In the local news today...

I'm sure folks in the Klang Valley would have had a "moving" experience today. Why? Because an earthquake struck near Indonesia at approximately 12pm, causing tremors and swaying buildings in Malaysia and neighboring Singapore. And there was a stronger aftershock too, around 2pm. In my office you could feel the whole room and the chair / table sway like a moving ship and the rooftop plants outside my office window were shaking. Some office buildings were evacuated; mine was not. I didn't feel the first initial earthquake, but I felt the second, stronger aftershock. It was quite long too, about 30 seconds. I'm thankful Malaysia is nowhere closer to the epicenter of the "Ring of Fire". I think we'd be poorly equipped to handle such a situation.

In other Malaysian news, I was horrified to read this. Apparently, eight milky storks were released into the wild without proper preparation and acclimatization just for the sake of of marking the World Wetlands Day. The birds are tame and accustomed to humans and are not trained to fend for themselves in the wild. Whichever idiotic official who was in charge of the event (or even suggested it) should be taken across the border to Thailand and "released" there without any food, money, etc so that they will experience and know what the storks are going through.