Water Shortage

Sob sob!!

Water supply in UM has been disrupted due to some maintenance or construction stuff. No water since Wednesday morning till maybe Saturday!

Normally when there is water disruption they will make announcements and stuff. Then everyone will scramble to fill their pails. The corridors would be filled with pails covered with newspaper or plastic bags.

But the normally, there wouldn't be any water cut. Or it would happen 10 hours after the estimated time, when everyone is already happily asleep.

This time no notices were put up. Only realized there was no water when lunch was served with Styrofoam bowls and p

lates. Styrofoam makes me so mad!!!

I was extremely hot and sweaty from rushing around half of UM.

(oh let me digress: I only remembered on Wednesday that i didn't make fee payments nor get my exam slip. So i have to sms Daddy to bank money into my account(on his b'day summore, oh no), then go to kps to pay via atm, then off to the exam hall to get my slip. ok, end of digression.)

Anyway, some ppl started taking water from the water tank, but i thought 'no, the water will come back'. I hate one-pail-of-water baths with a vengeance.

6pm : Ppl started going to the dental and law faculties to bath. I thought 'hah, i will wait till the water comes back'.

8pm : Still refusing to bath. Roommate reports that all 3 giant water tanks are empty.

Hah, so many ppl took half-hearted baths. They will regret it when i luxuriously take my bath water with UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF WATER! *but i don't waste water ar, cause I'm frugal even with water

It starts to rain heavily. Am secretly yearning to bath in the rain because I'm sticky.

9pm : Even the hot water dispenser is dry. Everyone is asking everyone where and how they bathed, i feel a bit paiseh for not bathing yet, but still proudly announce to all that i have not bathed yet because I'm confident the water will come back tonight!

Wishing i was home with the comfort of a reliable water supply and water heater....

11pm : REAALLY wish i took a bath now. But i made such a confident stand, how la, i must continue sticking by my statement even though it means i stink. Omg, I'm always stubborn in the wrong ways and bringing trouble onto myself. Why am i like this...

12am : Secretly wiped myself clean with my drinking water. Haha, secretly some more. No la, just didn't announce to the world.

Had a very interesting discussion with my roommate (Dan Yi) regarding pooh.Ha ha, i never referred to it as 'pooh' before. Which word would you like me to use.....stool? shit? faeces? feacal matter? dung? ok la, i think pooh sounds the cutest.

You see, every floor has 2 bathrooms. and every bathroom has around 3 to 4 toilets, but one is always not used because its the sitting type.

At this point of time, both usable toilets in our bathroom has already been shat in. So Dan Yi said yerr, how can some ppl be so thoughtless, they should hold in their pooh since cannot flush.

But i just came back from the loo, and i didn't notice any pooh. So i concluded that the ppl living on our floor are very thoughtful, they pooh'd straight into the toilet hole so that no evidence will be left.

*Bum hole must be positioned right above hole*

Also made another amazing conclusion.

You see, the toilets in block B were already stinking till high heavens, worse than public toilets; but our toilets were almost odorless.

How is that possible? Our loo has pooh in it! (lame rhyme not intentional)

Well, i was after all a science student for 9 years. I still have my scientific mind and deductive powers!

wtf....

Lixin's Theory #105: If, after shitting/peeing, the individual wipes his/her pee pee/butt, and drops the soiled tissue straight into the toilet hole, a barrier will be formed between the faeces and air. The stink molecules are too large to pass through the barrier, making the air relatively odourless.



This is because for some unknown reason, more residents of block B use water to wash instead of using tissue. Thank god i live in block A now.

My only concern is, sooner or later the layers of urine/pooh/tissue ( like thousand layer cake, eww) will reach the bottom of the toilet hole pipe. Then it will pile ABOVE the hole! omg, how?

At this point my roommate stops listening because she is too disgusted.

2am : Heard rumours that the water supply will come back around 2, so i stayed up to wait. My hair feels like oily mee hoon now.

2.15am : A water lorry or whatever you call it, arrives. We all rush down to fill our pails. Almost broke my back carrying my pails up. Oh did i mention, i semi-twisted my ankle while walking to kps. So i was so afraid of twisting it again.

Too late to wash hair.

7am : Woke up to bathe (managed to use ½ a pail of water only. i am the champion!). Ahh...finally feel clean and refreshed.

*end of long-winded account of water shortage story, congrats if you read till the end. actually still got la, but if i were to write about it, i'd be typing forever. It seems i will never have the ability to make things short when i wanna tell a story. Ei, but i am good at mind maps and summaries wor...nvm I'm confusing myself.*

Update: GOT WATER ALREADY!!! Whoo i've never been so grateful for water in my life. You know why? Because i have diarrhea boohoo! Seems like the water from the lorry is so unclean that the food is also contaminated. Had roti canai + dhal for breakfast today. The dhal normally doesn't go bad even by lunch time. But today i noticed there was a layer of foam at the top....meaning it's already full of bacteria and yeast growth.

Oh i cannot imagine having diarrhea and not being able to flush....