Well ,
To the mulitudes of people affected by the recent earthquakes i am terribly sorry guys. My deepest condolences to those people that were caught in the middle of it all.
To the rest of the Malaysians who might be reading this. I would like to point out one thing. Being alarmed during tremors such as these recent ones is totally acceptable. We HAVE to go into panic mode everytime we feel something. We HAVE to evacuate and run every single time. Please do not be lazy or macho and stay inside thinking that it will pass. Some people reading my blog might feel that i am being paranoid. Some might be thinking in your heart as to why PANIC? We need to calmly get out in an orderly manner to avoid casualties.
The problem lies in the fact that we as a COUNTRY have never been exposed to Earthquakes. We have seen movies yet it has never occured in Malaysia and by default we are thinking it will NOT hit us. Yet the multitudes of people felt the buildings shake at the highest floors in an area covering Penang, Langkawi, Kedah all the way down to Klang and i guess further south but i haven't heard anyone from there making any claims personally. In Klang, My dad said he was lying down on the sofa watching TV in the ground floor of our double storey house and he felt the tremors. Same goes to my best fren who lives a few hundred metres away from my house. I heard it from Hock that his fren felt in some apartments up in Penang.
Now to the important part. Malaysian buildings were not built to withstand quakes like buildings in Japan and other countries that thrive along the Pacific Rim of Fire. Even if there was a standard practice to adhere to so that minor tremors will not affect the buildings, we HAVE to ask ourselves about the integrity of our contractors and developers. Simple things like 'piling' works from a nearby new project has been known to crack house walls and floor tiles, NOT from old houses but, of houses that were JUST completed in an earlier phase. Meaning the soil that houses are built on are not exactly compacted to a level it won't break apart during kinetic energy transfers.
So, how are they supposed to withstand Earthquake-waves travelling underneath the ground??? Simple fact of life is, waves travel better in more compact mediums. Sound waves for example travel faster in liquid as compared to gas and even faster in solid stuffs. They are called sound waves cause they carry sound energy. Earthquake-waves are a primary source of kinetic energy transfer (energy of MOVEMENT in any direction). These waves that travel in the ground can actually transfer this kinetic energy across the building foundations easily and cause the same energy to be transferred upwards along the very beams that support the buildings, causing the beams to vibrate and tremble in any direction.
Number one, i don't think OUR developers would have used any special materials or techniques in the construction phase to make our buildings Quake-proof. Next, judging by the low threshold of endurance the new houses are displaying i feel very inclined to question, "HOW MANY TREMORS CAN MALAYSIAN BUILDINGS TAKE BEFORE THEY START CRACKING DOWN THE MIDDLE? HOW MANY KITCHEN WALLS ARE GOING TO BREAK AND PART FROM THE MAIN HOUSE WALLS? HOW MANY SINKHOLES? HOW MANY CRACKS IN BUILDINGS THAT USE DIRECT GAS LINES?
I know that we will never be hit by any earthquake since the nearest fault line can only cause tremors on our shores when it's groaning with a magnitude of 8.2 . But every wave of kinetic energy that is cruising past across malaysia is causing problems underground at a level that we cannot imagine. Saying "Nolah, nothing like that could happen", is what the MALAYsian government will do because they do NOT want to get off their bloody butts and do something to PREvENT things for once. They will just sit there until some real high profile people in a high and mighty condominium all DIE!!~... because the authorities never checked how everything was changing under their butts. After that point the parliment will be trying to discuss who is to blame and which developer is supposed to take the fall when in actual fact it is their own STAFF to be blamed. They were the ones who were everyday praying and going back home at 4pm instead of taking the initiative to find out what we DON'T know about the world underneath us .
Please GOD, a simple physics student like me can realise the magnitude of what can happen after a bunch of cumulative tremors start cracking up building foundations slowly over the course of let's say .....abt 15 years? Gas pipes leaking becoming fire hazards, cracked water pipes causing erosion underneath buildings. We HAVE to take into account the fact that there are many more kinetic waves that are travelling underneath us unnotticed because they are deeper, weaker and our legs aren't really seismic detectors. Those unnoticed tremors nevertheless are also still transferring kinetic energy in all directions causing changes underneath us, SLOWLY but SURELY. PLease GOD, LET some GEOLOGIST expert in Malaysia be aware of these facts and take action please!!~ At least to let us know which areas could be affected the most by these recent geological activities. Who cares about the public panic or foreign investors' alarm? ...if at the end of the day, people are ready to act the day something bad happens because the Fire Department, RELA and everybody is aware of the high risk areas to lend immediate support.
