Save The Turtles
A few days ago, i got an email from one of my friends. it went something like this:...just written to Ratan Tata asking him not to go ahead with building a port in Dhamra, Orissa, dangerously close to one of the world's largest sea turtle nesting grounds for the Olive Ridley Sea Turtles ... can't bring about that change alone. I need help from lots of people ...with a link to the site (that you can go to by clicking on the title).
Thanks a million ...
so, if you want to feel proud, you can go ahead and enter your name and email (they say it won't be spammed) and if everything goes as planned, we can hope that all will be well with the world (the turtles', at least).
What you get out of it? Well, you can sleep sound, thinking that you have done your bit for the environment and carry on living your lives as usual.
OR, if that got you started, you could join Greenpeace and do more than your share for the environment.
Not that those are the only choices. You could get some tips from here while you are at it.
That's about it.
(For starters, here is a simple green tip from yours truly: if you carry a kerchief with you for wiping your hands and runny noses, you could save that paper towel or that electricity for the blow dryer.)
That's about it.
(For starters, here is a simple green tip from yours truly: if you carry a kerchief with you for wiping your hands and runny noses, you could save that paper towel or that electricity for the blow dryer.)
Labels: environment, future, green, Greenpeace, life, Olive, Ratan, ridley, Tata, turtles
more blah by me on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | |0 comments | read on
Waiting for Godot
Of the time i have been allocated on this planet, most is spent waiting.Here is a typical day:
- waiting for the car to warm up
- waiting for traffic signals
- waiting in traffic
- waiting for public transport
- waiting for the public transport to reach destination
- waiting for the elevators
- waiting for the machine to boot
- waiting for reply to emails
- waiting for programs to build & compile
- waiting for webpages to load
- waiting for the other party to answer the phone
- waiting for the microwave to warm up food
- waiting for my turn in the queue at the shop counter
- waiting for the coffee machine to brew
- waiting for the time to go back home
- waiting for a gap in vehicles to cross the road
- waiting for someone to open the fron door
- waiting for the tap to dispense hot water
- waiting for food to cook
- waiting for hot food to cool down before storing it in the refrigerator
- waiting for time to pass after dinner so that i can sleep
- waiting for Lord Hypnos to bless me
- ...
If i take a wider view, there are other, err ... events, for lack of a better word (my vocab sux), that i am waiting for.
- waiting for the paycheck
- waiting for the project to end
- waiting for interview calls
- waiting for a good job offer
- waiting for new project to begin
- waiting for some windfall to get latest gadgets
- waiting for 'someone special'
- waiting for a life i'll spend doing things my way
- waiting for the bank balance to get to 'comfortable' levels
- waiting for a peaceful easy life
- ...
I don't mind waiting; just that realising the the futility of it all in the ultimate certainity makes me feel even more exasperated.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock...
Labels: future, life, time, wait
more blah by me on Monday, March 31, 2008 | |2 comments | read on
Imagine...
and this is just the begining; the posibilities are endless ...
Labels: design, future, morph, nano, nokia, technology
more blah by me on Thursday, March 06, 2008 | |0 comments | read on
