Saturday, June 6, 2009

things we take for granted

one fire alarm and flooded laundry room woke me up to reality (does that sounds dramatic to u?)...3 huge fire trucks and loads of hot, macho fire fighters (yes, i am entitled to some entertainment after being shooed off my warm cozy apartment in the middle of the damned freezing night and being forced to huddle in cold outside while waiting for things to settle) later, it was publicly made known that our laundry room had an explosion of water and the hot fire fighters had to turn the main water source to our whole building off...the direct and immediate effect was, yes, no water for all of us, poor devils...is that a problem if it's at 11 pm at night when most of us are going into dreamland?when u think about it, no, there's absolutely no problem with that...wait...


yes there will be a HUGE MAJOR problem here...it was cold that night, we were all forced to wait outside for at least 10 minutes (believe me 10 minutes is enough to induce our overactive homeostatic body to stimulate our bladder, aka, to urinate for a better word)...and yes, finally...we were allowed to use our commode to release our tension (aka toilet, this being a delicate subject and i would hate to spoil your delicate palate)...so, with no water, it means no flushing (us being a human in a modern world whereby we stop letting go in the wilderness, the river or the plain ole' chamber pot)...which leads to disgusting things being left in the toilet bowl that smells and disgusts other fellow flatmates...okay my point here...we were all desperate to go but had no avenue...i spent 30 mins contemplating of going to the 24/7 opened shops just to go...but alas, i found an alternative (it'll be my secret forever)...


anyway, i'm thankful that my water came again in the morning...i had already begged dora (who lived about 5 mins away on anzac ave) to use her shower (imagine how desperate i am) in the next morning...i had to coz i have a 3-hour poster presentation in the morning...imagine if i go there without brushing my teeth and washing my face, let alone having a decent shower...i would look like a homeless person...and smell like our building year-long-forgotten garbage room...i was most horrified with the idea of everytime i open my mouth to present, people would be struck by the smell of unbrushed teeth and fall over like dominoes...


anyway, thankfully the issue of water has passed...it got me thinking, what if water or electricity is cut off for whatever reason?i'm pretty sure i'll be driven to desperate measures (such as inviting myself to live temporarily in my friends' house as an unwanted guest or suicide)...this season got to be the worst season to have an electricity or water problem, not when most of us are depending on our heater and toilet and hot water....i am really thankful we live in this modern times and i am fortunate enough to live comfortably...huhu....



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