hi, i didnt really write anything these few days. so sorry about that. well, i'm going to start with the most interesting news first. late last night my maid was sleeping in her room when she suddenly heard the tiled floors making a grumbling sound. she was always terrified of tsunamis so she quickly ran out of the room. when she was safely outside her room, the floor just suddenly exploded, creating a big crack on the floor. my aunt was sleeping in the living room and just heard the sound of glass crashing to the floor. she initially wanted to go on sleeping but then my maid came to her and repeatedly soothe her chest with her hand and said
'saya takut loh...'
my aunt asked her what she was afraid of, thinking she just broke a really expensive piece of glass or so, but then the theory wasnt plausible since we kept no priceless ornaments in our house. she then followed her to her room and then saw this big hole on the ground. when my maid pulled out her mattress, the tiles on the crackline were forming a line ridge on the floor with pieces of shattered tiles beside it. it really shocked the daylights out of mom, my aunt and my maid as well. feeling scared mom called dad at the dead of the night and you know what dad said?
he said that when they were preparing the area for construction, they actually have to pile the ground first in between the two important beams of the building. without even waiting for the soil to settle, they sped up the construction of the building. so when the time comes for the soil to actually settle, the two important beams sink to towards each other, raising the soil in between. so the 'explosion' was actually one part of the evidence of poor planning. he said before this happened, the pipes will burst a little causing the pipe problems, with the water seeping into the floorboards. for the first time i was actually really really glad that dad is a great civil engineer, if not i would actually let my global warming, tsunami and end of the world thoughts run away with me. and to think that i was actually sleeping like a baby at the time it happened really frightens me.
granny told my maid that if she didnt wake up on time, the floor might actually 'gobble' her up. trust granny to make people more scared than they were at first. mom, aunt and maid just laughed after dad told us that the settling of the ground rarely happens again.