Monday, October 31, 2022

Halloween by the parents

It's Halloween today.

To me, it's same as every other day. 
To some, it's a big big day.

My sister sent a picture of my nephew's halloween party to us. I couldn't stop laughing when i saw "Casper".

Boo!




I must say, the mother of Casper was creative! She used minimal materials and turned her child into a ghost, just the right theme for the occasion. Or was she running out of time that she quickly came out with this? Or she forgot about this party and put something together quickly just so her child could attend the party? whatever it is, i think she was smart! ha! Not only do Kids grow up fast and there is really no point spending too much on costumes, she also successfully stole the thunder for her work of Art was the first thing i looked at! haha...

It was nice to see everyone putting the effort to turn themselves into their favourite characters, scary ghosts, beautiful princesses etc. I couldn't tell if my nephew enjoyed his halloween party though haha

Happy Halloween!  



Friday, October 21, 2022

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.