In the year of 1982, there was a great natural disaster in the city of Tasikmalaya in Indonesia. It has torn the hearts of many people. They lost their properties and many lost their families.

The hot volcanic ash and flying rocks, killed plants and destroyed houses. Boiling sulfuric acid with extreme heat moved at the rate of 200 kilometres per hour and killed anyone who got in its way. The eruption rained ashes and rocks day and night, covering the whole vicinity up to two metres deep. The eruption was so great and powerful, the volcanic ashes landed in Darwin.

People started evacuating the villages. Many failed to do so because they got crushed by other people.

I didn't remember having the eruption. I was only four days old when it happened. My teacher told me a story once. He said that his teeth turned pitch black, covered with ash when he was talking to someone while he was riding his motorcycle.

After a couple of years the eruption stopped. The soil became soft and fertile, it was perfect to start a farm. The crater became a large lake and people started to breed fish in it. The volcano that everybody feared becomes a tourist attraction.

My grandfather used to take me hiking to the top of the mountain. He said to be careful what you say when we are in the crater, it might come true! Some people didn't believe it, because it has never happened to them. At first I didn't believe it either, I am not a superstitious person. But when it happened to me I believed that myth.

It all began when I was in the peak of the mountain and I saw some dark thick clouds. I said, "It is going to rain soon." A couple of minutes later, the sky turned dark and it actually rained. I was soaking wet and suddenly I felt dizzy. "Oh no I caught the flu!"

But the real disaster was not about the 1982 eruption or the mysterious myth. The volcano that we thought was dead was about to erupt again! On a Friday afternoon, seven years after the eruption stopped, an earth quake occurred. The after-shock indicated 8.1 on the Richter scale. It alerted all the villages that there was going to be more earthquakes coming.

After the hot gas burst out of the crater, people started to worry. They evacuated the village responsibly this time, but it was too late. The mountain erupted before everybody could get out of the remote village.

The hot gases and molten lava came down to the villages twice as fast as the one in 1982. The molten lava destroyed many houses and farm lands. It oozed down like coca-cola bubbles bursting out of its bottle. Flaming boulders had tossed across the horizons and dropped down killing people before they had a chance to find shelter. The army couldn't help the survivors, because the black ashes covered the main road and made it very difficult for them to get into the remote areas. Few survived the disaster, I was one of them.

It was the worst thing I have ever experienced in all my life and I wouldn't want to live near a live volcano ever again!