The New Desk
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 10:38PM 
Following Ba’s passing, we decided to convert my old study room into a guess room. We didn’t have one before and with both Idlan and Irfan growing up fast, they deserve their own space and rooms. The extra room which I had been using had to go.
We bought a new bed and off one toy huge table we bought from Ikea a few years back. So, for the past 4 months, I didn’t’t have my own dedicated space to put my stuffs or do my work. Getting a nice work table at reasonable price was not easy. I went through few options but for one reason or another, none of them were taken up.
Finally a few weeks ago I plumped for one. It just got delivered today. It was at a nice height and width and it fit perfectly into our bedroom. I reassembled my Mac Pro - minus a second screen unfortunately - and so far it had been great. The view - straight through the window up the hill was not too bad either ...
I would still need to get myself a table lamp since the screens were a bit too bright to work at night. I could feel the strain after 20 minutes in front of the computer. The rest of the evening were spent updating the software and upgrading to High Sierra.
The Rig
As it was in the past election, I kept a close eye on the results as they trickle in. Rather than wait to hear it on mainstream channels, social media was the way to go.
My Mac Pro were rigged to them allowing me to blast the reports through twitter and facebook as they came in.
I used a multi-column tweetdeck app to monitor twitter with keywords and mentions, while another screen scour the RSS feeds using feedly and of course facebook though the web browser.
The disappoinitng thing was how slow it took for the results to reach us. SPR really let us down - and Karim Raslan really had a go on live TV - and it was bordering on frustration. Once the results started to come in, it was evident that the then opposition were gaining ground.
SPR optimistically - and somewhat arrogantly - promised that the results would be done and dusted by 10 pm, but it was not to be. When Tun Mahathir came live on the air at around 1.30 am putting pressure on the commission, then finally things were moving.
Clearly the Chairman was unprepared with the shift that night and since there were plenty of results not going as expected, they had to do more checks and recounts. This raised the suspicion of the so-called “black magic” which were rife in previous elections. The Chairman also had to answer the question on why the voters who came earlier that 5 pm were not allowed to vote despite queueing for hours before to get to the room. He simply did not hvae the details and looked stunned. There were also an imbalance in the number of voters paired with centers with clearly they had too many voters than they could cope.
Karim Raslam really went mental after elarning that Tony Pua had a majority of more than 100,000. Clearly there were just too many voters at the constituency.