Assistant Returning Officer

So, when was i last blogged? Not that long ago, at least when compared to the previous hiatus, this is considered good enough...

So i was recently appointed as the Assistant Returning Officer in the Annual MUISS Election, well one thing is this is one of those very little job that MUSA will pay u to work, other time, u work for free... especially when you run for election and elected as officer bearers, there is no chance at all that u will get paid for wat u did... So no complains there... other then being very bz on top of my already bz schedule.

So i was officially appointed on 1 May 2008. Work started immediately coz there no time for us to slack... The election was already passed all the timeline according to their constitution... WAY PASS it... so we rush it and get it done as soon as we could.... and i think we made it thru... as i am blogging here, im actually working in the Polling Station with a laptop i loan from my uncle (An iBook G4... AWESOME Condition - Lousy Touchpad... but no complain... it gives me the same working environment for me as at home)so wat i was trying to say that we are going along fine... so far... because it hasnt end yet... voting counting is later at 2pm...

Election Election Election...

There's always politic and its always dark and dirty...

This brought me back to my memories when i was ran for MUSA in year 2006. Luckily that time i have my fren's support namely Tim, Sooks, Jane and the people from SPEAK 2006 (Trudy, Darren, Kate, Dahlia, Yvonne, Zhen Hui, Taha, Zhen Yao and many more... ) if not i wouldnt have survived even the election because it was so "dark and dirty" People close to me would have known wat happen to me (SOYA BEAN)... and yeah... that time was reli dark and dirty...

however, i think its some sort of a trend that in either MUISS or MUSA election, there's tend to be some sort of cheating or imbalance between parties... because there's always issue coming up.... people shooting one another... (not literally shooting but politically shotting) parties complaint each other... this and that... they fight thru the technical mistake they did and they did not focus on getting more votes to win... but i wont say that its not a strategy but.. rather unethical.

I was fortunate enough to be assigned to manage the complains (well... im well known to have memorized the constitution and regulation by heart)... been in few hearings... but sad things is i found that all these are so... technical fault... i wonder if i was the one that did not pay attention or was it reli not happening that the Malaysia General Election or any other country, we dont see these sort of complain and election tribunal coming in to rule something out... mayb it was just me overlooked this part of the election or it's just not published.

You dont see in Malaysia General Election that any candidate could be restricted from campaigning but that happens in MUSA and MUISS election.

Anyhow, i do wish everything goes well i could go back to my own work to keep eveything in schedule... i have one more presentation on next wed, one report on next thurs and a major assignment on friday... that cost me 25% i think...

till then,
byE