She speaks. Or rather, she writes.

its a lazy sunday.. and we spend the day recuperating from saturday’s volunteer/ hard-cheap labour work (wic im supposed to blog about so ppl dont think its all FUN here.. but i havent gotten around to it yet) this is more exciting..
dinner is amazing maggi (just felt like showing the pic) and no, that is NOT all that we eat here, so save ur pities :) we actually eat pretty gud food when we cook (another story, another time)

i had class at 8 tis morning, so i slept at 12. next thing i know, my hsemates are frantically knocking on my door yelling at me tat its an emergency. i wake up all groggy (n in my baju kelawar) to hear them desperately try to get the msg across that its a tornado warning, n i need to put on pants n shoes n run to the shelter hse. tis is at 2 am in the morning.

well well well. im not a morning person.. nor am i a wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-nite-to-face-emergency sort of person. so it took a whole longer for my muscles, amygdala n thalamus to spring into action. (and apparently, if the tornado HAD been in our way, those precious few seconds could have well cost us our lives)

n its funny how we think we’d be cool in the face of emergencies, but turns out we’re not??  last nite stupid irrelevant worries like what about my laptop?? or should i bring anyhting?? and what about my money, my phone, my clothes?? were rushing to my head.. or even things like surely this must be a joke or is this a drill?? this MUST be a practice drill.. i had to sternly remind myself to get out to safety first, tat even things like passports are insignificant when compared to ur lives. a valuable experience indeed.

the people at the tornado shelter

we stayed at the shelter for about 15 mins i think. lots of ppl were already there, most of them seasoned to these type of emergencies (they had the tornado alarm clanging, but us malaysians had no idea wat it meant, obviously) we went back n i switched on the radio, the reports were coming in n warnings for shelter were progressively being aired as the tornado travelled (south i think) damages were reported, but no lives were lost, thank God for that.

i went back to sleep at 430am.. typical Malaysian.. after stressful encounters we must eat.. hahaha.. even more so for me, as my adrenaline was belatedly pumping through my veins n i cudn go back to sleep.. needless to say class was a blurr at 8 :)