Earth Hour total win

Last Saturday was earth hour. Started as an initiative by Sydney in 2007, this is now a growing global trend, and this year, Singapore has made a start, when many over 2000 people came to the Esplanade park and celebrated by candlelight. Also many companies have pledged their support to this Earth Hour. Macdonalds I heard, was about to off their famous golden arch M in the signage outside. Strangely I didnt get the chance to see any "acdonalds". Instead of celebrating at home, we went for dinner at a Teochew resteraunt. It seems that they did too did pledge their support, but at the wrong time! When we arrived at about 6 (went there early to go back before Earth hour) There was a area that was totally empty(we were extremely early for dinner) that was totally turned off. It was like this until about 7.15, when it started to get crowded, they turned on one more portion. It went on until 8.00 when all portions were turned on.(It was a big restaurant) That was such a difference.
After coming back, we realised how difficult it was to do anything without lights. My brother's Canberra friend turned off all the lights but instead turned on all the air conditioners and the computer he was using. What a waste. There was no reading or rushing homework (which was what I wanted to do) for one hour. No com or TV too. I hour in total boringness, with only candles we couldnt read by. (About 6 of the candles had enough light not to spoil your eyes while reading. We only had four. So that was also a waste of time. All we did was sit on a chair and look at the marvellous stars.(Sirius is the brightest) and enjoy the wind (the wind around Lower seletar resevoir is strong every night and morning) Then I realised this is how difficult it is when you are blind. Not much more difficult to move around but still. No reading, or it is slow, no watching TV using the computer or even marvelling at the stars. Earth hour is a once in a while experience. It was not that bad.
Sceptically speaking, even if you are using candles, low quality candles could emit more carbon dioxide than the lightbulb itself.

5 really fun (and destructive) ways to celebrate Earth Hour.
1. Turn off all your cars hazard lights on your car
2. Turn off all street lamps
3. Turn off all lights in a lift (to freak people out)
4.Turn off the Amut in Amusement in an Amusement park
5. Turn off the lights in a firing range (dont forget to turn the people who are firing towards each other)

How to kill-

Weird poem. Barely rhymes but has a lot of representatives.

How to kill
By Keith Douglas

Under the parabola of a ball,
a child turning into a man,
I looked into the air too long.
The ball fell in my hand,
it sang in the closed fist: Open Open
Behold a gift designed to kill.

Now in my dial of glass appears
the soldier who is going to die.
He smiles, and moves about in ways
his mother knows, habits of his.
The wires touch his face: I cry
NOW. Death, like a familiar, hears

And look, has made a man of dust
of a man of flesh. This sorcery
I do. Being damned, I am amused
to see the centre of love diffused
and the wave of love travel into vacancy.
How easy it is to make a ghost.

The weightless mosquito touches
her tiny shadow on the stone,
and with how like, how infinite
a lightness, man and shadow meet.
They fuse. A shadow is a man
when the mosquito death approaches.

Inferences:
This poem is about world war 2.
"parabola"- a curve, used in math sometimes used when throwing things into the air. (Gravity causes it not to travel in a straight line.
Under the parabola of a ball ... a child turning into a man... an gift designed to kill.
When the person is in childhood, he throws and catches balls but when he grows up to become a man during a war he throws and catches grenades instead. Ball, designed to kill
Dial of glass...appears the soldier who is about to die...wires touch his face
Definitely a scope(in a war) and the wires are the aiming areas.
A man of dust out of a man of flesh. This sorcery I do
That means to kill. Flesh to dust, alive to dead
The weightless mosquito touches
A mosquito travels like a bullet, swiftly, stealthily and deadly
When man and shadow meet... they fuse
Dying again. Shadow means nothingness when something becomes nothing it is like death.

Cheers! Sarimbun Scouts Camp

Some random cheer after the Sarimbun scouts camp
okaaaaaay for five minutes work

once group 8 random cheer(thats why it seems to fit in)
GROUP ___ CHEER
Waiting for sweet sweet victory
For sweet sweet victory
We're the ones who are gonna win
the ones who are gonna win
come on everybody lets mop the floor
with the other teams and win even more!
Can we win?
Yes we can!
Will we own?
Yes we will!
When Group ___ unite we show our might! (bombompiak,bombompiak)
We do what we say to win the fight!(bombompiak,bombompiak)
We clear all objectives in our sight
cause we'll ace everything and do it right
cause we will we will
Dominate(oh), dominate(my)
group___group___
Dominate(no), dominate(you)!
First blood, killing spree, group ___ dominate!

Afterthoughts about the camp:
Thought it was fun.
POinters-
Food too much(for me)
Too few high elements
Learnt that Philmann spoils a camp in under five seconds. Nigel helps.
Everytime they send us for camps, they want to tell us to learn to be independent.
Ive sure learnt a lot about leadership and independence. Like... cleaning tents and cleaning dorms and cleaning toilets weve never been to.
WoW extremely late sleeping times.

