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| Monday, October 16, 2006 |
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After iSpark Nite rehersals today, much of our class went to play soccer at the volleyball court (as usual). Except barely fifteen minutes into the game, we were interrupted by Chen Gou (yeah, his name is rather weird) blowing his whistle. Looking back, the reactions of the soccer players were pretty amusing. Some sat at one corner, retending to play/fiddle with their handphones, some grabbed their bags, whereas some (like Bing and HJ) were tucking in their uniform and pulling up their ankle socks. As for me, I was thinking something along the lines of "Oh crap, die liao..." Eventually, after about 5 whistle blows, we finally decided to stroll down to where a crowd of basketballers/footballers were gathering around him. And, he surprisingly didn't scold us. Instead, he gave a some health advisory which you read in the newspapers everyday, something like "The haze is getting worse, the PSI is very high, refrain from outdoor activities, go home." And i was trying to control my sniggering at the back, behind Jiakun. xD But yeah, the haze is indeed getting worse. Every single day this week, the front cover on the Straits Times has been hijacked by reports about how the haze is worsening, how Indonesia is promising to put out the forest fires, how Malaysia is complaining to Indonesia, blah blah. And just a mini-update: the PSI reading in Singapore today reached a high of 130, which is in the unhealthy range, at about 4-5 pm (which was the time we were playing soccer.) But im sure you already know that, judging by how people track the PSI these days. And the haze is getting to everyone. I starting coughing after our soccer match today and my throat felt pretty dry. I suppose its even worse for people with asthmar and other related illnesses. And to think those farmers are doing slash and burn and causing so much frustration in the region, all for money. People are staying at home as if SARS was around, and the health of us folk are being damaged. Sadly, I don't think this issue is going to be resolved anytime soon. Money is the root of all evil, and unfortunately Indonesia is just too big and backward to cope with this evil from those "haze men". But yet, they have no choice but to do that for their own survival as they're just too poor, so I don't really blame them. In fact, no one can be blamed. And thus this haze will probably won't disapear until the forest in Indonesia are gone or something. All because of human nature. |
'Twas teh winnar at 11:23 pm.
