Fade Out...
Time:9.30pm
Location: Rooftop of Pathshala
I’m wondering “Why is it that the only time I ever sit down to write my blog is either in the wee hours of morning or when the power is out?”
(If you haven’t got it by now, it’s the latter.)
Either I’m so busy with the little mundane things of my life or I just don’t like thinking of the massive task of penning down all the little things that happen to me…
Lots of little things = large mountain of little blog entries to be written…
And I wonder why I never felt like writing my blog for so long…
Right now, I’m just trying to figure out how to break down all the little things into bite sized blog entries… Unlike that horrible hunk of a blog I wrote for Ampfest… Terrible excuse of a piece of written literature… If I may say so myself… All I needed to do, was throw in some photos and a lot of it can be thrown out the window…
*I promise I promise the pictures are coming*
Ok… I’ve decided to take things slowly… So the blog stories are coming one little piece at a time… Maybe together with the pictures…
The power has gone screwy now… We’ve all gotten so used to power cuts that today’s situation was really quite bizarre…
A power cut is just that… A cut.
The lights, the fans, the TV, the computer, everything gets cut so that you are suddenly plunged into a sea of darkness and momentary immobility. Kind of like a funny bone sensation. But this one only because you can’t see and not because the pain at your arm just shot thru your entire body…
But today… It was more like a power fade out… (Any sound engineers out there?)
Seriously! The lights and fans just faded out and back up…Time and time again… Jess & I were watching a show on some queer channel… Hmmm… Wait… Think I’ll back up here… Come to think of it, lots of queer things were happening today… The microwave sounded a whole lot louder today than it normally did… (Jess couldn’t tell the difference, but she admitted she never ever listened to the microwave) The tv channels got scrambled up so Star World was now on channel 3 and not 30… AXN, Discovery, and Cartoon Network were now within the channel 1 – 15 range when it used to be in the 17 - 25 range… HBO had gone missing… Yikes!
Then the power faded out. (conveniently leaving the TV and computer on so that Jess & I could keep on watching our movie-on-the-weird-channel) Shortly after, the power came on again….Then it faded out again… And came on again…
And the computer monitor caught fire…
It just started smoking! Jess saw some flames I think… And we started to worry! We ran out to find Mothi and look for an extinguisher… We found Mothi… But no extinguisher… Good thing the fire just died out…
After that, it became evident that the power fade outs were potentially quite dangerous…
Sidetrack: Just saw a huge mouse running across courtyard of Pathshala… I swear it’s the same one in my room last time…. It’s really big now… Probably 4inches long… But rather cute running around… Think some people might find it gross… But I’ve always been a rodent type of person…
So back to the strange power fade out…
We switched everything off… I had left my aircon on in my room and it survived thru the entire episode… But it wasn’t safe to leave it on any longer… After I had switched it off, a strange Styrofoam type smell came into my room a little later… It was quite evident that the power was weird… Cos when my fan was switched on at low speed, it was going much more like it would at high speed… And some of the bulbs are looking extremely and unnaturally bright…
Yup… Think I was prepared to be perspiring in my sleep all night…
In the meantime, I needed to cool off and I came up to the rooftop to type… My baby (the laptop) can last for about 2.5hrs without a power source… Good enough I think… To do some decent writing… And once that died? I would switch to practicing my guit… No batteries required… heh heh…
Survival? I rather not think that way… In the whole scheme of things, a power failure is really not that big a deal… As long as there’s no fire or anything to burn my room down… I’m quite happy…
Things are looking up though… The unnaturally bright bulb suddenly dimmed… And the lights have come back on in the rest of Pathshala… Probably safe now to go back into my room and have the lights and fans on…
So there you go… One blog story down… A zillion more to go… If I don’t figure out a more effective way to write the rest of my stories, my baby is going to go to bed and I’ll never muster up the energy to write ever again until the next power cut…. And that entry would also probably be about… a power cut… *good grief*
Location: Rooftop of Pathshala
I’m wondering “Why is it that the only time I ever sit down to write my blog is either in the wee hours of morning or when the power is out?”
