[Eng] Pray for Change, Ini Kalilah

It is the 13th General Election for Malaysia, and I couldn't participate in casting my votes. Sadly to say, perhaps it is my own fault to try registering to the representatives.

The first one while I was renewing my IC due to change of my postal address, this particular lady who was doing her job to update my status, she said it could be done via online in Electoral Committee website (Yes, at that time, the lady from the National Registration Department did says it is possible).

Apart from already log in to the web which says it couldn't, I took her saying as a form of what she had been briefed before. Then a journey to the Post Office, yet another lady from said it's too late to register, just because rumours said GE13 will be happening on March 2010. No did she handed me the registration forms.

Who am I to blame? 

Again, emphasizing my fault that is, for not able to walk directly to Electoral Committee office when I had my chance upon returning home for my short holiday due to that 'Arab Spring' came to Egypt at February 2011. 

Easier said than done? Yes.

Then, after return to Egypt at the early of April 2011 (yet no parliamentary dissolve), I got an opportunity of doing so via political party electoral registrar representative. A confirmation email has been given from the registrar, and I'm glad that I might vote in the next election. 

But for every time I checked, not in the server?! By the time it was too late to put my name in the voter's list.

Blame game aside,


This GE13 sure made changes to a lot of people I know. Not only about who they are willingly to cast their votes for, but also how they think about important issues (econ, eco, edu, scandals etc..) risen ever since previous elections.

I salute all those who now could talk sense with good evidence & ideas. That is how we should discuss, not cursing one another with sexist, racist and other prejudice remarks. Generating ideas promotes good way of thinking forward. Generating hates just an effort to put other people against each other.

Though some still in their own box, but who to blame, they're still having the same input. And now is the right time to shift this paradigm. So that these people who are left behind with the same moral issues, being brought to a new environment which deliver maturity in thinking and speech.

#IniKalilah #Ubah