I’ve felt three Earth Quakes in my life. Yesterday was the third one. Just thought to write about my thoughts while the quake was going on …
The first one, back in 2001, Madras. It was around 9 in the night I guess. I was sitting before a my computer (yeah, I’m spoiled right from child hood) in a dark room and editing an image to create a funny image of some bad guy behind 9/11 to show my disapproval of the attacks. All of a sudden, my chair started rocking and the first thing in my mind was … “What the hell, I didn’t even finish editing, how did they find me. Or … is it a devil?”. Then I came out and mom, granny were watching TV and I slowly asked them … did you feel any tremors … thinking that they will think I’m crazy if I tell them that my chair rocked. They immediately replied … YES! and in my mind I thought “YES!! They dint find me, and it was not a devil, it was just an Earthquake”, after few seconds.. “Wow, EARTHQUAKE!!!” and then I called up all my friends and told them that I felt an Earthquake.
The second one, back in 2009, Santiago. I working in the night/early morning 2-3AM on a package I was supposed to finish. I was very tired, but I just wanted to finish the package before I goto sleep. Then, as usual, all of a sudden there were strong tremors and the first thing in my mind was … “Am I dreaming or did I overload my brain?” .. then in couple of seconds … “Wow. Its an Earthquake and in 12 floor building which is rocking. Am I going to die today???”, then tremors stopped and I was relieved. Then Bala came out of the bedroom and looked at me … waiting for me to confirm that it was an Earthquake. He was also relieved due to different reasons when I confirmed him that it was an Earthquake. Next thing I did was tweet about the quake, called up home and a friend.
The third one, yesterday, Madras. Night 1AM, playing flash games and following a stream of worldcup USA vs UK match. Tremors -> “Wow EARTHQUAKE, I should tweet about this before others do” -> “Let me ask others online whether they felt anything” -> “Did anyone else tweet about this, search.twitter.com” -> “Wow. Tsunami alert. Let me make fun of Anjali” -> “Okay, now, let me see whats happening within the house” -> “Hope all are safe in the affected areas” -> “Wow, my third earthquake, I should blog about this tomorrow”
And that’s how, the third one went in my mind.
And … yeah, it took an Earth Quake for me to get back to blogging :P
