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.