…blackout in iitc…

its 5.30pm. the lights started to blink. then all the lights went off. then, someone shouted out, “save your work”. then, all the lights went off. shucks. suddenly out of no where, another guy shouted, “aiyoh, smoke”

this is when we realize that one computer was burnt. we saw smoke coming out from the computer. then, our support dept manager shouted to all of us to unplug from the power point. we rushed back to our own computer and unplugged. first thing that came to mind was, shucks, my notebook. dem!. i was lucky. nothing happened to my notebook, i hope. big relieved. then i remembered, my server. oh no, i ran to pull the power cable out from my server. dem, server die means big wok! lucky nothing happened.

then, as i was going back to my place, i saw smoke coming out from my colleagues computer. and she was like holding her hand covering her mouth and shouting. then, i quickly ran to her place and as the smoke was coming out from the monitor, i was quite afraid that it will like blow up. but i got over the fear and pull out the plug of her computer. too late anyway. luckily no blow ups.

(irene watcthing over her pc after she saw smoke coming out from her computer)

all of us were told to pack our belongings and go to the tea house. we did as told. leaving the software room empty; afraid that something might blow up at our face.

(everyone evacuated to the tea house)

when everyone is out, paul and jacky was trying to break in to admin dept. this has got to be funniest thing. nobody in the whole company has backup keys to admin. our md was like, “what? nobody has the keys to admin dept?”

paul wanted to climb over to admin from the finance dept. but guess what, the ladder is in admin dept. it will be iitc most embarrassing moment if this story went out. then, paul and jacky got hold of a hammer and hammered the door knob multiple times and voila, we managed to open it. we got in, checked the control box; nothing major.

well, dunno what will happen tonite. paul and jacky will be back at night to check on it. and tomorrow? dunno what will happen. md told everyone to go back; but those senior ones should stay back for a while longer; wakakaz, not knowing it was already 6.15pm and everyone else has gone back.

so far from eye see, software dept has about 10 computers that were burnt; i think. not too sure of the damage.

but what really happens? according to paul it was some thieves who stole the stabilizer(a copper like thingy) from the opposite tnb sub station. when the stabilizer is removed, all the sudden over power hit to our office and other industry in the same area causes alot of damages and losses. suddenly power surge and then our company was the nearest and voila, computers went into smoke. oh my gawd, i think my power adapter just blew. it is not working. oh my gawd! oh well, we’ll see what happens tomorrow. will upload some photos tomorrow….