Tokyo may have really cool cafes, cute clothes, awesome restaurants and fantastic shopping in general BUT it also has EARTHQUAKES. You know some say that small earthquakes are kinda cool, but they are SO NOT! I figured that out while crouched on the floor under my desk on the 20th floor of my work building scrambling for the phone so that I could call my husband.
SO.NOT.COOL.
oh my goodness! :( Hope you have recovered by now... how scary... I would have thought someone clever in Japan would have designed some earthquake predicting machine by now so you could all be warned before big ones happen... Hope all your friends and loved ones are ok :) xx
Posted by: Lucy | August 16, 2005 at 03:16 PM
Glad you're OK! As a Californian, 'quakes are fine when you don't get the crap scared out of you and stuff doesn't topple from their high up perches. But being so high up might have some sway in the building...
article in english -
http://nifty.amikai.com/amiweb/browser.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheadlines.yahoo.co.jp%2Fhl%3Fa%3D20050816-00000004-yom-soci&langpair=2%2C1&toolbar=no&lang=JA&c_id=nifty
Now tsunamis. Those scare me.
Posted by: freecia | August 16, 2005 at 04:33 PM
Eek! So scary. Hope everything and everyone is ok over there. :)
Posted by: Sandra | August 16, 2005 at 08:25 PM
so glad to hear you are alright!
Posted by: Jacqueline | August 16, 2005 at 08:49 PM
Totally agree. I hate earthquakes, big or small. Especially that Japanese seem to be so calm about them - well relatively calm - I never know what I should do - run? hide? uuhhhh....
Btw I (strangely enough) love summer thunderstorms, but the thunderstorms we're recently getting here in Tokyo just give me the creeps!
Hang on in there! (I can say that to myself too)
Posted by: steff | August 16, 2005 at 09:24 PM
Aaaahh. Glad you are ok. I can't imagine how frightening they must be.
Posted by: Amy | August 16, 2005 at 10:40 PM
Earthquake? 20th floor? Aiiiyeee!
Posted by: claudia | August 16, 2005 at 11:21 PM
i am glad you are ok! Was that your first one ever? I remember when a small one hit the NYC area in the 80's my dad tried to tell me it was a truck passing by. I was NOT buying it!
Posted by: Kaitlyn | August 17, 2005 at 01:02 AM
by the way, i just checked out Darin's site and am so impressed! Such a talent! I am in love with the rainbow running dragon!!!! I'll probably post about it at some point :)
Posted by: Kaitlyn | August 17, 2005 at 01:08 AM
glad to hear that you're ok kat!!
in a couple of japanese stories i have read, the old tale is that japan sits on the back of a giant dragon which is why the earth shakes so much :) so think of it as just a big snore!
Posted by: gleek | August 17, 2005 at 02:08 AM
http://www.crystalinks.com/rof.html
Apparently we're in the ROF (see link). Hope you guys are ok!!
Scary.
Posted by: swirl | August 17, 2005 at 06:39 AM
Poor Pinku! I hope you're okay!
Posted by: Nadia | August 17, 2005 at 09:33 AM
It was a scary one, wasn't it? Very few things on Japanese television surprise me anymore, but I was honestly shocked to see some of the live footage from inside a t.v. station in Sendai. So, the video camera is rolling, telephone books are flying off of desks, and there are no fewer than FIVE men pushing themselves up against shelving that holds dozens of televisions (also rocking and swaying). What did these guys think they were doing by bracing the precious televisions? Keeping them from falling on their heads, perhaps? Does their committment to having all screens up and running keep them from considering their own lives?
Posted by: Jennifer | August 18, 2005 at 08:47 AM
ooh sorry the eartquake scared you. i think people from california are so used to them that they don't really scare me anymore. but hurricanes and tornadoes and tsunamis? yikes.
Posted by: thuy | August 23, 2005 at 10:50 AM