Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over durations ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by dynamic process on Earth, external forces including variations in sunlight intensity, and more recently by human activities. Mostly caused by global warming, global warming is caused by the amout of carbon dioxide increase in the atmosphere, trapping harmful sun ray in the atmosphere. This can cause an increase of sea level when the ice from the poles melt due to the increase of temperature.
We can help make a difference if everyone takes an effort to produce less carbon footprint in our lifes and one way of doing so is by reusing plastic bags instead of throwing them away and by reducing the amount of waste produced, this can help by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide produced.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Confessions of an arachnophobia
I have been afraid of spider ever since I was born I guess, because every time i see one, i some how have this feeling that I must run as far away as I could from this creature. Although I was scared I of, at home, when I see one, I will walk straight to it and kill it, a little cruel maybe but that is what I do when i see one.
Once, in school, my classmate brought a fake spider to class I really freaked me out but I did not panic because if I do they will keep scaring me with it although the 'spider' was full of odd colors’ green, red and yellow but it still scared me. the following day he brought it to school again, I knew that because he took it out after our P.E lesson and guess what later in class he and another friend of mine gang up together to scare me with the spider, maybe is because I told them that I was afraid of spiders once, he threw the 'spider' at me when I was not noticing, luckily it did not hit me if not, I will be so freaked out that I will go running for my life, then he tried to take the 'spider' back and scare me again but I stepped under my shoes, even though I was wearing shoes, I still feel like moving my feet away from it and run away, next, he tried to take it back, but when he approached me, I kick him to the tables and chairs at the corner of the class room at that time, I was sobbing away as I was still stepping on the 'spider'. After I kicked him and fell into those tables and chairs my teacher which was sitting at the back heard the commotion and told the three of us to meet her immediately. We walk towards her and she then asked what was going on over there just now. After learning that I have a phobia of spiders our teacher told the two classmates of mine to not do it again as it might force the person to even die if needed but I do not think that will happen to me, and as for me, I should not have kick him as it my injure or cause internal damage to him as I do learn taekwondo by the way.
After that incident, it does not make me feel better or making me braver to face my phobia. Instead I felt the same as before, scared of that tiny spider still but there is nothing much I could do as there are spiders all around Singapore and I have to meet one sooner or later, in my house or out in this vast world which spiders have lived on this world thousands of years earlier then us, humans.
Once, in school, my classmate brought a fake spider to class I really freaked me out but I did not panic because if I do they will keep scaring me with it although the 'spider' was full of odd colors’ green, red and yellow but it still scared me. the following day he brought it to school again, I knew that because he took it out after our P.E lesson and guess what later in class he and another friend of mine gang up together to scare me with the spider, maybe is because I told them that I was afraid of spiders once, he threw the 'spider' at me when I was not noticing, luckily it did not hit me if not, I will be so freaked out that I will go running for my life, then he tried to take the 'spider' back and scare me again but I stepped under my shoes, even though I was wearing shoes, I still feel like moving my feet away from it and run away, next, he tried to take it back, but when he approached me, I kick him to the tables and chairs at the corner of the class room at that time, I was sobbing away as I was still stepping on the 'spider'. After I kicked him and fell into those tables and chairs my teacher which was sitting at the back heard the commotion and told the three of us to meet her immediately. We walk towards her and she then asked what was going on over there just now. After learning that I have a phobia of spiders our teacher told the two classmates of mine to not do it again as it might force the person to even die if needed but I do not think that will happen to me, and as for me, I should not have kick him as it my injure or cause internal damage to him as I do learn taekwondo by the way.
After that incident, it does not make me feel better or making me braver to face my phobia. Instead I felt the same as before, scared of that tiny spider still but there is nothing much I could do as there are spiders all around Singapore and I have to meet one sooner or later, in my house or out in this vast world which spiders have lived on this world thousands of years earlier then us, humans.
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