Tragedy

I’ve never been blogging for almost two weeks since I am so busy. But guess what, I’m back and ready to write again. LOL!

It’s been weeks since the typhoons came here in our country. Many people were affected and many places were totally damaged and flooded. Almost everyone didn’t expect the chaos that it will bring to us.

As what we all know, it really brought a big damage to us that even now, there were some places that are still flooded and many families are still in the staying at the evacuation centers. Because of this, the victims cannot live their lives normally and they usually lack their supplies in food.

Many people are continuously getting sick. Good thing that our government and other citizens are voluntarily helping and donating foods for them. Furthermore, some offered health insurance leads for the victims as this will surely be a great help to the.

I just hope that this won’t ever happen again. So let us always pray for our country’s guidance and for God to keep us safe.

The Contagious Disease

It’s been very superficial that the A(H1N1) virus or the so called swine flu has been really contagious. There are many victims now here in the Philippines that were infected by this. Mostly, the foreigners here in our country are the great carrier of this virus and it’s devastating to know that the security in our country especially in the airport is very poor.

This is the main reason why CHED postponed the start of classes in college because some schools have students who are said to be positive with A(H1N1). People are advised to have a self quarantine to make sure that everyone is safe. Likewise, schools are required to clean their campus and make sure that their place is swine flu free.

Everyone is getting worried with this. I am becoming a little bit scared because I know for a fact that the number of victims is continuously increasing which means that the virus is spread out to different places. My mom has advised me to take a lot of vitamin C and in fact she’s planning to get disability insurance so that no matter what happened, we will always be supported with medical care.

Everyone must take a lot of care and we should always keep our body healthy in order to avoid by this infective disease.

Well Done Mom

My mom has been a leader for so many years now. She’s our current Barangay Chairman and as far as everybody can see, she’s been a very effective leader to her constituents. She always make it a point to give time to her community even though she’s busy doing her mother role in our family.

She already accomplished so many projects that definitely made a big difference in our barangay and indeed shared a big help to each and everyone. She has her ongoing free medicines, yearly gift giving during Christmas and free school supplies before the school year starts, streetlights to help secure the surroundings, cleaning of canals, medical mission and, free use of fitness equipment and much more.

Though people hurled her with good praises, she still remains down to earth and she never brags about her accomplishments. She always wants the best for her barangay as much as she wants for our family and she always gives everything she can just to help her fellow citizens. Indeed, we can say, that she is no doubt a very good leader.

Outstanding Report

Last school year, our group was tasked to conduct and make a report o the lives and behavior of the people involved in the illicit drug and alcohol use and currently undergoing treatment at rehabilitation center like alcohol rehab and the like. With so much apprehension and poignancy, I could do nothing less but to go on with the group.

After spending almost three hours of travel, we finally set our feet at the drug rehab center. A look of genuine amazement suddenly became visible to everyone’s faces for the poetic beauty that surrounds the place. When the time has come for us to talk to the patients, my discernment suddenly fluttered away as they were very open and cooperative to share their experiences with us. According to them, the hardest part of their treatment was the early days when the craving was still high.

The great ambience and different activities offered to every patient are indeed very helpful. Every patient at the center has the privilege to enjoy the amenities which help them alleviate their feeling of boredom of even loneliness. Everyone is looking forward for the day where they can pack their bags, go home with their family and be free from the crime and filthy thing that smudged their life.

It was indeed a very thrilling experience for us. We’ve learned a lot from them by the different stories that they shared to us and we definitely admire them for having the courage to speak up and accept the wrong things they did.

Pollution

As we can see, our country is too polluted nowadays. Fresh air may no longer exist in some parts of our country due to the different pollutants present in our environment.

People are the number one causes of pollution. Why? Because many people nowadays are being too irresponsible when it comes to taking care of the environment. They throw their trashes anywhere they want. They don’t know how to clean up their own messes. They don’t recycle things that can still be used. Smoke belching. Cigarette Smoking and other things like that.

You see, these circumstances can obviously harm us. We can acquire diseases such as respiratory infections, skin diseases like acne and skin asthma and our immune system will surely become weaker.

So let’s not waste our time. We have to start doing our responsibilities and duties as a citizen. Let’s not be ignorant of the things that have been happening in our surroundings and let’s help each other to prevent pollution.

