so i was clearing my inbox today... all the 300+ emails i have to categorise and delete and blah blah...
good memories i viewed through... reveries... peacurkies... romeo and juliet.... sigh... and also this piece of news from min yen...:

22 July 2009 a tsunami is predicted and singapore, malaysia etc. are the targeted areas of being hit by the tsunami and the epicentre of teh earthquake is at either taiwan, japan or somewhere in the pacific and these days there's lots of quake occuring around taiwan... and it's already 17 July.... well, just wait for the day.... sigh...

here's an analysis from about.com:

UNLESS A TRULY extraordinary coincidence occurs on July 22, 2009, the only accurate statement in the preceding message is that a solar eclipse will be visible in some parts of the world on that day. Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes, not eclipses. Though astronomers have long been able to predict eclipses by tracking the orbits of the sun and the moon, no such capability exists for earthquakes, nor is there any known correlation between the two phenomena. "In the last 110 years or so, there have been about 85 really big earthquakes," Professor Kerry Sieh of Singapore's Earth Observatory explained in a statement to Channel News Asia in April 2009. "And only two of those occurred on the same day as an eclipse. And even those were a partial eclipse, not a total eclipse. They happened in a different place from where the eclipse happened."

NASA's Dr. James Foster concurs:
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions do indeed occur at times of eclipses. But records show that they occur with no greater frequency or power than on days when full Moons or new Moons occur (without eclipses), when all the planets line up on the same side of the Sun or on days when the Moon is in a crescent or gibbous phase. As special as eclipses are, they simply don't have a known impact on any geophysical phenomena.

HOWEVER I think it may be possible still for the fact that there's a rise in the earthquake activities in Taiwan recently and also in New Zealand... well... whatever... and it's on the same day as the solar eclipse btw... haha :)

i'll end here.