giddy spell?
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 (10:59 PM)
while i was at my dekstop, i suddenly felt the table shake. for a moment, i was thinking, "printer never on leh. how come shaking. maybe i shook it by accident." but the disconcerting thing is, it just kept going and going. then i realised the chair was shaking and the floor was shaking.
"oh shit. i must be getting too giddy. i shall look away for a while."
then i looked away from the glaring screen but it was still shaking.
"die man. giddy until like that. what's wrong with me?"
but something seems fishy so i turned to mum and asked, "ma, is this table shaking or what?" little did i realise, my mum had thought she was giddy too till i asked her that question. and we realised it's an earthquake!
i didn't think much of it since the earthquake i last felt in japan was a magnitude of 5.2 and i just continued sleeping. but mum seem worried and asked me to go downstairs. so i said, "aiya just hide under table lor." then my mum got ready the keys and went to my dad's room to inform my dad, who happened to be concentrating his energy on shitting. when mum said, "there's an earthquake." dad's response was, "神经病 ah."
by then i had opened the wooden door but no one else in my block seem to be stirring. then mum saw the curtains and a heavy string bead shaking and was pretty amused by it. it felt weird like i was giddy but i know i wasn't already. after some moments, the shaking stopped and the side of the tv announced an earthquake in sumatra. magnitude 8.
despite the weak shake, for the first time i understood how guang felt when we were in japan. and the shake was 5.2 and we were at the site of the actual earthquake. but even now as i think about it, the cradle of my bed was still really comfortable. thank god for keeping me alive.
amen.