Sharky Shark

Hey peeps, sorry for neglecting this blog. Fear not, our quest to save Mother Earth is still in high gear! woooo

Anyway, I sent this piece of news to myself ages ago cos I wanted to blog about it. But I'm an ass and I'm growing old, so I kinda forgot about it.

Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters.

"The President of the tiny Pacific republic, Johnson Toribiong, announced the sanctuary during Friday's session of the UN General Assembly.With half of the world's oceanic sharks at risk of extinction, conservationists regard the move as "game-changing".It will protect about 600,000 sq km (230,000 sq miles) of ocean, an area about the size of France. President Toribiong also called for a global ban on shark-finning, the practice of removing the fins at sea."

Isn't this awesome? It's nice knowing that those sharks will be in a safe environment where they're free to live without the fear of getting caught in nets or hooks and then have their fins cut off.

Yeah, so this was the thing i forgot about Chels. HAHAHA. And by the way, YES OBAMA! He is hot. I don't care how wrong that sounds. He just is.

Diy

Righto, why are we leaving this blog to rot on its own?! hahahaha! im here now!

right, mr obama is in singapore! why doesnt everyone wanna know where he is staying?! i wanna know so badly...i mean hello, mr president of the top power of all times....*ROLLS EYE OVER AND OVER AGAIN*

ok so no big hoohaassss over anything in the animal kingdom and mother nature, so basically, im here just to type rubbish. hahaha!

ok im gone! so sleepy!bye!

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heyaaaa, EDIT EDIT! hahaha.

was just reading some posts down and i just thought i would express my views on the Sea Shepherd gang hunting down the whale hunters. Well, i have been watching a few episodes of 'Whale Wars' and i really love it! all the action and all the effort put in was really admirable :) HOWEVER (haha!), i really wished they would apply a softer method of wanting to help the whales, and not putting everyone's life in jeopardy just to save the whales (im sure the whales will be upset too, if we died for them.) like sending the ship crew onboard the hunting vessel 'Yushin Maru', that is just totally wrong man..and the captain speaks as though everyone has to DIE for the whales...thats not right....if everyone of you died, who will be brave enough to step out and save the whales?! sending the ship crew on a small raft to look for the hunting vessel when it was nearly night, come on, with the rough sea, the crew were really lucky to have survived. and the sea shepherd's ship is named after mr steve irwin....hmm, i wonder if he will be a supporter of these actions man..because even I am not a big fan now...sigh...

to the whales: bear with it guyyyssssssss!
to everyone else who love our whales:
cheeeeerrrrs with lovesssss,
chels

the things i love about people <3

IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare

Thanks for making the world a better place!

To see people going all out for the poor animals inspite of their own worries/trouble is truly respectable :)

loves,
chels

Wildlife Rescue Centre in Singapore

GUYS!

http://www.acres.org.sg/

visit the website! we have a wildlife rescue centre in singapore now! there's even a hotline number! please take note and save it***i've already saved it in my phone! MUAHAHA!

they are having a 'NO SHARKS FIN' event on 2/3 Oct 2009 at The Atrium@ Orchard (near Plaza Singapura) and I am going! not going to explain the event (am rushing off to bed) but it sounds really interesting!!! i'm not going to sit around and do nothing anymore, im going to be a part of it. yes, i love this and i pray the dog culling in china ends RIGHT NOW. horrible horrible!

ok, just a quick one, im going to bed!
good night all, loves.

chels

PS. yoohoo!!! we have EIGHT posts in September 09 mannn, this is awesome! keep it up guys! FOR WILDLIFE AND FOR THE WORLD!

True True.What Diy says it's true! We need to maintain our human relationship before we can start discussing about animals. WE can overreact because we just feel helpless, we just want to do something but sometimes emotions really seems to piss a lot of people. Our start might be different but our end definately ends the same place..

i think i have been "promoting" to become vegetarian for very long, actually no one have really actually become one and most seems pissed when i talked about it but at least i am glad that more people around me are starting to eat vegetarian food. At least i save one animal from there..i know i cant really say such words but i think a little part though cant really save a lot, it would still accumulates to a huge part someday.

Same as dolphin hunting, if a little reaction and word would stop dolphin which The Cove did. I think it is good start. It has saved 70 dolphins from now, i hope more would be saved.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090915/tap-as-japan-dolphin-killing-4cec4ac.html


Good news is Tokyo Film Festival decides to showcase The Cove after deep discussion. At least the other japanese should see what their fellows neighbours are doing.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/tokyo-film-festival-decides-to-show-the-cove


I have a question to ask the people who read this blog,

Do you think Dolphins shows should be allowed?

