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IT'S one of the fastest-growing megacities in Asia. But some doomsters predict large parts of Indonesia's coastal capital could be under water by 2025.The reason? Unchecked groundwater mining.'Goundwater extraction is unparalleled for a city of this size,' Mr Almud Weitz, regional team leader of the World Bank's water and sanitation programme, said in an interview for Reuters Environment Summit.'I

The 12th bank failure of 2008 has been announced.A sub-prime mortgage baron is confessing his sins.Treasury Secretary Paulson has committed trillions of American tax payer dollars to the mother of all bailouts.Treasury Secretary Paulson also wants this bailout power to be unchecked by the courts.Meanwhile, there is fury at a $2.5 billion Lehman Brothers bonus.So where is this all going to end up?W

I’ve been using the iPhone now for about 2 months. I’ve downloaded several different iPhone applications-some good, some bad. Here is a list of applications I find useful at this time. Please share your favorite iPhone app and tell us why it’s useful in your daily life. Utilities 1.  DeliciousSafari - I absolutely love this application as [...]

NOTE: This post was not published for Malicious reasons.Republican Presidential Nominee Senator John McCain, was persuaded by his Advisers and the G.O.P. to select Sarah Palin as his Veep. McCain thought that his choosing of Palin was just for the purpose of attracting Hillary's dissatisfied Female Voters. Her presence in this race was needed for three reasons: 1) To cause Intentional "Political

Artist - Requiem For SirensAlbum - The Pride In A Sinking StoryYear - 2008Genre - Metal / HardcoreWeb - - Switzerland / FranceTracklist:1. The Novel Begins With Redemption2. November's Ridge3. Villisca4. Within The Veil5. Signs6. Bicycles & Aviators7. Tragedies Road Ahead8. The Pride In A Sinking StoryDownload/Descargar'by band request, really fucking good band, support them!!'

Sinking Island is a new adventure game by Benoit Sokal where player stepsin the role of detective Jack Norm who is taking a break in the atolls ofthe Indian Ocean. An old friend calls him up to solve the death ofmillionaire Walter Jones found dead in front of his lifetimes work, anArt Deco tower that he had hoped to turn into a holiday village for theinternationals jet set.Installation Information

I was just putting David into the bathtub and taking my vitamins and my (last) BCP, when I heard a bunch of commotion in the master bathroom.There was S., pulling everything out from under the bathroom sink. The entire cabinet was dripping wet.It seems that builders grade sinks can rust out and fall to pieces. Really.The good news is *something* made S. actually look under the cabinet, otherwise w

Winner's energy:a power to which the world bows and worship.Have you seen Shahrukh Khan,the baadshah of bollywood?I think i am more Handsome than Shahrukh Khan( i mean it :) ).But it's the winning energy,the AURA he carriesthat make him the Baadshah of bollywood.We Indians,always go ga-ga over the friend who won a cap in some road-show.For us,winning is everything.My friends want to excel in studi

Canberra, July 12 (ANI): A scientist has suggested that reducing green house emissions is better than trying to sink them into the sea using ocean fertilization. According to a report by ABC News, the idea has been put forward by Associate Professor Thomas Trull of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, Australia. The [...]

Winner's energy:a power to which the world bows and worship. Have you seen Shahrukh Khan,the baadshah of bollywood? I think i am more Handsome than Shahrukh Khan( i mean it :) ).But it's the winning energy,the AURA he carries that make him the Baadshah of bollywood. We Indians,always go ga-ga over the friend who won a cap in some road-show. For us,winning is everything.My friends want to excel

Once upon a time, what happened on Wall Street didn't matter much to the folks on Main Street, and vice versa. But those days are long gone, as I discuss in the accompanying video with Dennis Berman, The WSJ's Global Deals Editor.This decade, particularly, the U.S. economy has been driven largely by debt financing. As a result, the Wall Street event known as the "credit crunch" has had a definitiv

If there is something that adorns a web page is a banner ad. It is undoubtedly attractive and eye capturing. This is what helps in doing promotions through online banner advertising. Now, this practice would be of no meaning unless you find a banner advertising agency. Be it branding or re-branding to uplift the brand value, there has to be experts behind the banner.Banners were among the popular

Trashing the age-old belief that a fall in equities would result in flattening real estate prices, high net worth investors (HNI) are pushing wealth advisers for more exposure to realty assets. The coming months are expected to witness the launch of real estate portfolio management services (PMS) by wealth managers. Though the product is discreetly marketed [...]

