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Blackout at Peninsula Plaza

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Dodomeki

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Aug 9, 2010
Blackout at Peninsula Plaza

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By the time power was restored at 2am on Saturday, the shopkeepers in the nearly 30-year-old shopping centre could only tot up the losses to their businesses in frustration. -- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN


<!-- story content : start --> PENINSULA Plaza was hit by a 30-hour blackout last Thursday evening, the second such prolonged one in six weeks. By the time power was restored at 2am on Saturday, the shopkeepers in the nearly 30-year-old shopping centre could only tot up the losses to their businesses in frustration.

The blackout threw shops in the basement and those on levels one to four into darkness. Computers, Nets and credit card machines fell silent; in some shops, equipment essential to the business - hairdryers, heaters and refrigerators - stopped working. Curiously, the building's lobby, corridors, escalators, and shops on the fifth floor were unaffected.

But those running businesses in the building - a popular hangout for Myanmar workers because of shops selling sundries they are familiar with - are fed up. The last power blackout on June 23 took 20 hours to fix. There have also been 15-minute power outages on various floors several times since the start of this year, said a few businesses.

Read the full report in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.


 
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Dodomeki

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Lobby are still lighted up but All shops within Peninsuila Plaza Black out. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE


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Ms Cassandra Chua working in the dark with her 3 other colleagues at Pinnacle Travel Services. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE


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A shop selling luggages and bags on the second floor. All shops within Peninsuila Plaza Black out since yesterday. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE


 
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Dodomeki

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Andy Cho from King Wah Watch and Pen had to cope with portable light in his shop.
All shops within Peninsuila Plaza Black out since yesterday. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE



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Extension power point were seen in most of the shops within Peninsuila Plaza who had a Black out since yesterday. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE


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Vincent Tan from Cathay Photo Store had to use the modelling bulb of a studio light to light up part of the shop.
All shops within Peninsuila Plaza Black out since yesterday. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE



 

shOUTloud

Alfrescian
Loyal
Peninsula Plaza and Peninsula Hotel are both very old buildings and they are also eyesores. I hope more power failures there till the owner (YTC family) realised that they better demolish both buildings and build new ones.
 

borom

Alfrescian (Inf)
Asset
These power failures eg MBS and now Peninsula remind me of the time when I was in the Philippines -where brownout (i.e how they call it) was common.

As we import more low quality and cheap FT's, this country become more like where they are from eg blackouts (like Philippines),floods (Myanmar),IT failures (India), questionable accounting (PRC), not to mention widespread use of fake degrees and diplomas.

I wonder how many of these FT's working here are using fake certificates and its a matter of time before we see things like melamine/bleach and other poisons in our food, infrastructure and building collapse (see Sichuan case and the number of contracts being given to PRC construction companies here), critical systems failures (see DBS case where IBM dare not even reveal its regional centre), wrong diagnosis and prescription of medicine (already happened),large number of road fatalities( increasing with the number of PRC bus drivers) ect2.

Its truly will be a sad case of first world to third world so that the family and
party can stay in power.
 
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