Election 2008

Time now is 4:19am and I am still awake because I am too excited due to the on-going results of the Malaysia's General Election 2008. Let me tell you why am I so excited:

PM: ‘We’ve lost, we’ve lost’ - 4.12am
These were the only words which Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi could muster when quizzed on the ruling coalition’s shocking defeat in five states.

Unofficial: BN denied two-thirds majority - 2.42am
According to unofficial tally, the opposition has apparently denied the ruling Barisan Nasional its crucial two-thirds majority by winning up to 82 parliament seats so far (PKR - 29, DAP - 28, PAS - 25). To deny the government two-thirds majority, the opposition must win 75 seats. On the other hand, BN has won about 130 seats. There are still a few more seats to be decided.

Unofficial: Opposition wins Selangor - 12.25am
Selangor has fallen into the hands of the opposition. PKR has earlier announced that its secretary-general Khalid Ibrahim will be named mentri besar. In Selangor, DAP has taken 35 seats (DAP - 15, PKR - 11 and PAS - 9) out of the 56 seats in the state. It is expected that DAP leader Teng Chang Khim could be picked as deputy mentri besar.

Unconfirmed: Samy is out - 9.43pm
Unofficial: MIC president S Samy Vellu has suffered a shock defeat at the hands of PSM’s Dr D Jeyakumar for the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat which he has held for nine terms. Jeyakumar polled 16,874 votes to Samy's 14,408. Today is Samy Vellu's 72nd birthday.

Those short news above are sources from Malaysiakini and I have only highlighted a few out of my many reasons to be excited! I am proud that the big guns like Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Teresa Kok Tony Pua, Jeff Ooi and etc from DAP and other opposition leaders made BN eat their own words of winning 2/3 majority in parliament.

Even the PM also said, "We've lost! We've lost!". Samy Vellu finally got thrashed after defending the damn seat for 9 terms. Happy Birthday, Samy Samy.New candidate, Yeoh Tseow Suan contesting for the first time for Subang Jaya (N31) also won. Very happy for her. Besides that, Selangor has fell into the hands of the opposition. The next few years will be quite interesting as the PM can't afford to fall asleep during meetings again because we have more opposition leaders in the parliament now to wake him up and fight for the rakyat and also make life hard for those who have been enjoying sucking easy money.

I will now let the statistics tell you why am I so excited.

* As at 5:13am

I am just too excited.