I apologise if i pissed you because i think at least I must start a part , if you can sympathise Dolphins, whales, sharks, can you sympathise the little fishes too?


Rosy

Hi guys, so it seems emotions are running high at the moment thanks to The Cove. And I'm pretty sure those feelings are warranted, I've not watched the movie but I've read up a lot on the issue and looked at gruesome pictures of whales and dolphins getting massacred and as a result felt so many things, from disbelief to anger to sadness and most of all, helplessness.

Oftentimes though, I wonder if in the midst off all these "let's save the world" crusades we embark on, we are actually unaware of how we can sometimes overreact. With one of the exceptions being the unnecessary dolphin killings, some so-called causes are just puzzling to me and the organizations which promote them can be downright...what's the word....oh yeah, INSANE.

Let's look at PETA for example. I think wearing fur is disgusting and people who purchase fur coats, at the same time knowing HOW the fur is obtained make me sick. But does this make throwing flour at said people, cussing at them and basically humiliating them justifiable? I don't know, but it does make PETA look like assholes themselves and like Chels mentioned two posts below, you only get your 5 min in the spotlight and then it's over. People even forget what the hell it was you were trying to promote.

As someone who's had people question some of my personal beliefs before, I find it very aggravating when people try to feed me their ideas, hoping that I'd conform to them and at the same time try to make me feel guilty about the way I'm living. It especially grates my nerves when people think they're somehow better than you because of their beliefs. Sorry to break it to you, but there is such a thing as mutual respect and understanding of someone who decides to believe in something different from you. If something about what the person does really bother you, I think there's a way to talk it out with this person, have discussions, go out for coffee! God knows this world needs more friendly, healthy relationships more than ever.

So I guess what all this blabbering concludes to, is that we need to find a way to encourage people to care about our planet without destroying the relationships we have with one another.

With that said, I also think that we, as dwellers of this magnificent place called Earth, could be more passionate about certain issues which directly affect us. And as humans, we can actually speak for those poor animals who don't have the means to voice out how they, as citizens of the same planet, feel and hurt. This is where I'm glad you guys come in :) I love this blog!

Before I go off, I want to share this hilarious video. It kinda pokes fun at the whole "let's go green" mentality some people are obsessed about. I think this reminds us that we might have the best intentions in promoting our causes, but sometimes we just need to freakin' CHILL.



Diy

p.s.: i miss julia stiles. i shall go watch 10 things i hate about you now.

The Cove

ok dudes, on a sidenote..i opened Yahoo! and saw this news:

"Ozone hole smaller in 2009 than 2008."
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090916/tts-science-climate-warming-ozone-wmo-c1b2fc3.html

Great job guys, if we keep it up, we may be able to buy some time for our scientists to help recover our ozone layer!! yay! Alright, switch off the main switch and spray less insecticide etc, got it! :)

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The Cove

Thanks to Diy, who introduced the show, i managed to catch it tonight with Rosy and the sis. Well, i bet Rosy and my sis are racking their head out trying to blog out how we felt and what we saw tonight on the film and same here, i'm just trying to find the right words to say to express how i feel. we are in a situation now where we type something and the next minute, we backspace it...truth is, there is too much to say and too much we felt. For one, i am really really glad that i watched it, i needed that boost, to pressure me into wanting to help. i felt ashamed halfway through, after seeing what people did for the dolphins in taiji, getting arrested, and really, getting yourself into really deep shit. i wished i could do the same, i wished i had the guts. and you know how you watch these kinda shows and get really agitated and start to think nonsense, well, at one point, the irrational part of me said: "heck japan, i will go there and throw myself in between the dolphins and the fishermen, get myself killed or arrested or banned from japan, i dont care." WHO wouldn't think of that??! but then after awhile, you start to think, so what do you get when you get arrested/killed/banned from japan? answer: that 2 minutes of fame on the news, which really isnt worth it at all. right ok, more about the show, less about me. i thought two scenes were particularly impactful:

1. the escaped dolphin
i think this little baby did more than he/she ever imagined. this little dolphin could be the reason why 5 strangers have decided to become vegetarians, and the reason why this film will be getting a million and one awards. this little dolphin must have knew, he/she swam out of the cove, towards the shore, towards the camera crew with his/her blood trailing along behind, trying to endure the pain, you could see him/her thrashing about and then the camera shot a hole in the belly before he/she finally gave up...tell me, what else can you do?

