Asia Tsunami Disaster

The sign is pretty obvious isnt it? Well, Boxing Day and look what has happened..This Asian Tsunami Disaster swept through several coastlines as well as lifes..Just yesterday one might just be enjoying with the entire family on the dining table for a good XMas Dinner and the day after, half the people that was on the table might have well been swept away from this disaster. Just a couple of weeks ago, 110 long-finned pilot whales and 10 bottle-nosed dolphins have been found dead after beaching themselves on Australia's island state of Tasmania. The Marine Biologist experts was not certain what causes whales and other ocean mammals to beach themselves and perhaps, just perhaps from my opinion that this could have very well been the first sign of this whole disaster..Sharks are guided by heat and Pilot Whales are guided by Deep Water Currents aka Thermohaline Circulation (I did some research). Oh Well..It might be or it might not be..

Anyway, on the day of this disaster my day was fine, i actually was in Great Ocean Road where its right next to Indian Ocean. Freaky eh? Oh Well shite happens..Anyway, gathered some information from various sites..And here's what i gather with so far..

Tsunami comes from the Japanese tsu (harbor) and nami (wave). Tsunamis are often incorrectly called tidal waves, but tides have nothing to do with them (though the damage may be worse if a tsunami hits at high tide).

A tsunami (pronounced tsoo-nah-mee) is a wave train, or series of waves, generated in a body of water by an impulsive disturbance that vertically displaces the water column. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, explosions, and even the impact of cosmic bodies, such as meteorites, can generate tsunamis. Tsunamis can savagely attack coastlines, causing devastating property damage and loss of life.

Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterised as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths.


Recent tsunamis

1946: An earthquake in the Aleutian islands sent a tsunami to Hawaii, killing 159 people (only five died in Alaska).

1964: An Alaskan earthquake triggered a tsunami up to 20 feet tall that killed 11 people as far away as Crescent City, California and caused more than 120 deaths in all. More on the Web.

1983: 104 people in western Japan were killed by a tsunami spawned from a nearby earthquake.

1998: A Papua New Guinea tsunami killed roughly 3,000 people. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake 15 miles offshore was followed within 10 minutes by a wave some 40 feet tall. The villages of Arop and Warapu were destroyed.


Asia Tsunami


Asia Earthquake Explained

Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval because of its proximity to the "Ring of Fire", an area around the Pacific Ocean basin where tectonic plates intersect and volcanoes erupt.


The quake occurred close to the island of Sumatra. Two tectonic plates, the Australian and Eurasian plates, meet just off Sumatra's south-west coast, grinding together and sending periodic seismic tremors through the region. At 0759 (0059 GMT) a violent rupture occurred on the sea floor along a fault about 1,000km long.


All along the rupture the seafloor was shunted vertically by about 10 metres. This movement displaced hundreds of cubic kilometres of the overlaying water, generating a massive tsunami, or sea surge. The wave then fanned out across the Indian Ocean at enormous speed.


The 9 magnitude quake, which was the strongest in the world for at least 40 years, wreaked havoc across the whole region. Walls of water, tens of metres high, slammed into coastal resorts thousands of miles apart. Surging seas and floods were reported as far away as east Africa.



Prayers to victims of this disaster

The Twelve Points at Christmas

On the twelve points at Christmas a redshite said to me:

“12 points above us,
11 Blue boys beat us,
10-to-1 it started,
9 points it was then,
8 Fuckin' loosing,
7 years since last time,
6 pointer lost so:

WHY ARE WE SHITE?!!

4 Carling pints,
3 points dropped,
2 much to take..

And Lee Carsley on Match of the Day!!”



Have a Merry Blue Christmas to all!!

Everton 1 Liverpool 0

The 200th Merseyside Derby..

Everton and Liverpool have a 200 games old tradition of football rivalry and it all begun since 1894 although Liverpool was established in 1892 but they finally played Everton 2 years later and just for the records, Everton won that first game..

It's the Merseyside derby and it's probably one of the most important games in the season calender and i'd never want to miss out on this..

