Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Just a few dregs I have to mention about the election: looking back, it wasn’t surprising that George and Carlo won by a margin of twice the number of votes over their opponents Mae and Joseph.

When both of them (and all the commissioners) had more than 50% + 1 votes, I already knew the outcome. But of course we had to count every vote for posterity.

George looks more approachable than Mae, stemming primarily because he isn’t predominantly English speaking. In fact, for what it’s worth, George’s girlfriend is of a lower batch. George, unlike Mae, also did not show a multimedia slide show of his previous school accomplishments because he felt that the students did not know him.

During the counting of the votes, Mae left the room after one of her friends peeked in the open ballot box to see how many unread votes were left.

When I gave the election officials a free snack in the cafeteria afterwards, another of her friends was looking for her. Later I saw her by the door wearing sunglasses, and I knew she had been crying.

It was George who approached me first though, after one of his friends probably told him the good news at the end of the count, and I shook his hand.

Outside the cafeteria, I saw Mae hugging him. When I stepped up to console her though, I found out that it wasn’t just her that was crying but also him. It’s really difficult when friends compete like that.

More on Joseph though. Another nail on the coffin of his ambition is probably the fact that he has been talking to his classmates and Student Affairs Director Ronnie about running for Student Council president since his first day in school, and that a lot (if not all) of his compositions for his English classes were about his plans, if he could get away with it.

The fact that he is claiming a well known political party in the mother campus as his own when it was obvious he didn’t have the machinery for it. He was running solo, while George, Carlo, my cousin and five others were all running mates in appearance if not in name.

They showed up in the Candidates’ Presentation of Platforms all in red shirts. George also did in fact, but he was lucky he had an extra black shirt along otherwise it would have looked like they were all together.

According to some of the students I talked to afterwards, that was also a big factor in their getting voted: they had a united front, while George, with all his talk of a political party, was running alone. I do not know what happened to the five people whose names he listed down when he got blank candidacy forms.

Now we trickle down to the Band Fest. I was told by one of the election officials that the organizers of the event had requested that we announce the winners of the election in the middle of their event, just to ensure attendees for them.

I’ll have to stop here again and continue next time. For now, class dismissed.