Global warming dominates the news and it’s apocalyptic.
News today: glaciers high above the Indies are melting away at speedy rate and will be totally gone in 20-30 years. What happens when global warming reaches a critical level? Images from sci-fi movies come to mind. Droughts, floods, bare lands, dry plants, dying animals (yes, human included).
Why put ourselves in this self-destructing predicament?
Global warming is a man-made phenomenon that cannot be stopped but can be slow down. Too easy for us to dismiss what can one do about it. After all, we’re only one out of the 6.65 billion people on this Earth so what harm can one person do and what help can one person give? WRONG!
Think of it this way: is beach a beach without grains of sands? Is a forest a forest without the trees? Is a car a car without its parts? Is a choir a choir without the voices?
Bottom line: Each single one of us contributes to this mess and it will take all of us to fix it. Remember, until we can find another planet to live, we’re stuck here. It’s home. It’s the only home we have.
WHAT CAN EACH ONE OF US DO?
- Save
- Conserve (reuse and recycle)
- Share
- Think
- Treasure
The Olympic Torch is in town but nowhere to be found. I
t was supposed to go by the Embarcadero waterfront but the people scared it away. It escaped from the crowd and appeared on the Marina waterfront instead. You can read all about it on the newspaper.
CHEER IT. BOO IT. For whatever causes they represented (Tibet, Sudan, Taiwan, anti-Bush, organ selling, animal testing, homeless in America - you name it, it's there), thousands of people conjugated at the Ferry Building and at the AT&T Ball Park wanting to make a statement. Signs of all sorts bobbed up and down among a sea of people. Competing for attention, some signs were even towed by planes circling the area. From afar, it looked quite festive with colors, balloons, noise makers, music, etc...
I think more people showed up to see what people are doing than to see the torch. Even if it were to go by, you couldn't really see it anyway. The signs got in the way. For what it's worth, it was a free advertisement day -- It's all good.
We lost Cousin Cecilia last Thursday (4/4, Friday, Taiwan time). We were not surprised to get the news because we knew it was inevitable. It was a relief because she had suffered so much and for so long. Yet, how could she be gone?
Cecilia was the type of person who cried easily because she was so easily touched. Yet, she was so brave through this whole ordeal fighting for her life. The doctor gave her 2 months this time last year. She out lived that prediction by 10 months.
Cecilia was the youngest of the four kids in her immediate family. She was Mom’s cute little niece with big eyes and dimples when she smiled. Auntie and cousins are heartbroken to lose their little baby. Her husband, will be in pain comes their 30th wedding anniversary on April 21st. It hurts to think that her son no longer has a mom. For the rest of us, we lost another family member. Two in less than a year.But the comfort is Cecilia no longer suffers. I only wished that I got to say good-bye to her in person.
Where are you now, Sis? Please cross the rainbow safely and rest in peace.
I FINALLY DID IT! I disconnected my land line phone service today (yesterday; past midnight). It's kind of hard. It's like throwing away my security blanket or losing the anchor to the boat. For many years, I had a "base" where people can find me. I gave up my "home base" today.
HAVING OWN PHONE NUMBER WAS A COOL THING in my younger years. Not every kid got to have a personal phone let alone one in the bedroom back then. Only parents could have a phone in their room. I got to chat, talk and giggle forever with the girls and not having my brothers yelling for me to hang up because they needed to use it too. Then as I got older, it was the boys calling. Then I met Robert, it was him calling...
The separation anxiety I'm experiencing is more of a sentimental thing. Phone used to be a "permanent" thing - and I don't mean the phone cord. It meant a home; it meant stability. You were not considered settled down until you got phone service established at your place. Heck, people even used the same old phone and kept the same old phone number for years.
Unlike yesteryears, cell phones of today are meant to be replaced every 2 years, and people can choose new phone numbers when they switch services. Phones and phone numbers, like many things, are disaposable nowadays. No attachement.
Of course we can now port over phone numbers but it's just not the same... *** Sigh*** I don't know... It's a very weird feeling that I'll just have to get over.
Oh well. I wish that number porting was available when I had to give up my first phone number (phone numbers couldn't cross city line back then). It was a cool number: 33-44-55-1. I would have loved to keep it.
FOR EMERGENCY PREPARENESS: If possible, maintain a land line and keep a good old phone set that's connected directly to the wall jack. In an event of power outage or wireless grid failure, you will still be able to use the phone. Yes, I still have one land line alive.
Sherley IM me this morning (past midnight..., so it was yesterday). What a nice surprise! I have not heard from her in a while. I asked how's everything in the UK. She said she actually moved to Liberia! Wow! From the US to the UK to Liberia in a short 4 months time. Very gutsy of her.Yes, I heard of Liberia. It's on the news quite a lot. But where in Africa again?Liberia: a small country (size of Tennessee) in southern part of West Africa.Now that I have a buddy in Liberia, I have to know something about that country. Check out The CIA World Factbook for a quick reference. One thing I learned today: Most of Liberia is tropical forests and the country gets about 160 inches of rain per year. Oops. I always thought it's a dry desert land. Sorry!See how little I know about our world? I really need to do more reading and research. There is so much to be learned!Perhaps, a visit to Africa is in order...
