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Name: IvyNick: Ironyv
Age: 21
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Birthday: 30 November
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Country: Singapore
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
OMG!! I have actually experienced the earthquake tremor at around 12 plus this morning!! It was a slight tremor, and I felt as if I had a fainting spell. I looked at my hand but it wasn't me shaking, which I felt rather weird. Then, it stopped.
I have only found out what really happened when I saw a thread posted in one of the forums I frequented. Apparently, the earthquake a 8.5 scale earthquake and happened in Indonesia, somewhere near the previous earthquake that caused the big Tsunami disaster.
I do worry about Singapore's safety even though we are positioned in a very geographically safe location. What if one day, the tsunami got so big until it can devour the vast lands in Indonesia and at the same time, devour our small little country call Singapore?~~!
I have also read the newspapers recently and apparently, the glaciers or ice in the two opposite poles on Earth are melting at a remarkable rate. Not only that, the ice on the Himalayas are melting as well.
Pollution
That word can cause the destruction of the whole humankind...If we continued with our reckless actions, causing deforestation and disturbing the nature, we will soon be grave danger...Think about the increase occurance in Nature disasters in recent years. I am not kidding, we are slowly feeling the anger of Mother Nature...
Anyway, I have just watched a documentary on Unsolved History in the Discovery Channel. I love Unsolved History because it actually involves current scientists, forensic science, psychologies...everyone to attempt to solve murders or mysteries of the events in history. Like How Troy fall, and what I have just saw, WHO KILLED ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
Alexander The Great was one marvellous and ruthless king, who had a big ambition in conquering the world. He was the King of Macedonia, after witnessing the brutal assassination of his father King Phillip. When he was young, he learned his father's battle strategies and was even tutored by the great philosopher Aristotle.
After he became the King, he decided to conquer Persia. With a small army, he defeated the large Persia empire and proceeded to conquer Egypt and Afghanistan. He also conquered parts of India and had plans to attack Arabia and Italy. Unfortunately for him, he died at an early age of 32.
Many historians speculated 2 possibilites leading to his death; Disease or Poison killed him.
The Documentary actually followed a famous UK investigator who had a long record of cracking bomb cases. He actually used what we have learned in school, the mindmap to crack his cases.
Together with his team, he looked into the 2 possibilities of how Alexander died. If he died of a illness, the disease could be the West Nile fever. But, further investigations shows that he could have been killed by a poison called White Hellebore.
The eventual conclusion by that investigator (called Greeve i think..) was that after Alexander's best friend and gay lover Hephaestion passed away due to illness, he was heart broken, causing him to use wine/alcohol to drown his sadness away. However, his health detoriated and the physicians may have used cures that had White Hellebore to help him vomit out the bad things in Alexander's stomach. (small dosage of Hellebore supposedly help vomiting)
Alexander could have been reckless by asking the physicians to increase dosage so that he could recover in a faster rate as he intended to invade Arabia. The increase dosage might be the fatal blow for Alexander, causing him to fall.
*coughs*
Anyway, I am very amazed at how science in our current world have helped to uncover some mysteries of history. ^_^
I have only found out what really happened when I saw a thread posted in one of the forums I frequented. Apparently, the earthquake a 8.5 scale earthquake and happened in Indonesia, somewhere near the previous earthquake that caused the big Tsunami disaster.
I do worry about Singapore's safety even though we are positioned in a very geographically safe location. What if one day, the tsunami got so big until it can devour the vast lands in Indonesia and at the same time, devour our small little country call Singapore?~~!
I have also read the newspapers recently and apparently, the glaciers or ice in the two opposite poles on Earth are melting at a remarkable rate. Not only that, the ice on the Himalayas are melting as well.
Pollution
That word can cause the destruction of the whole humankind...If we continued with our reckless actions, causing deforestation and disturbing the nature, we will soon be grave danger...Think about the increase occurance in Nature disasters in recent years. I am not kidding, we are slowly feeling the anger of Mother Nature...
Anyway, I have just watched a documentary on Unsolved History in the Discovery Channel. I love Unsolved History because it actually involves current scientists, forensic science, psychologies...everyone to attempt to solve murders or mysteries of the events in history. Like How Troy fall, and what I have just saw, WHO KILLED ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
Alexander The Great was one marvellous and ruthless king, who had a big ambition in conquering the world. He was the King of Macedonia, after witnessing the brutal assassination of his father King Phillip. When he was young, he learned his father's battle strategies and was even tutored by the great philosopher Aristotle.
After he became the King, he decided to conquer Persia. With a small army, he defeated the large Persia empire and proceeded to conquer Egypt and Afghanistan. He also conquered parts of India and had plans to attack Arabia and Italy. Unfortunately for him, he died at an early age of 32.
Many historians speculated 2 possibilites leading to his death; Disease or Poison killed him.
The Documentary actually followed a famous UK investigator who had a long record of cracking bomb cases. He actually used what we have learned in school, the mindmap to crack his cases.
Together with his team, he looked into the 2 possibilities of how Alexander died. If he died of a illness, the disease could be the West Nile fever. But, further investigations shows that he could have been killed by a poison called White Hellebore.
The eventual conclusion by that investigator (called Greeve i think..) was that after Alexander's best friend and gay lover Hephaestion passed away due to illness, he was heart broken, causing him to use wine/alcohol to drown his sadness away. However, his health detoriated and the physicians may have used cures that had White Hellebore to help him vomit out the bad things in Alexander's stomach. (small dosage of Hellebore supposedly help vomiting)
Alexander could have been reckless by asking the physicians to increase dosage so that he could recover in a faster rate as he intended to invade Arabia. The increase dosage might be the fatal blow for Alexander, causing him to fall.
*coughs*
Anyway, I am very amazed at how science in our current world have helped to uncover some mysteries of history. ^_^
ironyv at Tuesday, March 29, 2005
