Laos Earthquake Shakes Bangkok Skyscrapers (and My Two Storey Chiang Mai Guesthouse)
The earthquake of magnitude 6.1 rocked my second floor hotel room in Chiang Mai! The lights were shaking, my bed was shaking, I was lying down in bed at 3pm (that’s all I do these days, exhausted from the previous week of working).
Mum: “What was that?”
Me: “What was what?”
Mum: “That shaking!”
Me: “Oh, you felt that too? I thought everything was swaying because I took too much flu meds. That was probably, um, a… zzzz.”
She’s often said I can sleep through war and natural disaster; she’s wrong. I can probably sleep through war, natural disaster, and wake up to wonder why everybody’s gone.
2007
16
May
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[...] Popagandhi, A Singaporean currently traveling in Thailand with her mother also felt the quake [...]
we’re on the same boat, pal. i remember an episode back in college when i used to stay in a boarding house, condo style. i lived at the topmost floor, 4th floor to be exact. i was sound asleep when the unit directly below us caught fire. if my friend didn’t wake me up, i would have probably died of suffocation.
Haha…you’re not the only one who sleeps like that. My mom says that I don’t just sleep. Instead, “I temporarily die.”
Sis! You install Vista on your MacBook???
Install to try only lah… delete liao. :)
You’re just cool.