Every now and then we get these notices in our lane. Since I have only completed 60 hours of Chinese I´m not quite up for translating any of those. And since we are not living in an expatriate compound there is no one who would translate it for us. So usually we ignore it, well knowing that something is going to happen - the offical red stamp gives it away.
To be honest the only thing we would ever worry about is that the government would declare that they are taking over the property we ar living in and want to build another shopping center or sky scraper on top of it. No joke! This is actually a clause in our renting contract for our lovley old style aparment. But we are sure that given the 3 days notice our landlord would inform us upfront.
Back to this paper. So yesterday I woke up, wondering why the alarm clock would not work and the aircon not kick in.It took me quite some time until I understood that the reason is not that everthing is falling appart, more that we had no electricity. So I went down to Mr and Mrs. Xing and in my best possible Chinese asked if they had electricty. (Actually all I did was pushing the light switch and said "Mei you" - Not have)
She than explained that the power was switched off at 5 in the morning and that it would come back on at 6pm again (yes my chinese is good enough to understand that). And than she pointed at the sign on the wall - "aahh" - I understand and wondered wether it was worth eating all the ice cream in the freezer before I would have to throw it away. Later in the shower I found out also that not only the power was switched off, but also the gas. But since we have nice tropical 32 degrees here it did´t matter that much. If anything I had another excuse for not cooking and ventured out into the city.
The people in Gao An Road did not seem to mind the interruption and many of them took the opportunity to take a nap in their shop. Except for the guys in the office downstairs who seemed to walk into the office in the morning, than I heard very loud shouting and with a big bang closed the door again. Sure they would have read the sign?
Anyway the power was back in the afternoon - only the TV did not come back to life. Not sure what is wrong with it, but Paul has high hopes that it is finally broken and that we get one of those huge flatscreens now!. :-)
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