I sneezed and the world shook

Woke up today with a heavy head caused by this irritating nose block...only the right side, though. Not a problem,I can still breathe with my left nostril.Managed to dress up for work,ignored everyone on the bus, set up my laptop and started my day. Table was cluttered with tissues and eyes could hardly open.

With my right nostril still stuck with a tissue roll, Aaarrchoooo and my mind went giddy for a sec. I thought the laptop screen was swaying and my chair was moving left to right. Stood up to see whether someone from the next cubicle was shaking the partition.

Sat back down,I told myself, "Mr Yee is going to get my MC tomorrow cos i could fall and hurt myself if I'm seeing stars from sneezing."

Then Mr Yee appeared behind me!! Long life,Mr Yee.

The office suddenly went busy with "you felt that?", "shaking leh", "my chair moved"...

Mr Yee confirmed that he was in a meeting himself when his saw the image on his projector screen was swaying. Confirmed loh...earthquake loh.

"Everyone evacuate!"

I'm so proud of my company when dealing with disaster. We're so "professional" with all health and safety practices. Then the announcement:-

"Go lunch first,then come back to work."

How very kind of them.

Anyhow,no biggie.Just in case you're wondering ...

Is Singapore free from earthquakes?
In known history, Singapore has not experienced an earthquake.
Singapore is located in an area sandwiched by the Java trench in the west and south, and the Philippine plate and trench in the east.Thus Singapore is located in a seismically stable zone, free from earthquakes.Most of the shallow and bigger earthquakes are in western Sumatra and Java because of the deep subduction zones to the west-east and south-north of the Java trench. Earthquakes that occur near Singapore are usually deep earthquakes and weak.
However this does not exclude us from being affected by weak tremors once or twice a year due to a strong earthquake located in western Sumatra.The tremors are weak and are felt by a few people living on high floors over certain specific areas of the Singapore.
In the interest of the public, Meteorological Services Division has set up a compact network of seismic sensors around the island to monitor the effects of these earthquakes from western Sumatra. The data are made available to engineers to help them ascertain the tremor effects on structures. These data are also made available to researchers in the universities. The information is also made available to the general public whenever a tremor incident occurs in Singapore

Apparently, my flu is far more big a deal than this 'hoo hah'.