Sorry to been very quiet on the latest by election, as I was extremely tired from all the politics. One must say, it’s very tiring trying to follow everything every single day. Anyway, on to the main agenda of today’s topic. When I first found out that Umno decided to field in Isa Samad, I quickly went and sms a friend of mine said that Umno will have a landslide victory of 4,000 votes. As I didn’t expect it was over 5,000. So the score now is 7-2.
Anyway, it’s a good thing that Umno finally won after the numerous humiliation they had to endure in the previous by election. One thing for sure is that, they believe in giving people second chance. No doubt Isa had issues on money politics, but everyone seems to like him because of his generosity during his 22 years as Menteri Besar for Negeri Sembilan. And as for PAS, well all I can say is that you win some, and you’ll lose some. So go home and think about what had actually just happened. After reading a post by RPK on what actually happened, I wouldn’t be surprised that PR will lose in this current by election despite his prediction that they will win.
Over the past few days, I’ve been getting a lot of input from people around me. As I continued to listen their view on what is happening in Malaysia especially in politics, is that opposition party will always cause problems for the country. One of them even said that, we shouldn’t let the opposition win because by then they will start to fill in their pockets first before giving out to the people. Since the current government pockets are full already, they will start to share the benefits with the people.
Some who are so called hardcore BN supporters said that, it’s ok for them to take some of the money for themselves but as long at the end of the day the work gets done, and I can feed my family so I’m not too bothered about it. Even those who supported opposition now, are thinking twice to vote them in the coming election. As they noticed that business seems to be slower compared to the previous administration who held the position here in Kuching. A very good example was the mooncake festival food sale, not too long ago. It seems a little bit smaller compared to the previous years 2008, 2007 & 2006. Unfortunately this year I didn’t see any representative from DAP or PKR unlike the previous year. But every year, without fail faces from SUPP tends to show up and give support. Will Kuching be another Bagan Pinang? That I don’t know but only time will tell. Once again congratulations to Isa Samad for astounding victory.
I was thinking about blogging about the “Cow Head” demonstration, but I think I have enough politics for a while. Never the less, I’ll prolly blog about it mebbe tomorrow sempena Hari Merdeka. Anyway, on Friday night a bunch of us decided to head over to a Cyber Cafe somewhere near OneTJ as we were talking about it a few days ago when 2 unsuspected visitors dropped by the shop.
Congratulations to PAS candidate Mohd. Salleh Man for winning the by-election in Permatang Pasir yesterday with a majority of 4,551 people. Despite my forecast was way out as I didn’t expect a high turn out yesterday. But I’m very glad that people still decided to come out and vote despite of the weather. As UMNO probably need to go back to the drawing board and pretty much learn from their mistakes, they might need to use a different approach instead of continuing using race cards as it does not play any more significant role. And my best guess is that, maybe the people in Permatang Pasir had already long decided who they want to vote for long before the polling day, despite the claims of 
With less than 24 hours left to go, the battle of Permatang Pasir is heating up. As both parties fight tooth and nail to ensure voters to vote for them, but one could actually wonder who will win. Ok before I go on with my prediction, lets look back at the previous results back in 2004 & 2008, PAS has won this seat with a majority of 679 (2004) & 5433 (2008). So in conclusion we could say that PAS will surely win this time round as this is basically their home court. No doubt that BN had probably decided to field someone with unknown excessive baggage, which really makes you wonder how in the world did they decide to get him in the first place. Anyway, that’s probably beside the point. As 
My best guess would be PAS will still retain Permatang Pasir by 1-2000k votes. As my main reason behind it is that, as you know that tomorrow is Tuesday and of course it’s a working day. I doubt that people will take leave just to go back and vote for another by election. Even though now is school holidays, they might have other plans to go somewhere else already. But because this is the fasting month, the voters might not want to take a long journey back or travel. As someone once told me that they prefer not to travel during the fasting month as they would tempt them to buka puasa even before the official time. Some more this is the first week, so they might have problems with adjusting which gives them the more reason why they shouldn’t travel. Plus, I think by now people are tired with by election already. So probably they’ll go back to their mentality stating that my 1 vote will probably wouldn’t count, and if I did went back it would end up as a spoil vote.
