back on the road again...

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

I could feel the tremors from the Indonesian earthquake this evening around 6.30. It took me awhile to realise what was going on. Here was what happened..

I was on my laptop as usual, then I suddenly felt dizzy. The laptop screen appeared to be swaying in front of me, making me think that my head was spinning, though the swaying eventually really did make my head spin. Anyway, I felt dizzy, and a second later, my brother said that he suddenly felt really dizzy too. I turned and stared and him and said, "Huh?! I feel dizzy too!"

We stared at each other.
Brother: I think the building is shaking.
Me: Yea I think so too. Crap.

At that time, I didn't quite believe it. Until a few seconds later, I could feel myself really being rocked side to side in my seat. I rushed to the kitchen and told my mum that the building was shaking. And my mum went, "Got meh? I think you studied too much." I wasn't studying anyway. The block was still swaying...

I rushed outside the flat to see if anyone was outside too, wondering what was happening. There wasn't any commotion at all. The stray cat was still there looking pretty lazy. I wondered if I was imagining things.

Such things are not uncommon at all in Singapore. Tremors are felt pretty frequently, but it just never happened before in my area, and I got pretty scared. At first I just thought the building was going to collapse perhaps due to poor construction. I ruled out earthquake in the beginning because my area never never experienced any tremors before.

Scary experience! My legs turned jelly, hands and feet turned cold at the thought that the block was going to collapse. I hope I never feel this crap again. Really made my head spin.

10:44 PM