I used to associate direct use of groundwater with the rural areas and farms.  Wells, I thought, were a thing of the past.  In Jakarta, however, it is the factories, the hotels and the wealthy residents who draw water from wells.   The existing water utility companies are not coping with the demand from the city’s 14 million [...]

Howdy folks!  We need some help… A good friend of mine, Andy, sent me a question and asked if we could help.  Frankly, I’m not sure what exactly to do given Andy’s budget constraints, but I thought someone out there might have some creative ideas.  My only idea is posted at the end, and it isn’t a [...]

Artist - MeansAlbum - To Keep Me From SinkingYear - 2008Genre - Hardcore / Metal / RockWeb - - California, USATracklist:1. Awareness2. Breaking In3. Somewhere Up Ahead4. Blackout5. Steadily6. We Dwell In Possibility7. Burned Into Me8. Refuge9. What We Seek10. Of Dread And DreamsDownload/Descargar

Watch this horrible video. Also shown on TV. This video brought by YouTube. Passengers of the cruise ship Oceanos begin to panic because their ship starts sinking. the thing was even worse because their captain and majority of the cruise ship´s crew abandoned the ship first and leaving passengers to die!

I really have no idea why on earth my Technorati Authority is lesser and lesser everyday.I already had 43 authority and now i only have 33! Geez..I checked my account with them and saw that i still have 69 blog reactions and yet i am still suffering from an authority loss each day.I think i need to be active again and make sure that i will ping my blog everytime i made a new post or an update.I in

Б. Сокаль. Тонущий остров / Benoit Sokal. Sinking Island Adventure, QuestRar | Русский | 2.03 GB- (4.6Gb) Жанр: Adventure, Quest Год выпуска: 2008 Разработчик: White Birds Productions Издатель: Новый диск Язык: Русский Размер: Rar-2.03 GB- (4.6Gb) Game synopsis : Бенуа Сокаль – признанный

Rove, Turd Blossom, Or Whatever You Are Called Now You Cannot Ignore A Congressional Subpoena, So Put Down Your Bacon Wrapped Butter Dipped Sausage Sandwich And Get In There, Testify, What Are You Scared Of? Turd Blossom Cannot Be Above The Law, Note In The Video How Rove's Lawyer Responds To Simple Questions About An Investigation Gee, He Doesn't Sound Too Pretensious, Does He, Wow Hats O

Rove, Turd Blossom, Or Whatever You Are Called Now You Cannot Ignore A Congressional Subpoena, So Put Down Your Bacon Wrapped Butter Dipped Sausage Sandwich And Get In There, Testify, What Are You Scared Of? Turd Blossom Cannot Be Above The Law, Note In The Video How Rove's Lawyer Responds To Simple Questions About An Investigation Gee, He Doesn't Sound Too Pretensious, Does He, Wow Hats O

From Adventure Comics #364:A good Legionnaire would never consider abusing an animal. Physically.When you find yourself emotionally abusing a caped horse, monkey, dog, cat, and whatever Proty was, you probably need to change your prescription. I mean, you're emotionally abusing a caped horse, monkey, dog, cat, and whatever Proty was.Check out the instructional flying chart:Yeah, I don't want to ta

La carrera musical de Shelley Harland comenzó en su apartamento de Brooklyn, antes de mudarse a Londres. No sabía tocar ningún instrumento y componía canciones solo de oido. Otro ejemplo mas de que el arte nunca es manual, sino mental. Les dejo su disco "Sinking Shade", trip con cierto toque acústico, muy melancólico ...tracklist1. Masquerade2. Heart Shape pulse3. Angel heart4. A child´s mi

  This is the new series that I’m trying to get out before summer totally breaks…I am issuing a “Stay Offa The Internets” challenge for June, July & August (See: Black Women…The Time Is NOW!)…Anywhoo, this is just a brief reminder to keep the focus on bring joy and happiness into your life (and to [...]

