Let’s have a happy first anniversary


  • Musings
  • Sunday, 28 Apr 2019

Emotional rollercoaster: May 9 last year was intense - from the exhilaration of winning to the agonizing wait for the new government to take over.

AS the cliche goes, time has whizzed by. Wasn’t it just yesterday we were queuing up by the thousands at polling stations, and then getting together with friends to wait for the results? And waited and waited?

Meanwhile, our phones buzzed with unofficial results. Yet on TV we were made to twiddle our thumbs until the early hours of the morning. Another long tense wait followed. We voted for the government we wanted and yet we didn’t know for an entire day whether it would be sworn in.

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