@FaustWolf: Both. The seminar was held by the President and had taken place in a university where my friend studied in.
The ministers encouraged voting by SMS, saying they'd "greatly appreciate the (crap what's the word for "help out"?)" just to "understand the public mind and doing things in their interest" since ours is a Democratic nation after all. Turns out we had to PAY them for each vote (and you find that out after you've voted). The seminar was supposed to have been an intellectual one though, about how expenses are rising, industries branching out to other cities, rising intellectual youths in science and politics, economic powers, National Morality, etc. But what do we learn? "How Gandhi's teachings changed our lives". No offense to Great Spirit (Mahatma) Gandhi, but none of these guys who bragged about their "Gandhi-giri" actually applied the same moral sense and actions in their own personal or professional lives.
I sometimes doubt that the nation would improve even if someone like Obama became President/Prime Minister here.
@Manly Man: I got three things for ya, Mista Musculah!
1) Either good things happen so often that people don't find it surprising to post about it, or 2) Real life's just boring for some people, or even 3) Nobody wants to share their "secret" awesome lives with the internet (it's most of the time about their mates). Come on, who'd keep posting about each time boning someone (except the Facebook Abusers who'd post about anything useless)?