Firms that extract water have to pump it back into the ground.JAKARTA'S government is about to throw the sinking city a life raft in hopes of keeping it afloat. City officials plan to introduce legislation to curtail the extraction of groundwater, said to be a prime culprit behind the problem. A study by the World Bank released last week warned that much of the Indonesian capital would be underwater by 2025. However, three buildings in central Jakarta have already been affected. One of them is an annexe to the country's first shopping centre, Sarinah Plaza, a landmark built in the 1963 Sukarno era. It is tilting and an order to demolish it has been issued. The head of the building unit for Jakarta's provincial government, Hari Sasongko, said that the main building appeared to be inta

This post was written by "Toblerone" at Simple Mom. Feel free to visit her site and subscribe to her feed.Our family follows Dave Ramsey's baby steps, and in a recent post on my blog explaining Baby Step 3, I mentioned "sinking funds." It's a simple financial strategy, and it's not new, but it has enormously helped our family's finances. And I encourage you to start using sinking funds even while paying off debt via the debt snowball. Simply put, sinking funds are a reserve of money set aside for some purpose. It's a commonly used business and government practice, and it should be part of a healthy personal budget as well. If you think of your family as a company that you've been assigned to manage, it would only make sense to make sure you have funds readily available for the many thing

01. Don't Go02. Sullen Seas03. Country Road04. Waiting By the Fence05. Pirates (can't all sail the Indian Ocean)06. Watching the Streetlights Grow07. Two Hearts08. At the Border09. Monsters10. And the Trees11. Charlottetown12. Orphans

.nobrtable br { display: none }Another wacky eating day. I'm so busy with online work and my 2007 tax return that it's causing me to eat erratically. I hardly got any sleep last night but I did go for a long run this morning. No pictures again today and haven't been around to comment on other blogs although I did stop by and read some. Debbie is on fire! I need some of what she's got. Can't wait

Separated by a road and a viscous finger of black, garbage- choked water, the stilt-house slum of Muara Baru and the BMW car dealership that faces it appear as if from different worlds. But on December 6, 2025, these two extremes of the Indonesian capital will have something in common as a World Bank study shows that unless action is taken, they and much of the coastal city of 12 million will be submerged by seawater. Experts have pinpointed that date as the next peak of an 18.6-year astronomical cycle, when sea levels will rise enough to engulf much of Indonesia's low-lying capital. Climate change is causing sea levels to rise, but the study's authors say the main problem is that Jakarta is sinking under the weight of out-of-control development. "Th

Switzerland and Austria wouldn’t be playing at Euro 2008 if they weren’t hosting it. On April 9, Fifa, world football’s governing body, released its monthly rankings – and it wasn’t pretty reading for the Euro hosts. Switzerland dropped from 40th to 46th, tying with Morocco, and Austria continued their spectacular decline by falling from 88th to [...]

According to more than a few members of the video game industry, Epic would be better suited not joining a games division that some label "a sinking ship".   While the cat quickly got out of the bag today pertaining to Yahoo’s persistent rejection of Microsoft’s takeover bid, gamers continue to maintain their attention on a potential [...]

That’s what I’m on. The last few days have been really hectic and hard on me. There really isn’t any reason to go into detail, because it’s just every day life happenings. I’ve got a kid that’s going to be 5 in exactly one week and she’s acting like she’s about 2 or under. When [...]

