monday morning didn’t start off that sunny……

but i’ve never thought it would be the worst nightmare so far in my holiday….

it started raining heavily when i was at 1145……

it didn;t take that long till my whole house was flooded….

yes…i happen to stay in the lowest area of the bear hill….apparently..coz none of the neighbours suffer the same magnitude of flood as my house’s…

i dunno whether it’s coincidence or not….but my house had 3 out of 5 times of flood when i come back for holidays…..

and i swear./…..this is the worst flood i’ve seen in 23 years…..(magnitude of flood is measured by the level of water reached as marked on the wall)

the water came in so fast, the oni thing i managed to save is the computer in my room…..i had to literally hug the CPU while pulling the plugs behind it off….leaving those cabel lying on the ground,,,,soaked by water….

after i after that i found that it was too late…..the water spreaded fast, like a poison given intravenously, spreading to all corners of the house……and no area was spared…

to make the day more gloomy….the power circuit tripped off….leaving the whole house dark and spooky…..

felt so helpless then….there was nothing i could to than to just watch the level of water goes up, clothes being soaked by the dirty water from the drain, and wait and pray for it to go down fast so that i could clean up the place asap…

i interpret this incident as a way of nature to remind us how powerful she could be….turning something essential in our lives to a weapon of destruction against us……we seem so puny in front of her…

in the course of medical practice….sometimes we feel that we could control patient’s life in our hands…..saving them from near death and dying illness…we feel proud and almighty that we have the knowledge and privilages others don have…..when we forget we merely help the nature to heal the patients……without the force of nature….all our efforts would be useless….

* after the flood….i scooped out about 500 pails of water out of the house….and spent the next 2 days bbqing my clothes and cushion which were soaked during the flood…

and unfortunately i had a casualty during this flood….

i found it soaked in the water for 30mins before i managed to get it out….

i think it’s my mistake to try to on it before making sure that it’s totally dry…

this mp3 player accompanied me for 1 year when i was jogging, studying and sleeping…..

haih….what a waste…..

RIP- silver fox (the name was given after it spoilt)