Weekday Getaway a.k.a. The Great 28 hr Electric Breakdown

Just had a most tiring 28 hrs: our home had been without electricity for 28 long hours!!!!!!!

The problem started on Sunday night 8:30pm. Sam had already fallen asleep, so when the aircon had stopped, I ended up fanning him manually, since he was in long sleeves pyjamas.

In an attempt to get some breeze into our home, we opened all the windows. Then we realised belatedly this was an open invitation to mosquitoes! And to our dismay, while the solid-based mosquito repellents we use smell strongly of citronella, the mosquitoes still happily buzzed around our ears through the night. Of course, we had no chance to test our Baygon electric mosquito repellent. ;P

I ended up using the small battery operated fan bought for Sam's pram on him for the night. Unfortunately, the spinning lights of the fan kept Sam awake, & each set of 2 AA batteries only lasted for about 3 hrs, meaning I had to perform a battery change involving screwdriver by a night light at 4:30 am in the morning!

By Monday morning, I had black panda eyes, Sam & hubby were obviously suffering from lack of sleep. Not to mention all 3 of us were covered in mosquito bites! But still there was no electricity, so no hot coffee or milo for our breakfast. We were told the substation's transformer & switchboard were burnt out, & the spare parts will only arrive after 1pm that day.

After Sam got off playschool, I brought him to KLCC's baby room for his nap, since the house would be like a furnace without aircon. He ended with only 30 min sleep there, thanks to the play of other children.

Then he had the time of his life, playing in Isetan's kid section & squeezing on Thomas the Train with 3 other children (all whom rather share the train than get off it), all the time having my full attention since I had no other agenda for the day!

After dinner at 7pm, there was STILL no electricity. I refused to go through another night in the house, so we packed an overnighter (by torchlight again) & went off to Mandarin Oriental for a weekday getaway!

Finally, this morning, found out the electricity was restored since last night, or rather, at 12:30 am this Tues. So it was checkout (after a good buffet breakfast of course!) & end of the getaway!!!!!

This is the 2nd time the substation broke down during our 1 yr plus stay here! Last time if occurred in the daytime, & they fixed the problem in half the day. This occurance is the longest breakdown ever! I hope we won't kena another one in our remaining time here. I can't tahan a city life without electricity or clean water!!!!!!!!