In Bangkok
11 am: Minutes after Abhisit Vejjajiva won the vote & became 27th Prime Minister of Thailand the few hundred red shirts outside the gates flew into a frustrated rage, crashing yellow street barriers against the gates of parliament and hurling debris at police inside the fence.
MPs began exiting in cars thru a side gate at 11.30pm and cars were pelted with chunks of concrete as police struggled 2 clear a path.
11.50 am: It's lucky there are not more red shirts here. They are looking into cars to see who is in it and non-Puea Thai MPs are being mobbed, cars kicked and thumped, a big chunk of concrete crashed thru the rear window of 1 vehicle as it sped away.
1.00 pm: Puea Thai MPs are being given free passage. They have windows down and waving. Nasty attacks on non-puea thai -road littered with broken glass in the melee.
1.12 pm: A lot of the red shirts are women. Many of them are screaming and weeping hysterically. Police have reinforced and now form phalanx around the side gate to shield departing MPs.
1.38 pm: Red shirts now calling upon each other to gather at Sanam Luang. This is an outpouring of rage. Many motorcycle drivers using their Horns to make a racket.
Men throwing pictures of Abhisit on the road and stamping on them.
Still just short of around 500-odd though. We will have to wait and see what transpires at Sanam Luang.
1.40pm: The red shirts outside Parliament were giving free rides on motorcycles and taxis to anyone who wanted to go to Sanam Luang. But it is a hot day out there, and our gutsy intern Lee Xin En reports that the red shirts are sitting in the shade of the trees that fringe the sprawling ground.
The key may be this evening. What we have seen is a momentary burst of frustration and anger, and whether this is properly channeled and controlled - or dies down for a while - will spell out what is in store in coming days.
What the red shirt leaders say will be crucial; many know that it is not in the interest of the reds to run amok.
For Nirmal's full story, read tomorrow's edition of The Straits Times.