Blackout

My world had suddenly become sort of dark and muted the other night.

No, my eyes and ears are perfectly fine, I’m actually talking about the repeated incident as in the unscheduled power outage in my neighbourhood...which happened like for the millionth times already in the past few months...Bloody Hell!

So for a night, i had no electricity, no annoying sound from the TV set, no mechanical noise from the spinning fan, no buzzing fluorescent lights from overhead the ceiling, no unbearably loud humming from the freezer.

Nothing but pitch-black all around me, which, quite unexpectedly, brought out some sense of peacefulness in me.

At that very moment, nothing seemed to matter anymore, the world were only as real as the little candle light in front of me, the ticking alarm clock in my room, and the sound of my heartbeat.

Sounds like a perfect time to lie down on my back and reflect on life.

Hence, better leave me alone, you blood-sucking damn bug-mosquito! Unless you think you could endure the attack of my enormous palm, which will not be hesitate to slap the gut outta your bug’s butt! You hear me!?