Monday, December 27, 2004
~ 6:18 PM ~
most ppl would know by now tt an earthquake measured 8.9 on the ritcher scale hit Sumatra of INdonesia today. more than 5600 people from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, India and MALAYSIA have died from this devasting earthquake since last witnessed in 1965. most died from the immediate floods caused by tidal waves as high as 5 metres. in the case of Malaysia, 45 ppl died in a Penang resort. they were playing some water sports when the unprecendented tidal waves hit them...
Providence really has great power to take lives in an instant. wat does one think when death awaits at the door? i dunno. wat does one feel when his life is taken at an instant? i dunno. wat is the feeling of seeing a huge wave coming, crashing at u relentlessly, refusing to ease its grip off u once u r trapped in this spiral of water? i dunno. all i know is that...it must have been a painful one. it is really great to be alive..as echoed by me fren yunxuan. think she is really pro-life.
it was reported tt some tremors were felt in Kuala Lumpur. I think my house was also hit by the tremors.
at 9:07am today when i was sleeping, i was awakened by the wind chime hung in my living room. my first thought was that how could the wind chime be making noise when there is no wind? all the windows and doors were shut. i;ve been staying in this house for abt 4.5 months and this is the 1st time that the wind chime was making noise on its own in the morning. I got out of my room and silenced the wind chime. as i got back to my room...the wind chime started to move and make noise again. i felt spooky..i tot tt it was something 'unclean' in my house doing some unwanted work.
i only realised tt the only logical explanation for the wind chime making noise is the earthquake tremors when i found out tt the time of the earthquake coincidented with the time at which the wind chime began ringing. (btw, the windchime is attached to a hook drilled into the ceiling of my living room...so if the building trembles, so does the walls and ceilings, passing on vibrations to the wind chime...this is my physics explanation...lolx)
anywayz, i hope tt all of u will treasure the ppl ard u as u never know whether u will be able to see them and conversely, whether they would be able to see u, tomorrow. so, I LOVE ALL YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE! THANK YOU FOR ENTERING INTO MY LIFE AND MAKING IT BLOSSOM!!!!
FUMOFU!!
