People actually read my blog... :)

First of all, I want to say that I’m really glad to make a little discovery today hee...i found out that people actually read my blog...which kind of surprise me as i really just thought that only people i know would read my blog. However, not long ago, i received a comment on the "hunting" entry. i regret that i actually deleted the comment i really wanted to share with all of you but anyway I’ll just try to summarised what that person let's name as Mr. X had said.

Basically, Mr.X disagree with my point, noting that i pointed all the blame of killing animals on hunters and being too stereotype. Mr.X also claimed that, he himself did hunt and claimed that it is true that people kill for money and other horrible stuff but he stated that there are still people who hunt for survival. In addition, he claimed that most of the money he gains from hunting goes back to preservation. Furthermore, Mr.X emphasized that everyone is being guilty for killing animals including me and not just the hunters. He argued that we uses fuel from automobile and electricity which indirectly also cause harm for the animals. ( i think it's because Crude oil that is being used for petrol and stuff like that are collected from habitats of animal and if we indiscriminately gathering those fuel might eventually lead to the lost of habitat for many animals.)

once again i am really please to have comment on what i had wrote :) although it might be someone with different point of views but i really love to hear more different opinions coming along. This makes me feel that my writing did kind of spread to people everywhere hee :)

Anyway, these are some of my reply back for Mr. X. After reading it,everyone, please feel free to tell me more about your own personal feeling. But the base of it is, no unkind words in the comment and please please do not grudge over the entry this is really just personal opnions.

My reply...

I’m certainly glad to hear that you have been playing a part in helping to preserve wetlands. I don’t mean to offence anyone but personally I just feel that hunting animal is wrong. You might have a different point of view but I think this is just a matter of different people having different perspective in situations. As I said earlier in my blog, hunting for survival purpose is definitely not inappropriate. However, am I wrong to say that people nowadays hunt for pleasure? It is true that you are helping in preservation but am I wrong to say that you, yourselves actually enjoy the process of hunting?

Nowadays we don’t need to hunt to get food. Food is always available if we just go to the hypermarket. Why do we need to kill more than what we need? In addition, personally I don’t see the need to hunt in order to preserve wetlands. We can preserve wetlands as long as we have the will to do it. Furthermore, I would like to apologize for my ignorance for not knowing the procedures or rules for legal hunting. I definitely did not know that there are listed animals that you could kill or could not kill. Nevertheless, I still feel that a big part of contribution to endangered animals is because of excessive and indiscriminate hunting (illegally) or for market purpose.

It is true that you pointed out; my existence has an impact on animals. But as I said again in my blog in some other entry, the earth can sacrifice for our need but not greed. Our needs nowadays might not be the same as what our ancestors’ need of survival decades ago. Technology plays a big part. Sometimes computer might have become a need and not greed anymore. It is true though that I used internet for leisure, but I switch it off whenever I don’t need them. But it really didn’t make a difference because, for me, I sign up using green energy for electricity supply to my house, which means the electricity from my house is generated by wind energy instead of fuel. I walk or cycle as long as the journey is not distant. It is true that our existence caused problems for a lot of animals but that is just part of how ecosystem works.

There won’t have any define positive or negative impact. It’s always a little bit of both. It is just a matter of, if it is more towards the negative or positive side. I do consume animals as food but I never buy animal products like skin or horn. I had stop eating endangered animals like shark fin soup! I have participated in many activities that help in the conservation of animals. I personally feel that our existence is to protect them within our ability and not put extra harm on them. But then again, as I said many people might just have a different opinion.

Thanks for reading my blog everyone :)
Some part unintentionally i might bias towards myself haha but i am not exactly an objective person haha sorry...

Exam coming SOON!! (a lucky escape)

sorry people thanks for always checking out my blog but nowadays as exams are coming along i wont be free until the mid nov. so i'll only update again starting from mid nov. please don lose faith in me. keep coming back after mid nov. i'll find a topic that is interesting, in order to not let u guys down:)

Look at the first picture above and you can see where this guy broke through the crash barrier (right side where the people are standing on the road).

