They Chose Me!

Yesterday was the elections of the Kalayaan Residence Hall Association House Council. I was supposed to live-blog about it yesterday but I was too anxious and I knew no one cares about it.

The election process started at exactly 8am and ended by 8pm. It was a computerized election. The system used was the Halalan, an open-source software spearheaded by UnPLUG or the University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group. The system ran on PHP on an Apache server.

Right after the elections, most of the candidates (including me) were excited of the results. Most of us stayed on the TV area as it was near the conference room (place where the elections took place) and the counter. We were waiting for the magic time, 10pm – scheduled time of release of results. While waiting, we watched the opening of the Beijing Olympics 2008. We were all looking for ways to calm ourselves down.

The clock struck the magic time – the results remained unannounced. About 10 minutes before the hour of 11, an exciting announcement was made. And it was… The announcement said, “the results of the elections will be announced in 15 minutes”. Our heartbeats were like drumrolls, even beating faster as a function of time.

Toink-toink-toink-toink-togoinks-toink-togoinks. Finally, the moment has come. Kuya Mike, my RA and an Elections Committee member, approached the gigantic television ceasing the Olympic spirit. The results were on his hands. Everyone seemed so eager to hear the results. And the winners were announced.

The results were announced from the lowest to the highest position. The anxiety rose as the positions level-up. Until it was my moment – it was the announcement of the winner for the Vice Chancellor for External Affairs. As I heard my blog’s domain name (Conrad Miguel), adrenaline rushed into my system. Yey, at last the once loser won.

I am now holding the second highest position in the Kalayaan Residence Hall Association House Council and the second highest position in the Basement Boys (our corridor). Kalai Life of more than 500 fellow residents are on our (the new house council) hands.

They chose me. 206 Kalai residents loves me – 216 chose either of my two opponents – 62 chose not to choose – almost 50 did not vote.

I won’t bore you longer, that’s all for now from Kalai’s Vice Chairperson for External Affairs! Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan!

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