Malaysia Politics is not a Tsunami

I just wonder what people nowadays are thinking. Everything just about it has do do with "tsunami". Do they really know what the word tsumani means?

A tsunami (pronounced /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, some volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, underwater earthquakes, large asteroid impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can be devastating due to the immense volumes of water and energy involved. Since meteorites are small, they will not generate a tsunami.

The latest I heard of this word being used in error was in a radio ad while on the way to work. It was one advertising some amazing self help economic guru who had published some 45 best sellers on the topic of economic know-how; most obviously some sort of get rich DIY text. In this ad the word tsunami was used to described the current world economic situation. Economy, now does that in anyway remotely tie in to a natural disaster? I would believe that the current world economy is no more than a man-made disaster and definitely not some natural disaster (aka act of God in insurance terms).

Another classic example is how the not so recent March 2008 Elections held in Malaysia where my fellow Malaysians experienced a "sea" of change of having the long entrenched political coalition of some major political parties visibly denied a 2/3 majority in the ruling government of Malaysia. This they the ignoramus also termed a tsunami, a political tsunami they so say and wrote. I'm really disappointed but amused at the same time. Therefore before the next time it is used to refer wrongly to a situation that is not a natural disaster where most probably life and property is lost, please rephrase it.