Prevention is better than CURE. And YES, now Malaysians need to be thought how to deal with an incident where buildings could collapse on them (or under them to be politically correct). How to minimise damage to themselves and their loved ones, especially children. Just a general topic on this and letting everybody know is not going to be a problem right? PLEASE take action!~ If u need help then i guess i am ever willing to help, if it is going to save lives in future!!~
Current Updates!
Quake kills at least 300 on Indonesian island
Vice president says up to 2,000 could be dead
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Posted: 2:40 AM EST (0740 GMT)
(CNN) -- A major earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia late Monday, killing hundreds, but fears of another tsunami like those that devastated the region in late December have faded.
On Indonesia's Nias Island at least 300 people died and hundreds more were reported injured or trapped, said government spokesman Agus Mendrova.
But international news agencies are reporting that between 1,000 and 2,000 people may have been killed on Nias Island.
"It is predicted -- and it's still a rough estimate -- that the number of the victims of dead may be between 1,000 and 2,000," Vice President Jusuf Kalla told the el-Shinta radio station, according to The Associated Press.
Between 500 and 1,000 homes were destroyed, and the island's public market was ablaze, Mendrova said.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people ran to hilltops for safety in case of a tsunami, Mendrova said. Many of the doctors and nurses who normally would staff the hospital fled to higher ground.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Too many things have happened
Well , hi people.
I am a bit blur at the moment. I feel like there is a lot of things to say here since a lot of things have happened. But i just do not know where to start.
It really has been a long time these last few weeks. i got into 3 problems involving the car. Yes we shall talk about this man.
The first one you can refer to my post "The longest day of my life". The second one involving the water pump u guys have to just read the "Working Guy!~~" to roughly know what had happened. The latest one was even worse. I was going to PJ Civic Centre to pass my sister something and get something back from her. I was at the last turn into PJ Civic Centre, I turned left to go in and a motorcycle crashed into my left passenger side and the 2 Malay guys went flying. The rider gut lotsa cuts on his hand. I sent him to the clinic cause it was more to my fault for not signalling earlier before turning in. Sigh. RM50 to patch the guy up. RM120 for the motorcycle.
I really hope everything passes with these 3 accidents. No more man. All 3 times the cost was on the old Ford which belongs to my dad. I really do not want him to think i am out to destroy his car. A few days back actually the first incident almost happened again. I was back on the KLIA highway and damn hell that highway can really make me sleepy. Luckily, i wasn't so tired to start off with.
Hmmnn....i was going to continue on with my post, but my mum called and i need to be ready in 20 minutes to go to do something. So well, i shall continue in a future post.
-Mathan-
I am a bit blur at the moment. I feel like there is a lot of things to say here since a lot of things have happened. But i just do not know where to start.
It really has been a long time these last few weeks. i got into 3 problems involving the car. Yes we shall talk about this man.
The first one you can refer to my post "The longest day of my life". The second one involving the water pump u guys have to just read the "Working Guy!~~" to roughly know what had happened. The latest one was even worse. I was going to PJ Civic Centre to pass my sister something and get something back from her. I was at the last turn into PJ Civic Centre, I turned left to go in and a motorcycle crashed into my left passenger side and the 2 Malay guys went flying. The rider gut lotsa cuts on his hand. I sent him to the clinic cause it was more to my fault for not signalling earlier before turning in. Sigh. RM50 to patch the guy up. RM120 for the motorcycle.
I really hope everything passes with these 3 accidents. No more man. All 3 times the cost was on the old Ford which belongs to my dad. I really do not want him to think i am out to destroy his car. A few days back actually the first incident almost happened again. I was back on the KLIA highway and damn hell that highway can really make me sleepy. Luckily, i wasn't so tired to start off with.
Hmmnn....i was going to continue on with my post, but my mum called and i need to be ready in 20 minutes to go to do something. So well, i shall continue in a future post.
-Mathan-
Monday, March 07, 2005
That came from somewhere far, far away..
Hi there people,
Good morning. Well , i am amazed. I am totally AMAZED and quite INTRIGUED by what i wrote in the earlier post. You guys have to realise. I was typing it in a half daze sleep. I could actually put that much thought into my posts even while i am semi-sleeping.
That's the AMAZED part about it. I could still make clear sentences. I could still make comparisons and actually go into a pissed off mode.
The INTRIGUING part is what i actually wrote about. I guess it is seriously stuff that has been around in my heart but still i never really acknowledged it. It was stuff that i thought i had resolved and come to terms with. But suddenly looking at it now, i realise the truth. I am still disturbed by those issues.
