The power of media

(warning: This post may have a sarcastic remark from a tree-hugger. No offence everyone!)

People are more aware of the surrounding, the ‘environment’ would be a correct term. I just hate to use environment in my sentence as people always using it loosely without in-depth meaning of it (sarcasm #1).

Few years ago when I asked people, ‘Hey, have you watched ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ yet? Their answer would be, “An Inconvenient whaat?” I would said, ‘alaaa, the one Gore talking about his life/politic life and carbon-earth temperature relationship by using Keynote slide presentation. Yerrrr, the one with nice graphic & all; super-long graph & cool NASA satellite images of earth yada yada.’ and I was given the ‘blank’ expression. Suddenly, out of no where, I read HEAPS of the review of the so-called movie from people’s blog (in Malaysia particularly). (Sarcasm #2).

Fine, that’s the power of media. It can educate people, expose people on the critical issue that normally being discuss only in the New Scientists bi-weekly magazine. I think its good for everyone to get this kind of exposure (especially when HBO Southeast Asia decided to make a premiere slot for the aforementioned so-called movie in conjunction with the so-called Earth Day). (Sarcasm #3)

I do have an online friend that I met once seeking my advice on how to reduce the consumption of natural resources in the workplace & a DVD of the An Inconvenient Truth.  There are people that aware of the surrounding issues & try to educate others on that. GOOD move sir! 

I read environmental science & management in the varsity & I am exposed to these kind of information to get in-depth understanding of the topic & to score in the final exams (sarcasm #4). I feel it is my obligation to spread what I have learned & understand during the course of 3-years reading about the environment.  

So my point here is, media is a very EFFICIENT tools to spread information on everything especially critical issues like climate crisis so that people aware & start acting. I am not going to preach on saving the environment, go recycle, say no to incinerator & all that shit here, but there is one thing that I would like my reader to understand:

Excerpt from my 1st job interview essay writing (Not in an exact sentence but the meaning is there, LOL):

“Environment. We live in one, we die in one. No matter how much resources we put, we can’t escape from the waste we created; nor that we can throw it away to the space. We’re living in an island, like a microcosm where input & output should and always be in equilibrium. 

In order to live harmonically with the surrounding, we should manage it wisely. It is not a duty of environmentalist. It is a duty of everyone living & breathing in this world. It is our choice to make the world a better place to live in & everyone is responsible taking care of the environment.”

Bull shit. (sarcasm #5). Count how many word ‘environment’  in the excerpt. LOL.

For more cool-fact regarding the environment where you can use it in an ‘interesting’ conversation with your colleague/friends, do read Collapse by Jared Diamond, Silent Spring by Rachel Carlson, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The UNEP Year book 2008 by UNEP, The Omnivore Dilemma by Micheal Pollan, Gaia by James Lovelook and etc. (sarcasm #6)

I know, I know, I am being sarcastic. I can’t help it. I am quite skeptical when people talking about the ‘environment’. There must be something behind it. I don’t believe in altruist. Everyone has a little, tiny bit of egoist (Though the ethical egoist argument can not be proved, hence a useless ethical claim). 

Oh, well. I’m off to bed. 

 

Presentation

Alright. I’m not particularly good at presentation but somehow I can’t escape it. The 3 of us, the executives were given Project to present in front of director of various gov departments. argh. The boss assigned me to do presentation regarding the quarry project while the other two on the housing & temple. I got to start polishing my presentation skills from now. My presentation would be early next month after the Harvest Festival whereas theirs a day before the celebration. dang.

Anyway, nothing much happening today in the office. I have received TOR approval letter for my proposed mixed development Project. yeay. I shall proceed with the final report. The setback for the Project is that the development plan is not confirmed yet, soil investigation is still pending and etc. I got to attend the consultants meeting again next week for the finalization of DP and other pending stuff.  

Once everything confirm, I shall start doing the baseline air, noise & water sampling, ecological study, as well as proposing some of the mitigation measure to minimize the impact of cutting slope. I gotta read more on the slope bioengineering so that I can suggest way to minimize the environmental impacts towards the slope area.  But for me, not the slope that would be the major impact to the surrounding area. I would say there would be an increase in traffic as the location strategically located between the city centre and the international airport. Though they are proposing to build ramp to channel the traffic to and out of the proposed area, I will still believe it would indeed increase the traffic especially when the international airport here able to accommodate more people & flights once the new building open.  Anyway, lets just leave that problem to the traffic consultant.  My worry would concentrated more on the trees & mass wasting. LOL.

Oh gosh, I think my blog getting bleak & boring.  I just can’t help it, blogging about work. I wish I could be that interesting & blog about some mushy-ishy stuff like flirting, party in da’ club or whatever it is. *sigh*

This weekend, I might visit another sunset bar around west coast Sabah. I’m thinking of chilling at Coast restaurant & bar, Rasa Ria Resort but then the gazebo looks like it is for fine dining. I wanted place for where you can chill with friends, talking, giggling over the singer (muhahaha), sipping margarita, eating finger snacks & watching sunset and of course, cam-whoring. LOL. Guess Coast restaurant is not for friends-outing as we need to dress smart casual (no shorts & flip-flop) to enter that. I’d settle for Sampan Bar then! Shall start calling the ‘kaki’s of sunset bar for this weekend then.  :)

Sampan Bar, Shangri-la Rasa Ria Resort, Borneo Sabah