Incorrect headli'looming storm' to cause flood ne of

A major daily should be correct in its report, especially its front page. On 11/11/2010. It headlined 'looming storm' and preparation by civil defence team in a northern state.

Nowadays, prediction of monsoon rain to cause major flooding is very accurate, and up to 5 days ahead. The prolong rainfall in early Nov 2010 that caused major flood in Kedah-Perlis-Kelantan was expected 5 days before the event.

Latest meteorological information (on 11/11/2010) indicates ZERO RISK in the next 10 days (till 21/11/2010) for monsooon rainfall to cause large scale flooding- i.e NO big flood in any state in Peninsular Malaysia /Sabah/ Sarawak.

In fact, with such accuracy, there is no necessaity to freeze leave of EVERYONE to prepare for flood. Just make inquiry with the Malaysian Met Department and their forecasters can advise the risk of a major flood in the next 10 days

However, within the same period 11/11/2010 till 21/11/2010, there could be 'local thundertsorm- not associated with NE monsoon surge' to cause heavy downpour at any place in Malaysia. Such event is 'localised' e.g. KL town centre, certain section along Federal highway etc

TM tidak efficient to maintain my details

In late October 2010, I upgraded my TM Streamyx to RM100 and told by TM Point rep to wait for feedback from TM to do the installation at my house. I patiently waited , but finally (after > 7 days) I sent email (with my handphone number) to TM who informed me that they failed to contact me. Finally TM contacted my handphone and I got the installation completed by evening 10/Nov/2010. (I was hoping to use the new package ASAP to make free calls to other states, but due to delay in completing the installation, have to wait till early Dec to use the facility)

While the installer was doing installation with my PC, I noted that TM has my old house's phone number 03-XXXXXXX for my present house address in its record. When I moved to present address, I have requested TM to transfer this old number but TM did not allow. I thus have to cancel that old number. Thus, it is really surprising that this old number is still maintained as my contact number whereas I have been paying TM bill (and streamyx) for > 12 months on existing phone number 03-YYYYYYY at my present address.
I hv sent sent mail to TM to 'alert' its mistake. Let's hope they have amended my record in its computer.

Big flood affected Kedah-Perlis early Nov 2010

In early November 2010, the most severe flood hit Perlis and Kedah. My in-laws told me never in their 60 years seen the heavy flooding in downtown (bus station Jalan Langgar and other places along Jalan Langgar and Jalan Sultanah etc).
I provide here series of cloud pictures. These are downloaded from USA NRL which uses certain algorithm to enhance the severity of bad weather clouds.
These 'yellow-colored' clouds represent very severe weather clouds with intense rainfall. As a comparison, NRL demonstrated that these 'yellow-color' clouds are normally associated with typhoon/cyclone. In early Nov 2010, there were huge clusters of these 'yellow-colored' clouds which moved slowly over Kelantan-Kedah-Perlis. The intensity and duartion of these bad weather clouds were linked to a tropical depression which was predicted to pass over these northern states. There was no escape for the residents of these northern states, except if warned properly, could have moved their properties to higher ground in anticipation of the most severe flooding expected to occur.