Stealing

It's almost 3am and i am still awake because i refused to sleep and i am afraid that history will repeat itself again when i wake up later.

Yesterday when i woke up, the house was out of electricity and water. It was the second time for the month. The first time was when the Algeria utilities company decided to fix some wires and the funny thing is how the electricity and water cables are so closely linked together that they have to shut both down together.

Yesterday was different. The reason was because Toyota Algerie forgot to pay the utilities bill, and i wonder how many months behind. So i woke up and got back to a world when electricity was not invented. I ate my lunch, took a nap and it was only 5pm. From then on, i struggled to fill my time with reading. I should say i actually learnt a lot from reading the book titled "Imponderables". At least now i know why wines are named dry when it is just simply means less sweeten. And i know that blowing air into Cofi's ears is equivalent to the noise we all hate when the fingernails scratches on  boards and dogs hate that, and that the black dot within the white droppings by birds is the actual dumping whereas the white patches are actually birds' urine....

All the time when i was reading, i was hoping that the power will be up again. But it didnt. By the time the clock stroke 730pm, i was tired from reading, stressed by boredom and i just sat in the dark meddling with my iphone. Thank god for the games i downloaded previously.

Finally the power came back up by 8pm. I was rejoiced and the first thing i did was to turn on my tv and had the volume turned up. Then Kc came back and he told me that the power was only up in the evening because Toyota Algerie didnt managed to pay the bills today. So the owner of this building, having some friends working with the utility company, gave him a helping hand by secretly and illegally turning on the power for us. We are stealing electricity and water as i type! We are thieves!

Until Toyota Algerie pays the bills, i will be facing boredom again in the day (boo!!!) and we will be continuously stealing power from the country. Hush hush now.......