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I am writing this piece in the early hours of 5/05/2013, the most interesting, challenging and the most exciting election day that I have ever witnessed since I started voting in 1995. It has been a wonderful election campaign. At the same time, I hated watching TV and listening to radios over the last 2 weeks. It is SOOO one-sided with full of garbage. Listening to Najib promoting himself on radios every 5 min is rather irritating. You want to be fair, you should give equal space for the opposition. This is one of the reason why you notice tens of thousands of people going for Pakatan’s ceramah. They want to listen to the other side.

I attended at least 4 Pakatan’s ceramahs just to listen to them and see what they had to say. I must say that they were very professional, talk only on their policies and NEVER brought up any racial or religious issues. Most of the speakers were well educated and could articulate their policies very well in different languages etc. On the other hand, I am sad to see BN and UMNO using racial sentiments to create uneasiness among the population. The Star has been advertising on Hudud, PAS and DAP almost every day on every other page! Rather irritating and I felt like throwing it into the dustbin! UMNO has been playing around with the same old crap of May 13th! Sadly, we have many people who still believe on this propaganda like Chinese taking over the country, Hudud implementation, Christianisation of Malaysia etc etc. I am sure many who believe this propaganda do not understand how our constitution and Parliament system works! Without 2/3 majority, no one can change the constitution. With DAP contesting 51 seats, PAS 72 and PKR 99, no one party can have the majority.

A well-educated person can definitely think rationally. Unfortunately again, I was mistaken. Many people has been brainwashed since young. One thing that this election thought me was the fact that people who you thought were your good friends are not what they seem to be. I got no issue of you voting for anyone. I have had friends who have voted for both BN and opposition from those days. In fact, I was once a BN supporter myself as my father was a strong MIC man, who was once the Vice Chairman of MIC Negeri Sembilan. My father left MIC in early 1990s when he realised that MIC and BN became corrupted and not interested in helping people. Only now I realise that no matter how close you are and how well you trusted your friends, they had their racial sentiments in their heart!  They still do not accept you as a Malaysian but rather as an Indian/Chinese who is a pendatang who should be gratefull to BN/UMNO for giving you a place to stay in this country. This is a democratic country and we have the right to choose who we want. Just because we choose the opposition for a check and balance system, does not make you a traitor!

Whatever the result of this election today, we should move on. I just hope that there will come a day when we can call ourselves as  MALAYSIANS and not by any other race. I hope to see that happening before I go 6ft underground………………

I can only say that 1Malaysia is just a propaganda!

Please vote wisely………………