Oru vishayam solren machaan — 3.11 kappuram, I took one look at my Tamil Nadu flat's concrete ceiling and decided my emergency bag is just a water can, torch, and my father's old steel tiffin box. No gas cylinder, no multi-tool, nothing fancy. But the one thing I changed? I drilled the bookshelf into the wall myself, sariyana rawl plug with six-inch anchor. Neighbour laughed, said "ivan yen idha direct-a vechirukalam nu paakuran." Three months later, his own shelf fell on his TV during a small tremor near Andaman. He doesn't laugh now. What I still cannot change? My father refuses to let me bolt his heavy wooden cupboard in his village house. "Adhu ollae irunthu 40 years," he says. I respect the rule, but the rule might kill him one day.