Sunday, July 13, 2008

21st century blackouts?

We just had our first summer blackout. Yes yes that is a common problem in the summer along with water shortage.It was midnight, but you know midnight here is like 8 o'clock anywhere else. Everyone is up even children.

Anyhoo, we needed some light to see so what do we turn for? The trusted laptop, open your laptop and voila' light. Then we also used it to keep our girls feeling good with songs, cos they were very tense.

I remember a few years back when I was working. One day I arrived to work to discover that there is no electricity, our offices where on the 6th floor, no elevators! The shock! The horror. To add to it there was only the emergency stairs exit to use up. The stair way was so dark one could not see where they are stepping. So a colleague got out his PDA and directed to the stairs to help the both of us reach our destination.

So moral of the story is, where would we be without electricity? I mean Gadgets...