Autumn begins now.......

Monday was Labour Day, so we just had a long weekend. Labour Day marks the official beginning of autumn. In States, every season will begin with a public holiday. Hurricane Ernesto made a landfall on North Carolina on last friday and as a result, it brought a lot of rain to the place that I'm residing. It rained heavily during Friday's night and we discovered that our electricity supply was disrupted when we woke up on Saturday morning. We were unable to heat up the milk using the stove because there was no electric spark to ignite. Being a Singaporean who has never encountered such things in Singapore, I was really caught unprepared. My hubby tried to look for lighter, but we could not seem to find it. We could have possibly misplaced it during the move. As we need to use the stove to cook lunch later, my hubby had to drive out in the rain to buy some matches. Fortunately, the electricity was restored later. I begin to wonder how fortunate I was in Singapore as we never have to encounter such incidents. This incident has taught me to be always well-prepared for emergency. City folks like us are sometimes just too compacent and we take a lot of things for granted.