Live coverage from here at Election Media Center.

We are having an election here in Fiji and I’m on duty on polling as well as counting days. So for the next 2 weeks our team will be on and off at Election Media Center over at police academy. Everything here is pretty much organized, like the food(most important part), the facilities(network, computers etc), the stationeries and the support staffs.

The only thing I gotta say is that…there are lots of mosquitoes at election media center. My gosh, my shift is in the afternoon and the mosquitoes are killing me. I can’t imagine how it would be like for the gang at night shifts. I guess I gotta tell them to bring Motein with them. I just murdered 3 mosquitoes and plenty more around me. God damn blood suckers!

Anyway I was pretty busy doing some data entries and now I’m free so blogging about my first shift here. They’re having live media coverage with a few reporters and election officers. So yah I gotta see live rather than on TV. Well no difference, same old people, they look no better outside than in TV haha.

Oh yah I forgot to bring my camera with me so I can’t take picture of the media center and the set ups. Will do that next time on my shift. Nothing much really to show you since it’s just starting days and kinda boring sitting here. Just watching people come and leave as the shift changing and my coffee gone cold cos’ it’s too bitter, man no suger!
Oh one more thing I notice about the media center is that, there’s a few water leakage from the roof. I mean not from the roof, from the louvers, when it rains the water spills a bit from the top. Kinda annoying, but not too serious so it’s ok.

Hmm what else? Yah that’s about it for today. I’m gonna check how I can get some photos form information group camera man.

» May 4th, 2006, 0300 hr.

Early morning..
The birds are yet to stir.
The chirping of crickets and other insects of the night have stopped.
All is quiet in the neighborhood but for an occational dog bark.
….. *Woof*…… *Woof Woof* … … . .

» 0315 hr.

*RING!!! RING!! RINGGNN!!!”
*RING!!! RING!! RINGGNN!!!”
….
** unlock bed room doors **
*RING!! RINGGNN!!!”
** patter patter patter patter patter patter **
….
*RING!! RINGGNN!!!”

(sleepy voice) Hello?
~~*~~!
&=~< +^:`~!
(awake voice) Is that so?
*~-_!
Ok,
*~-_+^:`~…
Ok,
~*~~!
Right, thank you very much.

Hey! Hey! Every one wake up!!
Get up everybody.

May, wake up, we got Tsunami alert, get dress up, we have to go higher ground.
(mumbling)…don’t touch me…no..bull shit..
What!? You little! “SLAP!”
“Arrgghhh!!” What did I do!, let me sleep!!
Go dress up now and get important things ready. We’re going to Toorak or hospital, it’s the only higher place I know.

Important things?…Ok. I got my identification card in my jeans. That’s all I need.
In any case something happen to me and people can identify my filthy body, they should atleast get to know who I was.
So yes, I’m ready.

Listen to the radio
Message from BBC in regard to tsunami alert.
Early morning 3 o’clock there was big earth quake at scale 8 in North side of Tonga.
So tsunami alert come up for Fiji, NZ and other small islands.

Well luckly we didn’t have to go anywhere and nothing serious did happened.
While we were preparing things and calling up friends to warn about tsunami alert, we got another radio news saying the alert has been lifted.

Thank god for that. You never know what will happen to this tiny island like Fiji.
So about 2hours this morning we were worried sick and around 6:30am after radio announcement, we got relaxed.
My dad canceled his trip to the west and he told us not to go to work today.
But then we got some stuffs up at work and everything back to normal so here were are at work.
What a hard working freaks we are!

I really don’t want to think about tsunami as I’m never been prepared for those kind of catastrophic disasters. I guess if something happen, I’ll be the very first gonner.

Oh well, nobody can tell the faith. So if I must die then I will die no matter how prepared I am or not.
So I don’t really worry about it.

Anyway just blogging about my morning here at Fiji islands.

Hmmm…I’m in the same situation as the guy in the conversation.

I guess I should try that out…
But…I’m a gal…I should keep my cool.
I can’t punch like that…may be slapping or hire a hitman.
Punching is better…so…

Who’s willing to lend me a hand?