The thing I learnt...
from the Tsunami quake is that, I am very very lucky to have wonderful, true friends. When it happened, at abt. exactly 9:00am, I just woke up, felt nothing, not even a tremor. Those living in the East Coast area however, would feel a slight tremble. They always get a little taste of disaster that happened in our neighbouring countries. That's about it though. But lets get back for now, to the part abt me having wonderful friends.
I spent the entire first half of Sunday at a good friend's house from High School cause she was getting engaged. Went back home with Gal cause she wanted to watch Return of the King Ex. Half way through, I got an SMS from ama, pretty much freaking out and asking to reply her back if we're okay. In the midst of all the excitement, I managed to reply to her and asked her why the panic? She mentioned abt the quake and that it's a 8.9 on the RS, now subconsciously i know that's a huge one, but i think i got sidetracked abt the whole movie so I told her we're okay. Also asked her about her granduncle who happened to be in Thailand.
anyhoo, I didnt went online until about 12:30am before going to bed and found Mare's email also wanting to know if im okay. Now by this time i was dead curious. What the heck is going on? I emailed her and maria, told them Im fine and then looked for the news online. Wow...only then I realised how huge it is. This morning I got another email from mare and from maria and it just touched me, how concerned they were for me, and amused that they heard the news first while i was in total oblivion. I decided I should give them my contact number to spare them any future unnecessary anxiety attacks, lol.
So yeah, Im blessed. I've heard a lot of stories from friends around me who had bad experiences with friends they made online and I'm just grateful that so far, I've never encountered one. At least not one that I had learnt to trust only to betray me in some form or other later on.
I feel fortunate too, to be in this safe place when there's a lot of chaos near us. I was in the train on my way home and there was a couple of tourists from Australia sitting next to me and they were stealing glances at the news i was reading and the husband told the wife it's not nice to peek on someone else's read, lol...I overheard it so I told them it's okay. One thing led to another, they started asking all these questions about the quake [and good god i was sweating just to make sure i heard them right, lol...accent ppl!] and they told me how they had planned to go to Phuket but decided to come down here instead. I told them they were very lucky and I'm very happy they werent there, they had just gotten engaged a few months ago.
Anyhoo, just wanted to make it clear to my worry wart buddies, lol...since we're located very near to the equator [like really parallel aligned, lol], plus, we're surrounded by small islands from neighbouring countries and sheltered by the mountanous areas of malaysia, we don't get natural disasters of any kind. No earthquakes, no storms, typhoon and stuff...by the time it hit Singapore, it'd be just heavy rain or ashes from volcanic eruptions in nearby contries. Now if one day we do get hit hard by a natural disaster, it means, and i shall quote what friends of mine had been saying here 'the end is here'. Yes, my friends have a calming effect on me.
Isn't this a wake up call? You know, whatever problems you're facing right now, no matter how unfortunate you feel you are, there are others worst off than you. It just put things in perspective dont you think? Today was the first day that i actually felt okay at the idea that we're most likely not getting any bonus this year.
Now ask me again how i feel about that in a week's time.
I spent the entire first half of Sunday at a good friend's house from High School cause she was getting engaged. Went back home with Gal cause she wanted to watch Return of the King Ex. Half way through, I got an SMS from ama, pretty much freaking out and asking to reply her back if we're okay. In the midst of all the excitement, I managed to reply to her and asked her why the panic? She mentioned abt the quake and that it's a 8.9 on the RS, now subconsciously i know that's a huge one, but i think i got sidetracked abt the whole movie so I told her we're okay. Also asked her about her granduncle who happened to be in Thailand.
anyhoo, I didnt went online until about 12:30am before going to bed and found Mare's email also wanting to know if im okay. Now by this time i was dead curious. What the heck is going on? I emailed her and maria, told them Im fine and then looked for the news online. Wow...only then I realised how huge it is. This morning I got another email from mare and from maria and it just touched me, how concerned they were for me, and amused that they heard the news first while i was in total oblivion. I decided I should give them my contact number to spare them any future unnecessary anxiety attacks, lol.
So yeah, Im blessed. I've heard a lot of stories from friends around me who had bad experiences with friends they made online and I'm just grateful that so far, I've never encountered one. At least not one that I had learnt to trust only to betray me in some form or other later on.
I feel fortunate too, to be in this safe place when there's a lot of chaos near us. I was in the train on my way home and there was a couple of tourists from Australia sitting next to me and they were stealing glances at the news i was reading and the husband told the wife it's not nice to peek on someone else's read, lol...I overheard it so I told them it's okay. One thing led to another, they started asking all these questions about the quake [and good god i was sweating just to make sure i heard them right, lol...accent ppl!] and they told me how they had planned to go to Phuket but decided to come down here instead. I told them they were very lucky and I'm very happy they werent there, they had just gotten engaged a few months ago.
Anyhoo, just wanted to make it clear to my worry wart buddies, lol...since we're located very near to the equator [like really parallel aligned, lol], plus, we're surrounded by small islands from neighbouring countries and sheltered by the mountanous areas of malaysia, we don't get natural disasters of any kind. No earthquakes, no storms, typhoon and stuff...by the time it hit Singapore, it'd be just heavy rain or ashes from volcanic eruptions in nearby contries. Now if one day we do get hit hard by a natural disaster, it means, and i shall quote what friends of mine had been saying here 'the end is here'. Yes, my friends have a calming effect on me.
Isn't this a wake up call? You know, whatever problems you're facing right now, no matter how unfortunate you feel you are, there are others worst off than you. It just put things in perspective dont you think? Today was the first day that i actually felt okay at the idea that we're most likely not getting any bonus this year.
Now ask me again how i feel about that in a week's time.