earthquake, tidal waves

The devastating effects of yesterday's earthquake off Sumatra sent chills down my spine, but most of all, it makes me hate Hollywood disaster movies. What a stupid idea of disaster they have there - and the consequences are only ever bad for Americans! But I suppose it is a petty bourgeois, Chinese immigrant nightmare of my own - I'm relaxing on vacation somewhere, asleep on the sand one minute - and the next minute I'm being swept kilometers off shore by a tsunami. These are lesson that I was always taught: 1) you never go on vacation, 2) you never let your guard down, 3) you don't get a suntan... That tsunami is my superego coming to swallow me up in all its punitive glory.