Remembering the Tsunami

It was a year ago today. Malaysia was one of the countries affected, albeit only slightly. Some homes in my wife's kampung, in Parit Buntar (northern end of Perak), were flooded with the river waters. No lives lost; just things getting wet.

Malaysia had it's share of grief, though nothing in the scale of other countries. Of course, the real story in Malaysia in the days following the tsunami was the lack of good local news coverage of the story.

The tsunami hit our shores in the morning of 26 Dec 2004. It was the morning after my company's X-mas/annual dinner, and when I got up, it was a normal Sunday morning. I only heard about the tsunami from foreign news programs (CNN, BBC) during the day. Which was strange, considering our northern states got hit. The news media really got an earful from the public after that.

I count myself lucky, not having been directly affected by the tsunami. But it did shake our world. Malaysia's no longer safe from the big natural disasters...

Alanis Morissette, Crazy?

Just heard Alanis' cover of Crazy (Seal, 1990) yesterday. Talk about going in a new direction. Didn't think I'd hear Alanis do something like this...

Star Wars! (Finally!)

I consider myself a Star Wars fan. Not a die-hard, or a fanatic. But a fan. And I'm probably the last Star Wars fan not to have watched Episode III. No, not some kind of protest. Just my "sacrifice" during my wife's pregnancy.

Anyway, yesterday I got the DVD as a b-day present. Woohoo! It's been hard not finding out everything about this movie before watching it. Finally going to get to see the conclusion of the pre-trilogy.

We're watching it tonight. After we put the baby to sleep. :-)

Apgar score

I was just photocopying A'isyah's "health book" the other day when I noticed her Apgar score. 9/10. Never really paid much attention to it, but something made me remember a friend asking me about A'isyah's score. So I checked it out here. I wonder where she lost the 1 point. :-) Doesn't really matter, cos she's a healthy baby girl.