A Blackout

A blackout last night. Good thing Kelvin cooked dinner early. We were half-way through eating when the power went out so we finished dinner and washed up in the semi-darkness. Then without electricity by which to study or to use our computers, we settled down on the couches to talk.

It was a socially interesting night. Many people were out and about just because there's nothing better to do. Christ College had their formal dinner by candlelight. I walked about visiting and ended up going in Penang, Gillian and Ellen's (whom I didn't even know was staying here) apartment. The hadn't had dinner so we went to La Belle Pizza.

The power had only just came back on when we got back, but we played Uno til past 1 in the morning. Maybe we should have blackouts more often.

I always thought that blackouts are the solution to Singapore's social problems. With no TV to watch, maybe couples will just go to bed and make babies. It'll take teenagers (and post-adolescent teenagers like myself) away from the computers and actually talk to their families. Without working air-cons, maybe neighbours will come out into their HDB corridors and socialise. And maybe it'll make them co-operate and share the operating costs of gen-sets.

An email this morning finally revealed the cause of the blackout. A electrical fire at Engineering but with power has so far only been restored to two-thirds of the campus. The fire even made the radio news.

Well, on Sunday night/early Monday morning, tiles fall off the Commerce Building and a air-con motor caught on fire on Tuesday afternoon. It's some other building's turn now :) I wonder if the uni's gonna fall apart.