many rumours had been flying around about fishes in the sea. sometime back, there was this SMS going on the rounds that certain virus had been found in fishes. and now there is this fear of fishes chewing on dead bodies. don’t eat fish, they said. and some even said …
UPDATED: 11 jan. 0140 hrs it’s heartening to note that many people (about 50) turned up to help despite the short notice. most of them were church members. well friends told friends, and their friends told friends, and so on, thus many turned up. we were there to pack ‘sanitary …
remember i blog about the POHD (penang office for human development, catholic-based NGO) a few times on they doing a cleaning up of the tsunami victims’ houses, having a memorial mass for those who perished and and temporarily opening up a relief centre in their office? well, they are in …
someone rightly says so, most of my blogs are ‘echos’. yes for more than a year i had been blogging and most people who do come in here will notice, that is my style of blogging – echoing, i.e. pick up some news headlines and comment on it, and i …
my post ‘god does not act this way’ refers (related). according to this article, some islamic clerics thinks that the tsunami happened because god is angry. excerpt: “God is angry with Aceh people, because most of them do not do what is written in the Koran and the Hadith,” the …
the word ‘tzu chi’ which is in chinese means ‘serving with compassion’ or ‘compassionate relief’. when the tsunami disaster occured in penang, one of the earliest group to be at the scene of the disaster and also at hospitals is the buddhist tzu chi merit society. they were at the …
Total number of dead: latest figures Death toll from the Indian Ocean tsunami, according to government and health officials Reuters Friday January 7, 2005 9.15am East Africa 137 (Including Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania and Madagascar) Bangladesh 2 Burma 59 India 15,684 (dead or presumed dead) Indonesia 101,318 Malaysia 74 Maldives …
this tickle my funny bones so much! many of you may have come across it already if you read rajan’s or jeff’s blog. tell me how you drive and i’ll tell you what kind of idiot you are! i’ve got to know of this first via rajan’s blog, then at …
yep, just like many others with gmail account, who had been hit with a sudden surge of gmail invitations, me too. i have 10 gmail invitations to be given away, so anyone who wants gmail, kindly email me at lucial@gmail.com. oh… do be patient if you don’t see your invitation …
many people had said that the tsunami disaster was an act of god. so too with any other natural disasters, like the recent great flood in china, the killer typhoon in phillipines, and even landslides in our country, were all refer to as act of god. act of god? i …