2. Mr Ric O'Barry
o brilliant man, he, banned by the international whaling commission from attending their meetings, walked into the room while the meeting ws in procession, with a TV hanging over his chest. the tv was playing footages of the dolphin massacre. he walked among the rows, in front of all the delegates who were surprised by this latest method of advertisement and then stood right in the middle of the stage, without even saying anything (i think). all the media just came straight up to him and his tv and started rolling away....until security came and brought him away. what an awesome thing to do. forget titanic or jurassic park, this is the best scene i have ever seen in my whole entire life up till now and i thank him for it. i think he might have just jumped to the no.2 spot in my role model list (after mr steve irwin of course.)haha!

anyways, i absolutely love this film and i feel like i just got an extra push! i hope i continue to work hard and think about the dolphins and whales and all other animals! if i am not wrong, the taiji massacre is still suspended and lets hope it remains suspended forever! brilliant, i am now waiting for the news to report the ban on whaling and dolphin slaughter! be strong guys!

for Ric o'barry, for the OPS team and for everyone who loves our dolphins, we will do it :)


loves,
chels

SAVE THE DOLPHINS!

The cove is absolutely great and impactful. We deserve to know the truth and it shows almost everything.

I am happy that this movie is made and proud that film once more did a great impact to the world.

How can we let such killing go on! The Japanese official for International Whaling Commission and the japanese fishermen still dare to mention that they have found a way to kill the dolphin faster with less pain!

It's a disgrace they dont realise how cruel and how much dolphins are killed. I remember the smile on their face when killing the dolphins and how red the sea has being dyed with.

See below on how gruesome the Japanese are!!




I've decided to boycott Japanese goods all my life until they stop such cruel acts
1) No more Japanese food , no Sakae, Sushi Tei even my favourite Tempura Yasai!
2) I would never go to any natsu masuri or any jap festival
3) No more jap brands
4) No Jap Dramas and music
5) I'm selling my yukata!
6) I'm not going to step to Japan anymore until they stop killing the whales

I'm forever not going to buy any Japanese goods because how can I worship a culture that supports killing of innocent lifes! Though i'm just one individual and even stopping buying japanese goods might nt do a part, i believe at least i am nt giving a part of money i spent to whaling!

I hope those who saw this post, please do a thing and spread the word on saving the dolphins and whales.

"I hope you'll join me in this campaign to stop the killing of dolphins in Japan. Most people in Japan don't have any idea that the dolphin slaughter is even happening. If we can spread the word around the world - and especially in Japan - we can expose the secret of Taiji and force the Japanese government to stop it. We can win this issue - but we need your help!" By Ric O Barry, a brave dolphin saver that dares to take part in filming of the slaughter of dolphins


Rosy

Shark Fin Soup

hey guys!

so...today i broke a record. i have indirectly caused the death of some sharks. nope, i did not drink shark fin soup, but i went into a restaurant which served it. i know i know, i hate myself too...........well let me explain myself, my uncle said he knew a place which has amazing chicken rice so i thought they only sold CHICKEN!! who knew?! 2 seconds after we're seated, my brother pushed the first page of the menu in my face: Shark Fin Soup. darn it, i should have asked, i should have seen the dried shark fin displayed at the counter. oh kill me...i deserve to die. 84 bucks on the bill, that will be part of what's killing our sharks. BOO ME.

actually, think i might have mentioned on my personal blog before: i used to drink shark fin soup. until my sis stopped and explained to me about finning and how the sharks are thrown back into the ocean without their fins. amazing knowledge my sis...im glad she knew about finning and taught me about it, if not, this blog wouldn't exist and i will still be drinking shark fin soup! well, slowly but surely, we are going to help our sharks.

From now on, I will NOT step into any restaurants which serves Shark Fin soup. (unless of course, it's really really necessary...for businesses or weddings...) my cousin is getting married soon and his family is a REALLY REALLY traditional chinese family, i shall pluck up my courage to ask him NOT to serve Shark Fin Soup. wish me luck!

another thought: what if we stopped this shark finning thing, and the shark population gets soooo big that we have no more fish!!? and then we have to start hunting them again to balance out the population? oh man, i dont know. haha!

ok,save the sharks, save the world! HAHA!

loves,
chels

Last Sat , after i came back from violin class, i turned on the tv,i didnt expect to see such an horrified scene.

A fish being sliced and fried alive, its eyes and mouth was moving and seems so much in pain. I was freaked out and cried. What did a fish did to suffer like this? The voice over was introducing how nice the fish is. How can we do such a cruel thing? See a life just suffered and died without helping!And still describe how good the fish taste!