Sometimes i begin to wonder how true is it about the separation of mind and heart in a person. I mean i thought it was just said to make it easier for people to understand that heart deals with feelings and mind deals with logical thinking. "But, why is it that when i see her there is a warm feeling in my heart?" this question arises.
I guess the heart was made by God to be one of the senses as well. We just haven't realised it yet. Some sort of organ to feel Love, or Affection, or even Hate. Just like the tongue has the sense of tasting sweets, sours, saltyness and spicyness. So, an organ can sense more than one stimuli. And that organ reacts to the stimuli and let's the individual know that particular stimuli exists in the external environment. This then leads the individual to react and accomodate that stimuli and use it, or reject it in a negative stimuli case.
This instant liking feeling towards someone or dislike usually just gives birth in our thoughts without any logical explanation. It is only AFTER the feeling is there, we justify it by saying "she's cute" or "he's smart". Very much like feeling nauseous after Seeing something spin. The feeling happens first, and only then we justify "It's got to do with the rotation rate. It's too fast".
I can actually expand this theory further. Organs are meant for us to 'detect' stimuli and by picking up on that we analyse and react, right?. What if the heart was actually meant to be an organ for us to detect the feelings of others? Analysing the feelings we picked up and reacting to that would have made us better people as we would always be able to say the right things and avoid conflict at the wrong times. Since we're already clued in to the state of the other person's feelings. Noble idea is it not? A lot of problems could have been solved before they even started right?
Unfortunately for one little fact. The bakground noise of our own feelings. We see ourselves first, we hear our heartbeats first, we touch our own skin first, we taste our own saliva, we smell our bodies first, AND if you want to talk about the 6th sense of thought in humans, still we think of ourselves first. So why wouldn't we detect our own feelings with our heart first? By establishing this and understanding the limits of our own feelings, we might be able to start realising the other feelings that out heart is picking up on.
This is what the real 'caring' people do i guess. Like mothers. They just totally understand their own feelings and leave it aside and clear their hearts to recieve and react to feelings of their children. This happens instinctively. Maybe we can train ourselves to actually do it at a whim. Rather than feeling angry, picking up on it with our own heart and continuing the echo of that feeling until it explodes and causes us to react in violent ways. We might be able to feel angry and actually shut it out of our heart to let it sizzle away.
Food for thought , ya!!~~ ;)
-Mathan-
Good morning. Well , i am amazed. I am totally AMAZED and quite INTRIGUED by what i wrote in the earlier post. You guys have to realise. I was typing it in a half daze sleep. I could actually put that much thought into my posts even while i am semi-sleeping.
That's the AMAZED part about it. I could still make clear sentences. I could still make comparisons and actually go into a pissed off mode.
The INTRIGUING part is what i actually wrote about. I guess it is seriously stuff that has been around in my heart but still i never really acknowledged it. It was stuff that i thought i had resolved and come to terms with. But suddenly looking at it now, i realise the truth. I am still disturbed by those issues.
Sometimes i begin to wonder how true is it about the separation of mind and heart in a person. I mean i thought it was just said to make it easier for people to understand that heart deals with feelings and mind deals with logical thinking. "But, why is it that when i see her there is a warm feeling in my heart?" this question arises.
I guess the heart was made by God to be one of the senses as well. We just haven't realised it yet. Some sort of organ to feel Love, or Affection, or even Hate. Just like the tongue has the sense of tasting sweets, sours, saltyness and spicyness. So, an organ can sense more than one stimuli. And that organ reacts to the stimuli and let's the individual know that particular stimuli exists in the external environment. This then leads the individual to react and accomodate that stimuli and use it, or reject it in a negative stimuli case.
This instant liking feeling towards someone or dislike usually just gives birth in our thoughts without any logical explanation. It is only AFTER the feeling is there, we justify it by saying "she's cute" or "he's smart". Very much like feeling nauseous after Seeing something spin. The feeling happens first, and only then we justify "It's got to do with the rotation rate. It's too fast".
I can actually expand this theory further. Organs are meant for us to 'detect' stimuli and by picking up on that we analyse and react, right?. What if the heart was actually meant to be an organ for us to detect the feelings of others? Analysing the feelings we picked up and reacting to that would have made us better people as we would always be able to say the right things and avoid conflict at the wrong times. Since we're already clued in to the state of the other person's feelings. Noble idea is it not? A lot of problems could have been solved before they even started right?
Unfortunately for one little fact. The bakground noise of our own feelings. We see ourselves first, we hear our heartbeats first, we touch our own skin first, we taste our own saliva, we smell our bodies first, AND if you want to talk about the 6th sense of thought in humans, still we think of ourselves first. So why wouldn't we detect our own feelings with our heart first? By establishing this and understanding the limits of our own feelings, we might be able to start realising the other feelings that out heart is picking up on.
