It was a quiet late Friday noon, my eyes were starting to feel heavy. Should have known better than to gobble up 5 slices of bread for lunch, but I was hungry than a hippo!! Folks buried themselves deep in their work, not a sound but the clicking of keyboards. Suddenly Paul brought my attention to the window....
I couldn't believe what I was looking at... could that really be a twister???!!! In Singapore???!! Is that possible???!! It was within clear view of our office. In my excitement, I must have caused a commotion because everyone started to roll up their window shade to see what's the excitement was about.
Next thing you knew, everyone started taking out their camera phones and flashing away to capture what I guess once in a lifetime mother nature at her rage.
Well, as you can see...uhhh.. yeah.. I'm one of them folks. This picture was taken with my Nokia phone (@ about 2.45pm) its not as good, but if you put your face real close...mm.. closer now..uhh.. closer...ok hold up.. you kissing the damn screen. On second thought, just used the magnifying glass....Can you see the twister? It seems the twister started rather *small* from behind the DHL building (the yellow building on the left) and as it makes it way towards the Signature building (green glass on the right) the width began *expending* as you can see from the 2nd picture below.
The whole office came alive, as everyone rushing to get a better view of the twister wondering if its going to grow any bigger. Management starts contemplating if the staff should leaves the building... which was quite funny as the twister was like 10 blocks away from where we located at (I'm sure). The whole nature freak lasted about 20 mins or so, with no damage done (well I have yet to read the news of any damaged).
Suddenly, a voice was heard from above the excitement.
Jawa: Aaawww riteee aww rayyy deee... Eh-bury-boday now get back to work! Dur twiss-tuh iz gone.
Jawa is the GM of our department. She has such thick Indonesian accent, that at times I wonder if the white folks really understood what she's trying to convey. Whenever, we have a dept meeting, we can't help but smile to ourselves listening to her yakking and pronouncing certain words. Actually, Kak Ros and I did a very good imitation of her...... lmao.
Well, so much for Friday excitement. Twister comes to town and I'm here to witness it. Well, such an event hardly taken place in our small island. We felt tremor when country like Indonesia have earthquake. Which when I first experienced it, was late at night and I was surfing the net, when I felt my chair vibrate. Of course, my brain was thinking of something else that was doing the vibrating... I swear I felt goosebumps!! The 2nd time I felt the tremor, I told the room to stop bugging me since I don't disturb nobody....lmao... only to find out the next morning, that Indonesia was hit by another earthquake.
Talking of mother nature... I overheard mom telling my cousin about the dream she had couple of week ago. She dreamed, the land was dry, like a really bad draught . Everything was dying. She felt so scared in her dream as she looks around, as if the world is coming to end. Suddenly, she felt drizzling rain and slowly everything come back to live. Of course my cousin was trying to ease my mom's thought, blame it on the humid weather we been facing for lately.
I want to look at it from a positive point of view. Maybe that's a sign something good is happening to her, or me (perhaps). Maybe GOD will bless us with good tidings, health and everything with positive values. Maybe our draught season is about to end and good harvest and life is taking into its place. I could only hope and pray, for we both have been through quite enough.
Suddenly, a voice was heard from above the excitement.
Jawa: Aaawww riteee aww rayyy deee... Eh-bury-boday now get back to work! Dur twiss-tuh iz gone.
Jawa is the GM of our department. She has such thick Indonesian accent, that at times I wonder if the white folks really understood what she's trying to convey. Whenever, we have a dept meeting, we can't help but smile to ourselves listening to her yakking and pronouncing certain words. Actually, Kak Ros and I did a very good imitation of her...... lmao.
Well, so much for Friday excitement. Twister comes to town and I'm here to witness it. Well, such an event hardly taken place in our small island. We felt tremor when country like Indonesia have earthquake. Which when I first experienced it, was late at night and I was surfing the net, when I felt my chair vibrate. Of course, my brain was thinking of something else that was doing the vibrating... I swear I felt goosebumps!! The 2nd time I felt the tremor, I told the room to stop bugging me since I don't disturb nobody....lmao... only to find out the next morning, that Indonesia was hit by another earthquake.
Talking of mother nature... I overheard mom telling my cousin about the dream she had couple of week ago. She dreamed, the land was dry, like a really bad draught . Everything was dying. She felt so scared in her dream as she looks around, as if the world is coming to end. Suddenly, she felt drizzling rain and slowly everything come back to live. Of course my cousin was trying to ease my mom's thought, blame it on the humid weather we been facing for lately.
I want to look at it from a positive point of view. Maybe that's a sign something good is happening to her, or me (perhaps). Maybe GOD will bless us with good tidings, health and everything with positive values. Maybe our draught season is about to end and good harvest and life is taking into its place. I could only hope and pray, for we both have been through quite enough.
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