To us, they are delicious food but to them, this is hell! They are a life.They are the same like whale and dophins. All of them deserve to live! Not only dophins and whales, all fishs and living thing deserve to live. They are all the same.

I cant believe i seen such scene in front of me before few years ago. I am born a meat eater too but i converted in firm belief they deserve to live. They are like us,deserve to live happily in their world.


I hope more people can understand what they are doing.

If you cant stop eating meat, eat lesser first!I know it's hard but you would never know until you try!


Proud to be a vegetarian,
Rosy

The Cove

Hey guys, so there's this new documentary which is out in the theaters, The Cove. If you love dolphins (seriously, who doesn't?), or just care about the environment in general, you have to watch it. Well, I haven't watched it cos I'm kinda..scared to? Haha reason being this film exposes the annual killing of more than 2,500 dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama in Japan.

The filmmakers were smart and innovative; they used specialized camouflaged high-definition cameras that were designed to look like rocks. I imagine if the angry Japanese fishermen knew they were filming, the crew would have been slaughtered too.

Thing is, what do they kill the dolphins for? Gotta look it up.

Although I'm a wuss and can't bear to look at the dolphins getting killed, I might just have to go see this as I believe it's an important film in the context of the whole conservation movement happening now. Plus, the reviews have been glowing.

Diy

HEAL THE WORLD

like MJ sang "heal the world, make it a better place for YOU and for ME and the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make it a better place for YOU and for ME." i wanna make a difference, i wanna stop human trafficking, i wanna stop unfair human labour, i wanna stop poverty and hunger. i wanna find someway to help. but sometimes, we just feel helpless and it feels like shit.

i wish i had a billion dollars...the slums in india will be gone, the water in africa will be clean and children wouldnt have to die from hunger everyday. you might say money is rubbish, but really, how else can you get bricks to build your house and where else can you get the seeds to grow your food?


loves,
chelsea

"men are the cause of all these."

I recently saw a trailer for a new wildlife docu on tv and many such trailers just loveeee to throw in lines like the above subject to make us humans look soo terrible. shark finning, whaling, illegal wildlife trade, humans are the cause of it. True, WE are the main reason why our animals are dying, why our weather is changing but i hate it when we make our world and our human race look so bad, really sad actually. Because, for every tree that is felled, there is at least 1 person fighting to save that tree, for every animal that is hurt, there is at least 1 person helping to rescue it. WE may be the cause of all trouble, but WE are the only ones who can save ourselves and everything else. why do we make ourselves sound so bad? why do we always look at the people who doesn't give up their seats in the train? why do we have animal rescue organisations? or animal police? why do we have scientists and doctors who try to save the world from a flu epidemic? we are the cause, but we are also good people. (well..lets hope we dont think ourselves TOO GOOD. haha!)

ok folks, just a thought which had been hanging on my mind for awhile..(whenever people complain about human fault etc...)

ok good night everyone! LOVES! I LOVE OUR BLOG! haha!
chels

Wassup homiez (forgive me, it's 8 in the morning and I can't get back to sleep)!

Just wanted to share this awesome video with you peeps. It was directed by the late Heath Ledger and is meant to raise awareness to the whole illegal commercial whaling taking place in his native Australia. Proceeds from the iTunes video downloads of the "King Rat" video will go toward Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; they're an international non-profit marine wildlife conservation organization. And since Singapore is lame and doesn't have iTunes, you can actually visit the website to make a donation or even volunteer your time.

The video itself is really interesting. Dancing whales smoking cigars? Awesome, yet disturbing at the same time. The press release by the band has more details on how the video came about and also the message behind it.

We all know Heath was a cool guy, but this definitely asserts the point. And damn it, I miss him :(

Alrighty then, have a good National Day weekend everyone.

Hungry and in need of sleep,

Diy

EDITED POST (Blogger deserves to be eaten by a shark)

Ok, first of all, sorry for editing your post Chels. But I've been trying to add images on a new post but it just REFUSES TO WORK. Nothing pops up when i click the "add image" icon! It just says "Error on page". WTFF. Blogger is seriously testing what's left of my patience.

Good news is, I was planning to write about something related to tailsforwhales. Now I know I'm supposed to get myself and my friends to do the "fluke". But I figured you people would rather see the man above do it :)
*His name is Alexander Skarsgård. He is in that vampire show with a lot of unnecessary sex scenes "True Blood" . And he's a Swede. Scandinavian men. woohoo.

