Its a day that was supposed to remind us to take care of our lovely Mother Earth, and this year's Earth Day seemed to have done its job pretty well, going by the extreme weathers that occurred in a short twenty-four hour period.
It was an extremely warm day today [and the previous few days too], and as the Sun sets, the 6.30pm news on television reported a heatwave in India. At night, there came a spectacular lightning show, after which, all of a sudden, a very, very strong gust of wind hit almost the entire Singapore.
While I closed all the windows I left a gap big enough for me to stick my head out and feel the gust of wind, which immediately blew dust particles into my eyes @#$%!. For a moment I wondered whether my living room windows were going to hold haha; of course they did, but one of the flowerpots outside my house was blown onto the floor by the wind. Luckily it didn't break.
I recall there were very strong winds at the start of the year too, but I don't remember one capable of bringing down my flowerpot. This gust of wind was epic, and very mysterious. It left a barrage of threads in the forums immediately, many forummers surprised by the occurrence.
Recently there were news reports about possible solar flares hitting Earth in 2012, which could potentially damage all our electrical and electronic equipment, throwing all of us back into Ice Age if we are not already dead.
True or not I don't know, although the year does tally with a whole range of prophecies and predictions that 2012 will be end of the world. One thing for sure is that we need to stop destroying our lovely Earth before its too late.
I quite like the wind though; cooling and smells good haha.
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Lately the food poisoning case that resulted in a hundred over people in hospitals threw food stalls and the cleanliness rating system into the limelight. So now there is the talk that food stalls should all aim to get A or B for their ratings, with a hint that customers should only buy food from those with As or Bs, and not from those with Cs or Ds. One letter to the local newspapers suggests converting all kopitiams to air-conditioned food courts, and the Health Minister says he doesn't mind paying abit more for the security [which I do].
You know, I have always loved the whole commercial area just opposite my house; the five kopitiams and one food court mean there is a large variety of food I can choose from.
But I, for one, have never bothered finding out what ratings those food stalls have. While I agree that basic hygiene and cleanliness are important, the ratings are not in my considerations when I buy my food. Trust in the stallholders, my own visual judgment, the cost, the quantity, and most importantly, what I want to eat, are what go through my mind when I decide which stall to buy from.
All these news came at a time where the Education Ministry decides to scrap examinations at Primary One and Primary Two levels so students will stop being obsessed with grades and results.
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I seriously wonder what the Thais want. Stability of the country by making a big mess out of it?
