At 11:55, a low pitching sound heard; pretty much similar to the wind blowing. I assumed it was a wind and closed my windows. A sudden hurricane like noise came and started shaking everything around me. I sensed earthquake once books in cupboard started falling and fan hanged in my wall banged in the floor. I practiced panic of people at that situation as things were happening in a supersonic speed. Suddenly something triggered in my mind to follow an earthquake drill instruction that happened in DFID meeting on late February. I grabbed my nephew and managed to put ourselves under table. I shouted ‘earthquake…earthquake’. Sound of boom-boom many times. It was a cracking and banging sound around me. I was shaking heavily to lose the life. I was again very selfish to protect me and baby that I was carrying. I closed my eyes, not wanting to listen the wave and sound that carries death but I was forced to hear. Mind was completely focused to escape from the place. Death music stopped for a movement and my restless body and foot started moving in out of door and climbing down the stairs. Found an open space to settle down for a movement but earth was still moving. Although my sense of mind is now returning towards normal but my body is hesitant to go before the time of ‘music of death’. I am now a ‘frog in a boiling water’ and my mind is on the way to recover to a normal stage. Still, time is the best remedy but I am now carrying an experience of a close encounter to death and a sound that I do not want to hear in rest of my life. The unpleasant music Blank heart and mind Earth showed the power I, feared of life Not wanting to hear them again. Those survived are lucky Those suffered carries stress A learning of life, in a profit
Unpleasant music: A close encounter with death
A boring Saturday morning! Sky was not too happy and clouds were everywhere. A presence of very strange climate conditional during the month of April. Saturdays for working people is the day of cleaning, washing and clearing. I had a lunch around 11:15 and opened television but television signal was out from Friday. At 11:55, a low pitching sound heard; pretty much similar to the wind blowing. I assumed it was a wind and closed my windows. A sudden hurricane like noise came and started shaking everything around me. I sensed earthquake once books in cupboard started falling and fan hanged in my wall banged in the floor. I practiced panic of people at that situation as things were happening in a supersonic speed. Suddenly something triggered in my mind to follow an earthquake drill instruction that happened in DFID meeting on late February. I grabbed my nephew and managed to put ourselves under table. I shouted ‘earthquake…earthquake’. Sound of boom-boom many times. It was a cracking and banging sound around me. I was shaking heavily to lose the life. I was again very selfish to protect me and baby that I was carrying. I closed my eyes, not wanting to listen the wave and sound that carries death but I was forced to hear. Mind was completely focused to escape from the place. Death music stopped for a movement and my restless body and foot started moving in out of door and climbing down the stairs. Found an open space to settle down for a movement but earth was still moving. Although my sense of mind is now returning towards normal but my body is hesitant to go before the time of ‘music of death’. I am now a ‘frog in a boiling water’ and my mind is on the way to recover to a normal stage. Still, time is the best remedy but I am now carrying an experience of a close encounter to death and a sound that I do not want to hear in rest of my life. The unpleasant music Blank heart and mind Earth showed the power I, feared of life Not wanting to hear them again. Those survived are lucky Those suffered carries stress A learning of life, in a profit
