Darkness enveloped the college last Sunday. It was by far the longest (4 hours +) blackout in recent memory. And it was raining heavily too, greatly augmenting the post-apocalyptic effect.

Conveniently started right before Maghrib (and the subsequent fastbreaking) all the way till near midnight.

Dinner was a romantic affair, with tables illuminated by little red candles and the odd car headlights from the dining hall kitchen. The most interesting bit was when groups of people decided to loiter about the acad blocks after dinner, enjoying the cool breeze, playing with their eveready powered torchlights and listening to the meditative pitter-patter of the last surviving raindrops.

Of course, with the lights gone, the guards had a harder time of monitoring the students' nocturnal activities. Which is worrisome considering the escalating reports of students involved with the notorious 'Couples' (in the words of Saruman, "I'm not referring to a pair of forces of equal magnitude acting in parallel but opposite directions"). Petty things aside, what was even worrisome was the AS Thinking Skills paper the next day and the aforementioned Oxford interview. With the power out, how were these students going to revise? *sob* *sob*. (if you must know, they didn't. since they couldn't. Some lucky kl-dwelling buggers actually went back home because of it. sissies. heh.)

Reports later showed that the blackout extended all the way to Kampung Kubu Baru (wherever that is).

After that major power failure, there was only one other blackout, but it was just a brief lapse no longer than a minute on Tuesday. So far, its bright lights all the way now.