As all of us might have heard, Malaysia have just experienced a historical event that might have become the beginning of greater things in the future. Majority of Malaysian is now celebrating our ease of mind, where i can imagine how did it feels waking up in the morning of 31st August 1957 to embrace ‘real independence’.

I want to share a lil bit of experience to be involve with General Election for my first time. I did not get the chance to vote 5 years ago as i did not register for voting when i flew abroad back then.

Ive got to vote at my hometown in Taman Melawati, Gombak, Selangor. Specifically in SMK Taman Melawati, where most of my friends went for highschool but not myself. I moved to a school in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, the Victoria Instituiton.

Nevertheless, the school did have some sentimental value for myself as ive been there countless of times for a lot of events and competitions. The fact that i pass through the school everyday also made the school very familiar to me.

So i went there in the morning after breakfast with my brother and our friend/neighbour to cast our vote.

We have to que at our designated zone, and apparently its the zone with the most people so the que is so longg. However, we were lucky as the whole que were under the corridoor shades!

So guess what? I didnt waste that long que hours with not sketching. Of course i brought my sketching kits. 😁

When i started my sketch we uploaded some wishes for all the voters through our KLSketchnation Instagram with some messages;

Hehe :p so i did a sketch of the building and the que lines there to kill some time.

I took barely 15 mins for the sketch and we were just few meteres forward in the que. So besides talking and having some reunions with long lost friends there, we start to play a game with my ipad.

We played RISK : World Domination, the board game. Lol.

So according to my stopwatch, we spend about 2 hour 30 mins until we reach the polling room.

Inside the polling room.

When i came into the room for my turn, after checking my ID and all, i need to dip my finger into the electoral ink or indelible ink.

Me : hi can i have a lil bit of the ink on this sketchbook?
The Election Officer: No.
Me: hmm..

Then she dip my finger in the bottle. So i went to the voting booth and do my vote. Then inwent out and immediately smudge some undried ink to the sketchbook, just because. :p