a penny for my thought...

if you have a penny for every thought i've had, i'm telling you, you wouldn't be rich, well, no money you will gain lately at least... i've been extremely lazy, i haven't have any worth while thoughts lately...

however, i saw one documentary about last week, it's about krakatoa (or should i say, krakatau like how it is in my native language) on bbc 4... maaaan!! i didn't thought that blast back in 1883 was massive.. well, i did know that people in russia also suffer from the ashes a bit, but fuckin hell, from what i saw in that documentary, the impact was three fold and that was only the short term impact, don't get me started on the long term ones.

see, the blast killed over 60,000 people... now, put in mind that this happened in 1883 when the earth's population was waaaaay less than now... does 60,000 sound like a big number now? and the ordeal happened no continuously... see, the peak of the ordeal happened when the volcano blasted so big and occured 5 times in a day... the blast was so big you can hear it from australia, it is even the loudest sound ever recorded in history, fuckin hell!!! several hours after the blast, tsunami started to hit, now you might think the boxing day tsunami was huge, well it ain't nothing compared to this one... the 1883 tsunamis were 40 metres high!! imagine that!! now, if that ain't enough, the heat erupted from the volcano touched the sea and created a blast of gas that sweep through sumatra and java... the gas was so hot you instantly die if exposed directly... god, imagine the ordeal that went on that time...

long term ones, it's the effect of months of ashes pouring in the area, some areas didn't even get to see sunlights in months no end... as i recall, the eruption messed up the world's climate so bad, it took years for the weather to turn back normal... and the whole volcano vanished in 48 hours... now that's what i call a job well done!

now, if you think this is scary, get this, almost a decade ago, the earth cracked again in krakatoa's spot and resulted in "Son of Krakatoa" or "Anak Krakatoa". This volcano baby is growing by 5 metres each year and i do sincerely hope it won't erupt in my or my kids' life time...

don't you think it's funny that i get to know all these stuff, and actually be interested on it, just now, while i'm in UK? i actually need the help of other nation to come to realise my own nation's history... i don't know where it's wrong, is it me? or is it my country's fault?