Bastards, All of Them
May 6th, 2006 by MarkFucking crumbly piece of dried shit Taiwano-hick town public service bastards! How the fuck hard can it be to keep basic salt of the god-forsaken earth services running!? Has there been a typhoon? No. Has there been an earthquake? No. So, why for the sake of all things good, why the fuck does the water service cut out spontaneously 5 god-damned minutes after I get home and jump in the nasty-ass decrepit shower in my over-priced apartment? Is it too much to expect to think that living in a $10,000台幣/monthfuck that after so called “utilities” I’m paying $13,000/month for an apartment in such an oh so bleeping quickly developing metr-fucking-opolis as “Lin-we’re gonna have an MRT stop-Kou” there might at least be ONE sheep-humping flyer posted in my building or a single fucking piece of mail notifying us there won’t be WATER in advance? Am I just that unreasonable to expect not to have more than 5 of these crap-tacular episodes in the space of a year!? Is there some rule that the bottom-feeding excuse for a water company has to employ a bunch of cheerful coke-sniffing ass-ponies to just say 對啊,停水了.明天就會有 when I call them to say that the water cut off in the middle of my damned shower? ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
I had to use the water out of my fucking de-humidifier to get the soap off of me, and then rinse that off with the rest of my drinking water. Bastards. Every last one of them are bastards.
Update: For those of you who didn’t realize this, when I get upset and start ranting, I curse everything in sight. It should be clear that ranting about the water company, or the phone company here doesn’t mean I look down on the Taiwanese any more than ranting about Microsoft or Walmart means I look down on Americans. Just to make it crystal clear, I like Taiwanese people.
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May 6th, 2006 at 1:52 am
Boy, I’ve never heard anything like that. This is the worst scenaria and a nightmare come true! Didn’t they put any signs or notice down the stairway? And piece of red paper?
I feel terribly sorry. Now you’ve make it though this, you can McGyvor-yourself in any situations in the deep jungle of Amazon… Call them and leave a hundred messages!
You may call here
任何供水問題請洽水處24小時服務專線8733-5678。
http://www.twd.gov.tw/act/stopnews.asp
http://myweb.hinet.net/home6/bsp/twd/
I don’t think it indicates Guashan is having a water restrain.
Send your complain DIRECTLY here. This is the Director’s email:
http://www.twd.gov.tw/twdmail/mail/MAIL/MAIL001.asp
May 6th, 2006 at 2:19 am
No, there wasn’t ANY notice. I’m familiar with them, and they didn’t post one. My neighbors don’t know what’a going on, either.
That site you linked to is just for 台北, but it was still useful. I really appreciate you going to this trouble to get me info. I called that number and they told me to call 2602-1696. That was a modem, though. I tried looking around online some more and found the number 2601-1013. It greeted me with 很抱歉. 現在是下班時間blah, blah, blah, call 2603-1880. Nobody answered that one. I just sent off an email to that address you gave me.
You know… the thing is, I’ve lived in much worse conditions. In Guatemala, I didn’t expect any luxuries at all. It’s different here, though. I have responsibilities, like going to work tomorrow! Sigh… one of these days I’m gonna snap and move the hell out of this town.
May 6th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Ranting is the pulse of the blog. good job.
May 6th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Mark-san,
I came back to China from Japan a week ago.
I went through a five-day-water-cut-off here in China a few years ago. It was due to the cleaning of the biggest resevoir in the city. As long as I knew, there was no direct notice except for a rumor that I fortunately heard. Some people seemed to know it beforehand by watching a local news on TV.
You can often enjoy less serious things such as half-day power failures or water cut-offs without any notice. Those poor conditions have inevitably made me prepared in case of “emergency.” I have two flashlights, spare dry batteries, candles and five big plastic buckets full of water in my apartment.
I suggest that you get one big bucket first.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:36 am
I think it’s ironic that the Google ad I’m seeing for this post is a Red Cross public service ad for disaster relief…
May 12th, 2006 at 1:33 am
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May 18th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
So happy to hear you swear like that. I thought Merkins didn’t. Really, really know that feeling, you can bet your life a notice was taped somehwere in the building in chinese–often, in my experience on strangely festive pink paper.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:20 am
Cherry Pie, of course all the notices in my building are in Chinese. However, I really don’t think there was a notice about that particular water outage. Nobody in my building knew about it. Nobody on my floor knew what was going on. We went down to the first floor together and checked everything posted on the walls. In the end, I was the one who explained the situation everyone, after calling the numbers I mentioned above. Then my next door neighbors took it from there and called someone out here to get things straightened out. By that time there were over twenty people from my building milling around outside asking each other what was going on. If there was a notice, it was the most ineffective one in the history of this apartment building.
June 5th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
真的是很不错,,,,,我支持你们,,,