Shaken
Just a few hours earlier, at around 4:30pm I suddenly felt dizzy while reading a document in the office, which I thought was some side effect of the medication I just ate, but the next moment my colleague came up to me and asked “Did you feel the building shaking?”, my reaction was “Huh? Really”, then after some thought I realized that’s why I suddenly felt dizzy, it wasn’t my problem it was the building!
In moments we were all asked to leave the building for safety purposes, and apparently the tremor was quite strong as some of my other colleagues were shaken up, for me, I guess the tremor was absorbed straight into my body which shook my head up, causing a strong dizziness. Later it was revealed that there was an earthquake scaling 7.5 on the Richter scale in Banda Acheh about an hour before it hit our shores. I was thinking if we could feel it quite strongly over here, which is like some 500km away from the quake, the situation at the location of the quake would be devastating, heck I might not be able to write about it right now either.
Well it’s been some years since we last felt a tremor, guess this is good to remind us of how lucky we are in Malaysia, which is free of virtually all the devastating natural disasters, except for floods that is, which can get quite bad around certain parts of the country. Let’s all pray that the people over at Banda Acheh are safe and that casualties are low this time round, and thank God that we are all safe over here in Malaysia!
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