Yesterday, I was ill. Had fever, a severe headache, runny nose – essentially all the symptoms of a really bad cold.
In fact, I’m still feeling unwell now, but I think the fever is temporarily under control by medication. Oh… I really hate these rainy days!
Last night, I took my medicine and planned to go to bed rather early; because the next morning my friend and her family were going overseas, and her father charged me with the task of following the family to the airport, driving the car back, and safeguarding two of their cars while they are on vacation.
A fun task, but challenging nevertheless. The car that I was supposed to drive back is a rather huge one – something that I am not that used to driving; and furthermore, it’s manual! I quite suck in handling manual cars, you know! Hehe…
Therefore, with such a task ahead of me, I had to totally get enough sleep, otherwise…
BUT THEN,
It seemed like my current house, which was already in a terrible condition – with annoying wiring and piping problems -, didn’t want this poor guy to get any rest!
Last night, the bathroom on the second floor, whose pipes were already severely blocked and pending repair, gave me a memorable Christmas present by overflowing and literally flooding the whole damn second floor common area!
*All the photos you see in this entry were taken after the major flood was cleared. Everyone was too panicky to take any photos before that! So the real situation was really much worse than what you see in the photos!*
I was preparing to go to bed so I did not notice the water creeping into my room through the slit beneath the door!
No one paid any attention to the loud sound of water flowing down the staircase, all assuming it was the sound of the rain – it’s been raining everyday!
Suddenly, we heard Sebastian yelling from downstairs – “OOOI…!!”
All of us upstairs thought his “OOOI…!!” would be followed by some typical “... create DotA lor!“ or “… yum cha lor!“; but instead, it was “… water coming out from the toilet upstairs ah?!“
When I looked at the direction of my door, I yelped – the door mat was already completely drenched, and part of the carpet was already infected by the eeeky, smelly, disgusting bathroom water!
Opening the door, I was completely stunned on the spot.
The common area between our rooms was filled with moving water! Moving water that was coming out from the abandoned bathroom and flowing down the staircase like a bloody waterfall!
Nick, who occupies the room opposite mine, had his computer sitting on water! (his CPU is on the floor!)
Moving our way downstairs, we saw in terror that half of the living room was flooded with yellowish water!
I half imagined Jon’s pet rabbits would be, like, floating around and struggling and drowning; but of course that did not happen! 
It wasn’t that serious!
At once we took action. We started barricading the doors with anything that we could find, to prevent more water from getting into the rooms.
It was also at that point when we realized that the internet router, the wire extension, an electrical port, and a jungle of wires were on the floor, drenched in water!
Immediately we switched off everything in the area and put those items on higher ground as Heng stepped into the super-duper disgusting bathroom with a bucket and started transferring the flood water into the toilet.
Apparently the bathroom floor drain and the toilet do not share the same pipe, and very luckily for us, the toilet pipe was not blocked!
You have no idea how disgusting and smelly the trapped water was!
Slowly, the water stopped flowing and we proceeded to the exhausting process of sweeping the water from upstairs to downstairs, and from the living room, out of the house.
It was endless – we kept sweeping but the water was so much that it took a very very long time to clear!
We actually planned to go watch Hitman at Mines that night but no doubt we had to cancel it – of course earlier that day I had already known I wouldn’t be able to go with all the headache and fever, but I didn’t imagine that everyone would be staying home together and clearing a house flood!
After clearing the water, a friend came with a huge pile of newspapers from his house and we put thick layers of paper covering the floor; as it was bound to stink considering that it was bathroom water that had just flooded our house…
… bathroom water, get it? Anything – solid or liquid – from anywhere could be inside! Ewwww!
After the floor became relatively dry, immediately we started washing the stuff that were soaked, including my doormat, some fabric, my bag and other stuff.
One of my new bath towels, which very unfortunately fell into the flood, was disposed of. I don’t think I would dare to use it no matter how many times it is washed!
Everything ended very late that night, and for the whole night we were anxious that it would happen again, while we were sleeping!
Luckily it didn’t!
This afternoon, the agent of our house asked a contractor to come and try to fix the problem, and guess what he said?
“Major blockage, might have to drill walls and stuff…! Err… Let me talk to Cindy first!” (Cindy is the agent)
And he left.
Let’s hope he comes back soon and fixes it soon, I don’t think we can survive the floods for more than a few times!
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