For the coming election, however, she has been told that her ballot paper will be slightly different: there will be no rocket, for the first time since she registered as a voter decades ago.
Generations of DAP supporters who grew up supporting the party will for the first time be voting for something other than the rocket after the party announced that it was giving its familiar symbol a “rest”, with all Pakatan Harapan parties agreeing on a common ticket, PKR’s oval-shaped eye symbol.
Many in Seputeh, like Wong, say they have only known the rocket as the symbol of the opposition.
“Rocket tak da,” said Wong, almost mourning the absence of the familiar symbol, before quickly saying that she already knew how to mark her ballot paper on May 9.
“Only Anwar or his wife’s flag,” she told FMT.
As another trader, Mr Ng, said: “The educated know the name of the party, we know it as Anwar’s flag.”
Wong, 70, has a stall at a wet market on Jalan Klang Lama in Seputeh constituency, which has been represented by DAP since it was carved out as a federal seat in Kuala Lumpur in 1986.
DAP’s Teresa Kok won in 2013 with a whopping 51,552-vote majority, her Barisan Nasional opponent, Nicole Wong, getting a little less than 10,000 votes.
Most traders at the wet market are hardcore DAP supporters, but not everyone is as aware as Wong.
Some of her friends are not familiar with PKR, or its logo, which will now be printed next to Kok’s name on the ballot paper.
Many loosely refer to it as “Anwar’s flag”.
Market trader Lim Guan Huat said: “I have forgotten the name but we just call it Anwar’s flag. He will be out in June, right?”
June is when PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim is expected to be released after serving a five-year jail sentence on a sodomy conviction.
“They have decided to unite with Anwar’s party. Now Anwar’s flag will be everywhere.”
For Lim, the coming elections will not be the same without DAP’s flag. Election regulations prohibit the use of party flags and symbols other than those of the party contesting.
The rocket will be missed by its hardcore supporters, but for many like trader Ng, there will not be a problem voting for “Anwar’s flag”, even if many have no inkling of the party’s background.
After all, at every general election, all they had to do was not to vote for the “scale” symbol of Barisan Nasional.