This is what the real 'caring' people do i guess. Like mothers. They just totally understand their own feelings and leave it aside and clear their hearts to recieve and react to feelings of their children. This happens instinctively. Maybe we can train ourselves to actually do it at a whim. Rather than feeling angry, picking up on it with our own heart and continuing the echo of that feeling until it explodes and causes us to react in violent ways. We might be able to feel angry and actually shut it out of our heart to let it sizzle away.
Food for thought , ya!!~~ ;)
-Mathan-
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Working guY!!~
Hey everybody.
Well i tried writing a lot of things that i finally got a bit pissed off. Cause i tried to stuff in things that were happening in the last week in one entry. Things were not really making sense. I just got tired of the whole thing and thought of writing back everything again.
Well, first of all. i was pissed off thinking of some shallow guys that still exist in MMU today that go around pushing gals to do things as HE wants it. No compromise to the gal and what she thinks and how she wants to live her life. If you feel like doing this go to some school dropout gal and impose on her about all the things she DOESN'T know la. Of course even then, i feel that gal would know how to DRESS HERSELF better than u can ever tell her how to.
That being said, i was very busy running around with work stuff. I love my job currently which is to MAKE it all HAPPEN....ehehehe....;). I really feel thankful for waiting so long and getting this job in the end. Low pay yeah. BUt hey, they guys i work for are not bad. They're quite funny.
Last thought of the post. Is to the screwed up thing that happened to me last night. Car fell into repair since i had been running around a LOT. The water pump failed and now some stuff are burnt and I can only collect the car tomorrow. -Sigh- And i am sure it is going to cost a bomb. And waste all the money that my mum has. It's just PISSING ME OFF!!~~ One more day and my dad would have checked it out himself and noticed the signs that it needs to be fixed, before further damage happened. But NO......it had to be like this. With all the money WASTED on a problem that could have been avoided.
Nevermind, life is just peachy for me at times and then, next i am thrown into a lot of problems. So yeah i am paying now for the fun i had eating lok-lok and playing pool in klang last weekend. I hope the fun i had watching the All-Stars game in Taipan last tuesday and watching "Sex is Zero" with Zack has been offset with this disaster as well as i cannot really think of going through another problem so fast la. Ahahaha....well, now that i looked at the ONE problem that happened as opposed to the 3 good things that happened while the car was still working great....my mood is a lot better. Well, it's just going to be money that is wasted rite? Not anythign else?
Anyway, i guess i better post this now and wait for comments since i haven't done so in a long time.
Well i tried writing a lot of things that i finally got a bit pissed off. Cause i tried to stuff in things that were happening in the last week in one entry. Things were not really making sense. I just got tired of the whole thing and thought of writing back everything again.
Well, first of all. i was pissed off thinking of some shallow guys that still exist in MMU today that go around pushing gals to do things as HE wants it. No compromise to the gal and what she thinks and how she wants to live her life. If you feel like doing this go to some school dropout gal and impose on her about all the things she DOESN'T know la. Of course even then, i feel that gal would know how to DRESS HERSELF better than u can ever tell her how to.
That being said, i was very busy running around with work stuff. I love my job currently which is to MAKE it all HAPPEN....ehehehe....;). I really feel thankful for waiting so long and getting this job in the end. Low pay yeah. BUt hey, they guys i work for are not bad. They're quite funny.
Last thought of the post. Is to the screwed up thing that happened to me last night. Car fell into repair since i had been running around a LOT. The water pump failed and now some stuff are burnt and I can only collect the car tomorrow. -Sigh- And i am sure it is going to cost a bomb. And waste all the money that my mum has. It's just PISSING ME OFF!!~~ One more day and my dad would have checked it out himself and noticed the signs that it needs to be fixed, before further damage happened. But NO......it had to be like this. With all the money WASTED on a problem that could have been avoided.
Nevermind, life is just peachy for me at times and then, next i am thrown into a lot of problems. So yeah i am paying now for the fun i had eating lok-lok and playing pool in klang last weekend. I hope the fun i had watching the All-Stars game in Taipan last tuesday and watching "Sex is Zero" with Zack has been offset with this disaster as well as i cannot really think of going through another problem so fast la. Ahahaha....well, now that i looked at the ONE problem that happened as opposed to the 3 good things that happened while the car was still working great....my mood is a lot better. Well, it's just going to be money that is wasted rite? Not anythign else?
Anyway, i guess i better post this now and wait for comments since i haven't done so in a long time.
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