I got on to Tatts Pokies along Chapel Street at about 11.15pm as the game starts at 11.30pm..The Melbourne Blues werent able to organise any live game meetup as many were away for the weekends of some shite..But Blues around other states of Australia organised some pretty good meetups..Brisbane Blues, Sydney Blues and Perth Blues..All had their very own live game meetups..All i manage to pull out in Melbourne is just 4 Evertonians together for this game..Oh well..Better then none..

The Merseyside Derby is one of those games that gets me so excited but when the game is actually being played, i'd have that tiny little voice speaking to me telling me that i should be away from the tv and just watch the final score..Skip all the drama and heart stopping moments..So much pride is at stake on this matchday..

Everton 3rd and Liverpool no where near to be seen..The Merseyside Derby normally have a numerous yellow cards being flashed out, a few red cards being thrown out occasionally and a few punches being thrown out at Liverpool players..(Not that Everton favours boxing but its just that Liverpool players are so shitty they simply am not capable of punching back..Oh well, regardless of punching back or not they do get send off as well..)

The game begins and Everton held on to some pretty good possessions but never really tested Liverpool's goal in the first half where else Liverpool had lesser possession but manage to sneak in a few shots to test Nigel Martyn..


The first half came to an end and both teams still couldnt break the deadlock..

Lee Carsley broke the deadlock for Everton in the 68th minute when Osman set up the Carsley and his curling shot from 20 yards beat Kirkland.

And seconds later Riise had to kick off the line from Cahill as Everton went for the kill.


I'm telling you..This is TEAM SPIRIT!! You have never really seen this sort of celebration..The spirit, the togetherness..


I did mention about some punches might be exchanged but not this time..It was just a little pushing and look at how dramatic Liverpool players were..Although i do admit that Big Dunc is probably just asking a little bit too much..I reckon that Moyes probably brought Big Dunc in to stir things a little..Strike fear into Liverpool and scare the shite out of them in broad day light..lol..Myself and my fellow Evertonians were simply giggling while watching this as there were a few Liverpool fans around as well..Oh well..


Need i say more? Big Dunc!! He has an Everton tattoo on his left arm and that tattoo speaks out loud!!

Everton is now SECOND on the table after Chelsea as Chelsea and Arsenal drew in a controversial 2-2 match..Everton second on the table and is a team well worthy for that position. This just goes to show what can happen when you've got 11 players willing to work for each other week in, week out..

Christmas came early for Everton..Have a Merry Blue Christmas.

Everton 1 Liverpool 0

Everton 3 Bolton 2

Everton came back from behind twice to beat Bolton Wanderers in this smashing 3-2 match..

Kevin Davies found the net for Bolton in the 16th minute through a header but Everton having to play at home was all out attacking but the equaliser only manage to come in the 45th minute where Pistone crossed from the left side and for Big Dunc to bury the goal into the net pass the full stretched Jaaskelainen..



Team Spirit..That's what we have..That's what that have been keeping us ahead and that's what many other teams lack of..

Kevin Davies was just being a prick and scored against us in the 59th minute to keep Bolton in the lead through yet another header..Gesss..Everton 1 Bolton 2.


Everton was awarded a free kick on the edge of Bolton's penalty box in the 75th minute..The kick was taken but the referee ordered a retake as Bolton players did not stand on their wall and rushed out before the kick was taken..This decision made Bolton's manager fuming on the sidelines as the retake proved costly..Thomas Gravesen smashed (YEAP HE REALLY DID SMASH IT!! Look at him FLY!) the free kick to the bottom left of the goal out of the reach of the helpless Bolton keeper..Everton 2-2 Bolton.


Everton finally took the lead in the 83rd minute when a corner kick for Everton was headed away but only for Osman to volley the ball goalwards and deflected Rahdi Jaidi for an own goal..Everton 3 Bolton 2..


Everton do deserve the 3points are numerous bombardments in front of the Bolton goal and although Bolton must have felt quite hard done after giving up the lead twice and finally went home without any points..A smashing game and frankly a surprising win for the Toffees!!

Everton 3 Bolton 2