Singaporeans Don’t Know What Earthquakes Are
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| People milling about downstairs after the tremor. |
Wow, talk about exaggeration: Yahoo! News Singapore reports people screaming, rushing from trembling skyscrapers after the tremors were felt. Really? Wow. Nothing of the sort happened at my office, though I think the people from the higher floors were making a fuss about feeling nauseous.
Turns out it was an earthquake in Sumatra, some 400 odd kilometers away. We don’t know what real earthquakes feel like, but we do have heightened senses towards vibrations, since we all carry handphones here. Blame it on that.
Anyway, it did nothing to cancel my 3pm meeting, so boo hoo for me.
Well, I was walking through the underground and thought SMU was falling on my head. Which wasn’t that faraway a metaphor, so it didn’t occur to me this was an extraordinary event.
When I found out about the quake (by the time I got out of the underground and opened my laptop, 10 people on my twitter list had already twittered 20 posts about it), my friends said they felt something but thought it was… their phones vibrating.
Well that’s exactly what i described how it felt - “mass nausea” (maybe cuz I’m sitting on the 21st floor?). Though my boss decided it wasn’t worth waiting another hour or so for the “all-clear” after the aftershock and told us all to “work from home” :P
pop> hahaha. nice. :)
balaji> see, why couldn’t my boss have said that?
vick - methinks your boss is the average kiasu singaporean :D
I felt..nothing! But I work on the ground floor….hmmm.
………..I live in Los Angeles.
Hello San Andreas faultline.
maybe i should come home.
i think we’re all going to die soon from global warming.
explain the friggin’ snowstorms we had the past two weeks. snow’s lovely. for about 2mins. and then it becomes a pain in the ass.
Ok it SNOWED in malibu a couple of weeks ago.
SNOW.
in MALIBU. MALIBU IS A BEACH TOWN in LA
ridiculous
It snowed here too!
Ha ha ha. Okay no, but imagine if it did.