In the Philippines, a lot of people do not know if they are depressed or not. You just find out right after you die or when something really bad happens and then you finally get yourself checked out to see if there is something wrong with you.I did some reading about it, and well, some of the symptoms say that I might have some mild depression. Thing is, I don't have enough resources to get myself checked out, which is why a lot of people are so unaware of actually having it themselves. Because a lot of people can't afford it, they risk themselves.Right now, I have been pretty much going on a downward spiral. Like most women, I am pretty moody, but lately, I've been feeling like getting rebellious. I guess the pressure of being the eldest child and that high expectations are wearing out on

IMAGE: The Alaska Ranger is seen at a port in Dutch Harbor, Jan. 2006.A fisheries observer was onboard the Alaska Ranger and he was rescued. From WMUR, NH: A New Hampshire man was one of 42 people rescued from a sinking ship in Alaska on Sunday.Jayson Vallee's father said that his son was on a fishing boat when the ship took on water and sank. The captain and three crewmembers died. One is still missing….Vallee went to the University of New Hampshire and graduated with a degree in marine biology. His father said that Vallee is doing OK.Image Found Here

I will use this post highlight how the false “Black Community” Has failed Black women.  Be on the lookout for updates! From “What About Our Daughters” (Gina & CO is doing a WONDERFUL job with this) “Crickets”  -dunbar-village-videoscrickets.html  ”Answer The Call” -village-videoanswer-call.html (More Videos On This Blog) *****************************************************************************************  Black Women Are Beautiful! On Pinky’s Site    [...]

According to Bloomberg: March 13 (Bloomberg) — The dollar fell below 100 yen earlier today for the first time since 1995 and dropped to a record low against the euro after a Carlyle Group fund moved closer to collapse, adding to turmoil in financial markets.

The housing market in the US keeps getting worse every day. Today we had bad news on several economic indicators. These are some of the bad news we received today according to Yahoo Finance: U.S. gold futures rallied to a record high of $1,000 an ounce on Thursday, fueled by a combination of a weakening dollar, [...]

The sexual morality ship is fast sinking and taking millions of people with it. If you think the sinking of the Titanic was a disaster, this ship is sinking faster and taking more people with it than the former. And worse, it is also sending many millions to the bottomless pit called “hell”! Parents in California [...]

PLACE: Lakewood Church-Houston, Tx, Joel Osteen, Pastor DATE: Saturday, March 8, 2008 TIME: 7:00 p.m. THE MUSIC: Worship Team: Steve & Da’dra, Choir & Band Songs: Your Name is Great, Great in Power, Better Than Life, King of Majesty, God He Reigns, He Reigns, From The Inside Out, Moving Forward, You Reign, Another Level I really enjoyed praise & worship with Steve & Da’dra! [...]

Stu Reed, the former president of its struggling cell phone unit, is leaving the company. Reed's departure is the latest in a series of executive reshuffles at Motorola, which comes a month after Chief Executive Greg Brown took over the unit and said that he was considering options such as splitting it off from the rest of the company. This has come close on the heels of another announcement last week that Motorola Inc.'s chief marketing officer Casey Keller has left the company. If this wasn’t enough, Motorola finds itself embroiled in another controversy. South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has announced today that it has levied a fine of 696 million won, or $729,000, on Motorola Korea Inc. for helping three South Korean companies collude to get orders from government agenci

It was never going to be pretty on a ploughed field in Wigan, but we did enough to have won today, I hope that our missed chances do not cost us dear come May. Wigan huffed and puffed but didn't create anything clear cut, Almunia only had one real save to make from a decent twenty yarder in the second half. Adebayor had a couple of great opportunities, a one-on-one at the beginning of the game

I take a deep breath to calm the quakes. The message on the answering machine explains, another week, just to be on the safe side. I think of ways to explain this to my children, that their Dad is detained in England with other responsibilities, for 7 additional measures of 24 hours? If I don’t manage to talk to another adult soon, I shall be a complete basket case. I currently exist in baby sitter free zone, perfect timing. I refuse to count the number of meltdowns during the day, as they are all experiencing considerable amounts of stress due to the upset in routine. Ten days of parent teacher conferences will mean short school days. Whilst short school days might be welcome to many children, to two other children they present as an illogical time bomb in the schedule.My latest

