He was simply trying to make a video describing his holiday plans to eat healthy and work out when his house started shaking.
The experience might have passed into the realm of anecdotes if he or someone else had not uploaded the video to Facebook.
Alas, it has now gone viral in Myanmar, having been viewed more than 250,000 times.
“In my off days, I will eat banana, and I will lift weights,” the unidentified man says, holding aloft a banana and a dumbell as visual aids.
Slight tremors arrive, and he looks away from the camera, saying “it’s an earthquake,” then looks to his companion and says urgently “come to this side, come to this side” as the house violently shakes from the power of the 6.8 magnitude quake.
No one in the video appears to have been injured but it ends shortly after the shaking starts so it’s difficult to tell. Information on where the video was shot was also not immediately available.
The 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Wednesday has killed at least three people and damaged more than 100 structures in the ancient city of Bagan.