And speaking of sharks, its Shark Week this week! Sharks scare the crap out of me but they are so majestic and beautiful dontcha think? Down with sharks fin!

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html

Bite hard,
Diy
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Hello guys! Contest contest!!

http://www.seethebiggerpicture.org/photo-contest-info.php

"To celebrate the amazingly varied world around us we're asking you to grab your camera and show us what biodiversity means to you by entering our See the Bigger Picture photo contest."

This contest is a collaboration between National Geographic, Airbus and The Green Wave (UN & CBD) and it is open to children around the world between 6-16, but who cares about the age limit?! take pictures of the animals and plants, anything thats got to do with BIODIVERSITY and submit them for everyone to remember! i shall bring my camera along tomorrow if i go out, should snap some pictures and take part in this. it's a good thing, now and then some contests like these comes along and gets us all started on something meaningful. Awesome. :)

And since we are on the subject of photography!

http://www.tailsforwhales.org/


Take a picture of yourself doing a 'fluke' - tail of a whale, post it and save the whales! here's my embarassing photograph, enjoy! HAHA!







my sister, pearlynn.





Pearlynn and her classmates! kudos for this picture!




Love,


Chels

I have found this article

http://www.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/testing/animalalt/2412866.html

Cosmetic are the best invention on earth because it covers flaws but i think it didnt cover a sin called animal testing.

*Warning* I might sound emotional on the entry.

Animal testing is foolish to me because animals are not the main consumer. Would they even say "ouch this is harmful to my skin" " Oh, this is so comfortable".. They wouldnt. Only the machine would. We are the ones who use it we test it on ourselves.

Imagine your dog and cats get abducted and got some cosmetic testing. They died or something bad happen to them. Who is responsible for their lifes?

We are!

I agree with Diy animals are still considered as inferior to us. But no matter what it's a life and a little life with feelings. Why are we even considering using a life to be a guinea pig to test all the products we dont dare to try on ourselves?

If we are scared to test it on ourselves, would you think the animal is not scared?

Even if it is testing for medical purposes or a good cause, it's already morally wrong.

That's what I think. We measure too much things, feared too much things but we didnt realised we have worsened too many things.

Rosy

Doing My Part

Hey guys, this is a miracle. I've finally forced myself to sit my ass down and contribute a post in this wonderful blog. Not that I'm saying it's a chore; far from it in fact. It's just that I sometimes think I have way too many thoughts on a lot of different subjects that it's kinda impossible to properly articulate myself in one simple and sweet blog post.

So here's the deal. We all want to make the world a better place. But it's pretty easy to feel very small and helpless, I know I do, all the time. So I thought, why not just start with myself? It sounds cheesy and selfish at the same time but it's a stepping stone nonetheless. So I'm gonna share the little contributions I make (hopefully) to making our planet a much more bearable place to live in.

1) Educate myself
We have the internet. Just READ READ and READ SOME MORE, about the causes you're passionate about, just be informed.

2) Say "no" to plastic bags
I know people might think I'm just jumping on some kind of trend by doing this, but really now, do you really need that many ntuc plastic bags? I know how annoying it can get when the auntie behind you stares like a nut when you give the cashier your shopping bag but the Earth is more important than saving face.

3) Saving Energy
You've heard this so many times before but yeah, switch off anything which is not in use. And like Chels mentioned, it does help decrease the PUB bills. Hence, making my dad less grumpy.

4) Buying Responsibly
I'm a girl, so chances are, I like makeup. And guess what? I do! I use Body Shop products cos not only are they good for my skin, they, as many of you know, use mostly natural ingredients, promote social activism and DON'T TEST ON ANIMALS. I heard Revlon is against animal testing as well.

5) Speaking out
I love animals. And I hate to see them getting hurt, be it wild animals or the strays in the neighbourhood. So when I see some annoying kid chasing and poking a stray cat with a stick, I'll usually give him the "I'm gonna cut a bitch" look (well, provided the mom is nowhere to be seen). It's lame I know. I just think kids should be taught compassion early on and unfortunately down here, animals are considered inferior to humans. Well, let's just say my 3 cats are far more intelligent and worthy of attention than a lot of asswipes I know. Yeah yeah, I fully accept my destiny as a future crazy cat lady (if I'm not already one).

So there. Forgive me if I sound preachy. Looking forward to future posts!

Diy

This is the first post by nosy posy rosy.

This blog is a starting point for three of us and if anyone who sees it, also for you. Animals, mother nature and humans they are all linked together.

We live around each other and need each other.


