The Earthquake

Today I landed in Jakarta for a 3-day work-related trip. Lunch was late and we almost only eat at about 2pm JKT time. When lunch ended at about 3pm, we hang around for a chat in the restaurant when the table and the bench that we were sitting on start to "move" side by side. We looked at each other strangely thinking what it was. I was pretty cool about it as it really did not occur to me that it's earthquake. We were in the topic of funny ghost-catching topic as I joked that the table shook because there's a friendly "hantu" playing, while I thought it's my colleague who moved the table. As people started to evacuate, then we know it's not funny, it's earthquake.

The Seismic movement lasted about 2 mins in lateral movements, bad enough to make you giddy, to make you worry and to make you want to run for your life.

The mall made an earthquake announcement in Bahasa. Some stores closed. My JKT counterpart said that it's been years since he last experience any earthquake in Jakarta. This means it is very serious, and I know at some part of the world, near JKT, people are suffering.

Disaster has never been closer. My well wishing goes out to all...