A Night Without Electricity

    I was returning home yesterday evening from piano lesson. The sun has not fully set yet and there was still some light, so everything was still visible without turning on the car's headlights.

    When the car turned into the road leading to my home, what we saw was a really big shock. A lamp post was standing lopsided and the electric cables are actually dangling from one side of the road to another. There were debris everywhere. Is this a war zone? What happened here? These thoughts flitted through my mind as I scanned the whole road. That was the time when I realized that there was no light emitting from all houses on that street. Poor observation right? OK, I admit that I was busy trying to block out the smells of yummy pizzas wafting through the box just beside me. Too hungry by then. >~<

     Well, thank god that we went back early and there's enough space for us to go through. I wouldn't like to imagine what's going to happen if it's dark when we were back or if the cables are hanging too low. =0
    
     So we had a candle lit dinner that night, which dad insisted on doing so. I don't really mind if there's no light source. It's not like you're going to stick food up your nostrils right? ^^

     There was NOTHING that we can do that night. No electricity means no light. No light equals to no books. No electricity also means no telly, no computer, no radio... We could practically do nothing except to sit around and talk. This made me think about how much people nowadays rely on electricity. Without electricity, we live like cavemen. After the sun sets, the only activity we can engage in are either listening to the sounds of the night or sleeping (besides talking which I mentioned above).

    I was wondering when will the electricity recover as I moved towards the front door and peered out. The night sky was actually very bright compared to what I had expected. In fact, I thought it was still evening until I looked at the clock. It was nine. Gosh. I slipped out of the house and saw that there was a bright silvery orb up in the sky. So that was it. The answer. It's a night with full moon. I never knew that it could be so bright with a full moon in the sky! Alright, I did read from storybooks saying that the moon shines so brightly, making the whole world silvery and so on. Something like that. I even wrote about it before. However, seeing it with your own eyes IS a different story.

     It has been many years since I saw a firefly. Well guess what, I actually saw one that night! It even flew around just in front of me! Can you imagine how excited I was? It was a really pretty little thing. The soft, green light that it emits was just entrancing.

     Ding... The clock chimed one. I was already asleep for a few hours by then. Well, what else can I do except to sleep? I was woken up by the rumblings of a lorry. Bleary eyed, I got up and peeped at the window. It was the local electricians! They were actually coming to fix the cables. AND it was in the middle of the night too! Can you believe that? Well I sure did not at first. I rubbed my eyes and looked again. (No pinching...) They were really there! Hooray! Medals for them. =)

    The electricity came back some time later. Thanks a lot to them! And so here I end for today.

*Please note that while the main part of this story is real, some elements are purely fictional.