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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!

Random updates!

Yesh, it's my first for life.

How about you?

Believe me, it does not hurt to donate.

This is how much you actually have to pay for parking in the city in Sydney.

Check it out, $4.40/hr on mondays till fridays.

Just crazy.

Exam periods alwiz come with storms.

Some of u might have heard the storm that hit Sydney.

Some places got flooded. But mine's okay.

Anyway, so sorry for the lack of updates.

Pretty busy enjoyin life at the moment.

Am goin melb this friday saturday.

More updates after I'm back k.

Take care peeps!

Talents. Do u have one?

I know... I know... I posted alot of u-tube lately. Bz mar. Exam time.
Chill la k? More stories coming up soon enuf.

Today's theme is from the hilarious to the amazing. Enjoy the clips. Make sure you view all ok?

Bubbles - a.k.a Michael Jackson II




Paul Potts - Opera
In case you guys don't know, it's sang by the famous Pava[Roti]. Haha.




Dominic - Unchained Melody
Trust me, once he open his mouth you'll go WoW.



Connie - Somewhere Over the rainbow.
And I saved the best for the last. Enjoy. If u cry, dun find me.



All clips are from the show Britain's got Talent.

Smack Fest

Ever heard of Smack Fest?

I haven't either. Haha.

Presenting to you guys, SmackFest 2004 by Hot97FM.



I definitely would not want to be at the receiving end of that.

Gosh, for $1000 dollars and SummerJam tixs, would you do that?

Speaking of Smack That, I found these Akon wannabes' on youtube.

Haha. Total waste of time to watch unless you're feeling bored.

Or, you are an Akon fan!



I wonder has that got to do wif study stress?

Grr.. Stressnya Exam Period.

Guitarist.

Something amazing I found some time ago.

Enjoy.



Speaking of genius, watch this instead.

Any guitarist would know that it's not easy to play that.



Em, apparently it appears that the above clip wasn't the original JerryC.
Therefore I would like to give credit to the ori one.
Thanks to Arif for letting me know.

Life, in a different point of view

It has been raining for god knows how long.

Weather's been a shit. Strong winds that could generally blow you away.

And to make it worse, it's the exam period.

Juz felt like going back home and sleep in the bed.

Anyway, here are some pics taken at 6a.m ( yea tat's 0600 hours) in the uni.

See mom and dad, I'm trying my best.

Note how empty the building was. Duh, it was 6am afterall. Haha.

The *feel like goin home and sleep* me.

Studying essentials (H2O, Ciggs, and 2 vending machine behind)

Below are more pics taken at 7am, when I finally get to go home.

I've never taken the time to appreciate the beauty of my surroundings.

On this very day itself, a thought struck me.

What have I been doing since I came here?

It's those moment when you juz feel inspirational and wanna go out and do something right.

From today onwards, I'll see life in a different way.

Letting fate take its course.

Speaking of fate, I juz recieved this moments ago.

"Love and r/ship are the most important aspect of your life. You value the

friendships you hold and that is the key to your true happiness."

"Your soulmate is the type of person who seeks your love but may not act

on it. It is important to extend your love to them and make your feelings known."

There, a message from heaven I suppose. :)

I guess it's normal to have someone in your mind.

Please, do not ask me who she is coz I wont tell.

There's so much things in life than juz a r/ship.

As a student and 1st born, I still have the commitment to my parents to do well

in my studies, grad, get a job, and finance my siblings education.

The thing is, if you don't fight for the things you want in life,

You are most likely to lose them.

Yet, if u fought for it, and it did not turn up well,

you juz RISKED a good friendship.

That's how things are in life.

Face it. Damn it.

What's ur LiMit?

Presenting to you, THE MAZE !!

To those noobies out there, this maze is to test your level of patience and hand skills.

Try em out and let me know how far did you get too.

I reached level 5, ehem, considering how patience a guy I am, but I bet most of you couldn't get past level 3.

Dun bliv me? Try em!

To smokers, make sure u go take your puffs before starting. Dun blame your hands if you can't get pass em.

Dun forget to post ur results in the comment section.

P.S > Turn on ur volume as the music serves its purpose in this maze.

Pimps and hookers!

Haha. No pics yet!

I went to a party yesterday. The theme was "Pimps and hookers".

Therefore, there are lots and lots of pimps and hookers.

Will get their approval for posting pictures up 1st, err, coz it's kinda EXPOSE you know..

I dun think the guys will mind, anyway, juz keep checkin on my blog everyday for updates.

Haha. Keep the view counts shooting up!

Transmission Magic City, 26/05/07

The date has finally arrived. 26th May 2007.

My FIRST ever Rave Party. (It's seriously my first)

Thanks to Kenny who asked me to go months before.

It definitely iz a memorable moment.


Loads of hardcore trance music and amazing babes around us.


The theme iz Transmission Magic City. Truly Magic it is.


Among the famous artist are Donkey Rollers and DJ Zany. Mind you these DJ's normally get a sellout crowd of:

DJ Zany - The World's Most Popular Hard style DJ. Direct from Holland with sell-out solo shows for 15,000 people at Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam.

Donkey Rollers - LIVE - Best Hard Style LIVE Act 2006/2007! With regular sell-out sets in front of 25,000 people in Europe.

Dresscode = Dress in gold or as a god/goddess.

Anyway, was dissapointed coz spend a whole lot of money and time hunting for costume. But turns up, they were not strict on dresscode afterall.


Bah, it's still nice to go shopping once in a while.


Anyway, here come some pics. Caution: Super the duper many pics ahead ! Enjoy.

Candid shot before Rave. Got my nails painted gold by sumay.

Transmission Magic City, Oz's biggest trance event

The guys

Drinking, as usual

All high and gettin into the music

Main stage

Me n Sumay, gettin all ready for Transmission Aloha(Beach Party) on 8th September 2007.

The guys and gal

Bas n Ram

The huge crowd at Main Arena

Transmission's God

Transmission logo

Photo while chilling at stands

Drink, iz the motto

Rock on guys!

Next up: Photos of Transmission by Adam Zebrowski