Monday, September 29, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Deadly hurricane lashes Texas

During the brief calm of the storm, as the eye passed overhead, staff rounded up guests and herded them to a neighbouring hotel, where they slept in corridors, and on sunloungers and sofas, with their babies, young children, dogs, and cats in baskets.
Among them was Mona Garza, 57, and her family, who left Galveston at 11am Friday when water began rushing into the streets. A mandatory evacuation order had been issued by the mayor of Galveston the day earlier.
"We had planned on staying. We were born and raised on the island - we were there for Hurricane Carla in 1961, that was a lot bigger than this, and we thought we'd be OK. But then we realised the water was coming over the seawall Friday morning and it hadn't even started raining yet.
"I worry for people down there now. It's not easy to take a decision to leave everything you own and I guess that's the bad decision a lot of people made. But a lot of people were also reluctant to go because of what happened in the last evacuation for Hurricane Rita in 2005.
"We were on the road, stuck in traffic, for 38 hours trying to get to Fort Worth. There were cars everywhere, nothing was moving, everyone was running out of gas - that's why people didn't want to move again this time. But God bless them now," she said.
Nia Singleton, 32, left her house in Galveston Friday afternoon and holed up in the Hampton Inn at Texas City, where the roof crashed to the ground in the early hours of Saturday.
"It was terrifying. The wind was just howling, howling, and the building was shaking. I don't have much with me but what I have right here is all I care about," she said, gesturing at her four-year-old son Dominic.
"I didn't leave Galveston sooner because we were just thinking about that evacuation in 2005, none of us wanted to get on the road for a four-hour evacuation trip then find it turning into 15, 20 hours of hell."
Among them was Mona Garza, 57, and her family, who left Galveston at 11am Friday when water began rushing into the streets. A mandatory evacuation order had been issued by the mayor of Galveston the day earlier.
"We had planned on staying. We were born and raised on the island - we were there for Hurricane Carla in 1961, that was a lot bigger than this, and we thought we'd be OK. But then we realised the water was coming over the seawall Friday morning and it hadn't even started raining yet.
"I worry for people down there now. It's not easy to take a decision to leave everything you own and I guess that's the bad decision a lot of people made. But a lot of people were also reluctant to go because of what happened in the last evacuation for Hurricane Rita in 2005.
"We were on the road, stuck in traffic, for 38 hours trying to get to Fort Worth. There were cars everywhere, nothing was moving, everyone was running out of gas - that's why people didn't want to move again this time. But God bless them now," she said.
Nia Singleton, 32, left her house in Galveston Friday afternoon and holed up in the Hampton Inn at Texas City, where the roof crashed to the ground in the early hours of Saturday.
"It was terrifying. The wind was just howling, howling, and the building was shaking. I don't have much with me but what I have right here is all I care about," she said, gesturing at her four-year-old son Dominic.
"I didn't leave Galveston sooner because we were just thinking about that evacuation in 2005, none of us wanted to get on the road for a four-hour evacuation trip then find it turning into 15, 20 hours of hell."
Monday, September 8, 2008
Indiependent Fest 2008 - Audio
http://www.indiegoat.com/posts/512/indiependent-festival-audio/
This link has a preview on what is going on in indiependent festival.enjoy
This link has a preview on what is going on in indiependent festival.enjoy
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Cycle to work
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Mafia Wars

This is a game which you should be playing If there's a gangster deep inside you but u cant unleash it because the reality and game are different.Where to get this game? Facebook or myspace application ,you can find it there. The bad things about this game it dont have any graphics plus there's a cheat in the game. hahaha
Friday, July 25, 2008
Komtar Night

By K. KASTURI DEWI
GEORGE TOWN: Fireworks will light up the night sky at the Esplanade here on July 26 as Penangites celebrate George Town's listing as a World Heritage Site.
A three-day celebration will be held within the historical enclave of the city, with cultural shows, free trishaw rides and clan jetties' visits for tourists, flower mural painting and tree planting to commemorate the occasion.
Penang Municipal Council president Datuk Zainal Rahim Seman said Friday the council was allocating about RM150,000 for the celebration which would start on July 25.
On July 26, the Yang di-Pertua Negri (TYT) Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas and the Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister will grace a cultural show at the Esplanade from 8.45pm to 11pm.
"There will be some fireworks display that night to commemorate the historic event and an acceptance of a declaration of George Town's listing by the TYT. The whole event will be held in a very traditional setting,'' Zainal told reporters after Friday's full council meeting.
The three-day event will kick-start with thanksgiving prayers held at various places of worship.
* Students from five inner city schools will take part in a flower mural painting on the road along Jalan Padang Kota Lama at about 9am on July 25
* Cultural activities will be held at the marina bay at Weld Quay on July 26. Tourists and locals will get to enjoy free rides on 50 trishaws and visit the homes at the seven clan jetties to experience for themselves the living heritage of the city from 9am on July 26.
From 6pm to 9pm, tourists will get a chance to enjoy cultural programmes held at the various heritage buildings such as the Khoo Kongsi and the Cheong Fatt Tze mansion.
* On the final day, another cultural show featuring ghazal and dondang sayang performances will be held at the Upper Penang Road flea market from 10am to 6pm.
Zainal said in view of George Town's listing, the council faced more issues and challenges.
"Our main priority now is to keep the town clean and for this, we would need the co-operation of the people,'' he said.
He added that the council would have to ensure a comprehensive and proper traffic system to ensure tourists would be able to move around the heritage enclave without any hindrance.
"Council officers would be going around the heritage trails to ensure that any barriers which obstruct pedestrians or hinder the smooth flow of traffic would be removed,'' he said.
He added that the council would also be trying its "very best'' to track down owners of dilapidated buildings in the inner city so that they could improve the image of the buildings.
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