///The World Needs This Book\\\
The situational and psycological mysteries of what is Philmann
also included 101 ways to stop a Philmann

Sad -.-

So few ppl visit my blog its too mundane: I dunno how to change blogskin.
*smacksheadwithpalm*

The Lottery , my view

The lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson, and this is what I think about it.

The lottery was a very welcome festival and in all ways makes you think that it was normal: "Soon the men began to gather surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes." and "The women, wearing faded dresses and sweaters, came shortly afetr their manfolk. They greeted one another and exchanged bits of gossip as they went to join their husbands." This is normal, and stated nothing about the unusual ending. Also there is anticipation and nervousness during the lottery, as shown in paragraph 9 in their tone "Mr Summers who had been waiting said cheerfully,"Thought we were going to have to get on without you Tessie." Mrs Hutchinson said grinning, "Wouldn't have me leave m'dishes on the sink, now would you Joe?" and the way the story was told was in such a casual friendly tone, it told me at first that the lottery was a good thing! It was not until the end when they told us the fate of the winners. In this unusual context which was supposedly pointless, many wrote to express thier disgust when this was first published. In the time this story was written, tradition was probably rampant. In paragraph 17, they described the people who gave up the lottery a pack of crazy fools. This was because of "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." It is ridiculous that over a good harvest, the lottery is held and a sacrifice is made. Even tradition could split apart friends as just a while ago they were chatting happily! At the end, in paragraph 30 "Mrs Delacroix selected a stone so huge she had to pick it up with both hands" This ending, where Tessie got stoned, shows particularly how evil we can be, killing for our own good. Also this shows us how ritual behaviour: like "I killed for a yearly tradition" can be extremely dangerous.
When Mrs Hutchinson demanded that her daughter also be included in the lottery to improve her chances of living, it is also how much we can do to be desperate for our own life. We are all selfish. Sad.

Edit: OMG I just found out Delacroix means the cross in latin

Medicinal properties in animals- SAVETHEMOONBEAR

Moon bears are an endangered species. They are being hunted for their bile, which serves pharmaceutical usage by containing a component UDCA Quoting as a wiki fillers:



"Bear bile was prescribed by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine because it contained a higher percentage of UDCA than the bile of other mammals. However, modern chemistry has made this fact irrelevant. Today, pharmaceutical-grade UDCA is now collected from slaughter houses, then purified and packaged under trade names such as Ursofalk, Actigall, and UrsoForte. These products are approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Chinese doctors have also endorsed several herbal substitutes, which provide a cheap, effective and readily available alternative."



So many facts like this seem irrelevant, and moon bears shoold not be hunted for their bile, but these horrible chinese bile farms may still have brisk business because of some factors:

• Are the people in China aware of such a product, and therefore stop being reliant on bear bile ?


• Is the product readily accesible?


• Would the chinese continue ignoring these articles and reports and do nothing to change?

A quote from a website too includes that the bears were thin, and put under a lot of stress, riddled with parasites, draining pus and pain from the gall bladder. Rightfully, as moon bears are an endangered species, they should not be used for their medicinal properties, as this makes even more danger to their extinction. Defining bile, it actually has less medicinal or at most the same medicinal properties as drugs that do the same thing, and can be mass produces using horse bile. But maybe as moon bears are rarer, they may create bette bile, but however this is not true. OFten the peoples mindset may contribute to the brisk business for these Chinese men.

So I urge you. Change your mindset about medicinal properties in animals. I remphasize.
Bring a heart. Animals have lives too. Save the moon bear.

The Taximan STory

I have no I idea why this must be a blog prompt but here goes...

DO NOT CUT & PASTE

Irony: the taxi man picks the girls and English and American "boyfriends" in the taxi, going besides hotels and places like such to wait, but to make a quick buck, caring not to discourage such behavior. The evils of money, caused the daughter to become one like such person with behavior problems.

Was the older method, having complete authority over children, even up to marriage useful? Methods like caning for punishment , result in the same problem anyway?

Everything needs to be done in moderation. Quoted from the book: "My father he was very strict, and that is a good thing for parents to be strict. If not, young boys and girls become very useless." but with a more lenient person that happens. If the dad was too strict, would the person run away or confide in drinks and alcohol?

ANother theme is good and evil. The daughter being a good girl on one side but bad on the other. The taxi man, or her dad works hard to send her to university but she made herself so cheap, and the consequences were harsh. Talks or debates about curfews and freedom are still ongoing. A great saying ,with great power comes greater responsibility. But some adolescences still do not have the maturity to act decently and so freedom is taken away till the grow up, Freedom needs to be earned.

The general plot in the story is believable. I believe, many teenager are having sex at a younger age, and many are in love, or is that infatuation? HAnging around wearing the latest fashion, being a bigshot, spending lots of cash, these actions are done to impress others. Some women, use their beauty to seduce men or even teenagers. Soon, a love at first sight case could turn into nightclub parties, drinking and making love. Seduction proves horrible.

I feel sympathy for the taximan. Him having worked so hard during his job and having been caned and scolded by his parents, but only to be betrayed by the youngest daughter. Was it all her fault though?? Was the taximan to lax in his duty as a father?? maybe.