Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @9:42 PM
i can't believe people still believe in such CRAP! i mean i understand if you are 13-14, and if you dun forward the mail to 50 people, your love life will be in a disaster or you are gonna die a awful death in a week.
OH PLEASE! GROW UP! for the past few years, i've been receiving such forwarded mails and recently forward sms-es with such content. i admit when i was 12-13, i believed and mass-emailed. but i supposed if i grew up from that stage, a decent 17 year old would have too rite?
why did i suddenly talked about this topic? ha, i just received 5 emails of similar content and i realized that people are pretty naive and scaredy cat.
i can come out with my own forwarded mail
eg. May was a typical secondary school girl in Singapore. she led a really simple life. then she met the guy of her life. she was so sure she was to marry him. then one fateful day, May saw her boyfriend smooching with this girl in public. devastated, she swore that she would get back to him and make him guilty all his life. thus, she dressed in red and jumped down from a HDB flat in Central Bedok.
forward this to 100 people or your boyfriend or future boyfriend will treat you the same and you will die the same way and be a wandering soul.
wow. i came out with such a devilish story. i'm sure many of the people out there will believe and mass-sent if this was forwarded in an email.
anyway, i got this email (forwarded too)
'Quake and tsunami predicted in S'pore & M'sia> >> BANGKOK: Thailand's now iconic meteorologist, Dr Smith Dharmasaroja, whoin! > Year 1998 predicted a killer tsunami would hit Thailand one day & was> ignored, said S'pore & M'sia were also in danger from a future earthquake> and tsunami.> >> "I believe the epicentre of future quakes will shift northwards, north of> the Andaman & Nicobar islands."> >> "A big earthquake with a more northerly epicentre than the Dec 26 quakewill> generate a tsunami which will have a more direct route down to theStraits> of Malacca, swamping S'pore and M'sia." during the month> of december 05' and january 06'.> >> "As the sea passage narrows, more water will build up and the wave will> become bigger. S'pore is relatively low-lying & quite flat, and would be> badly affected.> Remember, in Dec, the tsunami was 30m high at Banda Aceh. At Khao Lak,itwas> 16m high," he said."> >> Dr Smith,70, retired as chief of Th! ailand's Meteorological Departmentwell> before last Dec's disaster.But before that, he had warned first in a speech> and then in a memo that Thailand's Andaman coast was at risk from a killer> tsunami.> >> Tragically his warning, although widely reported by the media, was ignored.> >> Government officials, fearful of tourists staying away, branded him a cranky> and dangerous man. The authorities in Phuket castigated him & said he was> not welcome to visit. After the tsunami, Prime Minister ThaksinShinawatra> recalled him and made him the chairman of a> committee tasked with developing a national disaster warning centre and> strategy.> >> "I'm not happy that I have made the right prediction," he said.> "Nobody can accurately predict an earthquake; you can only assume from> historical data," he added.> He said big natural disasters occ! ur in 80 year to 100 year cycles,> apparently randomly across the world.> >> "If you speak out too much, forecast too much, you will get a lot of> criticism, from government agencies, the tourism sector and so forth," he> added.> >> Explaining the northward shift of future epicentres, Dr Smith stressed:> "This is no joke. I would like you to put this message out to S'pore and> M'sia."> >> A researcher working on the hypothesis, who did not want to be named,said> the research was on-going and final results were not yet ready.> >> Dr Smith said: "I have seen the simulations that indicate this and they look> believable.> From my own experience, it is possible."Only a few days ago, there was a> 6.1 quake in the Andaman sea near the Nicobar islands, which is about> 321.8km north of the Dec 26 quake.> >> So, this is an indicat! ion that the epicentre is moving north."i did a google on this guy and apparently this article was published in 'asia news network'. and this guy truly exist.
up to you to believe
personally, i just took it with a pinch of salt. if a tsunami really hits singapore, it being a natural disaster is not something that we can avoid. we can lessen the destruction but we cannot prevent it from coming. so it ever happen, all of us will naturally be affected and singapore being an isolated island might sink if it really strikes big time.
i hope no one freaks out and leaves singapore after reading this email. as i said, it is forwarded and he might not be accurate.