vendredi, octobre 28, 2005
Fire!
1.45pm me reaches blk S2. nothing to do, too early, naps on bench outside lab.
1.50pm fire alarm goes off. nothing else seems to happen other than irritating alarm(yeah i know it's designed to be irritating.
1.55pm Dr Darren Yeo walking around talking to someone and confirming that it's a real fire. he speaks in a normal conversation tone. and darren yeo says, let's get out. then walks abit. then he says we just leave the students here like that ah, call them to go too.
so we all reluctantly, boringly, walk briskly out of the place. it still looks like a boring hot afternoon without nothing happening.
we go downstairs, cross the linkway to S1. hm, can smell burning stuff. okay.. fine. go to this carpark, and then can see smoke coming from bottom of building. ah even more exciting now.
then campus security arrives, in their car. yay. and they go into the building. do dunno what. prob did nothing. anyway din see anything happen. smoke stopped though. so maybe they did do something to the fire. alarm keeps ringing. nothing happens. bored....
2.20pm two fire-bikes arrive. finally! after 20 mins. wonder why it took so long. wow. everyone so excited. finally there's some action. ok then, the two guys get off, go in. and promptly comes back and put on their gear. which takes forever. and the three more guys come up from somewhere below(ze carpark was not at ground floor), one yellow dressed boss. then they all go in. and alarm stops! wow. but nothing else visible happens. ah well. lala. then me goes to see where those extra firefighters came from. and voila, one whole line of red vehicles downstairs. one white hazmat lorry too. and one normal fire engine, two/three other different but not that impressive ones. and one red car between them. after that boring uneventful thing, we were wondering why they mobilised a whole SCDF army to come and do nothing. well they were really slacking around and doing nothing. the firefighters din stay in there for very long. shrug. think there wasn't much of a fire for them to entertain themselves with. but they were still investigating for some time. still particularly amused with the army of red vehicles. and this is my first real fire. yeah. even though i didn't get to see the fire. my greatest disaster ever, probably. other than lightning storms. and i wasn't even in any danger of dying, so sad. maybe they were suspicious of that roomful of liquid nitrogen nearby. or the abundance of excitable chemicals in the science fac.
well we went back to lesson at 3.30. and i realiesd that the whole S2 block only had us having lessons. and there weren't many staff around as well. so empty. but that place always seems empty, wonder why.
fire fire
Fire!
fire fire! so unexcitingly exciting.
1.45pm me reaches blk S2. nothing to do, too early, naps on bench outside lab.
1.50pm fire alarm goes off. nothing else seems to happen other than irritating alarm(yeah i know it's designed to be irritating.
1.55pm Dr Darren Yeo walking around talking to someone and confirming that it's a real fire. he speaks in a normal conversation tone. and darren yeo says, let's get out. then walks abit. then he says we just leave the students here like that ah, call them to go too.
so we all reluctantly, boringly, walk briskly out of the place. it still looks like a boring hot afternoon without nothing happening.
we go downstairs, cross the linkway to S1. hm, can smell burning stuff. okay.. fine. go to this carpark, and then can see smoke coming from bottom of building. ah even more exciting now.
then campus security arrives, in their car. yay. and they go into the building. do dunno what. prob did nothing. anyway din see anything happen. smoke stopped though. so maybe they did do something to the fire. alarm keeps ringing. nothing happens. bored....
2.20pm two fire-bikes arrive. finally! after 20 mins. wonder why it took so long. wow. everyone so excited. finally there's some action. ok then, the two guys get off, go in. and promptly comes back and put on their gear. which takes forever. and the three more guys come up from somewhere below(ze carpark was not at ground floor), one yellow dressed boss. then they all go in. and alarm stops! wow. but nothing else visible happens. ah well. lala. then me goes to see where those extra firefighters came from. and voila, one whole line of red vehicles downstairs. one white hazmat lorry too. and one normal fire engine, two/three other different but not that impressive ones. and one red car between them. after that boring uneventful thing, we were wondering why they mobilised a whole SCDF army to come and do nothing. well they were really slacking around and doing nothing. the firefighters din stay in there for very long. shrug. think there wasn't much of a fire for them to entertain themselves with. but they were still investigating for some time. still particularly amused with the army of red vehicles. and this is my first real fire. yeah. even though i didn't get to see the fire. my greatest disaster ever, probably. other than lightning storms. and i wasn't even in any danger of dying, so sad. maybe they were suspicious of that roomful of liquid nitrogen nearby. or the abundance of excitable chemicals in the science fac.
well we went back to lesson at 3.30. and i realiesd that the whole S2 block only had us having lessons. and there weren't many staff around as well. so empty. but that place always seems empty, wonder why.
fire fire
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