The aftermath of earthquake at Christchurch, New Zealand

I have been too lazy to write during the past few months partly because I am sort of fatigue and partly because I haven't found good topics to express my views! Here I am back to my blog and drop down what has happened to me during the earthquake taken place over New Zealand on 22nd February, 2011. During the 7.3 magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake happened over New Zealand at Christchurch (The Garden City), I was spending my holiday with my family at that point of time; would like to share with all pals on line about the devastation in the epicentre on that date~~ Me and my wife has been going out for lunch about 12 o'clock noon time on 22nd February, 2011. We left the hotel at Colombo Street (which is at the epicentre), wandering around the street and looking for something to eat, I have browsed around in a watch shop and fond of one of the watch desplayed on the shelf, so we approached the shop and wish to check the price, but the shop gave us his cold shoulder and keep on working in the shop, I was a bit disappointed on the way he expressed to clients so we left the shop in a couple of minutes. Then we stroll further on and found one chinese restaurant at the corner of the street which served "Dim Sum", both of us are so delighted and order our menu about 12:45 noon, few moments later (the time on the clock hanging against the wall showed 12:50), the whole building starts shaking back and forth, ups and downs, we are so terrified and hide ourselves under the table, the quake finished within about 30 seconds, then we grab our bags and rush out of the place. Opposite side of the restauarant there was a building which has been completely collapsed, with our camera on hand, I promptly take a couple of snapshots on our way back to the hotel. Along the street there were few coaches and buses smashed into a "tin", people has been dragged out of the wreck with bloodshed all over the body. Stepping over the rubble, we try to make our way back home but has been stopped by the policeman as we walked half way through, he guided us to the open place (park) near by. The whole CBD has been cordoned off and nobody is allowed to enter without permission. We wait for the shelter to be set up by Red Cross during the evening and registered our details as to try and leave the city, with nothing on hand except passports, cameras, mobile phone, wallets (all luggages has been left behind), we eventually found our way home after an agonizing journey that takes us four days to reach Taiwan. In the end, we found ourselves sound and safe (without hurting ourselves and survive), thanks to God that me and my family could survive from this catastrophe. As to summarize this diary, all I could say is, we are far too lucky/fortunate than those victims whom suffered from the terrible earthquake with tsunami over Japan. God bless Taiwan