Tremors!

Something kinda cool happened yesterday afternoon. I experienced my first earth tremor. Ok, it's not something that people would call cool, but I have always wondered what it would feel like to feel the earth move. No, I don't wish to experience a real earthquake..just the tremors will do. I wasn't aware of the first tremor because I think I was in the washroom. Either that, or I was too busy staring into space to actually feel anything and I was whining to my colleague about missing out on the experience.

I was eating lunch with my colleagues when one of them asked "Do you feel it?" At first, I shot him a blank look and that was when I felt the table moved. It lasted a few seconds longer than the first tremor, I was told, and it did felt like it went on for quite a while. Now I know what they meant when they say that though an incident lasted for only a few minutes, it felt like hours. It was scary coz we were like, "Hey, how come the shaking is not stopping?" We were in an old building after all and even if it was just a few seconds of tremors that we felt, it was still pretty scary. Not knowing if the ceiling was gonna collapsed on you. The management of the building told us that they would monitor the situation and we would be evacuated if there was a need to. I was hoping that we would be evacuated so we would not have to work! But no such luck.

If experiencing tremors was scary enough, I'm sure experiencing a real earthquake would be even more terrifying. I hope our little island will never have to experience nature's fury...