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Homeless man fined $155m for starting fires

November 18, 2008 - 5:03PM

A homeless man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to pay more than $US101 million ($A155.49 million) for starting two fires, including one that burned more than 66,000ha in California two years ago.

Fifty-year-old Steven Emory Butcher was convicted in February of starting blazes in the Los Padres National Forest in 2002 and 2006.

The 2006 fire raged for more than a month and cost more than $US78 million ($A120.08 million) to suppress. It injured 18 people, destroyed 11 structures and was the fifth-largest fire in California history, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The 2002 blaze burned 28ha.

-AP

Does the court actually expects the "homeless man" to pay the fine?


LoL

Hooray.....

Exam's over. Hopefully for real.

Paper's not hard to being with. Guess I had enough marks to pass this time.

Going back home on the 5th of December.

Another year has passed by again.

Gone through many things again. (good n bad)

I'm Back !

I'm backkkkkk (again).

Been so long since I last posted. Gosh. Mental block.

Having my final paper tomorrow.

Hopefully, *prays hard* I Passed and then I dont have to freaking study anymoreee...

I bought the most expensive shirt that I've ever bought.

Costs me $ 400 in total.

Gonna post a picture of it up soon after my finals.

Ciao.

It's good to be back, I think.

It's the time of the year where families and friends gather once again.

Yes, Happy Chinese New Year people. It's good to be back again.

Having dinner with family, meeting relatives and friends, hanging out in mamaks
while doing nothing.

Somehow, it's different this time. I'm dun feel that exited compared to the previous years. I wonder why eh?

Anyway, went to renew my passport at the Immigration Department. Was one hell of an experience. I waited nearly 20 minutes for my turn to be called, which is pretty understandable coz of the amount of people waiting as well. To tell you the truth, I was surprised at how fast my turn approached.

However, THEY FREAKIN MADE ME WAITED FOR AN HOUR JUST TO PAY! How can that be man? It's not like you get your passport back immediately after you pay the fee. That's the thing I dun understand. Are they really that busy? Or are they the typical government servants? Gosh.

Welcome to Malaysia.

Recap of 2007

Updates, finally. (I think I said this sentence one time too many)

New settings to blogsite:
a) removed chatbox to avoid spams
b) comments only from ppl i know.

Recap of 2007
2007 has gone by just in a blink of an eye. That's how fast time passes by when you're getting older. Well, at least that's how I felt. Since everyone has done a recap of their 2007, here's mine.

Jan 2007
- was in Malaysia most of the time, chilling and hanging out with buddies.
- did nothing eventful enuf, just wanted to spend some time at home before goin back to Sydney.

Feb 2007
- celebrated CNY.
- flew to Sydney at the end of the month.

March 2007
- house-hunting is Sydney for nearly a month.
- NEARLY went homeless but thanks to SeanPing we're not.

April 2007
- MASA games. Won soccer, but lost in basketball. Fell down heavily and injured my elbow.
- Celebrated 22nd birthday with housemates and some friends.

May 2007
- Assignments due like a queue of ppl buying Toto on a Saturday evening.

- Still found time to go for my first rave party.

June 2007
- Exams, exams, exams.

- Found time to donate blood for the first time. I'm B+ btw!

July 2007
- Went Melboure for MASCA Games.
- Champion for futsal, scoring the only goal in the semis and last penalty kick in the Final. Interesting shit.
- Got thrashed like schoolboys for soccer thou.
- My 1st Malaysian Night gathering after the Masca Games. Nice memories.
- Visited and stayed over at couz's place in Melb.
- Shopped and visited Melb, including Crown.

August 2007
- Forgot what happen. I think I lost 1 month of my life.
- Ohyah, spent too much in Melb. Therefore camped at home for nearly a full month.

September 2007
- Lots of shit happened. Do not ask what it is.

October 2007
- Went into a r/ship too fast. Did not work out. Regretted my actions.

November 2007
- Found a P/T job here as a waiter/kitchen hand.
- Exams, exams, exams.
- Broke up, many troubles after that. Serve me right.

December 2007
- Work almost F/T.
- Drink almost everynight.
- House-hunting again.
- Celebrated Christmas with Sydney buddies.
- Went for NY countdown at Macquarie's Point. Cool.
- Met someone special.

That's my 2007. Not many good shitz but certainly many lesson learnt and memories cherished.

Updates

Yes! Updates finally. After 47 days of non-blogging I finally decided to update my blog.

Well, been pretty lazy over the holidays. Sorry for not updating. Haha.

Melbourne's pretty fun. Unfortunately, I haven't get the pictures from my fren yet. So, hold on to tat on the mean time.

Updates on uni life:
- Tis is the 3rd week of uni.
- I'm still slacking.
- Doin 4 subjects tis sem.
- a) Management Knowlegde - super bullshit subject. Lol. 100% assignment based.
b) Organisational Structure n Change - another boring subject. lecturer uses the full 3 hours
seminars. Damn.
c) Sustainable Enterprise - subject tat goes on and on about the environment. We even
watched the movie " The Inconvenient Truth" in class. :(
d) Managing Financial Insitution - 3 words, "pain in ass".

Updates on my life:
- more futsal games to come as we have more kaki to play now.
- weather is gettin warmer.
- reformatted my laptop and it's running super duper the fast now.
- I dun have Microsoft Office btw. (anyone knows whr can I dl them?)
- MASA's dance party is this weekend.
- moved into another room again.
- I think that's pretty much on what I can write on9.

There, a mini update on my life so far. More to come soon. I promise.

Take care peeps!

P.S : Oh yah, saw the cute nuffnang ads above my page, Help me click click on it if you're free k? Thanks.

Melbourne Part I

I am going to melbourne.Haha.

It's gonna be a part vacation part sports thingy.

We (MASA-Malaysians Students Association of UTS) won the inter-games soccer competition between fellow Malaysians from another Uni, which was held in April.

Therefore, we got selected to represent NSW in this MASCA games. The different states takes turn to host em and it's Melbourne's turn this year.

( NCG games logo )

( Our schedule for the games )

Some of us are going to play 2 sports (tat includes me of coz), soccer and futsal. The thing is, both sports' venues are going to be outdoors, which in simple terms, PLAYING ON THE FIELD DURING WINTER IN MELBOURNE !!!! Gosh. It's cold enough trying to get my ass movin from one place to another in Sydney, what more playing soccer during winter. To make it worse, the games is held in Melbourne, which is slightly colder than Sydney.

Don't believe me, check out the weather forecasts below.

(Sydney's weather forecast)

(Melbourne's weather forecast)

As you can see, Sydney's weather averages around 15 degress during noon (it goes to 1 digit during night time) while Melbourne's highest, I repeat HIGHEST temperature during the day is around 16 degrees, which means that if we're lucky enough, Mr. Sun will smile at us. If we're not, Mr. Wind will be whistling at us during our soccer games.

Nevertheless, I'm looking forward towards this games. Hopefully and if we're lucky enough, bring a medal or two back for Sydney. Hooray ZOMG! Lol, I even had a jersey made out of "ZOMG" to match my blog.

(Peeps scream ZOMG now!)

Okay, there you go. I finally updated after my exams.

I guess the exams have drained almost all of my energy, making me lazy to blog.

Come to think of it again, I guess it was the drinking and the *shit* that made me tired. Lol.

It was good. Chillin out and sleeping till evening.

Gosh, I'm becoming a Night-person (can't think of a name here) again.

It's good thou, I get to look at the bright moon and sunrise at the same time. :)

Melbourne Part II will be out when I'm back. Till then, take care peeps!