We start of this little blog with the passion to share with people how we feel abt what we can do.


I can say in my first blog.


LOVE is the word you start.


sign off with love,
Nosy Rosy

I was just watching something sad on tv and suddenly wanted to add an idea to my list of "what i want to change about the world" items.

our beautiful whales are one of the most gentle creatures on earth, gliding peacefully along from one end of the earth to the other. huge in size but peaceful and free. the females are wonderful mothers, spending more than a year nurturing their young and teaching them. they are so huge and yet they have their own natural predator; the killer whales. it was extreme heartbreak watching a pod of killer whales, so intelligent and so powerful, separating the mother grey whale from her calf and killing the calf to feed on it. well, for a lion killing an antelope or zebra, i wouldnt be this upset. it must be the motherly love kinda thing, as though we knew how the mother whale felt, losing her calf..it must have been frustrating, watching her calf being attacked by all the killer whales and not having any power to chase them away. although i did watch another documentary which showed me the strong motherly love of one single mommy whale. this certain mommy whale i watched stayed with her calf throughout the whole attack, everytime the killer whales separated them, she swam back and everytime they attacked her calf, she tried to protect it and she kept it up for a long time until the killer whales finally gave up and her calf and herself survived. the game of endurance i will call it, now this is heartwarming.

so after watching one baby whale die today, if i could change one thing about the world, then perhaps i wanna wish that killer whales are not the whales' natural predators. :)

and then again, as if we didn't have anymore trouble losing whale numbers, we just HAD to kill them for their meat. why can't we just leave them alone already? I just read an article on yahoo saying the IWC will be extending their negotiations on the limitations on whaling. i hope that we are able to buy more time for these whales to reproduce and recover their numbers before we wipe them out completely and unknowingly....

loves,
chelsea

hello, i just saw this event coming up on 26th June and thought of posting it.

POVERTEE DAY - 26th JUNE 2009.




http://www.actionaid.org.uk/poverteeday/idolised.php

im thinking of creating a shirt and wearing it on that day!
but im still not sure. will think about it. oh i hope i do it! heeee:)

loves,
chelsea

Hey guys, i was just updating my blog and decided to blog here as well.

Have wanted to share about the Saving Gaia campaign ever since i saw it on telly. Have you guys seen it? if not, here is the link!

http://www.savinggaia.sg/index.htm

Not too much on the website though, just a video, some tips and a link setup to make your pledge. my favourite quote from one of the kids: "In my world, everyone will want to save the earth." Simple and sweet, tugs at your heartstrings this one does.



It's nice to see Singapore doing our part to help our environment, not like we dont do it, but i think these are more urgent times, 20 yrs ago, we still had a strong ozone layer, now we have created a hole in it. Never mind whose fault that is, what's important is how we can save it now. Like putting a bandaid on an injury, very heartwarming right:)? kids create the perfect image for this campaign and i hope they create more ads to keep the awareness going. GOOD JOB MEDIACORP!

Well, i've made my pledge and i think i wanna start helping to save our Earth. My dad makes us switch off the main power of the electrical appliances at home and it really does help the PUB bills! haha, so go do it!

I should start using more woven bags for groceries.
I should sleep early and not use the computer so much because it uses up lots of energy!
And hmmm, i shall try and take shorter showers.

ok, three things for now. Tomorrow, bigger things. :)

ok, till next time then!

loves,
Chelsea

Hello, this is my first official post!!




"Nobody opposes subsistence hunting by Inuit people. We're opposed to the industrial-scale slaughter of seals," said Aldworth, echoed by Sheryl Fink, spokeswoman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare."

I'm going to say that i do agree with the above quote. Like people in the african countries who eat bushmeat, we cannot stop the inuit people from carrying on their tradition of hunting seals, because they live by it. but can we reduce the limit set for them to hunt seals? can we be sure that the seals hunted are humanely handled and not using brutal methods which causes the seals more pain? we dont want another animal species to fall into our endangered species list, we have too many already! for whale hunting as well, is the limit set for whale hunting too high? mother whales only give birth to one calf at a time and being nature's gentle giants, they nurse their young for about a year, which makes their reproductive rate really low. we are really biting off more than we can chew here, whale hunting, seal hunting, bush meat trading and many more. then again, if i am thinking like the hunters, if the govts or environmental organisations cut off my supply of income by reducing my hunting limits, i will definitely try poaching. and all our problems start all over again. poaching has got to stop!

i read the article on yahoo! news and the picture is linked from there as well.


loves,
chelsea