Cimaron hits town...

Sweating it out... 


Due to the Typhoon Cimaron (who is classified in the same category as Katrina, aka "super typhoon") flights going to Manilla today were cancelled, so yours truly is spending some "quality time" in Kota Kinabalu, a small city on the Malaysian part of Borneo. Altough there are some great treks to be made in the surrounding area, if you only have one day all you can do is pretty much confined to staying in the city or walking the shoreline, since jungle treks to spot some urang-utangs require some more time. Anyways, I checked the news and so far the typhoon seems to have taken 10 lives, a low number considered the strength of the typhoon (compared with earlier typhoon Xangsane, Cimaron would be Goliath. ) and the fact that a lot of Filipinos where on the move to their hometowns for the all-saint festivities. Furthermore the damage to rice crops was also very low, less than 10 percent, which is good since Luzon is considered the rice-bowl of the Philippines, so lots of people depend on the crops from Luzon. (So if you compare the damage then maybe Xangsane was smaller in force but like David compared to Goliath Xangsane did a lot more damage, killing over 169 people in Vietnam and 48 in Philippines and smashing up everything in its path...) Now about the picture that comes with this post.... Hmm.. Well, I was just wondering why that boy is sweating so extensively from his lips...