Still fresh. Today evening stroke Indonesian island Sumatra an Earthquake with 7.9 on the Richter scale.
I was in a cab on my way home from shopping with Tya, my new roomie and a new trainee in my company. She is from Indonesia. Suddenly I received a call from Edu. He said that there is an Earthquake in Indo and I should check with Tya and Amel from Indo, if their families are all right! And I was sitting in a cab, next to Tya, shaking myself, my heart beating very fast suddenly.
I told Tya in about 5 minutes, when we got home. We checked internet immediatelly.
I called to my parents and brother. Let all of them know I am allright. They even did not know yet. Surely. Strange feeling.
This was the first time to bring myself that close to such a storng Earthquake and threat of Tsunami. Remembering all the disaster from 2004, when Tsunami stroke... i was still shaking checking Breaking News on BBC. I was comforted by Tya later on that the quake is not that bad, her family is ok and things will be allright. For Indonesian though, quake is rather often, they did not bother much, when they see should be OK. But somehow I know that back home the geography of South-East Asia is not very well know and my friends might think I could be in danger..
The Tsunami hopefully will not come, however Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia are in threat. MALAYSIA too... I believe everything will be all right...
... after several hours everything seems to be OK, just a tiny Tsunami came and i am rather relieved...
… to be continued – Wednesday: second day. Another smaller Earthquake in Indo. Next by building -from where I work- in Petaling Jaya (Part of Kuala Lumpur), was evacuated in the morning due to quakes that they felt. I still try to calm down myself, since people in the office take it easy and they are not much bothered about the whole situation. They are used to.
But definitely it takes my energy away. Worries, shock.. I am checking online news… but sometimes they show just the “worse” pictures and stories to make people threaten.
With Edu we set off on Friday evening on weekend journey to the north of Malaysia, close to Thailand - Penang island. The whole trip was very nice, except for the rain, that lasted both days, but allowed us to see quite some places of interest there.
