Posts Tagged ‘blackout’

The scheduled breakout that didn’t happen

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Three-legged power cord

From the neighbor photocopy shop, I got the schedule for my area’s scheduled blackout. Call it crazy, but for this month PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Ngaco) schedules 10 blackout!

Because today, July 1st, my area is supposed to be cut from electrical supply from 7:00 to 17:00, I went to GLP to avoid it.

But they didn’t turn it off after all!

I don’t know whether to be happy or mad. For one thing, they’ve made my evacuation plan useless and just time wasting. Can I sue them from spreading pure FUD? But viewed from another angle, isn’t canceling a planned evil deed a good thing?

Next scheduled outage: July 3rd.

Without electricity we read books

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Routledge Japanese grammar book

Just when I thought things had gotten better, the lights went off again. It started from around 13:30 until around Maghrib. I spent most of the day reading Routledge pictured above, and actually had to go outside when things darken a bit!

I haven’t touched this book for ages so it’s probably not all bad.

PLN should stand for Perusahaan Listrik Nyebahi (The electrical company that we hate).