Tsunami and Earthquake in Phuket, a Connection Story
The temperature reached around 31 degress Celsius outside when I visited to Phuket Aquarium in South Thailand. My tour guide—a black-hair cheerful Thai man with a name that difficult to pronounce and remember even now—was explaining to us about a black starfish life cycle. After allowed us to touched the black starfish, we walked to another room with bigger aquarium on our right, and information booth on our left. Instead of told us what kind of sea creature inside big aquarium in right, he prefered to paused on booth information in left. The information booth displayed to remember one of the biggest and deadliest disaster in recorded history. His expression turned flat while staring straight at the photo on booth. “This is the photo of Kamala Beach, before and after that day” he continued, “All around me shaking for a few minutes. It was clear that was an earthquake but I thought it was just small local quakes. Never crossed my mind about what was coming afterwards...