NewIt just happened! The most exciting thing to occur
in Dubai since the infamous sex-on-the-beach scandal
some months back. A natural disaster just struck, right
here, with its epicenter seemingly right around my very
office. I kid you not. Everyone was evacuated. People
were standing on the streets, wondering what it was
that they didn't feel, looking at the trees that weren't
even damaged, observing all the cars that weren't flipped
over onto their roofs, engulfed in balls of flames.
Only I wasn't here. As the earthquake, measuring 6.2
on the richter scale caused tremors around Media City,
(and at least one pen to fall off someone's desk), I
was in a recording studio about 2 miles away. I was
listening to an American talk about 4x4's and Breast
Cancer.
I have never been so annoyed. I didn't feel a thing.
The pesky quake didn't even think to include me. ME!
A survivor of many natural disasters. I would have known
what to do. I was in New York on 9/11 when the towers
came down. Granted that wasn't a very natural disaster,
and I had only been "living there" for one
day at the time (how fitting that this Thursday is 9/11
too) but I was still a part of it. I helped find a place
that still delivered pizza, AND I called up to book
tickets for RENT when no one else really felt like it.
I have always been there to offer support. Always. Until
today.
Imagine my disappointment. I feel so very useless. People
in my office are traumatized. I don't think they'll
ever get over it. Alex even said "I didn't bother
going outside,"
"WHAT?? WHY??" I screamed, thinking he was
so shocked, so mortified, so terrified of imminent doom
and destruction that the poor thing just crawled under
his desk and started praying.
Apparently though, he saw it as an ideal time to use
the Internet - seeing as it's so ruddy slow when everyone
else is on it.
There wasn't even any looting. I was informed of the
tragedy whilst still at the studio and fully expected
to come back and find my apple, box of Nature Valley
Crunchy Granola Bars, and latch hook sewing kit sent
from my friend in America, stolen, pilfered. But nope.
Nothing. Even my computer's still here, flashing up
all the work I have to do before the end of the world.
Seriously now,…this has to have been the most boring
natural disaster ever. It started in Iran - in the south-west
of the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, to be precise.
Three people were killed there apparently (gulp). To
be honest though, most of Dubai looks like its been
involved in an earthquake anyway. Doubt most people
would have blinked if another pile of rubble appeared
on the side of the road.
Posted: 11 September 2008
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