It was a public holiday here in Malaysia. Family was all at home having some quality time. Some of my relatives came over to visit my new born niece and everybody was so happy. But approximately at 4.15p.m that evening, the chair I was sitting on started to sway from right to the left. It was not so forceful as you may think, but it was surely creepy enough to realize that the condominium my family inhabited was shaking. We all got panicked and quickly grabbed our wallets and evacuated my house at once. We used the stairway and it was still trembling, I felt so dizzy.
As we reach downstairs where it was safer to be at, other residents also started coming down. We all waited until it was safe to go back up. It surely made us frightened and was really worried. My brother quickly switch the television on to watch the news. We were not shocked to notice the latest updates from CNN that Banda Aceh was hit by a earthquake of 8.6 magnitude on the Richter scale. It was pretty frightening to see the terror in the eyes of the people at Banda Aceh, Indonesia. We then also was informed that the Tsunami Alert was on and was worried for them and also ourselves. We thought many more tremors will be felt but thank goodness everything subsided and Tsunami Alerts was cancelled.
It is surely a day to not forget. It also made me realize that the world can end at anytime and I need to prepare myself for the afterlife. It is also scary to think but this is the reality. Let's all pray that everything will be alright. I apologize that I could not get any photo footage's of today's tremors at my condominium on how everyone reacted. We were all so worried and could not think of taking photos. God bless !
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