Study day! :P Whats the world coming to?

woke up at 830! :P haha! then went to meet crystal at jurong east to study.. haha! studied like the whole day there lar.. yea.. good work! :P haha! we finished quite some stuff.. talked and walked around also.. was fun.. yep! :)





Natural Disasters





Hurricane Wilma gathers strength, heads toward Mexico



"Wilma, the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic, is picking up steam and is expected to roar into a category five hurricane again on the Saffir-Simpson scale by the time it makes landfall in Mexico on Friday.."



"The storm is moving northwest at nearly nine kilometres per hour packing top sustained winds near 240 kph, with higher gusts."





Strong earthquake injures 15 in Turkey



"The quake occurred under the Aegean Sea at OO:40 am (2140 GMT) off the coast of Seferihisar, some 40 kilometres southwest of Izmir, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said on its website, measuring the quake's intensity at 5.9 on the open-ended Richter scale."





World will have to act fast to prevent bird flu pandemic: WHO



"Will we be able to catch it in time to prevent a global catastrophe? I just don't know ... no one does," said Dr Hitoshi Oshitani, Regional Adviser on Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Western Pacific office in Manila."



"According to the latest WHO data there have been 118 cases of avian flu among humans and 61 deaths including the latest in Thailand this week."





Earthquake rocks Indonesia's Sumbawa island



"An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Sumbawa island on Friday but there were no reports of casualties or damage, seismologists said."







tsk tsk.. so much stuff happening to the world now..