Blackout

One evening, i was half-way through my dinner, suddenly there was a black out. I thought it applied to our area but when I looked outside, eh, my neighbours had electricity.  Their lights were bright. 

I quickly ran to the main switchboard and found that my home was the only one experiencing blackout T___T  I quickly called our electrician hoping he could come over to give lights to our home. I told him I kept turning the switch to "ON" but it just kept dropping to "OFF". He said " this is very complicated. We don't know if it is due to your electrical appliances or due to broken wires........" on and on he went about the complications. Then he said "maybe you need to get ready to move into a hotel room tonight if there is no electricity because it is going to be dark very soon, you won't have lights at home blah blah blah..." Actually, i wasn't listening. I was just hoping that he would come over to have a look~ 

Then finally he said something useful haha..  "Go and unplug all your appliances. then try to turn it on again, see whether it works".   I followed his instructions obediently. Then went back to the switchboard and was hopeful that it would have electricity. 

Nope. Darn.

So I called him again. He said "oh, if this doesn't work, then it is more complicated than I thought blah blah blah..." I wasn't listening again because he was repeating what he said earlier. Seriously, if I were dying and I called him, I would be dead by now 😂

When he paused for a breath, I quickly interrupted him and asked if he would mind to quickly come over before it's too dark to see anything. He took a moment to think. Oh, I understand it's after work hour. Maybe we really need to stay at hotel tonight then. He then said OK he would come over right now. THANK YOU! 

He arrived and it was dark. He asked if I did unplug EVERYTHING. He went around the house to double confirm. Then he repeated the same things again 😂 I asked if the switchboard was faulty. He then took out a screwdriver and opened it. 

When he took down the cover, we were shocked by the sight and jumped backward. Yes, we really jumped backwards 

Somebody went in and got "fried" T__T

It was disgusting but I was so happy that we didn't have to stay at hotel that night. Happy ending for me but poor little lizard wasn't so lucky.