All earnings regained to 1 cent.Here is original text :So. On my sample account, my 15$ went to 2 cents. Obviously this is a problem, but it is not an error. Let me briefly explain how the new system works. There are a total number of credits in circulation. Currently there are roughly 40 million credits in circulation. This is a number came from converting all earnings to credits, and then adding it all up. Then the total Revenues from advertising is divided by the total credits in circulation. This ratio is multiplied by the number of credits that you have, and gives you your total earnings.So, why is this number so low right now? Well, 40 million credits is a hugely inflated number. There are tens of thousands of inactive accounts, and all of the credits on those accounts are bringing d

Saturday morning, Shibuya 1-chome. Kiyo digs his hands deeper into his pockets to protect them from the drizzle and cold. He isn’t hungover, but he might as well be; the problems with his company’s mail servers would drive anyone to drink themselves sick. Had to pull another all-nighter because they went off line again, doesn’t know [...]

Rising tensions in the Eurozone banking system begin to show in the balance sheet of the ECB. Checking the latest weekly financial statement of the ECB one notes shifts in the asset positions that may indicate that the ECB is taking on more subprime collateral that would not be accepted in the regular repos.While those positions where lower grade collateral can be hidden are growing at sometimes alarming rates, the Eurozone central banks have been salting away their best performing asset with undiminished fervor.Doing Nothing Would Have Made Mega-Multi Profits A look at the asset positions of the ECB comes to a mixed conclusion. Due to the sale of hundreds of tons gold each year the Eurosystem has missed out on potentially more than €82.3 billion in profits. The Eurozone's gold hoard (

How to ward off a recession? Tax cuts for millionaires of course!The Bush administration, faced with a deteriorating economy and a big jump in unemployment, said Friday it was considering an economic stimulus package that might include tax cuts to ward off a recession.Officials stressed that President Bush has not decided yet to offer a proposal but was looking at a variety of options with a plan possibly being unveiled around the time of his Jan. 28 State of the Union address."The president is always looking at options ... always talking to people and looking at data," Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said in an interview with The Associated Press.Bush met Friday with top economic officials including Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who are pa

As soon as one hears the word debt, the immediate feeling or thought that flashes the mind is bad, and gets the treatment of an enemy to be evaded or destroyed at all costs. But debt has assumed the position of an unavoidable evil in the present day modern society.

Talk about how the almighty have fallen. The dollar is headed downhill faster than Bode Miller on a set of rocket skis. Think nose dive. Plummetville. Plunge City. Belly Floppo Rama. Recession is such an ugly word. Try walking down a New York City street these days without getting knocked off the sidewalk by a gaggle of foreigners brandishing a circumference of high-end shopping bags like a cardboard armada. Can’t be done. I blame George Bush and his imbecilic economic chicanery for subjecting us to these indignities. Spending $2 trillion on an unnecessary war. Silly boy. Lowering taxes during that same unnecessary war. Sillier boy. Policies that have prompted OPEC to make noises about following Brazilian supermodel Giselle Bundchen’s lead in asking to be paid in euros. Euros, hell, the lady should choose to be paid in clothes, because to look at her she doesn’t seem to own any. Somebody throw this girl a jacket. She must be cold. The dollar has sunk lower than a strip show flyer

Written by Benoît Sokal, Sinking Island is the first game in a planned series of adventures starring middle-aged private investigator Jack Norm. The third-person game takes place on a private tropical island that is literally sinking under the weight of the colossal art deco-styled hotel built upon it. In a classic whodunit with a twist, the hotel's billionaire owner is murdered, and there are ten suspects on the island, each with a strong motive for having done the deed. It's up to Norm to determine the true culprit. The catch? With the island sinking and the game occurring over a simulated three day period, lower level environments (and the evidence they contain) are only available until they're lost forever to the sea, so players will need to make best use of locations and time in order to succeed.Sinking Island German DemoSinking Island German DemoSinking Island Screenshots Sinking Island Trailer Release Date: 27 November 2007Genre: Adventure

We are in a world of trouble and only one candidate for President is even talking about it. The plummet of the dollar is not going to stop any time soon. The Chinese are sitting on too many dollars to divest; they would lose too much. The Europeans are taking advantage of the Chinese position, selling off greenbacks, forcing the dollar down fasteread more | digg storyLiberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice

