Earthquake scare

Was quite busy in the morning till 11am+ when I was starting a spreadsheet for some licenses stuff my boss wanted when I felt my head spinning. For a while I thought I was going to blackout. Closed my eyes but the feeling was still there when I heard my colleague saying there's an earthquake! My boss and another colleague walked over as I opened my eyes and realised its indeed a tremor caused by earthquake, possibly in Indonesia, which is the only earthquake prone area nearby us.

The next moment, we were told to evacuate the building and I remembered I had recept duty but was told to evacuate anyway. The lift was still working and despite warning that we should not use the lift and we took it down anyway. Managed to take the 3rd lift as the ones before were packed with people rushing down as well. There were already so many people downstairs by the time we reached and decided to take an early lunch break. As we left in a state of panic, I just grabbed my handphone and forgot my wallet. Anyway my colleague said they can pay for me 1st so we left for lunch at the nearby low-rise buildings.

There were of coz so many people same as us and thus swamped the nearby eateries very fast. We managed to order for other colleagues who were on the way so dun have to wait too long. My colleague then sent me an sms from the latest news that the earthquake occured in West Sumatra with a richter scale of 6.6.

Walked back after lunch as we heard people saying its safe to go back. However, barely 1/2 hr passed, we experiened the second tremor and it was far longer than the earlier one. As we were more prepared and sort of anticipated, we remained calm for further instructions.

We had asked if we could go home in case there were more tremors but our MD said no coz he had experienced worse than this in Mexico. Anyway thinking there should not be any worries, we stayed on. It was almost 3pm+ when it was announced that we could go home if we feel unsafe. One of the directors actually called to give this instructions so our MD also changed his statement. We stayed for a while more and I felt the aftermath and still felt giddy to decided to leave ard 4pm+ to meet my sis, who was with Peggy at the Bridal Studio again.

I took a cab down and fetch her as Peggy's sis came by and we proceeded to Chinatown as sis needed to get some beads. It was almost 7pm when we were done and I was damn hungry. Wanted to take a bus somewhere else but it was pouring quite heavily. As sis still had a Swensen's voucher expiring soon, we went over to Chinatown Point for dinner at Swensen's.

Luckily the rain stopped when we finished and we crossed the road to take bus 143 back to Toa Payoh Central. Sis bought hamster food and we went to Kbox to top up points b4 we headed for home.