His truck left the road, travelling from right to left. He flipped end-over-end, across the culvert outlet and landed on the left side of it.

Now look at the 2nd picture; this person is seriously LUCKY!

HE IS TOTALLY COOL!!!

What My Sister Thinks About ME!!

Something that I find it interesting to share with everyone…the short paragraph below is how my sister describes me on our family blog…hai… here it goes…

Starting with ah jiun (my Chinese name) :
Our dear mei mei joined fitness first (something like California fitness) about 2 wks ago. Day1, she happily went to one of the fitness class, same goes for day 2.... But when day 3 arrived...

EVERYTHING CHANGES~

She has to stop exercising for 3 wks.

Reason?

After 3 days of exercise, she had torn her 'L... (I dunno how to spell the term and she refused to explain to me.... some muscle I assumed). (It was L.I.G.A.M.E.N.T by the way…not a muscle!)

That was news NO.1 about our meimei

Second News...

She is officially gaining weight. AH JIUN is a white-bread (basically FLOUR) addict. One loaf of bread in our house can (AT MOST) last for 4 days because most of the time, we can finish all of them in 2 days time!I am not lying! Even she herself admits that she is gaining weight. Normally when people start gaining weight, they try to get into a diet. Well, our dear sister did try going on a diet. She asked me to cook less for dinner and eat fruits during movies. A healthy, no junk food diet plan!

However.... guess how long it last???

For a person who can never resist snacks temptation, ah jiun diet plan officially lasted for 3 days. Her marketing technique was good though. By day 3, everybody has known about this short-lived diet of hers.
That’s about all the news worthy information about Ah jiun. Honestly, she is not a very interesting person. Her life is her bedroom. She sleeps on her bed and study on her bed. Her only and favourite pastime involves searching the internet for more cartoons. (Its anime, well I guess it really doesn’t make a difference hee :) )

She does not know where the sugar is kept and has no idea that our house has Milo cereal (even though it has been in the kitchen for months!). One morning, when my friend was eating cereal in our house, she asked, “OHH Milo cereal! Where did u get it!!?” >.<

It’s embarrassed to admit but it's entirely true! Oh well what more can I say? My sister understands ME hahahahahha: P

Tulip Farm!

My Holiday to the BEACH!

The Beauty of Art (musical-Miss Saigon)

Miss Saigon, a true legend…
Musical is an art, talent and skill….
No word could be used to express the feeling that one gets through experiencing the incredulity of music…

I was captivated by the beauty of their voice. It was not just a sound. Within that simple tune, there were emotions, countless of emotions that could not be expressed through speech and it’s all shown so clearly through the voice of music.
There were no judgment made, no discriminating, no criticizing… people who were there, purely wanted to enjoy the artistry of musical.

I was mesmerized the instant those melodies reached my ears, “ah…how beautiful was that…” was my first thought. Up until now, I never appreciate the exquisiteness of art. It never occurred to me that a piece of composition could bring out such meaningful story.

Today I had discovered something… something that is precious yet priceless. I have learnt to appreciate the beauty of arts. It leads me to places, stories and feeling I never understood before…through them I experience all the wonders and fantasy that could last me a life time :)

Steve Irwin Anniversary

It’s been a year since we last saw our world greatest
o Naturalist
o Zoologist
o Conservationist
o Television Personality

Steve Irwin…… On September 4, 2006, Irwin was fatally stabbed in the chest by a stingray spine while snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, Ocean’s Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the stingrays. “He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat the Croc One.

During the time when Steve was still around, he was very concerned with the protection of endangered animals and problems related to deforestation which resulted in massive loss of habitat. He considered conservation to be the most important part for his career. Steve Irwin was a passionate conservationist and believed in promoting

environmentalism by sharing his excitement about the natural world with people all over the planet.

Throughout his lifespan he was trying to inspire people into believing that we, humans can play a big part in helping wildlife and that the purpose of our existence is to protect the nature instead of destroying it. He had urged people to take part in considerate tourism and not support illegal poaching through the purchase of items such as turtle shells or shark-fin soup.

