quake in indonesia caused fatalities in penang

i normally don’t wake up so early on a sunday morning but this moring i woke up early as wanted to go to the 10.00am mass at the cathedral. well, about 9.00am i was busy powdering my face after washing my face, when i suddenly felt like the sink and mirror moving, and sense like the whole floor shaking a bit. for a moment i thought could it be my dizziness spell? (once in a long while i will have this dizziness spell where i see everything spinning around me). then i thought nothing about it. but 2 mins later, my mum emerged from the toilet and asked us whether did we felt the building shook, and i then realised it was not me. my sister though said she did not felt anything. my mum being on the ‘throne’ at that time felt it the most. she said she was shocked to realised the ‘throne’ shaking and saw some of the barang-barang kept inside the tolet cum bathroom moving as if going to fall. well, we thought to ourselves, this means there must be an earthquake in our neighbouring countries like indonesia. anyway i felt the tremors for only a few seconds.
(btw, we are staying at the last floor of our 5 storey flat)

well, after coming back from mass in church (and lots of other visiting), i realised the seriousness of the earthquake when i first went to kstang blog and read about it. and thus from there got the news from the star and cnn. then i also read about it at petertan’s blog.

it was indeed sad to learn that this was a very serious massive earthquake at the richter scale of 8.5, and the quake triggers aftershock and tidal waves at other SEA countries like thailand, india, sri lanka.

and the worst news is that tidal waves in penang had killed 6 people and injured 15 people. oh the latest news said that 10 people were killed.

it’s so sad to learn of this terrible tragedy… which happened a day after christmas and near end of the year. what a way to end the year. let’s pray that the death toll in our country won’t increased. (or any other countries for that matter).

i’m waiting with bated breath for further development and latest news.

got these links from bob:
photos of the aftermath in penang
views from penangtites
see also my penang4u group.

UPDATED 2300 HRS:
latest news from the star reported that there were 33 people dead and many more missing.

and if you want to get to know of penang bloggers who blog on this subject, hop on to the penang blog community.

also, read jeff ooi’s blog on this subject. good, detailed post.