Friday, January 30, 2009

Michael Faraday..you are remembered

Last night was the worst blackout i had yet since my time in India...ouh,before that,if you guys never been to India,the electric supply here sucks...it SUCKS big time.....there will be power shortage almost everyday..usually when there's power shortage,my house will be powered by a small inverter which is actually a wet cell similar to car battery and wired to the main switch..i don't know anything technical about that stuff and how it really works in detail so don't flame me if any info given is not coherent with the real fact...
anyway,back to my story.....the blackout last night lasted around 6 hours...from 2 a.m till 8 a.m....the first one hour or two,the inverter works by giving enough energy to spin the ceiling fan in my room,although it spins with a little weird sound as if it is forced to work...and after that....the light started to flicker....my housemates started to gather in the living room(to save energy by only using one light source and one fan) but eventually the inverter dies off...actually the inverter could last much more longer than that but due to frequent blackouts occuring now and then,the inverter doesn't get the chance to recharge and so we are left in total darkness and in a heated environment...plus the mosquitoes....
so what do we do? we.....decided to sleep outside...heheh....not on the lawn of course..my house has a rooftop..so we decided to camp outside for a night on the rooftop under the moonlight(no moon sighted last night)....sounds romantic? hahah...
anyway,i lasted out there for about....1 hour? haha...then the chilling wind and mosquito forces me to move back into the darkness and hotness of the house...and i end up not getting enough sleep for the night...
anyway,who's Michael Faraday? hahaha..the one person that made the electric motor....



camping out...heheh...looks like those homeless in India... ;p


trying to sleep but end up being a meal to the mosquitoes....


the inverter with the lorry battery..haha


thanks Faraday for this...jasamu dikenang!

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