Friday, April 17, 2009

My first Voting ever !!!

Getting and ID card for this process was a horrible experience...The silly rules and formatting is so irritating leave alone the long queue and name sake fans they have fitted which runs in a speed of a comet! This is not words of a spoilt brat NRI... pleaseee!! .. Ask every single human being who was standing there... each one had a curse on their lips! After standing in the queue for like one hour my turn came and I with a smile bigger than the Colgate one just wanted the signature of the officer there. She gave a brief look and signed and asked to get another sign from some officer bigger than her I guess. Well who cares?? I just went there... and that guy asked for the original copy of my 10th CBSE certificate. On understand from my face that I didn’t have with me at that moment what do you think he expected me to?? He wanted me to go home... which is like 30 minutes and worse with traffic and then go searching like a mad dog for my certificate and then drive back 30 minutes and much worse with traffic. I gave him a very sad innocent face... aaha... nothing could change the man. And trust me...I could feel it in my blood that he was doing it just to trouble me and not because he was loyal to the department and blah. Whatever I was so irritated I asked my parents to carry on... and just stood there jobless... sheeessh... they need to get a life!! And then mom came and tried her best to convince him... I had my passport renewed just a month ago... so obviously it would have got renewed only if I had my 10th certificate... anyways the man was adamant... so I went back home.. He didn’t even bother checking out the certificate... I felt like pointing out my math marks... cos that was the only worth thing to be noticed in that certificate... but who cares?? After all the pain I definitely had to go and vote! For the one and only Shashi Tharoor :)... I've admired him from the time he was in UN...and also cos he is an Indian representing UN. Voting hardly took time cos I went in the afternoon and no one was there. So I got my ID card checked then got some indelible ink on the index finger of my left hand and went and pressed the button next to 'Shashi Tharoor'..With a palm sign next to it. I didn't particularly feeling anything but I felt good about one thing... i.e. my mom and dad voted for the first time with me yesterday. I felt good that I got to vote at 19! And that when I have children I can always boast about it... I hope India enters a more prosperous phase and that all the big problems become miniscule and that we progress a step higher than a 'third world country'... Jai Ho!

6 comments:

VIKAS PLAKKOT said...

Good ! You did rock the vote! :-)

Well, ur hopes are not gonna work out though.. Am being pesismistic , but thts the least u can expect of such a political system!

Vishnu Visakh S said...

FIRST OF ALL...NICE ARTICLE. VERY INTERSTING. EVENTHOUGH I SUPPORT LEFT-LIBERAL, I VOTED FOR SHASHI THAROOR.. I FEEL HE CAN DO SOMETHING FOR TVPM. AND PPLS OVR THERE..NT ONLY ME 99% PPL KNOWN TO ME VOTED FOR HIM ONLY. HOPE YOU WILL BE A LUCKY PERSON FOR SHASHI THAROOR..!!!

Neha Nair said...

Viks: Since you know this stuff better than me .. I am a little less confident now...

Vishnu: Hope I am lucky??? I don't even know if I am lucky for myself! :D

Let's hope for the deserving to win..

Vishnu Visakh S said...

hehe...come on neha...!!!how can you say you are not lucky..?????? you are very lucky....very very lucky to have a voice like this..!! thats why i always like to keep in touch wid u...

Neha Nair said...

I consider myself lucky !!! but I don't know if I am lucky for myself..leave alone Shashi Tharoor ;-)...just kidding..

Vishnu Visakh S said...

:D