Inferno Panic

Last night, Joel, Anne and i was chatting in the house when we smell something burning. We looked everywhere for the source of the smell until i saw smoke coming out of the main switchboard. 

First it was only smoke, then little flame. Before long, the fire got bigger! Smoke fill the house and it smell of burning plastic and rubber. We panic and run out of the house. Knocked on neighbour's door to ask if they have fire extinguisher while Anne and I trying to think who to call for help. We wanted to call bomba but didn't know the number! In that moment of panic, we forgot that it's 999. So we call friends asking for bomba's number.

Anne called her friend and the first thing her friend said "Anne! Save your laptop and your thesis!" 

Only post-grad students understand this. Thesis and our research is more valuable than your IC or money or thousand dollar phone because only we know how difficult, how important our thesis is. Its a lifetime effort and hardwork. 

well anyway back to the fire,  it got bigger and the only thing we are scared of if the switchboard explodes. We have to do something! Throwing water on the fire might be dangerous because well you know..its electrical and stuff. So i asked Joel to get a wet cloth and try to cover the switchboard. After a few attempts he finally managed to put out the fire.

He said "Adooh. Pening palak aku cium asap tok. Sik dapat la aku jadi bomba mun macam tok." 

and 

"Adoohh..pahal aku sik ambil selfie dengan api ya tadik oh?"

Those statements aside, he's our hero for that night. 

Thank God nothing bad happened, no one is injured and it happened while we were at home. Can you imagine what will happen if we are not at home? Gosh. It's so dangerous. 

While it was not funny at the time when it happened, its funny now that we panic and no one knows the number for Balai Bomba...