Email hoax on earthquake, tsunami in Asia on July 22

Received an email from a friend of mine with the title "Email hoax on earthquake, tsunami in Asia on July 22". Attached together in the mail is the link to the article publish be Channel News Asia. It explained the credibility of the original mail.

Penang Mt Erskine Trail...

This trail is situated right behind the Mt Erskine market. Guess it should be consider a freeride trail. There's a lot of artificial and natural jumps that can be found here. One of our favourite trail so far.

When I started cycling about 6 months ago, I only plan to do cross country. Never thought that this trail can be one of my favourite. Please don't get me wrong. Favourite means I like this trail, not that I am an expert here. I pushed my bike quite a lot of time during my first ride here(pai seh, dare not to ride down the rock gardens).

After that ride, I started to google for more freeride and downhill videos in youtube. With the help of the videos, I became more confident compared to my first ride. Went faster this time. It is true that wacthing more youtube will make you become more daring(in hokkien, I call it khi siao). I figure out a new mathematics formula on my second ride:
Daring + No Skill + Paria Bike = Crash

And here's my reward.

Crashing is inevitable for beginner like us. All of my friends crashed before. The most serious one is having to get more than 10 stitches on his head and getting fractured rib. He got this when he tried to do some difficult jump on his first ride. His name is Gee(maybe spell as Ghee) and he is one of the best "jumper" among us. He can do almost all the jumps in Mt Erskine.

If you don't wanna get serious injury, it is better to get a sifu or get advise from the expert. They will tell you where you can practise your jump and which jump to avoid. We got a very good sifu. His name Ah Gee aka Ah Pnia another Gee, not the one who got fractured rib. He is one of the rider who constructed this trail. Don't know how come all Gees are good in riding. Another one is Gee Atherton.

This is one of jump that we should avoid.
There's no proper landing ground.

Frequent Mt Erskine riders will not jump here. You cannot get a proper landing ground. We don't know about this until Ah Gee told us. So you see, if you can get advise, you can prevent injuries.

Ah Gee showing us how to jump the roller coaster.
The one in front is Ah Gee(aka Ah Pnia aka sifu)
Followed by Azril.

More photos here and here.

July 22nd 2009 another Tsumani... ***Fact or Hoax***

There's a lot of us who received this forwarded email with the subject of July 22nd 2009 another Tsumani. There's no clarification on how the originator of this mail manage to find this info. To those who don't receive it, below is a copy that I received.
**{Hi,
Please be more cautious as the warnings has been given.
Attached a photo for u.

I just received this message from a colleague. I don’t know the source of the message; I also don’t know the credibility of the content, but just beware.

Below is the content on the message:
“Hello there. I just wanted 2 let you know that please stay away from the beaches all around in the month of July. There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on July 22^nd. It is also when there will be sun eclipse. Predicted that it is going 2 be really bad and countries like Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak), Singapore, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Si Lanka, India, Indonesia, Philippines are going 2 be badly hit. Please try and stay away from the beaches in July. Better 2 be safe than sorry. Please pass the word around. Please also pray for all beings.”

Thanks and have a nice day.

Bless you~}**
Thanks to those who forward this mail to me. Could it be another hoax? For me, I will choose to trust this mail. It will be an easy task for me as it will not affect me. I am sorry to those who are staying or plan to visit the area that might be hit. It will be a tough decision for them to make. Imagine if you plan to have a vacation in one of the island in Philippines. And you had already paid everything and it is not refundable. Or if you stay there, will you pack all your belongings and flee?

By the way I found this http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html.

It only explained about the eclipse. It is up to you to decide whether to believe or not to believe. As for me I chose to believe. Cause I kiasi ma...

Sungai Ara Ride

Went for a ride on one of the trail in Sungai Ara on last Sunday(5 April 09). Me, Hock a.k.a Nick and Boo Leong a.k.a Panjang rode from Air Itam to Sungai Ara. While Jerry, Debbie and Kheng Hong a.k.a Chicken drove there. Kooi is the trail guide of the day. It is very kind of him, he went for the round island ride earlier before joining us. Aeroplanes of the day are Ghee(not feeling well wor) and Olivia(need to work wor).

Me, Hock and Boo Leong started our ride from my house at around 10.20am. Went through Paya Terubong Hill(Long Boey Sua). My initial plan was to dump all our bikes into Jerry's van. But Hock suggested that we ride there. As I am a very supportive friend which will never say no to a friend suggestion(another form of kiasuness... hehe...), I agreed with him. Told Boo Leong about this, he agreed to join us too. Buta buta kena drag in. haha... A bit regret for being gau gau... It was damn hot on the way to Sg Ara.

Took our breakfast and met up with the rest of the gang in a kopitiam nearby the trail. Started our ride at about 12 noon. Guess no other group will be later than us to start a weekend ride. If you can't wake up early or need to go to church on Sunday, we welcome you to join us.

We took about an hour to reach Carpet. Thought that there's full of carpet grass on Carpet. Got trick by the name, there's no carpet grass. The grass there are the same as the Polo Ground one. Minus the disappointment of the grass, everything else are nice. There's nice view, nice uncle(nice brother should be better, he is not that old, think he owns the farm land there), nice dogs, nice plants, errrrr.... nice etc etc....






Got down from carpet after staying there for about 30mins. We never rode back to Air Itam. Don't wanna be gau gau this time. Dumped in our bikes into Jerry's van. Hock followed Jerry, while me and Boo Leong followed Debbie.

To view photos taken by Boo Leong click here.

*Photos will be upload soon...