Monday, August 20, 2007

Dragging my feet to the door, as if there were two metal weights chained to my ankle. 'Finally Home!' I thought. The key seemed to shine like gold when I finally dug it out of my pocket, it was the key to 'heaven'. Inserting the key to the 'treasure box', I suddenly heard an unfamiliar sound. A gentle, soothing, and innocent sound, so lovable that I brushed the thought aside thinking that I was dreaming.

The key and the treasure box fit like jigsaw puzzles, Heaven is within my reach, my wonderful sofa...

I opened the door, and i heard that angelic sound once again. But this time I was sure i was not dreaming. Accompanying that cute soothing sound, was a ball of golden brown fur, with a feather duster that would never seem to stop swagging. It then came to my realization that the 'sound' i heard was not just a 'sound'. It was a bark. A bark so cute and pure, that it surged a thousand-watt smile onto my school stricken face. It was the first time i set eyes on her, my beautiful Toffee.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Context: Global Warming has been an issue that haunts environmentalists all around the world. drastic measures have been carried out to deal with Global Warming in countries like the USA and Australia in the "Geneva Protocol". But Singapore, a 'First World' country, also contributing much to the emission of Greenhouse gases into the atmosphere due to the titanic amount of waste and poisonous exhaust gas from vehicles, is not doing anything to curb the issue on Global Warming. Why?..


Good Morning Mr President, Mr Bentwy, ladies and gentlemen. As we all know, the Earth's temperature and the sea levels have been rising gradually for the past century since industrialisation began. Extreme climatic conditions, like floods is an every day thing on the news nowadays, so much that the people in Singapore are not much affected by this catastrophy that puts the lives of people all over the world in peril. Global Warming is a silent killer, viciously murdering mother earth, mercilessly taking away all life that stands in it way.

Therefore I propose that Singapore start a campaigh against Global Warming, for a future that struggles to be one.

Global warming, we know we caused it, exhaust gases emitted from cartons of rubbish incinerated everyday, resulted in millions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, thickening the atmosphere, which traps more heat, leading to the rise of global temperature.

Why aren't we doing anything in Singapore even though we know that this is happening? No drastic measures were taken. This atrocity shall not persist! From today, we will fight for a future, a greener future, or there might just be none for us.

It will be grave if insolent people do not heed the warnings of Global Warming. We must control ourselves, or global warming will be controlling the fate of the supposedly super intelligent mammals. Let us unite, and create a cleaner, better, less polluted Singapore, lets take this little step, to save the Earth. May it be just recycling paper, or cycling to school. Offing the television when not in use, or ceasing to use the computer. All we need, is your support, the people's support, or else...

There will be no white snowy Alps.
There will be no icebergs left in the Antartica.
There will be no more polar bears, no penguins left on this Earth.
There will be no beautiful glaciers.
There will be no ski resorts, or even snow.
There will be no more low lying countries like Thailand.
And there will be no more us, humans, the superior species in the world.

If nothing is done to save the Earth, OUR Earth.

Thank you.