No Water At Work

What could be worse than:
- Going to the toilet the moment you reach office, to find that some inconsiderate bitch hadn't flushed.
- Tried to flush on her behalf, only to realize you have maligned her - not that she hadn't, but she couldn't, because the flush wasn't working.
- Overheard people outside saying there's NO WATER in the whole building today. Not even downstairs. The security also didn't know the reason.

After adding on to the soup in the toilet bowl, I attempted to wash my hands. The tap still managed a trickle. Hey, why is there a trickle here, but none for the flush? If the tank were to be filled by trickles, it would still fill up, right? Annoying.

Within an hour, we can all guess the state of the toilet.

The secretary asked the building's management, Mapletree, what was going on, only to be told that they were "looking into it".

There's still enough water to fill my own bottles for the day, but by 9.30am, our office's supply has run out. The poor auntie would have to spend an hour to fill our boiler with that 细水. But will it be 长流?

We need a water-rationing truck, badly.

Soon, I had to go toilet again. Walau... dread it lor... how would the toilet be like now? W's vivid description of China's diarrhoea and vomit toilet(without doors)? No water to drink, nevermind, can buy. But no water to flush toilet is the city girl's nightmare!

O not so bad, it seemed like the cleaner had manually flushed it before. But the floor a bit wet ley, dangerous. Have to mop the floor with tissue paper. Sorry trees...

Where did the cleaner get the water from anyway? Take an hour to fill 1 pail with that tap? Bring over from the building opposite?

The air started to get stuffy. Wa, as if no water not enough! No air, no water, want us to die!

Meanwhile, the secretary kept bugging the management. No improvement, standard reply.

Normal services resumed after noon. Must have been hard on the cleaners.

Happened exactly on the first working day of March. Really makes me wonder if the management owed utilities fee, hence our supplies were restricted to teach them a lesson.

Or perhaps, Mapletree being owned by our dear TH, which has recently made some high profile losses due to the financial meltdown, has been affected, hence this cost-cutting measure.

Or because of the above reason, they did not pay the utilities bill.

Whatever it is, all I can say is that the management of the building has gone from bad to worse ever since they took over from JTC. Last year, they took more than 1 month to replaced some popped tiles, when it took merely a few days in the past. We always had to complain about the aircon's temperature (too hot most of the time) and they always took a long time to fix it.

O, a good deed was that the carpark gantry was relocated to prevent vehicle buildup on the slope to basement in the event of a screwup. But they had to waste money by building a new room for the carpark warden 10cm away from the old one. Wonder why cannot just use the old one?? Bad 风水, so the gantry always spoil and the cars jam?

Buildings under Mapletree beware, it could happen to you...