Electricity in China
Well today, while I was playing on my new Macbook Pro the internet disconnected. Looking at the router, I noticed that there were no blinking green lights.
Oh no, it’s busted?
I mean, my Macbook was still on… Then I thought, oh! It’s running on battery! So I tried opening the lights but nothing happened. Thank goodness it’s just a power cut!
I woke up my Grandma, as I thought that some power socket must have overloaded or something… and she told me that maybe it was because the electricity was all used up.
Electricity was all used up?
How could electricity be used up? Ah! I know. I later found out that how they run the electricity system here is by prepaying a set amount of money. When this is paid at the nearest participating shop when you bring along what seemed to be a loading card, they programme the card and you have to open your power outlet and place the card into it, where it then gets loaded with your prepaid amount.
I thought this was pretty cool. It only showed ‘10′ and there was a power cut. After loaded, it showed ‘1010′. Immediately afterwards the lights came on and internet was back up! I thought this was pretty high tech.
Back home, you get a monthly bill. This is a lot easier in my opinion (then again, set up automatic payments for the monthly bills and that is easy too :P)
Another funny thing learnt today!
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OMG the hearts appear as ? marks!!! D: