My Long Dark Night...
I was awoken last night to the sound of the air-conditioner turning off. I have an ancient wall mounted air-cond that my dad constantly refuses to change as it is still (barely!) working. Whenever the air-cond is turned on or off, the starter makes a loud hissing noise. It was this noise that awoke me from my deep slumber. Well, maybe not that deep, as I'm a light sleeper :)
I looked around my room and outside my window and concluded it was a blackout; Darn! Why of all times in the middle of the night when I need my beauty sleep! The first thought that I occured to me was to go downstairs and check the fuse box incase there was a circuit trip. Before any of you conjure up images of me having to grope around to look for a candle and match, I instead reached over for my handphone / torchlight (This IS the 21st Century after all, right? :P )
With handphone / torchlight in hand, I proceeded to check on the rest of my family, Sis was fast asleep oblivious to the environment around her while Mum was awoken when I entered the master bedroom. She gave me a quizical look to which I replied "Blackout ar!" then started downstairs towards the fuse box leaving my Dad snoring away. Yes, my Dad and Sis are very heavy sleepers :)
Reaching the fusebox, I was dismayed to find out that all the circuit switches were in their proper places and the main switch was firmly in the "ON" position. Even tried to fiddle around with the knobs hoping that it would miraculously bring back the A/C D/C current to power up my air-conditioner which I desperately need to return to dreamland... Alas, it was not to be.
Trudging upstairs back to my bedroom, I was handed a paper fan by my mom who proceeded to grumble about how I woke her up and she can't get back to sleep :) I apologized profusely saying that I merely wanted to check on them incase a thief / robber / kidnapper had taken the opportunity in the blackout to rob the house! I dont think she was listening though as she was already walking back to the bed where I could hear my father still snoring away.
Reaching my bed, I proceeded to try to fend of the mosquitoes by flapping the paper fan rapidly but I only succeeded in wearing out my arm and was not any closer to getting to sleep. Discarding the fan on the floor, I lay in bed wishing for the sandman to come and throw some of his fairy dust on me when suddenly I heard the alarm go off! "Oh Shit!" I thought, dont tell me my house was really being burgled! My mom and dad were immediately awake and were at the alarm control panel fiddling with the controls in the attempt to silence the alarm. Quarelling ensued as both tried to key in the deactivation code in their groggy state.
Before I could head over there to help them out, they finally managed to turn the blaring siren off probabbly waking up half the neighbourhood in the process. Haha...I have company now! Having got out of bed, I decided to walk out to the balcony and looked around my residential area. All the houses nearby were also enveloped in complete darkness which made the stars in the sky shine so much brigher. Wish I had taken a pic, but the camera was miles away back in my room. :(
I looked around my room and outside my window and concluded it was a blackout; Darn! Why of all times in the middle of the night when I need my beauty sleep! The first thought that I occured to me was to go downstairs and check the fuse box incase there was a circuit trip. Before any of you conjure up images of me having to grope around to look for a candle and match, I instead reached over for my handphone / torchlight (This IS the 21st Century after all, right? :P )
With handphone / torchlight in hand, I proceeded to check on the rest of my family, Sis was fast asleep oblivious to the environment around her while Mum was awoken when I entered the master bedroom. She gave me a quizical look to which I replied "Blackout ar!" then started downstairs towards the fuse box leaving my Dad snoring away. Yes, my Dad and Sis are very heavy sleepers :)
Reaching the fusebox, I was dismayed to find out that all the circuit switches were in their proper places and the main switch was firmly in the "ON" position. Even tried to fiddle around with the knobs hoping that it would miraculously bring back the A/C D/C current to power up my air-conditioner which I desperately need to return to dreamland... Alas, it was not to be.
Trudging upstairs back to my bedroom, I was handed a paper fan by my mom who proceeded to grumble about how I woke her up and she can't get back to sleep :) I apologized profusely saying that I merely wanted to check on them incase a thief / robber / kidnapper had taken the opportunity in the blackout to rob the house! I dont think she was listening though as she was already walking back to the bed where I could hear my father still snoring away.
Reaching my bed, I proceeded to try to fend of the mosquitoes by flapping the paper fan rapidly but I only succeeded in wearing out my arm and was not any closer to getting to sleep. Discarding the fan on the floor, I lay in bed wishing for the sandman to come and throw some of his fairy dust on me when suddenly I heard the alarm go off! "Oh Shit!" I thought, dont tell me my house was really being burgled! My mom and dad were immediately awake and were at the alarm control panel fiddling with the controls in the attempt to silence the alarm. Quarelling ensued as both tried to key in the deactivation code in their groggy state.
Before I could head over there to help them out, they finally managed to turn the blaring siren off probabbly waking up half the neighbourhood in the process. Haha...I have company now! Having got out of bed, I decided to walk out to the balcony and looked around my residential area. All the houses nearby were also enveloped in complete darkness which made the stars in the sky shine so much brigher. Wish I had taken a pic, but the camera was miles away back in my room. :(
Coming back into the house, I saw that both my parents had returned to bed and were already sleeping so I headed once more back to bed in the attempt to catch some sleep. I spent most of the time swatting at mosquitoes buzzing in my ear and mosquitoes busy sucking blood from poor me. Wonder what time I actually fell asleep...
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