Mother Nature is warming up…and more
For some distraction, let’s see what’s on the news lately.
From New Scientist Environment: Special Report Earth article titled "2100: A world of wild weather", which documents a predictive model used to forecast climate impact around the world towards the year 2100, here’s an interesting tidbit from their sidebar titled "Where natural disasters now take their toll"
Climate change is not the same as climate impact, as changes in temperature and precipitation will affect people in some regions far more than others. For example, sub-Saharan Africa is a drought hotspot, while south and south-east Asia are vulnerable to storms and flooding. Any changes in climate here could affect people more severely than, say, those in Europe. (emphasis added)
Judging from what happened in Johor, maybe we should pay some heed to the model. Let’s see what we have recently: unusual heat wave in Europe then Katrina vs. New Orleans (a no-brainer challenge) and finally Cyril in Europe. Considering that the weather effects are starting to become more pronounced and bound to worsen due to heat buffering by the oceans, it might be wise to purchase flooding insurance for our M’sian homes by 2050 (if you’re still there that is).
Moving on, you would think the tution craze couldn’t get any crazier but the Honkies just proved it wrong. From CNN’s Education section, the article title "Sex appeal counts in Hong Kong’s tutoring business" is self explanatory. Looks like there’s no excuse sleeping in tuition classes anymore (at least for HK students). 
Now, I’ve heard quite a few views on the results of a hypothetical military Malaysian-Singaporean conflict and almost all predicted that M’sia will be on the losing end. However, I still believe that Malaysia stands a very good chance of achieving stalemate (assuming that no other nations intervened). Here’s one extra news piece that helps my stand. If you’ve read The Star’s "Firearms worth RM900,000 seized in raid", you will find that our M’sian arms dealer can sell pretty high-tech arms made in Germany and Austria (the S’porean arms dealers probably can’t sell anything more harmful than air weapons anyway).
Now who says that M’sia has outdated equipment? As far as I am concerned, we don’t have any lack of equipment to defend ourselves with. With a few more ‘talented’ arms dealers like these, I’m sure we can have a high-calibre assault rifle for everyone in no time at all! Think about it…
