Voted and repulsed

I went to vote with a bad cold.

I hate travelling in cars for hours, but I did it anyway just to cast a vote and returned to Singapore within 24 hours.

Like many Malaysians, I am angry and bitter with the polling result.

Like many Malaysians, it is not just because the result did not turn out the way we wanted it that we are angry.

We are angry because the ruling party cheated. And cheated blatantly. Yet there was nothing we could do.

I am going to pen down what they did to cheat, for the record, and to assert that these 'allegations' are absolutely true and fact-supported:

1) They imported more than 40, 000 Bangladeshis days before the election by their party's planes.

When asked if they were imported to Malaysia to increase the number of votes, they denied it, saying that they were mere supporters of the party. They were there to show support for the party.

What crap!

2) They gave them a Malaysian IC each within a month.

3) They could not handle the 40, 000 sudden immigrants-turned-citizens, so much so that they house hundreds of them under one tiny roof.

When probed on how it was possible for 100 people to have the same address, they dismissed it as 'technical glitches which we are unable to explain'.

4) They were too lazy to come up with proper names for the Bangladeshis.

And we are supposed to believe that a new citizen goes by the name of 'Betik Bin Kobis', translated as 'Papaya Bin Cauliflower'.



5) They are beyond reasons.

When the supporters of the Opposition Party rallied for public vigilance to 'catch the phantom voters' by looking out for Bangladeshi voters, the ruling party asserted that nobody could stop these Bangladeshis from voting since they carried valid and legitimate ICs.

6) They drove boxes of votes into the polling centres under the public eye.

When the public tried to stop them, the police came to their aid by surrounding the car, and released tear gas to disperse the crowd.

7) Of course, the infamous Blackout Magic.

I knew something was wrong when Singapore was supposed to report the results of the election at 8pm and yet, many stations' results were not ready for announcement even at past 11pm.

The votes cast by the overseas Malaysians were more than 70% in the favour of the Opposition Party, leaving the ruling party with just a pathetic 3% to 4%. How is it possible to have boxes of mailed votes, delivered in darkness and appeared out of nowhere, polled in favour of the ruling party?

We are angry, very, very angry, because they treat us as idiots.

We are angry that they have dirtied our homeland with their filthy hands and minds.

We are angry that they trash the notion of democracy in their blatant quest for money.

We are angry that they just want to win the election for their own pockets and support their wives' and children's lavish lifestyles.

When back in Malaysia, a distant relative told me that he has submitted his application to be a Singapore citizen.

He has been living, studying and working in Singapore since 20 years ago. For someone who had left his hometown at 19 or 20, he felt that he had belonged to Malaysia, and did not want to give up his citizenship if he could help it.

Now that his children are living and studying in Singapore, he sees the need to.

As a PR, he pays more than $100 in school fees for each of his children.

The teachers of his firstborn called his wife up and asked why they did not convert to Singapore citizens.

When asked why the teachers were such busybodies, they explained that they had many awards waiting to be given to his firstborn, but he was not eligible for them since he was not a local.

He told me that when his application is approved, he would vote for the ruling party come 2016.

He said,"You have not seen worse."

After this trashy election, I have to admit: I had not seen worse.

Worse blatant stupidity. Worse blatant laziness. Worse blatant greed for money.

Worse blatant corruption.

Yes. I had not seen it.