Laos Earthquake Shakes Bangkok Skyscrapers (and My Two Storey Chiang Mai Guesthouse)
May 16th, 2007 | Published in dispatch, travel | 6 Comments
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.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:16 pm (#)
[...] Popagandhi, A Singaporean currently traveling in Thailand with her mother also felt the quake [...]
May 17th, 2007 at 2:20 pm (#)
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.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:35 pm (#)
Haha…you’re not the only one who sleeps like that. My mom says that I don’t just sleep. Instead, “I temporarily die.”
May 18th, 2007 at 3:58 pm (#)
Sis! You install Vista on your MacBook???
May 18th, 2007 at 5:27 pm (#)
Install to try only lah… delete liao. :)
May 20th, 2007 at 6:04 pm (#)
You’re just cool.