Princess Vien

Note: Pls. use your blog name/initial as a title of your entry in Going Green. MAUCAP stand for my blog name as MommyAllehs Up-Close And Personal)

Mommyallehs tagged me with this very interesting meme.
here goes…
“Do you know that the world population is expanding at a mind-boggling rate? Yes, it is. It is estimated that the population will go up to 9 billions by 2050. That’s mean if the world’s natural resources were evenly distributed, our children or/ and grandchildren will only have 25% of the resources per capita that people in 1950 had.
If we intend to leave our children and grandchildren with the same standard of living we have enjoyed, we must preserve the foundation of that standard of living. We save for college educations, orthodontia, and weddings, but what about saving clean air, water, fuel sources and soil for future generations?”
-source taken from http://www.gogreeninitiative.org/content/WhyGoGreen/
We do not need be a soldier, aggressively marching down the battle field, to help our Mother Nature. Just be yourself and go green in your daily activities. Here are 10 ways how we can go green:
1. Crank the knob
According to the National Environment Agency in Singapore, air-conditioned buildings need only to set their thermostat between 23°C and 25°C. Anything lower is a waste as you simply won’t feel a difference in temperature. For every degree you adjust, you spare the air 500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
2. Sweat the small stuff
According to http://ecofabulous.blogs.com, if every worker used one less staple, we’d save up to 330,000 tons of steel a day. That’s some heavy metal! Switch to a staple-less stapler, available at stationery shops, which folds paper to bind it.
3. Clean green
Household cleaning products give off chemical emissions that aren’t only harmful to the planet, but to you too. Swap yours for the eco-friendly and completely non-toxic Shaklee Get Clean products.
4. Age your driving style
Don’t speed: going 90km/h instead of 110km/h slashes fuel consumption by up to 25 per cent. If your car is fitted with a cruise control option, use it when you’re driving on teh highway to maintain a steady speed and save on fuel.
5. Eat closer to home
Transporting produce across oceans or by air is amajor contributor to pollution. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation reported in 2006 that 18 per cen of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions were due to the international meat industry. Choose locally farmed produce and the demand for imported stuff will fall, along with CO2 levels.
6. Stash your trash
Recycle. Yes, it’s an obvious one and you would think that after hearing it so many times, we’d be non-stop recycling machines by now, but there are still so may of us who aren’t doing it! We chuck 19,000 tons of waste everyday, enough to fill 36 Petronas Twin Towers in a year! About 95 per cent of the waste ends up in landfills, which we’re quickly running out of, and who knows how much of it could have been recycled?
7. Be a cone head
The next time you feel like eating ice-cream, ask for a cone, not cup. That way, you can eat the whole ‘packaging’ and there’s no paper cup or plastic spoon to toss out.
8. Say no to the machine
Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If every one in the USA refused theirs, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator 15 times. Malaysians would create a roll more than 330 million feet long, going round the equator two and a half times.
9. Think natural and cool
Using cold water to do the laundry saves 50 per cent more energy than using hot water. To dry, hang them out in the sun - the heat is a natural disinfectant - and you’ll again be saving energy, as an automatic dryer uses an average of six per cent of the household electricity.
10. Make sure your fashion is green.
We’re not going to say stop dry cleaning your clothes, because that’s just an impossible request. The next time you do, however, tell the cleaners to skip the plastic. Also, find a greener cleaner - Pressto dry cleaners use biodegradeable stain removers and detergents, and theor machines are eco-friendly too, designed by an in-house team of engineers and technicians. There are outlets in Sri Hartamas (opposite Cat’s Whiskers boutique) and Bangsar (Jalan Maarof).
-taken from FEMALE magazine JUNE issue.
Isn’t it easy? If each of us play a small role in helping our Mother Nature, I am sure our children or/ and grandchildren will be able to enjoy the same or similar standard of living we had today. So, why not we start today, this very moment! Let’s Go Green, shall we?
Go Green with AGP…
How?
1. Include your Blog url & name here.
2. Add the blogroll code & flash badge code in your sidebar which can be found here.
3. Go Green! in your daily activities.
4. (optional) Write about Go Green! in your blog.
Once you have added your blog into the list, Jean will be visiting you. So, please ensure that you have installed the blogroll & flash badge in your sidebar. If everything is in order, you will be added to the blogroll. I would like to encourage participants to visit and get to know each other, a pat at the back perhaps.

I'm tagging: abie, joy and mich