I would be really pleased if i have a 50% chance of seeing a bright buld on switching on. But with 8/24 the probability of getting light at any hour and 4 of those precious hours i would be sleeping, I am left with 4/24 chance of getting the power.
Ok here’s a normal day. When I wake up either there will be electricity for an hour (if I managed to wake up at 7 am) or one hour after I woke up.
So first things first. If I have an hour of power in the morning, the first thing I would do is to get to the kitchen and use my rice cooker for the meal (this will save some of my efforts). I would tap in all my appliance and gadgets. I will charge my notebook, my handy, my ipod and the emergency lights. It looks good to see all my gadgets feeding at the same time. Meanwhile my house owner would use the crucial power hour to pump the water up the tank so that we would have the running water (still a luxury here in kathmandu) for the next 24 hours.
Afternoons are ok. With the power generator in the office, life has been lot better. But afternoon sessions are also marked with frequent power cut off. And I feel that the generator is running for every minute of the day. Its consistent noise and smoke never seems to disappear. At the end of the day i always have a mild headache due to the constant smoke from the power generator.
Lunch time. We, the employees of the two companies sharing the power generator, usually go out for lunch at the same time so that we could give the generator a much needed rest. The evening schedule is, either i have the electricity from 4pm to 8pm, or upto 12 pm from 8 pm.
If it’s the former, I should make home before 7:30 pm so that i could use the 30 minutes of power for my rice cooker. [Phew]. If its the latter, i won’t mind staying at the office as late as 8 pm so that i can savor the power.
The toughest part is pumping the water from the supply pipe to our tank that happens once in every two days. From the combination of the power schedule and the water schedule, we only have a day with electricity to pump the water to our tank. That leaves us with manually pumping the water at 3 am in the morning. Can life gets any tougher?
Usually when I have a complete darkness at 8 pm i am left with very few options. I work in my pc for about an hour, use my energy back up light for next hour. Then no power.
Candles? Yes. How long? Until I start having burning eyes.
Moral: Live with the rules, and your life doesn’t get that worse.
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