OK, I got my sleep inter­rupted by a very long series of tremors, and we’ve just turned on the telly to watch CNA talk about last night’s quake, after­shocks and then this morning’s shak­ing news.
“Nor­mally our build­ing code is suf­fi­cient to build build­ings of […]

7.20pm
This just in. Naomi thought the cat was under the sofa rock­ing it, caus­ing her to feel a lit­tle dizzy. Then we found the cat on his perch, and so she asked me to sit on the sofa to feel it sway­ing a bit.

“Why ah?”, […]

This Bring Your Own Bag Day thing has got­ten quite a few peo­ple in a tizzy. I didn’t know of it until a friend men­tioned that he was charged 10c per plas­tic bag when he went shop­ping. He claims it isn’t unrea­son­able, given that, ‘in Tai­wan, you buy any­thing in […]

From CNN:

John Markell said Cho Seung-Hui was very low-key when he pur­chased the gun and 50 rounds of ammu­ni­tion with a credit card in an “unre­mark­able” purchase.

They always are, aren’t they?

Tech­no­rati Tags: gun con­trol, Blacks­burg, vir­ginia […]

There’s an idea I got from a few other peo­ple the past cou­ple of days.

A wed­ding we recently attended (and a beau­ti­ful one at that, con­grat­u­la­tions, D&N) did away with wed­ding favours, the money which would have spent on them hav­ing been donated to UNIFEM. And a friend who attended […]

The char­ity organ­i­sa­tion Mercy Relief is send­ing a team today to areas in the Philip­pines stricken by Typhoons Durian and Utor. The team of vol­un­teers com­prises 1 doc­tor, 1 nurse, 1 logis­ti­cian and 1 sup­port staff. More teams are being pre­pared for these areas as well as for stricken areas […]