I was heading for the BlackBerry Curve 8520 Media Launch earlier today, decided to use MRR2 and reach Mandarin Oriental via Jalan Ampang.

While I was at the traffic light to make a turn into Jalan Ampang from MRR2, I felt a tremor and heard some rumble. Since I was waiting for the light to turn green, I thought it was really odd – was it one of the flyovers crumbling? I didn’t know.

After the event (it was after 5pm) I did log into my Yahoo! Mail account and saw some news of the earthquake that hit the Java islands in Indonesia and I thought it could possibly be it. Nevertheless, being a little worn by then and braving the jam to PJ, I couldn’t be bothered to check further.

So now here am I, around 5.30AM after the sudden urge of doing work, I thought of the tremor + the earthquake again. Ok, so I checked the news – lo and behold…………

The quake struck around 1500 (0800 GMT). Its epicentre was offshore, 115km (70 miles) south-west of Tasikmalaya.

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Whadayaknow!?!?! I felt the quake! Ok well it’s not like I struck a lottery or anything but yeah it’s my first time. So happen the car was at a halt or else I wouldn’t have heard it. I remember distinctly that the rumble was felt quite a few times. I felt a slight movement from the ground and certainly heard it.

Finally got my lazy bum to restore this part of the blog after our recent migration to a VPS.

I know there’s not many readers here but it’s just a place where I rant and I like it here.

And to add, here’s my very first video!

it’s from my latest article.

Ok, well not my family member la.

My sister just gave birth to beautiful baby girl, so I’m not officially an uncle!

Congratulations to the Goh family!