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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Jit Dor 折堕折堕, or "Jit Dor" (Cantonese) means being reduced to a lower-than-ever state of life, due to one's own doing or external factors. So under what kind of circumstances can one be termed "Jit Dor"? Here's an example, which is a real story.
On February 7th 2007, townhouse number D-33-A has survived the 2nd day of having their water supply cut off because of delayed payments. The one in charge of paying the bills, me, hadn't the time to do it on the 6th so I did it on the 7th, which is today.
It was RM228, the bills for October and November, and the water reconnection fee was RM50. I felt my wallet bleed. The lady in the office was rather friendly, and she asked her colleague to make a phone call so that our water supply would be reconnected in some 20 minutes time. However it didn't happen. I was at home till 1.45pm when I had to go to campus for the continuation of our design process class. Still no water.
After class it was pool time, and while we were happily playing, Edwardlina called, saying that there's still no water. Great. I told him to go ask the people at the office, but it was already 5 something, which means the office was already closed.
When I got home I went and inspected the water pipes. Nothing had changed, it still leaked if I turn on the water supply, so no point doing that. I tried to tighten the connecting nut but it didn't help at all. So I was all sweaty and hot and couldn't shower because there was no water. So were my housemates.
As a consequence, we came out with an idea. We'd go to Block C, swim there, then take a shower in their changing rooms after that. Sounded like a nice plan, except there were no working shower in Block C's changing rooms. Frustrated, we went to Block B swimming pool and searched for the changing room, which was sort of underground. And voila, working showers! Khoo, Vincent, Gary and Agito immediately rushed into the showers, while Edward and I decided to swim for a bit before doing so.
However, this was not the end of the story, because the moment I started swimming, I noticed something very wrong with the water in the pool. I didn't wear goggles and my eyes hurt like hell. I'm a rather experienced swimmer so I could swim without my goggles with normal swimming pool chlorine levels, but in this case I could hardly open my eyes. And the water tasted weird! Yucks! We swam for a while and decided to go.
So we had our showers and headed home, feeling very "Jit Dor". I do feel bad for not paying the water bills earlier, but it's not entirely my fault, really. Let's keep our fingers crossed that tomorrow would be better.
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