Blog kinda dead cause there's school going on the stuff is harddddddd man.
It's only week 5 which makes it infinitely worse.
Plus I have been addicted to some tv shows and practicing my guitar so that's all my time gone.

Oh well. This will be really dead unless something really interesting happens.

Like my void deck catching on fire two nights ago. Hahaha. Let me tell the story.
It happened at around 10.20pm on Monday night.

Wasn't a big fire but it just took the scdf so long to extinguish it. It's took like 20 mins at least, I expected better... :( The fire extinguisher was not enough so they just kept spraying and spraying and spraying water from the hose.

The scariest part was the beginning when you wonder why the lights were flickering, then the shouts you were hearing from downstairs(which I thought were kids play-shouting) become louder and clearer. Then you make out the words "Fire! Fire!"

Fuck.

Worse was not knowing where the fire was, the worse case scenario was thought, that maybe it was your neighbour next-door or downstairs and the fire might spread to your house.
Thank god of all the things that can catch fire, it wasn't a unit burning, but paint cans outside the electric room at the void deck.

On the bad side:
-The newly painted building(the workers actually just painted it that afternoon) has to be repainted again.
-The electric room was burnt and the blackout lasted 9 hours that night.
-The foul chemical smell at the void deck is not going away, damn it man, it has been 2 days.
-No gas for today I couldn't toast my bread :(
-Poor 2nd floor unit above the fire probably has all its floor tiles popped.

I was lucky in the sense that I overnighted at my sister's place after the blackout. (Oh god her sweet sweet ceiling fan.) When they let us go up to our house, I just stepped in to find a torchlight and I got drenched in sweat. Seriously I really didn't think anyone could sleep that night, the heat was ridiculous.

On the bright side:
-The police came pretty quickly. They came way before the scdf.
-Some residents were really helpful. I heard a whole lot of them carried a wheelchair bound person down from the tenth floor.
-Those that were downstairs screamed directions to those still upstairs to steer them away from the affected stairwell. Someone actually had a laser pointer (Damn Son you're well prepared)
-Someone brought a fire extinguisher from their house. But in the end it wasn't used, it wouldn't be enough to extinguish the fire anyway...
-The police went to the units above quickly and started calling the people still inside to come out.
-Singapore Power came maybe an hour after the fire and started repairs for our electricity.
-Electricity came back just 9 hours after, I expected a whole day without electricity. (So fast man)
-The next evening the exterior of the building was pure white again.
-The floor was repaired quickly too, a cement truck came.
-Notice for a check of the gas pipes was immediately issued.

Luckily no one got hurt!

My block needs to stop being in the papers for the wrong reason man...
First was the burglary in my house 2 years ago. Like how suay is that, I still cannot get over how much angpow money I lost thanks to that asshole.
Then now this fire. Someone is gonna get in trouble over this. Probably the painting contractor. How did the fire even start in the first place...

Still, very happy everything is back to normal!!!
So so so thankful for electricity. I mean which geniuses even found out how to create and harness and distribute electricity over countries and now so many things in the house is equipped with a power plug. Amazing really.

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