Some of my friends may have heard me said before how ignorant I am when it comes to economics and politics.  If I start reading those sections during my daily news consumption, it’s a good sign that I’m getting old.

I was never interested in politics, and I think that runs in our family.  But that seems to have changed recently, the CE election became the main discussion topic during our regular Sunday afternoon dim sums.  I find it particularly funny seeing how my mother overreacted to every single piece of gossiping news of the CE candidates.  She used to be even more ignorant than me on politics.

Still not quite into politics, but I just find it nonsense to have only 1,200 people representing 7 million people to vote.  I voiced my discontent by voting in the earlier unofficial poll in which more than 22,000 citizens placed their ballots.  The results were drastically different than today’s official poll, and that’s undeniably more representative of the hope carried by the majority of HK citizens.  But nothing seemed to matter anyway, what more can I do than to pray for the city that I’m starting to take root in?

This is probably the longest piece of journal I’ve ever written about politics, I can officially tell all my friends now that I’m becoming an old fart.