At 11:50am today I thought my colleague was shaking my chair, I turned around ready to fire a missile but the joker was at her cubicle, next thing on my mind was someone must be thumping on the floor really hard, and I swirled round ready to launch rocket. But nobody, nothing.
Then why on earth am I feeling dizzy like the whole building was moving? Bcos the damn blardy building was really moving! It's Alive!!
Alarmed, I stood up and saw quite alot of heads peering from their partition as well. It just flashed across my mind "Prarie dogs! haha" just like Discovery Channel....the eh simi taiji??
Some clown voiced out maybe some really heavy-assed vehicle drove past and caused the tremors. Finally a mensa genius spurt it could likely be an earthquake!
Everybody was asking aloud "how? wanna get out of office or not" ask already can still stand there looking blur like its the most difficult question of their life. It was nearing lunch anway so I said 'eh lets go la, better get out of office' , then they can still stand around!! You guys waiting for the subtitles or neon flashlights issit!??!
Heck care liao, I just take my pouch and head out. My dept was on the 10th floor, on the way down it almost made all the stops and people were trying to get in. This gave a little edge on how serious it might be.
Down at the ground floor I was greeted by wave of office workers standing around aimlessly. All wear until so smart and sharp but the face damn aimless like chickens without heads lidat. Stand directly under building somemore. Then machiam like gangstars greet each other lidat, I walked into 2 ladies and we stood there exchanged gangstar lingo:
you from which building wan?
samsung
oh samsung~~
you from which building wan??
capital square
oh capital square also shake ar~~
ya
the whole siiiinnnngapore island is shaking lor
aimless people standing around everybody on the phone the Hong Hei Lians from the other building
so we went for lunch and everybody's on mobile phone: call family, bf,broker,maid etc
went back office about 1.5hrs later
around 13:50pm we were seated at our cubicle and wheee here we go again
this time it lasted longer about 8-10seconds? we looked at the window blinds and it was swaying like it was trying to be sexy and the water flask at my table was having a mini tsunami.
I felt sick and walked out. My VP popped up and announced
"I donno about you guys but I think we should evacuate again, it's your own decision"
Bumped into a colleague who was standing by the cargo lift, he heard the lift banging against the elevator shaft, bumpy ride for those in there heheh
This time we took the firemen staircase. The moment we opened the door, we heard a gang of elephants approaching. I remember hearing my colleague say "wah lai liao..." meaning those herd upstairs are making their way down
Times like these those kopitiam uncles are the happiest. Everybody come down sure patronise them mah otherwise do what. We chose table nearest the road so even if the kopitiam cave down can quickly jump out onto the road, then one joker say ya and get run over by a car, stupid comment sibeh salah but damn funny.
Some time later they said we could all head back office when all I wanted was to head back home. No joke man, this roller coaster ride is one where you cant jump off cos your whole world is the coaster. There were news that the millenia office were released to go home which Im so envious of. Another claimed OCBC didnt even allow their workers to evacuate assuring their building is safe, she told my colleague via sms amidst the shaking to remember that she likes lilies...
Where got lidat wan?? You as a manager forbid your employees to even evacuate when the building is swaying, you assure people with what?? So many lives at stake. There's always the "what if" Then you OOPS issit?
Anways early lunch, forced tea-break and a planned birthday celebration, nothing much was done on this day. If there aint casualties I dont mind disco every once in a while man.
Sadly there were casualties over in Sumatra where the quake all started:
Have a good life and times like these please make your own decision. Dont wait for stupid PA announcement or ladder drop from Heaven. That manager who assures you could be the manager that pushes you down the stairs so that he/she can rush to the ground level first. Assure my ass
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