I personally feel that Steve’s plays a big role in emphasizing the current situation about wildlife to us. If it wasn’t for him, the situation for those animals might be far worse than what we could expect. If it wasn’t for him to raise the concern about the present situation, many more lives would be destroyed. For that reason, I feel that, we should all give our respect to Steve and not forget all the amazing things that he had done. Because of all the hard work that Steve had done, our world is gradually changing for the better. Steve had granted us a good beginning to conservation and I feel that it is now our turn to continue this believe and end it with a pleasant ending.

IS IT RIGHT TO HUNT?

Hunting is an activities created by our ancestors a long time ago. The purpose of it is to prevent the extinction of humans being. A part of me was grateful for our smartness but the other side of me says otherwise…

Hunting is still an event that is being practiced by human nowadays, but the purpose of it had long evolved into, simply, for the money that is gain from those killed animals or just purely for the pleasure while doing the process.

I could still remember… a couple of weeks back, my friends and I was having some short conversations while waiting for our lecturer to arrive, this is how the conversation goes…

Girl A: so did you do anything interesting last weekend?
Boy A: I went hunting…
(Group woo-ing)
Girl B: wow that’s so cool!
Girl A: so did you gun down anything?
Boy A: yeah! I shot some birds and a dog!
Girl B: wow, how to you feel?
Boy A: OH it was awesome!

Disbelieved with the conversation that we were having, I kept silence. Did he just said “it was awesome?” this was the thought that pass through my mind while my friends continued on to the next topic.

It was then that I realized that human really is an omnivore. Is it really natural instinct that hunting makes our mind and body thrill? I can never…no… I will never want to understand the feeling behind those callous actions! Taking away lives to keep me thrilled and entertained, it is just pure cruelness!

In addition to that, not only do people hunt for pleasure, the main factor that has put numerous animals into the ‘endangered species list’ within these couple of years is due to the fact that increasing number of people hunt for their body part. Skin, horn, fur…you name it… those hunters were blinded by the amount of money they gain from the kill that they had long forgotten about the inhumanness behind it. Is human being really such a barbaric creature?

It is challenging for me in trying to convince people into changing their mindset. Deep within me, I know that having this naïve idea of believing that, ‘maybe my writing is going to make a difference about how people act and behave’, is going to be nothing more than another pointless attempt. Anyone who had tried to persuade others into doing something outré will understand my feeling. This is a fact that i had comprehened a long time ago. I am no one. I’m neither famous nor outstanding...i am really just an ordinary girl…so why should people listen to me? What right do i have or in whose position do i think i am to have these thinking that I might make a difference?

Regardless of all these queries, if I could just make an exception to one person…even if it is just a mere 0.001% chance of me being able to alter a being, that's all it takes for me to give my best shot.

Think about what Steve Irwin, the world greatest wildlife warrior, was trying to express? He went through miles of journey to show the world the amusingness of wildlife, trying hard to abridge the gap between human and other animals, trying to bring across the message that, if you look carefully, we are actually just like any other animals living on this planet! All we are trying to do is just to live our lives to the fullest. Is this a good enough reason to lead us to the elimination of the rest to ensure that we are always the superior one? The answer is simple…no, because, like us, they are giving their best to achieve the same goal. Trying their best to stay alive; trying to survive! To be short, what I’m trying to bring across is that, there will not be any good enough reasons for us to hunt animals.

We cried and mourned after receiving the news about Steve's mishap. We were sad because he was always seemed to be the image representing the wildlife. With his presence, somehow it feels like there is a gleam of hope for the wildlife. The news of his death is almost as if saying that the lifespan of wildlife is soon to be coming to an end.

We were heartbroken when our world greatest hero die. Instead of grieving for him and can do nothing about what had already occurred,why don’t we hold ourselves together and try to fulfil his passion for animals and make this world a more welcoming place to live in?

IF THE BUYING STOPS, THE KILLING WILL TOO!