Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Calamity Chaos

Ok 1st of all greeting to be made, albeit its late its better than none right?
Last Sunday, was Mother's Day so Happy Mother Day to all mums around including my mum. Sorry mum couldnt afford a gift, only prayers & wishes.
DST Group 15th anniversary district roadshow @ OGDC last Friday/Saturday
Last Saturday I went to OGDC to see this roadshow as mentioned above. What can I deduce from my visit? Gifts galore & the reality. There were plenty of gifts on offer (mostly DST corporate gifts which you cant buy anywhere I guess), electrical goods, Easi cards, shopping vouchers, etc. So, I bought a few $15 Easi limited edition & got gifts as well as lucky draw. Then, went around the roadshow to each & every booth to play the games, answer surveys, etc. 1 thing that I liked about this roadshow is there is a HRM booth which organise a mind game to see whether are you creative or not. The result: I AM NOT AS CREATIVE AS THOUGHT
The main story:Calamity chaos
Freak floods there, tornado in another, terrible drought in some place which isnt supposed to have drought! If you had watched + or - 2 degree celcius which was aired on TV sometime ago you would know some of the consequences of global warming.
Last week was Brunei's Ministry of Development customer day which so coincidentally was also Brunei's 1st No Plastic Bag Day. This is a great effort in saving our environment by reducing usage of plastic bags.
In another country, no-plastic bag day was even politicised. When state ruled by the opposition enforced this rule, the country ruling government slammed it. However when this country ruling government controlled state enforce it its not wrong. Such double-standard! Cant politicians put away their differences in this issue & work together towards reducing global warming?
Even worse floods will also be politicised. The ruling government warned the people of a place to vote them into power if they didnt want flood to occur in that place anymore otherwise be prepared to brace for floods which is too frequent in that place
In all these scenarios where floods & even no-plastic bag day is politicised, we are headed for more calamity chaos. So brace it & bare with it till politicians have the will to put aside their differences in environmental issues.
On the other hand, Brunei is a step forward slowly but surely in tackling environmental issues with its 1st time participation in Earth Hour, No-Plastic bag day trial & even more to come I guess.
LETS HOPE FOR THE BETTER FOR THE WORLD
Till next week Have A Nice Day Using  More Plastic Bag & Styrofoam containers (guilty pleasures)

This blogger had too much 'guilty pleasures' & hope to reduce these acts in the coming months

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