Is the world falling apart? First there's a Cyclone Nargis hitting Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on 2nd May. The Official toll of dead and missing is above 134,000. And around two million survivors are lacking food and water more than two weeks after the storm hit. Aid was trickling in on 4th May to an estimated 2.5 million people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta as foreign envoys tried to get the junta to open up to more international relief. The World Food Programme, which is leading the outside emergency food effort, said it had managed to get rice and beans to 212,000 of the 750,000 people it thinks are most in need after the May 2 storm. But it's still not enough, there are still a very large number of people who are yet to receive any kind of assistance. In the last 50 years, only two Asian cyclones have exceeded Nargis in terms of human cost - a 1970 storm that killed 500,000 people in neighbouring Bangladesh, and another that killed 143,000 in 1991, also in Bangladesh. With the reclusive military government still refusing to open its doors to a large-scale tsunami-style aid operation, disaster experts say Nargis' body count could still climb dramatically. Thousands of young children in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar could starve to death within weeks unless emergency food supplies reach them soon. 2.5 million people are now clinging to survival in an area of inundated swamp the size of Austria. Columns of men, women and children stretched for miles alongside the road near the delta town of Kunyangon, begging in the mud and rain for scraps of food or clothing from the occasional passing aid vehicle. Thousands of other refugees are crammed into monasteries and schools, fed and watered by local volunteers and private donors who have sent in clothes, biscuits, dried noodles and rice. The reluctance of the military, which has ruled unchecked for the last 46 years, to allow an influx of foreign aid workers appears to stem from fear that it might loosen its vice-like grip on power. The Official toll from the disaster is 77,738 dead and 55,917 missing as on 16th May.

Then there is an Earthquake at China's Sichuan province on 12th May. An Earthquake of magnitude 7.9 hits Sichuan province at 2.28pm on Monday 12th may. As many as 32,477 people died from the Earthquake and thousands more are still buried underneath the heaps of rubble. Nearly 220,000 people suffered injuries during the Earthquake. An estimated value of 5 million people are left homeless from the Earthquake. An aftershock of magnitude 6.1 shook some of the worst-affected parts in Sichuan province, killed at least three people in the town of Jiangyou. The region has suffered at least 24 aftershocks of 5.0 or above on the Richter scale since Monday's quake, amid all-out efforts to rescue more than 9,500 people still buried under the rubble of collapsed structures. China put the confirmed death toll from Monday's quake at 32,477 as the nation battled to help nearly five million homeless people facing the threats of disease and floods after the worst Chinese natural disaster in a generation.

Are all these signs of the end of the world? Or are just coincidence that happens once in a while? Michel de Nostredame, is one of the world's most famous authors of prophecies. Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting a copious number of events in world history, including the French Revolution, the atom bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and World war I & II. His final prophecy is that a Comet planet will either pass by Earth and send an large asteroid towards Earth or directly hit us. Nostradamus predicted that NASA and Russia will launch specially equipped, nuclear weapons that shatter this Comet or Asteroid as it targets earth. However, the burning fragments of the Comet will still hit earth and burn one third of Earth. Also, an Asteroid, approximately a mile in diameter, will then crash into the sea. The Asteroid will initially hit the Aegean Sea in the Mediterranean Ocean. The impact blast upon the water would be equal to the force of 1000-megaton nuclear missile and massive Tidal Waves will flood Monaca, Mt. Olympus, Athens and major parts of Italy. Finally, another burning object, either an ICBM Nuclear Missile or a massive chunk of the Comet planet will hit New york City. The destruction caused by the first two cataclysms will trigger mass plague and famine leading to World war III. And all these will happen on 2012 as recorded in Nostradamus prophecies.

Will all these really happen? Or is it another one of those fake prophecies? But Nostradamus has correctly predicted many events that happened and he predicted them in the mid 16th century. I'm not sure whether it will happen or not and it's up to you all to decide. I tried asking some friends of mine what will they do if they have 24 hrs before end of the world strikes. I received some interesting answers from them and the most interesting would be this :

This is from someone known as Miss Limsiufang the bimbo. A standard bimbotic answer indeed.
But I would gladly spend my last 24 hrs eating popcorn with you.
I mushy right.. You scared right..