The Great Malaysian Blackout.
I was in Kinokuniya KLCC when the lights failed.
It started when the lights flickered, while I was looking for a travel book (it was an errand for someone). I had found my book the minute the lights failed.
At first I thought it was, just, you know, a normal power outage — one shop, or a part of the building at most. Turns out that the whole building was out.
As I took a cab back to Bangsar (I had learned not to park in Suria KLCC's car parks on weekdays the hard way), I realized that I was in what seemed like a city-wide blackout. Wow. We haven't had one of those since Paka.
On my way to Bangsar, I observed that the amount of pedestrians had doubled. Figures. KL is a city built on air-conditioning and artificial lighting. The minute the lights and artificial ventilation failed, no one could be persuaded to stay in their offices as their cubicles become dark, stuffy hothouses.
When I did get back to Bangsar (after paying an exorbitant fee for a fare ride, and sitting through a massive jam at Jalan Bangsar), I settled into my car and drove back home.
That took a while. The roads, thanks to the screwed-up traffic lights and general disorder, were clogged with vehicles. Spent a good part of an hour stuck in what was only a few hundred metres of road, near the Rothmans roundabout.
Lucky for me, at least the MacDonalds drive-thru I went to had power, and PJ, for the most part, still has electricity. The power outage, though extensive, didn't touch Hitz, Mix, Light and Easy or Radio 4 KL. It got RED 104.9 for a while, though. Pity. I kinda liked them.
They're back now. And I'm home. Saw the Wan (my maid) waiting outside, in vain, for a bus. Told her what happened, and she was surprised and peeved off, to say the least. She wanted to go to Ampang today. Anyway. Will take her tonight, if I have to.
Oh, well. That's it.
posted by T-Boy at 4:04 PM
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Hitz, Mix and Light&Easy did went down for sometime. I was driving and thot my radio (or antenna) was out. But the traffic was ugly.
Technically...when the power fails that means the sensors don't work. You could have just walked out there with heaps of books with people being non the wiser...:)
I got back to the office and climbed 9 floors of stairs to my cubicle. Let me know when we sall do lunch again, this time perhaps nearer to PJ...
just passing through.
well, the McDonald's I went doesnt have electricity.
Bummer.Now I'm hungry.
Kamigoroshi: Yep, the sensors were out. Instead we had employees standing at the entrance watching us customers leaving and entering like damn hawks.
Pick Yin: Sounds good to me. I'll call yer. Nine fricking floors to your cubicle, which, I bet, wasn't air-conditioned? Nice. *winces*
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