7 hours & counting...

Just when I thought that I now have a well balanced routine figured out for myself, a streak of ludicrous power outages decides to intervene and totally thrash my little trusty routine.

In the last 12 hours we faced a 6 hour long power outage and after enjoying an hour more of electricity, they decide to shut it down again. That's 7 hours, and counting, because the night is still young.

Also, my Spidey senses tells me that we'll face at least two more hours worth of load-shedding, one before bed time and another during. F*CKING FANTASTIC!

I get it, there's this whole world crisis, recessions, wars, a ton of debt, the dollar being snubbed.

Yet, most of these problems are in the west, the big ole countries spread wide and open on the world map. Why and how does it affect me? While I'm all the way down here in a little country just above the Bay of Bengal, sharing the borders with India. And no, I'm not from India, nor is Bangladesh a part of India.

Alas, whether it be the west, or the South East Asian region, it's all correlated. It's a big business you know, theses countries and their ruling governments. So, if one goes down or if a "business deal" doesn't go as planned, then a few others are affected too, and since the big daddy, the US of A is taking a big hit, we must take a hit too.

It's just the recoil at this point. While they're the ones shooting the shots, we too must take a few decent hits of recoil, a pushback.

However, this time it's less about the west and more about our government's incompetence. No one other than our government and their scummy ways of handling things takes the blame here.

No matter how much they try to put most of the blame on the other countries and the current global economy, or even the Ukraine war(which is a common excuse), it is undoubtedly our government's fault; miscalculation, countless projects lined up, debt and loans not being paid. It was all just a matter of time.

We were so caught up with the idea of উন্নয়ন(Development), that instead we ended up with নিজের পায়ে নিজে কুড়াল মারা। We dug our on graves.

Just after finishing up with the decade long Padma Bridge project, a humungous project it was; within a year we took on countless flyover projects in every part of the city. Another chance for the ruling party to put some more moolah in their pockets. There's also the half-assed metro-rail project, along with that colossal airport that's being built; non of it is more necessary than a stable source of electricity and water. So, they could've just taken it slow.

We got so busy with modernization, we forgot about the supply of basic needs and necessities.

Now the cost of living has gone up significantly. Electricity bills have doubled(even though there's countless power outages daily lol) the price tags on food items have doubled, even public transportation costs have increased by 20% or so. Some areas in the main city still face 12 hours of power outages daily, many areas still don't have proper gas or water supply, and the list goes on.

On top of that, in the last 2 decades we've managed to cut down 70% of greenery in our capital city alone. Which explains these high temperatures. The last time our country faced a similar situation was about 15 years ago, and we thought we were making progress. Huh!

It's all unnecessary hype. Everyone was so hyped about the country's digitalization and advancement, that now we're back to square one.

Sure, we now have a modern concrete jungle, with big roads and pretty buildings, but sadly, right now this little jungle doesn't even have a proper supply of electricity or water.

Good job, you greedy incompetent F*CKS!