PE

So the Presidential Election is finally over. We went early that day to vote, yes it was raining and all that but we figured lets get this done and hoepfully more people stay away due to the rain so that we would have less of a crow. Well it seemed that way and the process seemed a lot more smooth than the last election held a couple of months back. Maybe the people were now more season in running the polls. What drama on the day. It went to a recount, I had stayed up but by 3am was too tired to wait up any more. In the end the margin of victory was less than 1% !!!! out of 2.3 million voters. That was incredible.


So what was the impact of the PE, seemed as today is Hari Raya, the Istana was open to the public. We wanted to go as we thought why not since I have never been to he Istana before. Bad idea !! MASSIVE amounts of people were there the queue not only snake up and down the entrance but spilled over to the main road leading to Plaze Singapura, all the way to the MRT and evern beyond. I guess everyone wanted to greet and meet the out going President one last time before he steps down. We kind of gave up on that and decided to head to Botanical Gardens with the kids. Looking forward to the Food Court and the swans, brought some bread too. Another disappointment. The Food Court was closed, for renovations I think, and for some reason there were no swan in swan lake !! They looked like they had all disappeared. I used to see them at the Gardens whenever I had stopped by. So in the end we fed the fishes.

Captain Ape

I caught Captain America and Planet of the Apes a couple of weeks back. I have to say, Captain America to me seemed a little young and not as beefy as I would have imagine him to be. Dont really like the costume, just does not seem right. However the Red Skull was awesome. I think they did a great job for the character. The wait at the end for the clip of the Avengers was really long, had to wait till all the credits were done before it came up. Nice little preview if I have to say so myself.


The Planet of the Apes was way cool. Kind of a spin on the origin of how the apes took over the world. Cesar was cool especially the last bit when he said "Cesar is home" .... talking ape :)