Pictures in the Historical Place, Malacca

I'm back to Johor Bahru.

Just reached Johor Bahru. Now in this Chinese shop at Taman Sutera. Just ordered a bowl of kuey teow soup. It has scallop, (fake) abalone and many more. Um, I am still full. The chicken rice is still in my stomach. Today is the day of eating. Tomorrow, I gotta work.

4th stop- Dataran Pahlawan in Malacca

In the shopping mall. Gotta exercise a bit because too full.

2nd stop in Malacca

Now I'm at the Hainanese Chicken Rice. They are famous for their ping-pong ball rice. During the weekends, you can see people queuing up. Luckily today is a weekday. You guys can come over to this place. However, it isn't halal place. This place is for NON MUSLIM. It is just opposite San Shu Gong.

1st stop- Malacca Zoo

I was excited to be here after many years. However, it's pricey. The entrance ticket costed RM10. Previously it was only RM7. But the zoo is clean and odorless. Not many people because it was a weekday. If you ask me whether is it worth it? I will give 6/10.































Overall, not satisfied.




The price list.

Malacca , here I come!

Few hours later, I will head to the History state, Malacca. It has been a long time never to Malacca. I will depart from Johor Bahru, probably at 8 tomorrow. So by the time, I reach there will be around 10.

Tmr will visit the Malacca Zoo, lunch eating the famous chicken rice, walk around the shops and the shopping complexes.

Stay tune and I will post pictures during the trip!

My tongue is painful.

Absolutely Tired

This was written few days ago.


I'm exhausted and mentally tired. Luckily I have stopped my part time job. No more working till 10pm. Right now I can even sleep within seconds. My eyes lids are going to close. My head is so heavy right now. I have to wake up early tomorrow and get ready my teaching material. Oh my... Ok, who want to learn Mandarin? I'm going to in March. If you wanna join, please let me know.

Malaysians are Protesting Against Lynas

Such a coincidence that I'm wearing GREEN today!

No Night Class

Finally I'm free! I have no more night classes. Yeah, even though money is important but I must find back my precious time. Time for me to relax and mix around. Well, if you guys are free, you can tweet me @ericdiary.

Wasting Time

I wonder how will our country advanced to another level. Tonnes of ppl are wasting time waiting for their legal documents. Hundreds are still waiting for their turn to make a new ID. They have to let go their jobs and lazying in this building. What a shame! Can our government personnels, please be more efficient.

World Kite Festival, Pasir Gudang.

Today is the 2nd last day for the festival. I wish to go there but I have to work today till 4.30pm. Um, do you think will there be anything if I reach at around 5.30pm?

If you guys wanna know more bout this event, click on this link.http://www.kitefestpasirgudang.com/Default.php

6.44am

Hey, I already wake up... Hehe.. Super early.. I bet today I will be exhausted easily.

2 potatoes cost RM17!

My friend bought these at RM17. Only two...what the heck...

Products from Taiwan.

I met my friend from Taiwan, and she gave me this. Very yummy.

I AM SICK!

Americas, Asia will fuse to form 'Amasia'

You won't be alive to see the way the Earth looks in 100 million years, but as the name suggests, it would "amaze ya."

Amasia is what scientists are calling the supercontinent that they predict will form as the continents we know and love drift toward one another and collide, closing the Arctic Ocean and fusing around the North Pole. Antarctica may be left out as a loner, however, as Australia snuggles up to Asia between India and Japan.

While the northern coast of North America would form a mountain range, the United States' West Coast will probably be the edge of this supercontinent, geologist Ross Mitchell said.

In a study in the journal Nature, Mitchell and colleagues at Yale University propose a new theory of how and where this supercontinent will form.

It's been established that supercontinents tend to form and break apart in cycles. There have been at least three: Nuna (1.8 billion years ago), Rodinia (1 billion years ago) and Pangea (300 million years ago).

Between 50 and 200 million years from now, the next supercontinent, Amasia, will take shape, Mitchell said. And we're well halfway into the cycle of its formation; most of Asia has been created since the rifting of the last supercontinent, Pangea, he said.

Considering trends in mammalian evolution over the past 20 million years, individual species tend to last only about 2 million years, so there probably won't be any humans living on Amasia.

"None of us will be around 100 million years from now to be able to test these supercontinent models, but it’s nonetheless interesting to think about how humanity fits in this larger tectonic dance," Mitchell said.

Why do supercontinents form?

Continents and oceans as we know them are not permanent. Instead, continents drift across the surface of the Earth, and oceans aren't stable. German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed this idea about a century ago, and it gained further credence in the second part of the 20th century as scientists began to study plate tectonics. Basically, underneath us, there are solid slabs of rock called plates, and they move in different directions because of convection currents.

Earthquakes result from plates rubbing against one another. The Ring of Fire, a region we know today where most earthquakes happen and volcanoes lie, marks the edge of the previous supercontinent, Pangea, and is about 90 degrees away from it. The seismic activity of the Ring of Fire will result in the formation of Amasia.

Geologists say that when Pangea broke apart, new oceans were created, and more ocean in one part of the world means there's less somewhere else. "This is why, all around the Pacific, the ocean floor is being sucked back down into the planet in a process called subduction," writes Ted Nield in the book "Supercontinent."

But exactly why supercontinents break up after they form remains a mystery, Mitchell said.

How supercontinents form

Before Mitchell's study, there have been two theories about the next supercontinent, extroversion and introversion, although they don't have much to do with its personality.

Proponents of extroversion believe the continents will drift away from a supercontinent and eventually scoot around to the opposite side of the globe, 180 degrees from where the old one was.

Introversion is a little simpler, stating that the next supercontinent would form where the last one did.

But Mitchell's group argues that Amasia will be 90 degrees away from Pangea was. The Yale researchers used as the basis of their analysis insights from minerals from ancient rocks, which reflect the Earth's magnetic field. Geologists are able to infer how a continent moves through time with respect to the North Magnetic Pole based on that.

The introversion and extroversion models provided a set of testable predictions for supercontinents of the past but could not really give estimates for the future, said Peter Cawood, chairman of Earth Sciences at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and former president of the Geological Society of Australia.

Mitchell's study is important because it provides explanations for how we get from one supercontinent to another, Cawood said in an e-mail.

"In the past we have wondered if there is 'method in the madness' of continental reconstructions and the position of continents through time. If this paper is correct the answer is yes, there is indeed a method," Cawood said. And that method is "driven by processes deep within the Earth."

Amasia will take shape at the North Pole, and then, as it matures and heats up, it will drift down toward the equator and nestle there, Mitchell said.

"Understanding the past distribution of continents, either individually or when periodically amalgamated as supercontinents, is fundamental to understanding the history of the Earth," Cawood said. "Continents are the archive of Earth history – not just of the rocks themselves but of past climate, oceans, life, etc. And the distribution of the continents has an important influence on these features."

Cawood added: "Pity that it will take hundreds of millions of years to happen and we won’t be here to see it!"

Unexpected Meeting

Today I had a meeting with my boss. We had a great discussion. I was surprised about his opinion on my commission thingy. Great boss. Still, I gotta give thanks to my Heavenly Father. You are beautiful!

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