Last week an email from circulated around the headquarters of music label EMI.  It was from Guy Hands, whose private equity group owns the label.  According to the Telegraph, it came with a stark message: “The recorded music industry… has for too long been dependent on how many CDs can be sold,” he wrote. “Rather than embracing digitalisation and the opportunities it brings for promotion of product and distribution through multiple channels, the industry has stuck its head in the sand.” This email should have sent out on paper, years ago.  Now it’s hard to imagine how any big music label is going to survive, and they shouldn’t.  How many other media industries have the same product and profit model as 15 years ago?  How many other media industries insult their consumer base like the RIAA recently did with their 222k lawsuit against a single mother? Now Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are finding their inner anarchist, and Madonna’s Ka

Ross and I saw a most magnificent movie today.Once is about the most realistic film I've ever seen. Not in a special effects sort of way, but in a this-is-true-to-reality sort of way. It's an Irish film, a simple musical romance filmed on a small budget with actors I'd never heard of. Despite the fact that I was bawling in the bathroom once the film was over with, I loved it. Yes, I was moved that much by this film that I actually cried at the end. It was simply magnificent. Gorgeous. Beautiful in its detail, adorable in its nuances, and touching in its minimalistic story. I actually downloaded the soundtrack off of iTunes. That's rare for me, being a bit of a pirate (arrrgh) and all. I liked this film and its music that much that I wanted to make sure the artists were supported and I didn't feel like waiting to pick up the soundtrack in a store. I needed to hear it again, in all its splendor.I know, I'm beginning to gush, but in all honesty you should see this film. It's that g

Everyone wants healthy kids right? Of course we do. I am a father of three sons myself and had no health care when my first son was born and for another two years thereafter. Who would possibly say that health care for children is a bad idea? Of course nobody would. However, when it gets past the ‘feel good about yourself’ part it always has to come to who will fund it and manage it. Some groups of people want a vast federally controlled bureaucracy to mange it. You can probably guess which party would prefer that. Alternatively, it can be put in place, managed and funded by individual states. And you can most likely guess which party would prefer that as well. Here in California there will be a children’s universal health care bill on the ballot in the next general election. Moreover, I might just vote for it too. Preventive health care is a win win for everyone involved. Nevertheless, the fact is that Democrats do not trust individual states to manage themselves. What socialist go

It was a relaxing and sorry we left y'all hangin, I got a handful of emails asking for new posts! So here to start us off (if you start your weeks on Sundays) is a new album from Saturday Looks Good To Me. I'm actually a new fan, they've been around since 99 and I started diggin' "Lift Me up" when it dropped a couple years ago. If you guys are unfamiliar, SLGTM definitely brings an indie-pop element with writer/producer Fred Thomas (who used to be in His Name is Alive!)arranging with a talented line-up. Saxophones, synths, handclaps with harmonies and harpischord, display a good span of sound ranging from acoustic to catchy melodies worthy of 60s, 70s 4/4 rock beat ballads."Fill Up The Room" is the 4th album out from K Records and will be available for your listening ears on Oct. 23! but you can pre-order now! SLGTM will be going around for an awesome tour so be sure to catch them and for the LA folks, The Echo, Nov. 10th/6pm/$10. By the way, these songs make way good for tra

WiseBread.com has an interesting article on the slowly “sinking” US currency. The author has pointed out a couple of things that directly affect us because of that. “It takes more than $1.40 to buy one euro today. It cost less than $1 as recently as late 2002. A Canadian dollar is worth just about exactly a US dollar–a parity not seen since the 1970s. Should Wise Bread readers care? If so, what should they do?” Read full article Tags: us currency | euro | inflation

Geologists warn that the Nile delta is slowly sinking below sea level. The slow subsidence does not mean immediate floods but could become soaked in salt, rendering it useless.the whole area is losing about five mm [two tenths of an inch] a year.

