Siew Kum Hong, corporate lawyer and ex-Nominated Member of Parliament, was in Paris when the coordinated terror attacks occurred on Friday night, Nov. 13, 2015.

The lawyer recounted his experience on Facebook, where he shared how he and his group of friends were holed up inside a local bar in the early hours of the morning as they frenetically tried to reach loved ones to make sure everyone was safe.

He wrote:

Shit got real real fast. So real.

Until you live through something like this, you don't know what it's like. Until you have people you care for -- friends and co-workers and family (because we are family and we take care of our own) -- who are unaccounted for and who could be at risk, you will not know what that unrelenting wave of terror and fear and worry and anxiety feels like. Until you have loved ones to inform about your safety so they don't worry, you will not understand what it's like to strike that balance between letting them know that shit is going down but you are ok and not telling them just where you are because you are actually not that far from where these things had happened.

This is his Facebook post: