I felt some tremors at around 1910 hrs in my office on the 22F at Collyer Quay earlier and I thought I was feeling giddy or that I was going to faint. After all, I hadn’t slept well the past few nights, and I was playing Sudoku under dim light in the office.

So, while everyone else probably ran, I sat on my chair and wait for the feeling to go away, which it did, when the earthquake stopped. And at that point of time I didn’t even know that was an earthquake!

When I reached the ground floor 10 minutes later, my colleague who there said to me, “Next time, run faster. If the building had collapsed it would have killed you.”

Apparently, an earthquake of Magnitude 7.9 occurred at Southern Sumatra at 0610 local time. (Indonesia is one hour behind us.)

This is the second time an earthquake happened and I thought I was fainting. If the building had collapsed it would certainly had killed me as I sat motionless on my chair waiting for the feeling to go away. * sigh *