Blaze (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles Soundtrack)

Hurricanes, Typhoons and more

Rita finally landed Texas on Saturday, flooding New Orleans once again. Lucky that Rita had downgraded to a Cat 3 tropical storm from a Cat 5 hurricane, falling short of public's damage expectation. Residents were evacuated from the area days ago, leaving behind their houses and non-movables to brave out the storm. Houston suffered heavy rains and strong winds brought abt by Rita. Oil refineries and firms were forced to shut down.

Over at the other side of the world, Japan had Typhoon Saola, China had Damrey, Taiwan is recovering from Talim, earthquake in India. World coming to an end?? With my 2 yrs of geography knowledge, I link these recent catastrophes to global warming although there exists some reports which refutes this deduction. Global warming leads to temperature increases => Ice Bergs melting faster and global temperature increases => Sea temperature increases => upset of monsoonic pattern/barometer pressures => stronger hurricanes and typhoons that does not follow the tradition route.

With so many typhoons, I wonder how they came up with names for them so I looked it up in Yahoo.

Naming of Hurricanes

Hurricane Name Lists

There's actually a Hurricane/Typhoon Nicole! Mwahhahahaha.. Not very devastating thou. Subtropical Storm Nicole is a LIBRAN!! Hurricane Nicole occurred in Nov 1998.

There's a stark difference in the reporting focus of hurricanes in the west and typhoons/tsunamis in the east. The Aceh tsunami focused on death tolls. Katrina and Rita focuses on oil. Is oil more important than human lives?? Maybe, judging from the fact that every report carries at least a line abt oil production and that they're producing abt a quarter of the world's consumption. With actual damage of Rita totalling to less of expectation, oil prices are easing. Petrol in Sg decreases by 2-3 cents. (Bear in mind they increased 9 cents the other time. Its still crazily high.)

All the windy stuff aside, last friday was spent with the animals again for our teh bing fix aka Friday Kopitiam Invasion. And stupid me happily left house without wallet, only to realise it when I was abt to reach the destined kopitiam.

Went sunshine plaza (again!) on sat after drums. Its a dangerous place to go, esp jus after getting my pay. I spent 60 bucks there and weighed down my hp with a bundle of hanging stuff. In addition, I pre-ordered GSD's 2006 calendar. Yeah I'm a fanatic of GSD, esp Cagalli. Yes I'm weak. I jus cant resist their calling out to me from the display windows.


Cagalli Swings~


Tsubasa/Tactics hp accessories~

I'm still waiting for someone to bar me from going there...

Yipz, I've received 6 PartyWorld discount vouchers in the mailbox. All expiring October. Anyone interested?