the quake

the building swayed a bit, chairs shook a bit, and then came the evacuation announcement. fortunately this was just before 12, so everyone just went off for lunch.

oblivious me was too busy zipping around town going for meetings to partake of the drama, but was finally informed by the ever helpful colleagues who seized me while at lunch and warned me not to go back to the buidling becos "got evacuation one". and then i got a call from dad, who caught it on the news, and who cautioned me not to go back to the buidling cos you never know what'd happen next.

went back anyway, and i wasnt stopped. heard some more accounts of the tremors from other colleagues. all juicy yah (cos our poor singaporean lives are so lacking in drama), but i wonder if they spared a thought to the poor residents actually caught in the middle of it all. got back to my seat, steeling myself to get some work done.

and then i felt giddy, like as if a gentle wave just caught me. and then everyone around me said that was another tremor! waited for another announcement on the pa system, none came. till a few hours later. the police has advised that no evacuation is necessary, and that building tenants can choose to declare the rest of the days off at their own discretion.

which they did btw. heard of at least one tenant who dismisses their staff for the day. but not us. nooo of cos not us. the bosses were all somewhere else anyway, so no decision was made.

and so we toil in this glass cage of ours. which is thousands of times better than being stuck in the wreckage of the aftermath of the quake. i'm not complaining.

let's hope not many lives were lost.....