Quake-athon

Two ducks walking down a path on a beautiful summer day. One duck looks at the other and says "quack." The other duck says "Damn I was just gonna say that!!" 

I guess a lot of Nepalese can relate to those ducks, the only difference, for us its 'quake' rather than 'quack'.

Just over 2 weeks ago we had a massive earthquake of 7.8 rector scale that took over 8,000 lives, destroyed over 250,000 houses, demolished entire villages and changed the lives of millions forever, for bad. Just when people thought the life was heading to normalcy, another quake of 7.3 rattled the north-eastern hills of Kathmandu this afternoon. And the aftershocks followed. On the first one, we had more than 150 aftershocks of over 4.0 magnitude. On this one, I don;t know how many there will be, but we expect a LOT! So, far as per the news Sidhupalchok and Dolakha are the major affected areas, but 'luckily' the casualty is less this time around. I feel sorry for the folks of Sindhupalchok who were worst hit on the first one as well. 

For change, the PM Sushil Koirala addressed the nation today after the quake. No offences but am I the only one who needs a subtitle whenever the PM is on the idiot box? But then I think, whats the point, he is a politician and no politician say what they actually intend to. No need to worry what he said. 

A lot of people will be staying outside tonight. I hope it won;t rain to make the things worse. I don;t know how long this 'quake-athon' will last, but hope it ends soon. Sooner the better. But for now our days are Shaking Sunday, Moving Monday, Tremor Tuesday, Wobbling Wednesday, Trembling Thursday, Frightening Friday, Silent Saturday.

Stay strong people!