Rats from a sinking ship? Presidential hopeful John McCain, Senator from Arizona, has had another staff shake up. Three more aides in his already skeletal political department have resigned leaving but a single staffer, Mike Dennehy. Sen. McCain has taken a new approach to his campaign and is embracing the war in Iraq with a three state plan for rallying support for the troops and their mission. And while I do appreciate the sacrifices that John McCain has made for our country I have to wonder at the sincerity of this show of support for the troops. Embracing the war even more than he has in the past reminds me of the way the Democrats consistently lose elections because they are so far in left field and then come to the conclusion that the reason they lost is they are not far enough left. So they attempt to give the people even more socialism. How much longer can John McCain hold out? It will be exactly as long as his money lasts and not a second longer. The recent rise in his polling

A darkening sky The shadows lengthening by The retreating sun The darkness creeping in As time passes by; You were crying now I get that sinking feeling I’ll never see you again; This is the last time I held out my hand To touch your beautiful golden lock To look at your tear-streaked face To see what’s reflected in your eyes… Where there were love and passion before Now replaced by sorrow and grief. Farewell, this I accept Even if I taste the bitterness; This I feel when I see you off The loneliness, the emptiness… Will both remain with me forever? I’ve only just get on-line, and saw this week prompt for Sunday Scribblings, which is “I get that sinking feeling…“. Well, since Sunday is almost over here in KL, so my entry is just this short piece.

You know what's one of the many things that scared me as a kid? Sinking sands! I once saw a movie wherein a man just slowly but surely sunk in the sinking sand (must have been an old Tarzan movie) and I thought - yikes! I hope that never happens to me!I got that a sinking feeling ....how about saying I got this stinking sinking feeling?a freaking, stinking, sinking feeling?I get that sinking feeling that this is the end of this post.If you are curious to find out what others are saying about their sinking feeling ... go to Sunday Scribblings.

In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street just as leaking gasoline ignites. Reiko Abe arrives just in time, lowered from a helicopter. Scientists predict that Japan will sink within 40 years, due to subduction of a tectonic plate to the west. However, Dr. Tadokoro, who leads an oceanic scientific team that includes Toshiro, calculates that this will happen far sooner, in only 338.54 days. He presents his findings to Prime Minister Yamamoto who decides to create a new department for impending disaster relief assigning Saoro Takamori to cover the new duties, since of all his ministers she will take it seriously but also bring “heart” to the process. As further earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions devastate Japan, the government pleads with other countries to take refugees. Yamamoto flies to China to negotiate relocations there, but his plane is de

Just as I thought I can start blogging early (like 9PM) because my husband went to the movie with our friend Eric, and I have already done my motherly love and duties with my kids (they are in bed reading at 9PM)...; just as I thought I have plenty of time to blog before hubby comes home ... I discovered a disaster in our house! Our refrigerator has been leaking in the back for quite a while without us noticing it until tonight :( I went to the garage to look for something when I noticed that my hubby's work bench is flooded. I looked up and the ceiling has bubbles couple with some dripping spots. I called Tatay and he helped me explore. He asked "Isn't that ceiling where your refrigerator is?". Yeah. So I went upstairs to check. Not good. There were some black spots on the floor side of the refrigerator. I asked Tatay's help to pull the refrigerator out - and lo and behold - it's flooded in the back! Actually it's not flooded but the semi-wooden floor is swollen and moldy

BNP councillor resigns from district councilONE of the six British National Party district councillors has resigned saying he can no longer commit sufficient time to his electors. Terry Farr, who represented the Loughton Alderton ward and whose seat is up for re-election next May, was one of the original three BNP councillors elected onto Epping Forest District Council. He announced his resignation this morning in a statement sent to the Epping Forest Guardian. Mr Farr, who said one of the reasons for his decision was the expansion of his own business, said: "I can no longer spend the volume of time needed to represent fully the needs of Alderton ward. I feel that the people who voted for me deserve total commitment." He added that when with Pat and Tom Richardson he was elected to the council the trio "broke new ground in Epping". He said they spent the next three years with a "massive" workload that included building the party's base while looking forward to reinforcements which wer