(If you haven’t got it by now, it’s the latter.)
Either I’m so busy with the little mundane things of my life or I just don’t like thinking of the massive task of penning down all the little things that happen to me…
Lots of little things = large mountain of little blog entries to be written…
And I wonder why I never felt like writing my blog for so long…
Right now, I’m just trying to figure out how to break down all the little things into bite sized blog entries… Unlike that horrible hunk of a blog I wrote for Ampfest… Terrible excuse of a piece of written literature… If I may say so myself… All I needed to do, was throw in some photos and a lot of it can be thrown out the window…
*I promise I promise the pictures are coming*
Ok… I’ve decided to take things slowly… So the blog stories are coming one little piece at a time… Maybe together with the pictures…
The power has gone screwy now… We’ve all gotten so used to power cuts that today’s situation was really quite bizarre…
A power cut is just that… A cut.
The lights, the fans, the TV, the computer, everything gets cut so that you are suddenly plunged into a sea of darkness and momentary immobility. Kind of like a funny bone sensation. But this one only because you can’t see and not because the pain at your arm just shot thru your entire body…
But today… It was more like a power fade out… (Any sound engineers out there?)
Seriously! The lights and fans just faded out and back up…Time and time again… Jess & I were watching a show on some queer channel… Hmmm… Wait… Think I’ll back up here… Come to think of it, lots of queer things were happening today… The microwave sounded a whole lot louder today than it normally did… (Jess couldn’t tell the difference, but she admitted she never ever listened to the microwave) The tv channels got scrambled up so Star World was now on channel 3 and not 30… AXN, Discovery, and Cartoon Network were now within the channel 1 – 15 range when it used to be in the 17 - 25 range… HBO had gone missing… Yikes!
Then the power faded out. (conveniently leaving the TV and computer on so that Jess & I could keep on watching our movie-on-the-weird-channel) Shortly after, the power came on again….Then it faded out again… And came on again…
And the computer monitor caught fire…
It just started smoking! Jess saw some flames I think… And we started to worry! We ran out to find Mothi and look for an extinguisher… We found Mothi… But no extinguisher… Good thing the fire just died out…
After that, it became evident that the power fade outs were potentially quite dangerous…
Sidetrack: Just saw a huge mouse running across courtyard of Pathshala… I swear it’s the same one in my room last time…. It’s really big now… Probably 4inches long… But rather cute running around… Think some people might find it gross… But I’ve always been a rodent type of person…
So back to the strange power fade out…
We switched everything off… I had left my aircon on in my room and it survived thru the entire episode… But it wasn’t safe to leave it on any longer… After I had switched it off, a strange Styrofoam type smell came into my room a little later… It was quite evident that the power was weird… Cos when my fan was switched on at low speed, it was going much more like it would at high speed… And some of the bulbs are looking extremely and unnaturally bright…
Yup… Think I was prepared to be perspiring in my sleep all night…
In the meantime, I needed to cool off and I came up to the rooftop to type… My baby (the laptop) can last for about 2.5hrs without a power source… Good enough I think… To do some decent writing… And once that died? I would switch to practicing my guit… No batteries required… heh heh…
Survival? I rather not think that way… In the whole scheme of things, a power failure is really not that big a deal… As long as there’s no fire or anything to burn my room down… I’m quite happy…
Things are looking up though… The unnaturally bright bulb suddenly dimmed… And the lights have come back on in the rest of Pathshala… Probably safe now to go back into my room and have the lights and fans on…
So there you go… One blog story down… A zillion more to go… If I don’t figure out a more effective way to write the rest of my stories, my baby is going to go to bed and I’ll never muster up the energy to write ever again until the next power cut…. And that entry would also probably be about… a power cut… *good grief*
posted by thebemusedphotog @ 10:30 PM
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