A day i will never forget.

The first hit strikes at 2.46pm, another 4 minutes to the 2nd break of the day and i was already slacking and planning to read a chapter of Nurarihyon no Mago and we starts to feel the tremors. I looked at the uncle sitting diagonally opposite me acknowledging that it's an earthquake. It's normal to feel tremors every now and then so we didn't think it's anything serious. However, it's different this time round. The tremors got stronger and i was told to hide under the table and before i knew it drawers start to open on their own and documents behind me starts to topple.

When i was taking shelter under the table my thoughts were "Shit man. This is serious. When is the shake going to stop? Will the building give way? Don't tell me i'm going to die in an earthquake! What the probability of a Singaporean dying in an earthquake? (In case you don't know, Singapore is natural disaster free. Tiny but safe.) F**K and the fact is my 3 yrs stint actually ended and i'm back alone this time to complete this particular project! Don't tell me i'm this down on luck!" 

Before we can check online to find out what happened we were told to move downstairs. So i grabbed my bag and jacket and moved down as quickly as possible. We were told to wait for 15mins. However, i think 15mins wasn't up yet and we were told to move back to office again. I can only say the Japanese are really brave. I was one of the last few unwilling ones to walk up and before i can even sit down 2 second shake come again. It seems to be more serious then the first one. I looked at the uncle opposite me and he's shocked too and said the shake seems to be vertical (which is bad as buildings are build to withstand horizontal shakes and not so much for vertical shakes.) and he signal me to hide under my table again.

And my thoughts this time "F**k! I shouldn't have came up." and i realized that my boss (whose sitting beside me) and all the uncles around me are not actually hiding under the table. Only me. I totally freaked out and they keep telling me not to worry but how can that be possible?!? As soon as the shake is not so strong, we were told to move down again. This time round i grabbed all my stuff with me and rushed down like one of the fastest. lol.

Well, i can only say that the uncles are really very calm. When we were outside my boss said: "Lucky it's not raining." Then the uncle whose sitting opposite me said: "Yah. Lucky it's not snowing too." This time round we waited much longer downstairs and we were told that we can either cont. to stay in office or go home. Of course they don't expect us to work already. It's because the trains are all suspended. So i went upstairs to save my work and shut down my pc. Yes! i went up again! I don't know why i did but i will be alone if i go back hotel. So i guess it's better to stay with the uncles for awhile longer. Great workout for the 30mins. Climbed 5 stories 3 times! So i hang around for awhile and as soon i felt another tremor, i told my boss and the uncles that i'm leaving first. lol. They all stayed pretty far away so there's no way for them to go home and most of my colleagues walked home. Some even took 4 hours to walk home. tsk tsk tsk. I'm considered one of the luckier ones as the hotel im staying is only 20mins walk away. I can't imagine if i were to stay in ushihama... (previous apartment).

Took some photo on my way back to hotel. 

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