Well Done Watery Issue

We’ve been had.

No one cut off our water supply for piping works.

No lah, not sabotage, just a silly mistake on our part. Dumb, actually.

When Shanise and I came home at 5.30pm, there was still no water. Perfect. I didn’t wash up after last night’s party and I still can’t do so after 5 hours of cycling around Tianjin! Never mind. So I went downstairs and checked with the housekeeper.

“今天全天没停水啊！您回去查你的表呗。”
(“We didn’t cut off water supplies today. Go check your meter”)

Flabbergasted, I did as told and realized our water supply was cut because we didn’t top up our card!

(NB: Here we use this stored value card which you pre-pay for the amount of water you want. 100 tonnes costs about 200 RMB; and you have to insert the card into the meter to turn on the supply switch.)

Well, actually we bought water, but forgot to insert the card.

PUI. So I could have brushed my teeth at 10 am.

WELL DONE.

As if that’s not enough to make me feel like an idiot, I also learned that we actually have water heater in our kitchen. I mean, tap-heater – it makes our tap water warm, so that, well, it’s warm in the winter and you don’t freeze your hands while doing the dishes.

And guess what? These 4 Singaporean idiots didn’t know we actually have the heater under our sink, which, of course, was left unplugged to the power, and have been washing dishes in 5-degrees water for the past month.

WELL DONE x 2.