A post dedicated to Manchester City. All hail to the devils slayer.

This must be one of those better weeks. Just several days ago, the "devils held".

p/s - half of total 300 tonnes of toxic waste has been removed. But there are some indications that part of the waste might have reached Muar River. Muar River is a major river and the town of Muar is a major town by the river. How major? Wikipedia says the town itself has more than 200,000 people. That's larger than the pretentious city of Shah Alam. Is this our little China? Perhaps? Not as serious, true but still...

According to Bernama:

27,000 Sea Perch Die, Breeder Loses RM250,000

MUAR, Jan 13 (Bernama) -- A company rearing sea perch fish in cages in Sungai Muar here Friday lost RM250,000 following the sudden death of 27,000 fish weighing between 500 gram to 3kg each...

... "Probably the change in the water quality as a result of the flood at Hulu Sungai Muar and toxic waste pollution from a factory nearby could have caused the death of the fish," said the Jailani who had been breeding sea perch for the last 15 years...

This makes me wonder, how many legit dumpsite does Malaysia have and how many recorded illegal dumping are there in 2005?

pp/s - TMnet is truly impossible.

ppp/s - Did I mention that Manchester City beat Manchester United 3 to 1?

p4/s - Did I mention that Cristiano Ronaldo's middle name is red?

p5/s - Did I mention that... bah. Read all about it at Soccernet.

p6/s - RealClimate explains the drought in the Brazilian Amazon. I get the statistics part but I can't pretend that I fully comprehend the atmospeheric/climatology jargons though without further reading.

p7/s - holy shit. Jill Carroll is from Ann Arbor! Jill Carroll is a freelance journalist that reported for the Christian Science Monitor in Iraq before she was kidnapped. She's still missing but I hope she's alright.