Worried about situation in Nepal

Nepal
Have been monitoring the volatile situation in Nepal and hoping that the king will lift the curfew and shoot-on-sight order soon. It isn’t looking any better this morning as the King has given no indication of stepping down nor giving up the right to future palace intervention in the government and I don’t think the alliance will be accepting that feeble offer he made last week to relieve some international pressure (which anyone could tell that it isn’t a real solution at all – just think of all the possible future problems that could breed if Maoists are allowed places in the government!!) Having to rise against 1 person to bring down their so-called ‘autocratic monarchy’ is difficult enough… will peace ever descend upon them if after putting an end to the King’s reign, they have to remove the Maoist from the government? I think that will be an appreciably more difficult task and will certainly lead to more bloodshed. It is such a pity that the home to the most stunning mountain ranges on Earth would see so much unrest. Such a tricky and delicate situation will surely take many more months to be resolved (well, they have been at it for more than a year now) and I can only hope that it’ll still be peaceful next weekend when MX and his friend completes their trek needs to enter Katmandu again to catch their flight home.


May 06 Election
I wanna vote!! I wanna vote!! I’m registered as an overseas voter this year and I hope there will be a contest for my GRC… =) Kind of excited coz I missed the 2001 election when I was in California when they decided not to go ahead with overseas the electronic voting due to various reasons, inadequate security, post 9/11 etc. I heard that this time round the usual paper ballot will be carried at the High Commissions, and the ballot boxes will be sealed and flown back to S’pore for counting. Well, I still haven’t received any notification letter yet but I hope it’ll be soon.