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The Umpteenth Journal Attempt

(Hopefully) daily ramblings from the hazy mind of Hasief Ardiasyah

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Various football and tsunami musings 

Liverpool finally bought Fernando Morientes, just in time for him to play against Manchester United. Too bad they lost by a goal to nil courtesy of that brat Wayne Rooney (whom I shall refer to as such outside of the context of an England match), and also meant that Morientes lost his record of always scoring on his debut. Liverpool couldn't even take advantage of MU going down to 10 men after Wes "Baked Bean Boy" Brown got sent off. Depression, all around.

Around halfway during the match, I felt tremors. After making sure it wasn't just me as I was in a potential dizziness-inducing state (under the influence of flu pills while bending over the side of my chair) and asked Halief if he felt it too, I concluded that yes, we had just had an earthquake. Quite heart-stopping, especially in light of events over the past couple of weeks. Yoga didn't feel it when I SMS'ed, so I went online to check the news on Kompas: there was a 5.5 richter quake just off the coast of Ujung Kulon, 200 kms south west of here. No news as to whether there was any major damage, but I sure hope there wasn't any. And I hope that this is as heavy as all quakes will get in the future.

Anyway, while we're still on the subject of natural disasters, over dinner I remembered when I first heard of the term "tsunami". It was 1987, the family had just moved to Saudi Arabia, and I had an insatiable hunger for trivia. There was this book that had all sorts of facts in it, the title of which I don't recall but might still be here somewhere if I try to dig it out. Anyway, it was sorted out in a Q&A format, and I don't remember the question, but the gist of the answer was that the biggest natural disaster ever was when Mount Krakatoa - located between Java and Sumatra - exploded in August 1883. The eruptions themselves, while wiping out two-thirds of Krakatoa Island, didn't cause as much damage as the ensuing tsunamis, which got as far as the Arabian Peninsula. For a more detailed account, click here.

I remember that when I first learned about Krakatoa, I thought, "Geez, that happened in Indonesia, hope it doesn't happen again any time soon." If you can consider 14 years as "soon", then my wish didn't come true...

posted by Hasief  # 1/15/2005 11:20:00 pm
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