Blackout
blackout, life August 30th, 2008Went for tea at Tanjung Aru yesterday evening but suddenly there was a ‘flash’ heavy rain… and the rest of other places too like Penampang I guess. I went out from the car first and the other two colleagues wanted to use umbrella… so this is the result of it… I told you all I’m going to blog it… but I make the picture smaller so that people don’t recognize you all 😆
On my way home after work, I stop by at Pizza Hut Lintas to ‘tapau’ pizza. When the cashier is about to punch in my order, suddenly it blackout!!! damm… I ask if the kitchen blackout too? The cashier said YES!!!… damm, now what?… I waited for about 5 or so minutes but still blackout… I called a friend at Damai Luyang to find out if they have electricity… they do… I decided to go to Pizza Hut Damai… so off I go and I noticed the Lintas traffic lights are dead!!! shoot… lucky I don’t have to go through it.
After getting my large Hawaiian Supreme pizza… 14 minutes after I ordered it… I headed home. I avoided going through Lintas Road, so I used the Kinamount Road… but I was stuck there for more than 30 minutes because the cars can’t get out to Penampang Road. The Lido’s traffic lights are dead too. So, I turn to KK High School. I wanted to use the Penampang Bypass Road. When I reach the bypass, the traffic lights are dead too!!! But lucky the police are there to control the traffic… this is one of the time we really appreciate the Police… else you can see how much people hate them at Malaysia-Today 😆
The traffic ligths are dead… but the street lights are alive…
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August 30th, 2008 at 8:19 am
it’s been raining cats and dogs lately and the electricity is not helping *sigh balik balik mati karan ni apa hal?!
[30Aug2008]
Yalo… the electricity problem really making life hard… new ’09 budget also no help… 🙁
September 1st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
All this happened on Friday the 29th? I can’t remember encountering any dead traffic lights on the way back home (it was 6 something).
But talking about blackouts, I was at the kampung (Tamparuli) yesterday (31 Aug) when there was a loud bang at 9.30pm and the power went out. Something happened to the “pencawang”/transformer located 100m from the house. It was only restored at 1.30am (4 hours), but still did not prevent us from lighting 3 candles and playing cards with Chivas on the side haha
[3Sept2008]
You are lucky, maybe when you pass the traffic lights they were not affected yet… the black out when I was at Pizza Hut was around 6pm. I think the black out phenomenon is getting common lately… even the new budgets will not help it think…
January 6th, 2014 at 6:55 pm
Merry Xmas David and Lilian. It has been a great year tvareling with you. Rachel and I will be happy to tvarel more often with you too in 2011. All the best in 2011!