Friday, November 28, 2008

Dear friends,

I would like to post a few pictures for all of you to see how we survive in the “Taps Run Dry Campaign” starting from 16 – 19 October 2008.
Unfortunately, I lost the most important and meaningful picture… very sad…
That picture is about the bus driver standing with pails and pails and pails of water around him at the R&R beside the bus under the moonlight (Because it’s around 12am that time) while figuring out a way to stuff all the pails into the bus to make two trips into 1. Since, I lost the picture, you have to imagine it.
Some pictures show all the pails L (My housemate) & I got in the apartment. All full!! And we carried it all from ground floor till the 3rd floor!!
Some pictures show all of us line up to get the water from the Syabas mobile tanker. It’s not that clear because I took it from my balcony.

Sometimes, I do wander now how do we survive from that “dreadful” campaign?
The answers are:
- Only bath once a day at the evening and use only one medium pail of water.
- Buy mineral water from minimart to drink
- Eat bread and food from cafeteria (it’s clean because I saw them took a lot of
container of water)
- Go to library because it is cold there so I won’t sweat!
- Go to sleep rather than studying (no particular reason except I don’t have mood to
study while there is no water).
- Try all our best to make sure all 20 pails are full!!
- My neighbours borrow their pails to us while they went back to their home (Thanks)

Source of water supply:
- Lab’s toilet and water dispenser machine in front of the lab (No picture)
- Fire hose (We saw seniors took water from there but this is not recommended
because it had the chemical smell so we used it to flush the toilet)
- Hall’s toilet
- Syabas mobile tanker
- Syabas static tanker
- R&R at Seremban which we took nearly 2 ½ hours for the whole journey

I found out that while I’m trying to survive in this campaign, my friends kept asking me why I don’t go back since my home is only 1 hour away from the college.
It’s just that since there is water supply from the places above so I don’t think I have to really worry about no water although I did worry when I heard the news that the campaign might go on for 7 days although the college announced 3 days.

So, that is my life in the “Taps Run Dry Campaign”!

p/s: I found out that I’m actually having fun while this campaign goes on.

See you!!

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Emma Teh

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