978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JgMyJqSAI/AAAAAAAABdI/vk3IvNfQgRQ/s1600-h/election+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JgMyJqSAI/AAAAAAAABdI/vk3IvNfQgRQ/s320/election+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175304694539110402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt;Quite a number of people already lining up according to their lining stream.&lt;br /&gt;I'm glad I'm not on this stream.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JmACJqSBI/AAAAAAAABdQ/CzQciJahz00/s1600-h/Image001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qg6J04XZhR4/R9JmACJqSBI/AAAAAAAABdQ/CzQciJahz00/s320/Image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175311072565544978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt;I'm next in line to exercise my rights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Here are the candidates that I had to decide on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parliament (P82 Indera Mahkota)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Salamon Ali Rizal Abdullah (BN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;2. Azan Ismail (PKR) - won&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Total voters: 51,235&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DUN (N13 Semambu)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Nancy Khong Saw Gek (PKR)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;2. Pang Tsu Ming (BN) - won&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Total voters: 25, 427&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My polling station at SK Semambu was pretty happening as there was a huge turnout when I arrived. Even Pang Tsu Ming was there greeting voters. His popularity is huge here gaining support from Malay and Chinese voters and volunteers. PKR and PAS remained very quite (just a few of them) in the background. DAP is completely invisible in Kuantan, not even a single bunting or poster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming back to hometown to cast my vote here makes me humble especially seeing my mother meeting many of her Malay customers here who are BN volunteers and supporters. For your information, my mother used to run a saloon in Jalan Mahkota for more than 40 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first time casting my vote and it was a great experience. I have only one hope. The future government will GET what majority &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;rakyat&lt;/span&gt; wants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;hr /&gt; &lt;a href="http://hcfoo.com/"&gt;HCFoo's Tennis Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8811326-7013718762810305838?l=www.hcfoo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.hcfoo.com/feeds/7013718762810305838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8811326&amp;postID=7013718762810305838&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8811326/posts/default/7013718762810305838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8811326/posts/default/7013718762810305838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.hcfoo.com/2008/03/hcfoo-votes.html' title='HCFoo votes'/><author><name>hcfoo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05564043194164100916'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry>