Friday, August 28, 2009
I thought it was a dream until a friend txted me on 2.15 to asked if I was OK early this morning. I was dozing off on my bed, not quite asleep when the sudden shaking happened. Took me 10 seconds to register that it was an earthquake. For the first 10 seconds, my foggy brain thought geez, the neighbour must be doing some 'excessive' activity. The fogginess cleared as I realised the whole house was shaking and I could actually hear deep rumbling from the background. I always wonder how an earthquake felt like. *Btw, I just felt a mini vibration as I was typing the last sentence.* It felt like when you first stepped onto a big swing, the type that can fit up to four people in most malaysian's backyard. It is very brief. Less than 10 seconds I think. When I realised it was an earthquake, I have this crazy thought that it was the second coming of Jesus. And I started to ask for God's forgiveness of my sin because I was not experiencing any rapture yet. Ok ok, I was half asleep so my thinking was a bit bizarre. Apparently the earthquake was 5.2 on the Richter scale. Not strong enough to bring down any concrete building but strong enough to wake up a heavy sleeper like me, not that I'm fully asleep at that time.

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