Tremors

The water in my water bottle shook, I thought it was Madeline shaking the table, but I found out that it was not when she was busy copying the notes from the whiteboard. In fact, everyone was. Then the building just started to shake. After we found out that not only our class felt it but the whole school, the emergency bell rang and who would expect that the teacher was the first one to pick up her handbag and leave the class, isn't she supposed to organize the evacuation or something? I bet Pn Linda Leong would have done that. Anyway, the feeling of the whole building shaking was just thrilling. Everybody rushed out of the building to the basketball court. Fortunately, there were a buch of teachers in front of me when I went down the stairs, enough to break my fall if I got pushed by the people behind me. Spent about half an hour at the basketball court, the teacher took our attendance to make sure everyone was there, talked about the earthquake with some friends from B class, and that was about it.

Watched the news only to find out that it was only tremors from the quake of magnitude 7.6 or something in Sumatera. Even my mother felt it when the car shook a bit when she stopped at a traffic light. The feeling is still lingering, but it ought to be gone by tomorrow. Too bad for the B class students though as they didn't get a chance to experience the 'thrilling moment', because they were having KH in the workshops, but maybe it was a good thing.