Long Weekend

Well, tomorrow's the last day of a 3-day work week, and I'm sorta wondering what we'll be doing on the long weekend. This past Monday was a holiday, as it was Prophet Mohammed's b'day, and Friday & the coming Monday are part of the Easter weekend.

Already it looks like quite an eventful week, as far as natural disasters are concerned. On Monday an earthquake of around 8 on the Richter scale hit the sea off the Solomon Islands and a tsunami warning was quickly issued. Unfortunately, the Solomons got hit pretty bad and there's been a number of people killed. However, here in Fiji, people just didn't seem to take the warning seriously. Police were out on the beaches trying to get people off the shores and safe onto high grounds but apparently this had the opposite effect, as people instead flocked to the beaches in the hopes of seeing a giant wave come up. According to the papers, a few even brough along binoculars!!! WTF...

Anyways, it seems there are a lot of idiots out there who have already forgotten the tragedy of the South East Asian tsunami and the wave of death it brought. A beach-goer here was even quoted as saying "It doesn't look like there'll be a tsunami considering the beautiful weather we have today". I truly fear for his kids if that's the kind of common sense he's dishing out. I mean, does he really think a tsunami cares what kind of weather it is out there before coming in to shore?

Oh, and just today we had a tropical cyclone alert for the Northern parts of the Fiji group, meaning that Vanua Levu (our big northern island) and the Lau group (little islands in the east) are going to get affected. Looks like the poor North is up for trouble once again after just getting flooded recently after heavy rains. Just hope there aren't any mariners who've ignored warnings and decided to go fishing or something.

Maybe I'll just catch up on my sleep this weekend. Or play some games. Or hopefully, catch some rays at the beach!