Sunday, March 23, 2008

Have you voted yet?

My mom had been very into gardening these days, and these are her work.




Yesterday was the day of the election for Taiwan president, and it was also the first election for me to be able to vote. I'm not a politic enthusiasm, nor do I have a candidate in my mind, so I was actually voting for my mom, who had an opposite opinion with the rest of my family. I know that as a citizen of Taiwan, I shouldn't be so apolitical, but I think that whoever had won the election, there would be people unsatisfied. For example, my grandfather, who hadn't talk since the result was out and had to take a pill to be able to fall asleep last night. Since it was my first time to vote, I really wasn't familiar with the procedure and had to follow my mom step by step. The last thing she reminded me before I stepped into the private booth was to be sure to press the ink on the blank square 'above' the candidate's number, not 'on' the number. I carefully press the ink and make sure it was printed clearly, but little did I remember that besides the vote for the president, there was another ballot for the referendum on the issue of joining or returning UN until I cast my ballot into the ballot box and found another blank ballot on my hand. Fortunately, I was allowed to walk back to the booth and cast my vote. That was pretty embarrassingXD