Jesshosy's Notes

In line with the fight against global warming, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called on Malaysians to switch off all non-used lights for an hour, from 8.30pm-9.30pm on March 28 (Earth Hour).

This campaign was initiated in 2007, Australia. In 2008, many countries including 35 official flagship cities and also 400 supporting cities have participated in this campaign.

As for Malaysia, I believe it would be the first to be held in big scale. As off today, many iconic landmarks such as KLTower, Angkasapuri, Sunway Pyramid, MidValley Megamall, etc., in Malaysia have pledged their commitments for the ‘Earth Hour’ campaign.

The benefits of this campaign is obvious – energy saving -> reduces CO2 released -> reduces global warming. The amount of energy saved just in 1 hour by switching the lights and non-used electricity off, is quite alarming. Here are some figures from various countries which have participated in this campaign before:

• “Toronto saved 900 megawatt-hours of electricity. 8.7% was saved if measured against a typical March.”
• “Ireland, as a whole, had a reduction in electricity use of about 1.5% for the evening.In the three-hour period between 18:30 and 21:30, there was a reduction of 50 megawatts, saving 150 megawatt-hours, or approximately 6 tonnes of carbon dioxide.”
• “In Dubai, where external lighting on several major city landmarks was turned off and street lighting in selected areas was dimmed by 50%, the Electricity and Water Authority reported savings of 100 megawatt-hours of electricity.”
• “The best result was from Christchurch, New Zealand. The city reported a drop of 13% in electricity demand.”
• “Melbourne, Australia saved 10.1% of electricity. Sydney, being the city that participated both 2007 and 2008 Earth Hour, cut 8.4% electricity consumption.”

So friends, what are you waiting for, let’s switch off our lights too.

For more info about Earth Hour:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour
http://www.earthhour.org/
http://thestar.com.my/

Couple of months back, my little puppy, ‘Icy’ (White Miniature Schnauzer ) was sick.  She discharges blood during urination. The problem lasted for a month until the second visit to the doctor suspected that it could be urinary tract infection. However, since it has been quite some time, we decided to bring her to the animal hospital in UPM. Upon X-Ray confirmation showing existence of a few stones in her bladder, we were directed to a private vet hospital in Brickfields (due to hospital bed were full for another 2 weeks).

We admitted her there for 3 days. The surgery was a success and the vet removed 4 big stones from her bladder. But, the cost is not cheap – about RM1k.

The stones removed from her bladder

Anyway, we’re glad she’s back home safely. She’s a little weak for the first couple of weeks though. But now, she’s definitely as active as she was before this.

Doctor had advice us take good care of Icy’s diet. Now, we have to avoid giving her any sort of doggy tit-bits (because it is extremely salty) and any human food except fruits. According to the some scientific source, small breed dogs such as (miniature schnauzer, pug, pekingese, yorkshire terrier) are more prone to bladder stones. So those of you my friends who have been keeping small breed dogs, remember to not give salty food to your puppies. Give them more water and encourage them to do lots of exercises. May your beloved puppies always stay healthy too.

I happen to received this shocking news today…The earthquake in CHINA was claimed to be human planned and caused by the HAARP weapon.

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), jointly funded by the United States Air Force, the Navy, the University of Alaska and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), uses large antenna to beam high radio frequency into the atmosphere. The energy created energy (in BILLIONwatts) by the HARRP antennas have the capabilities to destroying missals, modifying weather, and also lifting a portion of the outer atmosphere further up into space.

Just imagine the power of this destructive weapon, HAARP…Perhaps this is one of the most powerful modern-age warfare instrument.

Today, 6 June 2008 is the World Environment Day. Let’s us all do some part in this meaningful day. Little things that YOU AND ME CAN DO today:

1) Reduce plastic bag-If you are purchasing something from the grocery or the supermarket, try to not take so much of plastic bags from them. If the purchased product can be carried without a plastic bag – Just do it.

2) Reduce paper - Let’s just recycle the white paper that we are doing. Print on both sides.

3) Turn off the lights, PCs and other electrical appliances when you are not using it.

These are only selected things that most of us might not be aware off. You can also check out for more tips at: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/envirotips/tips_spring.htm

Your contribution towards making the earth a better place for all of us will definitely help in curbing global warming.

Somebody forwarded this into my mailbox…I think it’s really cute…