Sinking of Japan is a movie about disaster in Japan. Because of tectonic plate collisions, Japan is going to sink. According to the scientists the archipelago will be no more in 40 years time. The government is arranging a massive migration discreetly. Submarine pilot Onodera Toshi (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) soon discover, however, that the sinking is faster than anyone had imagined  Buy this DVD on YesAsia Japanese Drama

Drop-out centre time again. I was late, and had my appointment pushed back which irritated me greatly. Where I live, there isn't exactly a myriad of entertainment, not unless you count knocking OAP's out of the way in a fit of impatience as they meander along being overtaken by snails.I spent the next two and a bit hours wandering aimlessly round the shops looking at all the nice things I can't afford to buy, and settled into Waterstones to flick through books on comsic ordering (no help whatsoever, easy to believe it when you're making loads of money from talking about it) star signs (apparently Virgos are 'critical and fussy' and 'fear being loved' Like I didn't know. And they charge £7.99 to tell me this?) and conspiracy theories. For the record, I believe Marilyn Monroe was murdered. I also believe David Icke needs electric shock therapy. If the world were really run by giant lizards, there'd be an awful lot of lizard dung lying around. I suppose it's invisible to human

This is a paper I did for my Great Books Class about The Battle of Salamis By during the Persian wars. I think it turned out OK, so, I shall post it. Sinking Friends September 28, 480 BC. The cool sea breeze brushed Artemesia's face gently as she squinted into the gray, early morning hours. All night the Persian navy had been closing off escape for the Greek fleet. Among the soldiers she had heard it whispered that the Greeks were panicking and fighting amongst themselves. It was growing lighter now, the sun quickly ascending a cloudless sky. The oars of the rowers below swished in their hypnotic, monotonous rhythm, propelling the boat forward. “Do you think they'll get away?” said a craggy voice behind her. Turning around, she saw Acacius, her second in command. He was an old, tough-as-nails ship-captain who'd been on the water from childhood till now. Deliberately Artemesia began pacing the deck. “They aren't going to get away. I just hope they don't stay in that bay, Sa

BUFFALO: I see that a 25 square mile chunk of ice fell off one of the polar ice caps yesterday. BIRD: Aw, that's nice. BUFFALO: Dude, there were a lot of polar bears on that ice, who are now wondering what the fook is happening. Now what if we towed that chunk of ice to the Caribbean, melted it, bottled it as Iceberg Water, millions of years old, and sold it for a cool five dollars a bottle? BIRD: Er, dude, have you considered all those polar bears that pissed on it before they divebombed into the ocean, like? BUFFALO: OK. Right. We'll change the labels, bung in some bubbles and call it Iceberg Lemonade! BIRD: Bwilliant! Right, now who do we know with a boat? BUFFALO: Well, Sparky was in the merchant navy. He could be our skipper. And we could hire a boat. BIRD: Which would cost? BUFFALO: A lot of dineros. Oh, fook it. Back to poverty. Oh, well, it's moot... we'll be at war with China soon, is my guess... seein' as how they're going to give billions to Iran to develop nooks, an

I'm trying to stay positive.But it's hard.My depression is getting worse. I can't seem to shake this feeling of hopelessness and despair. It's getting harder to get out of bed. And when I do, I spend the day struggling on the edge of tears. I try to put on a brave face because I don't want anyone to see me like this but I'm sinking fast. It seems so pointless.I try to remember how happy I was but it seems so long ago. I can't remember it. I can't seem to remember anything. My mind seems to be slipping. Everything seems so alien to me. Who I was. Who I am. It makes no sense.I am getting so tired of trying.046753My life as I transition from a boy to a girl and the mess I make along the way.

Funny that Venice is Sinking should originate from Athens, Georgia. Not funny ha-ha, more wry smilingly so since it was from that very spot that one of indie's former champions arose. Karolyn Troupe and Daniel Lawson are the twin voices who propel ViS's delightful chamber pop sound. On songs like "Pulaski Heights' the band germ a floatilla of noises that approximate equal parts Frames/Arcade