Earthquakes and Evacuations
Ok so it's like 4 pm and I'm happily at home from the office...reason? Earthquakes and evacuation.
Ok so here's what happened. Just before 12 noon there was a 6.3 earthquake over in Sumatra, Indonesia, which is like 450 kms from Singapore and well tremors could be felt all over the island but especially in the downtown business district. A few people in my office felt tremors and my sis also felt tremors over at her building which is like 2 kms from mine. She said her blinds were like going nuts. I myself did not feel anything but then I was moving around at the time the tremors started (note - my boss didn't sense anything either). Anyway the building management thought it would be wise to evacuate the building so that's what we did - I had to convince my boss that we were supposed to evacuate cos he didn't believe me when I told him it was because of an earthquake in Indonesia. Because it was nearly lunchtime, we all decided to go for an extended lunch hehehe.
So that's what Julie and I did...headed over to a nice little cafe of sorts and had lunch and chit chatted. We had both grabbed our bags when we left the office just in case. When we headed back to the office at around 2 we found out there had been another earthquake in Indonesia (same place but this time measuring 6.6) and again it had been felt in our building as well as a bunch of other places. I called to check with my sis and she said her building have been evacuated already. Our building on the other hand was not evacuated by the building management but our senior management thought not to take any chances and closed the office for the day, sent everyone home and told the lawyers to work from home.
So I got home at around 3 pm - giving my mom a bit of a shock - and now I'm chillin' out at home watching tv hehehe. My poor sis had to stay at her office, her boss apparently didn't think it was a big deal. I messaged my friend Howard (his office is like 6 floors below mine) just after we were evacuated the first time but didn't get any response from him till I got home. He was on a plane when it happened on his way to Seoul and only saw my message when he turned his phone on upon landing.
Ok I'm going to enjoy the rest of my day watching tv...at least today I don't have to rush home to catch the Taiwan drama that's on at 7 pm lol. Buzz Buzz - you should try to watch this show cos it's really cute and funny. It's called Hana Kimi or Hua Yang Shao Niao Shao Nu. You can watch it online at this
Veoh channel there's only 15 episodes plus one Chinese New Year game show special. You're sure to laugh while watching every episode. BTW the link I gave you works kind of like youtube but if you register with them (it's free) and download their client software, you can download the videos they offer. That's what I do - download and make my own dvds but right now I'm still watching the one on tv while waiting for the final episode to be uploaded. The show just finished in Taiwan over the weekend so just waiting for that person to do the subtitles and upload the vid file.
