I left home in the morning to meet my class at Bicol University for the last time. I was about to deliver my thank you speech in front of fifty six junior college students in the computer laboratory when all of a sudden there was power failure. A student of mine said "Sir, sumabog po yung transformer kagabe kaya nagbrownout ngayon". My plan to end the semester on a sentimental mood was ruined with a black out.
I dismissed the class early and arrived home with an dreadful feeling that my electricity was also shut off not because a transformer blew up but because I was not able to pay seven months of electric bill. And today, March 13, 2011, it happened.
There were no more lights when I turned on the switch and no more music when I turned on the radio. It was only the sounds of my dogs barking and my sigh of imagination of how will I be able to survive alone in pitch black. It has just been a few hours that I have no electricity but it feels like I have been disconnected forever.
