Water Crisis in UM causes HAVOC!!!

Thursday morning 3.00am was just another usual day/"night" when I was having a post-Ang Pao gathering when the event was finally over. Everyone was already turned into a zombie from the exhaustion of preparing the entire event.

Everything was fine until that day's afternoon. A water pipe in Damansara burst and caused the entire campus to suffer from water shortage. I, no doubt, was "victimised" too. I slept through the entire morning, skipping breakfast and lunch. When I woke up, I found that it was peculiar when I entered the bathroom to wash up. As I turned on the water tap, I noticed that the water flowing out was so little. So I thought "what the heck, it's just me." OKAY!!! I suffered the consequences. There was still water when I brushed my teeth, but when I wanted to gargle my mouth... *DANG!!!!!!!!!

Ok, you guessed it. I rushed back to my room to get my drinking water just to gargle my mouth and that's that. Hah! Just when I thought only my college had this problem, I went down to KPS (sort of like a miniature town in UM) to have my late lunch, oh the horror... WATERLESS!!! After my class at 7pm (ended really early, at 5.45pm) I reached my college, and I saw a Syabas truck, and everyone was gathering round it just to get water. Hmmm... I never thought that I would ever see this truck in my life because the place I stayed never had water rationing. Now was a different story. Hah! talking about experience. So I grabbed my pail, went to the truck, lined up to get water.

That was when I saw my friends, too. They were all patiently waiting for their turn to get water. Pails after pails were filled. Water did not stop flowing out from the tank. Just when I was feeling uneasy like everyone else, a friend of mine asked me why wouldn't I go back? *TING!* The light bulb on my head lit. Good idea. But it dimmed a little after that. I was so looking forward to going to College 9 to watch their cultural performances that night. *sigh* So I called my mother and she said that she will come pick me up.

Ok, so you will say that I escaped the torture and torment, but the story does not end here. On Friday morning, I went back to Uni for a class. Chem practical was canceled as there was no water. Hooray!!!.... not for long. I had to go back to my College to get ready for a meeting. However, horror struck me when nature called. Ironically I was just talking with a friend of mine about toilets being the last place on Earth to visit at this time around.

You can never defy nature, this is a first hand notice from me to you. You HAVE to go when you HAVE to go. Let me make it clear as to how a toilet will look like during these time. Have you ever been to China? Visited their loos? No? It's actually a drain that connects every single cubic and it does not have a pump to flush. Pees and poos will stack on top of one another. That's the situation... The rest is up to your imaginations as I will stop the horrific description here onwards. Clue is that 'land mines' are all over and 'Sarrin' gas is deadly.

Well, that will be that. Now I am crossing my fingers AND TOES IF I HAVE TO, that UM will have water on Sunday night when I return... or it will be return of the horror.