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Too Much Rain

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 Posted in bizzare, environment, global | No Comments »

About two months ago we were still experiencing the effects of a prolonged drought.  Back then all we wanted was rain.  Well for those wishes were granted.  It started to rain again, and not just any rain but monsoon rain.  ...

Unnecessary Deaths

Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in global | 1 Comment »

I was looking through some images of the recent street protest by the Red Shirts in Thailand.  It's really sad to see the unnecessary violence and death going on in a country famous of beautiful smiles.  It reminds me of ...

Subscribing to Earthquake updates

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Posted in Sabah, bizzare, environment, global | 1 Comment »

REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero Something bizzare that I did recently was to subscribe to the Malaysian Meteorolgogical Department's SMS service for Earthquake updates.  All you need to do is send  the following message - on eq to 15888.  You ...

Disaster Week

Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Posted in General, global | No Comments »

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="356" caption="(JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images) "][/caption] For the past few weeks leading to this weekend we have witnessed a number of major natural disasters.  The most significant ones were the tropical storms and earthquakes that occured coincidentally within a ...

Traveling and H1N1

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in Health, Kuala Lumpur, Tourism, global | 1 Comment »

We are so relieved that our recent five-day trip to KL was fine.  Initialy we had expected the plane would be filled with people wearing face masks.  Only a handful did.  Besides it was so difficult to breathe in one ...