Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tremors
There was one day when I happened to go for lunch at a nearby kopitiam with some colleagues, when I experienced a dizzyness never felt before. I thought to myself, "Cham4! This time I'm done for. Something must be seriously wrong with me!" For an instant I thought it was something shaking the table (you know how some individuals like to rock the table while unknowingly shaking their legs?), so I leant back on the chair, to find my head still spinning!
Later, some other colleagues chanced upon us at the kopitiam and asked what we were doing there. We later learnt that there was a mass evacuation and assembly of the whole school due to tremors which were triggered from an earthquake in Sumatra! Whoa! Exciting hor?
But we didn't think much of it. And I was privately relieved that it was the tremors at fault, and not my body going haywire! Heh. We proceeded on to the dreaded workshop. But when we just settled down, I felt the 'dizzyness' once again! Oh man! This time we heard the announcement on the PA system to gather at the track. Even the press was there! Whatever for? They seem like vultures!
After baking in the sun for quite some time, it was finally announced that school would end then, and of course it was accompanied by lots of cheers in the background! (Including me of course!) We ended school because the building contractor had to come scan the building and ensure that it is safe to be used. Everyone had to be evacuated. (The theory is, it is safer at home. Heh. As long as it doesn't affect the school!)
I didn't wanna squeeze with students on the bus, so I decided to walk instead. When I reached the busstop along Braddell Road, students spotted me and shouted to me from the bus! Oh man... quite paiseh, but quite happy too! Dilemma. Heh.
Anyway, I walked ALL the way to Thomson Plaza to borrow VCDs from VideoEzy. That was the main motivation to keep me walking! And I wanted to break record too lah! Heh. Not that most of you will appreciate this. Heh.
The news that night stated that there were many locations in Singapore that experienced the tremors. Just tremors and we make a hooha, have we thought about the Indonesians who were directly affected by it, in terms of lives and property?
My mummy was funny. She saw people run out of the building and she followed suit. Her boss asked her why she was running. She replied that she didn't know... and she retorted that only those people with money will run... cos they want to protect their money! Hahaha! Ridiculous. That's my mummy...
Later, some other colleagues chanced upon us at the kopitiam and asked what we were doing there. We later learnt that there was a mass evacuation and assembly of the whole school due to tremors which were triggered from an earthquake in Sumatra! Whoa! Exciting hor?
But we didn't think much of it. And I was privately relieved that it was the tremors at fault, and not my body going haywire! Heh. We proceeded on to the dreaded workshop. But when we just settled down, I felt the 'dizzyness' once again! Oh man! This time we heard the announcement on the PA system to gather at the track. Even the press was there! Whatever for? They seem like vultures!
After baking in the sun for quite some time, it was finally announced that school would end then, and of course it was accompanied by lots of cheers in the background! (Including me of course!) We ended school because the building contractor had to come scan the building and ensure that it is safe to be used. Everyone had to be evacuated. (The theory is, it is safer at home. Heh. As long as it doesn't affect the school!)
I didn't wanna squeeze with students on the bus, so I decided to walk instead. When I reached the busstop along Braddell Road, students spotted me and shouted to me from the bus! Oh man... quite paiseh, but quite happy too! Dilemma. Heh.
Anyway, I walked ALL the way to Thomson Plaza to borrow VCDs from VideoEzy. That was the main motivation to keep me walking! And I wanted to break record too lah! Heh. Not that most of you will appreciate this. Heh.
The news that night stated that there were many locations in Singapore that experienced the tremors. Just tremors and we make a hooha, have we thought about the Indonesians who were directly affected by it, in terms of lives and property?
My mummy was funny. She saw people run out of the building and she followed suit. Her boss asked her why she was running. She replied that she didn't know... and she retorted that only those people with money will run... cos they want to protect their money! Hahaha! Ridiculous. That's my mummy...
# posted by Banana Saviour @ 4:20 PM 
