Category — Global

After reading my friend’s blog, Alvin Lim, I just realised there was another earthquake that happened in Indonesia at roughly 10.30 pm on 19th May 2008. And apparently many parts in Malaysia felt the tremor. Some people even said that they could feel it in BU areas.

I didn’t feel it even though I was in BU area….

But it was really an earthquake, it wasn’t false alarm. You can just check the report from Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia, here.

And I think if you google it in the internet, you can easily find the news. Luckily there isn’t any tsunami.
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I went back the place where I worked as waitress, where I met a lot of wonderful friends from Myanmar. Holding on with me was The Star Newspaper, and the headline was the Myanmar’s deadly cyclone.

I should have been more thoughtful.

They saw the paper. The next thing I remembered, they gathered around it. And I thought I saw tears in their eyes.

They told me they were okay. I knew it wasn’t so simple. Until one of them told in private that they had try to contact their families back there for two days. But all the phone lines were disconnected. No one knew whether or not their families survived.

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