Simply Mayang

I received a text message from my cousin in Taiwan. She told me that there’s an earthquake intensity 4 in Taiwan it is just normal to them for they experience it from time to time and their buildings are built to be earthquake safe. The calamity they fear so much is typhoon, even its just signal number one they will already panic for Taiwan is an island so rounded by water.

Way back 1999, I was there as a factory worker for two years and I experienced the intensity 7.2 earthquake. On my, I really thought that it was already end of the world for it happened at 1:00 o’clock in the morning, everybody at the dormitory were asleep so the lights are turn off right away. Then suddenly the dormitory was thoroughly shaking , in fact we still heard the sound under the ground. So everybody woke up and went outside and was looking for a safe place, but it’s too dark outside for the power was suddenly cut off. Just imagine everybody is panic at the same time too dark and the ground is still shaking it took more than 5-10 minutes including the after shocks.

It was really a bad dream to us Filipinos and we keep on praying that nothing gad happens to us there. The worst thing that follow is that there were no more water, no electricity but not long and no telephone it means no communication from our love ones in the Philippines. Thanks God, at 10:30 in the morning the telephone have dial tone, and every Filipino were very busy making calls to let their family know that were doing fine, for it is very hard being away from them in moment like this. For that, I learned a lesson that no one can save us but prayer, our very own faith to God our only creator.

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