My First Time

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Before leaving the house, my mother handed me some loose change, to which I replied loudly, "Okay, I vote for you!" We both laughed. To be honest, it was a tough decision to make; to choose the incumbent BN guy who did a good job of developing the whole area except the drain in the perimeter of my house, or that new guy from DAP whom I only know by name...

My parents and I arrived early at the polling center, hoping to beat the crowd; but we soon found out that (1), for this constituency, there is no such thing as a 'crowd', and (2), we were not quite early enough either. While queuing up to have my identification checked, one representative from DAP arrived and aggressively demanded a seat alongside the polling clerks. There were already three clerks, and he really had no business to be there. Why he wanted to sit with them, I don't know. Perhaps, he thought the girls were pretty?

I did feel a bit nervous when the polling agent checked my name and then read it out LOUDLY for the other agents to cross out on their list. Maybe it's normal for a virgin voter to be nervous. Or maybe all the eyes of the polling agents in the room were on me and it was not just my feeling...

Ah, but anyway, it's done. Thanks to this, I got no indelible ink on my finger to show you; just a minor sense of pride of having fulfilled my responsibility as a citizen of Malaysia.