Yup I used to read Ujang as well. Nostalgia.

Makes you think how far you've gone in your life. From one bus to another.

Hard work at school and a little bit of luck. I'm also thankful that the environment at high school where I studied in has molded me into what I am right now. Which makes me sad to see what my Alma mater have become.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 10 2011, 04:29 PM

Yes, I hate Airbuses. They've automated their planes to the point that it has dehumanized the whole experience. Fly by numbers instead of seat-of-the-pants experience. Just like driving, flying is an organic and tactile experience. You take this away, you're no different than the autopilot that comes with it. Emotionless, robotic, cold.

My prayers goes to the folks in Japan right now. Earthquake 8.9 in magnitude, and tsunami 10m tall, with aftershock mini tsunami is now racing inland in eastern Japan. Sendai airport is under water.

Watch the livestream live on Al-Jazeera. Sendai airport under water. Oil refinery ablaze. Cars tossed around like nothing in massive sea of debris. Waves racing inland and ripping roads and farmland to shred. It's like 2012. The wave racing inland looks eerily like Days After Tomorrow.

I can barely make out places I can recognize, but now either strewn with sea of debris, water damages, and just now they've shown the area in Chiba enveloped in smoke from oil refinery explosion. Pictures from Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea is equally troubling. I pray that these places are spared from damage.....Speechless...

From Al-Jazeera, another strong imminent earthquake is poised to strike northeast Japan. As strong as the 8.9 earthquake. Another one!!? God have mercy!

The whole Pacific basin is now on tsunami alert. It's like dropping a huge stone on a full basin of water. That water has nowhere else to go but over the lip of that basin, a.k.a inland.

Latest Malaysian meteorological alert states that the tsunami from Japan earthquake will hit Sabah and Labuan between 6pm and 12 am today. Be safe everyone, please!

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 11 2011, 04:58 PM

Eye-opening scenes from the footage on Al-Jazeera feed. Cars lying belly up in a sea of debris like dead fish, lying alongside swept ships while cars driving next to them trying to get away from it all. Very humbling....

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Added on March 11, 2011, 5:25 pmInterview on Al-Jazeera describing chaos in Tokyo streets when the earthquake struck.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 11 2011, 05:25 PM

The Sendai airport footage is personal to me. I cannot imagine an airport being under water.......

Looking at the Tsunami Travel Times chart, the tsunami wave will hit Sabah and Labuan 6 hours after the earthquake. Which is around 8-9pm.

Hopefully dissipated by the time it reaches our shores. OR expended its force on the Philippines. I know it's not nice to pray havoc on other countries, but the Phillipines may shield it and decreases its power.

The list goes on and on and on, on the affected areas/tsunami alert listed out by the Meteorological office personnel, on NHK/Al-Jazeera.

@aiyish,

Me too. I made great friends there. Please be safe.

From the Japanese Meteorigical personnel report on NHK, this earthquake is the strongest observed earthquake in recent history.

Al-Jazeera showing the Sendai Airport footage of the 10m tsunami engulfing the airport. The water nearly reach the aerobridge level! DAMN!

@Bluey, saw the chart from the Al-Jazeera news report.

Here.

https://asheham.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/8-...awaii-on-alert/

The Tsunami Travel Times chart:-

Anybody who has money to spend on other than the necessities of life (food, load, gas, water, etc) is rich. It's a matter of what you think holds more priority over the other. Some on gadgets, others on dolls, the rest on games.

By aiyish's definition, I'm either halfway rich or halfway poor. I could choose to be rich by going debt free, but certain things in life requires being in debt, like getting the dream house done. I'd say minus the house, by aiyish's definition, I'm relatively less poor? Confusing eh?

Something to think about before you go to sleep, Aiyish.

It's only 9:17pm here, so it's still too early for me to go to sleep.