Tzu Chi Love Charity Fair 2011

heya~

It's 2011 and Tzu Chi is organising a charity fair for 15.1.2011 and 16.1.2011!
The venue is located just right next to Pasir Ris MRT and I'm sure you'd be able to see it when you turn right from the MRT ticket check-out counter.
What I want to say is, I'm seriously impressed with this!

All the stalls (bout 50 stalls!) were sponsored, tables and chairs, whatever you find there, all were fully sponsored! You can find a variety of food (all vegetarian!) from sushi, chicken rice, rojak, lontong, to pastries and ice creams). I would say, many of those were really yummy~

They promoted  vegetarian food as less meat consumption could significantly harm the earth less. So, eating vegetarian is not only healthy, prevent animal cruelty but also being able to contribute positively to the environment! They have pledges around too, and I'm pledging 5-meals of vegetarian a week. In fact, I've been trying to pledge on this lately (bout one month plus ago, hehe) but I'm just trying my very best at the moment)

What amazed me more is with super high technology, those recyclable PET plastic bottles (those drinking water bottles that we buy now and then) were all fully utilised by the Tzu Chi volunteers in Taiwan to save the environment, by turning them into clothes! Can't believe it? Check this out!

Green colour comes from green 7-ups PET bottles

 

coffee colour from coffee

All from:

left (bottle) to right (thread!)

All these products were made from Taiwan's dumps by Tzu Chi volunteers (@ Taiwan based) through the following love and hard work: From those PET bottles that we recklessly dumped into recycle bins without proper cleaning:

1. caps removed 
2. ring removed (ring of the water bottles, which consists of different material/ colour) 
3. labels removed
4. washed properly (many people who have the 'heart' to recycle never wash their bottles prior to dumping those into recycle bins!)
5. sent for recycling

So, the message here is: Please clean your PET bottles before recycling! It saves much of their hardwork in doing these!
 Thank you!!

They also introduced the production of eco-enzymes.
In fact, my mom has been practicing this at home for more than half year and the product can be so multipurpose- from dish washing, floor cleaning, clothes washing, to skin treatment!!
My mom’s friends are also promoting this awareness among housewives to prepare these and dump it into rivers with high pollution.
Can suddenly feel that the love for the earth has increased tremendously eh?? :D

Well, if you’re wondering how to produce eco-enzymes:
This is it:
(very simple)

1. Stock up brown sugar
2. Throw any leftover food in the bottles (any fruits skin, vegetables leaves, etc, usually vegetables and fruits but not meat)
3.  Remember to have sufficient brown sugar to be utilised by the fermenting bacteria to produce eco enzymes
4. After 2 months, yay, you can use these!! They're odourless, non-sticky and trust me, really useful in anything =) 

It's so much better than using detergent which is harmful to our skin, and polluting to the environment too!

So long~

Did you know?

Singapore Science Centre

My previous trip to SSC was an eye-opening one, but my system (that's me!) had been lagging enough to post this up..

Well, it wasn't that I was lazy but these few weeks had been one of the most 'coping-up-with-life-but-not-doing-that-well weeks'. So many sad events had taken place that I wasn't really in the mood of writing anything..

Anyway, life has to go on no matter what happens. Be it you want it or not. So, instead of mourning or being more sad, I choose to go on with a better perception of life.

So ta daa~~ my belated Science Centre Visit...here you go!

This was taken during the lining up to buy the admission tickets.

We've noticed that the mirror could shield the operator directly from any err..saliva that might be sprinkled out by customers. As you know, this shield also means that we can't hear much of what she's saying so she had to use a microphone and a speaker to transmit it to us.. Well, science really does help and applied at this Science centre.

I remember going to some places in which we had to "huh??" whenever there's a mirror shield because we can barely hear what the other party is talking about.

JK the Magician

Actually, the Magic show was quite okay- at least there were performances that did entertained us. For example, he managed to hold a rope with one hand. If only I get to touch it and see if there's a steel in it...It looked so rigid!

The Lightning effects

You get to press a button and the miniature lightning will appear.

High technology kids' games

At this I-space section, which was also my favorite section of all, you can see various high-technology gadgets. For example, this game whereby small kids can roll the dice and the game will proceed in the monitor. There were also some other games such that is similar to Wii, but you use your hand as a weapon (in those war-laden games) or as tools, or even this one, below:-

Our hand acts as a cursor to move the slides on the huge screen!

Imagine those times when you are lazy to move your hands for exercising, this is when you can burn some calories! Yup, since futuristic gadgets will tend to make human less need for movements and work (reminiscing WALLE).

This one really 'awwwwwwed' me to the max!!

In this mini studio, you get to experience the TRUE HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO SYSTEM!
Just sit comfortably on the chair and you get to click on a remote control placed nearby for whatever movie that you are interested in. We chose classical music and the effect was "Wowww!"

You can really feel as if you are in a symphony orchestra., especially with the huge screen and in this cozy room. Imagine if you're watching a thriller movie..I bet you really can't sleep that night.

There was another section at the Human Body Section that did amazed me for the wonderful 3D show. After wearing the black shades, we get to see how virus invades our body cells and stay in our DNA and continue replicating. It was nice and interactive.

That was all. There was a section that we've missed going- the ecology park. Maybe at the next round ;)

So long~~

Attracted!

It was a really hot afternoon too. We sat outside the lecture hall waiting to go in for the 4pm class yesterday.

While munching my fruits snack, my attention was suddenly captured to ..

To a gorgeous white car!

Placing my bag on the bench, I walked like a zombie towards the parking lot, which was about 100 m away. Well, there was a dustbin there, and I could walk towards the bin to throw my food package and to see what car was that. *spy*

I knew it was a Mitsubishi car but the model..I don't know.
The sunlight was shining so brightly that I couldn't see its model name from where I was sitting initially.

Better grab this chance and see nearer;P

And, ta daaaa..... It's a COLT! Wow!!

And it's expensive too, far more than my dream car.. =.=

Oh well, back to class..

So long~~

Life choices

Yes, life choices.
She was worried but she accompanied me while I ate.
In return, I accompanied her until she made one of the largest choice in her life- to choose a pHD topic and a good supervisor in 30 minutes' time.

It was a life choice but she had to choose that fast.
And I've contributed slightly while enjoying the process at the same time.
It was an eye-opener to me. I did not know that they are doing extensive research in bioengineering. WOW. I was seriously amazed with those works.

You know, how engineering is used to combine cells? Or tendons, or ligaments?
Or in curing scarring as scarring could obstruct biochemical systems?
Or how you modulate tissues so that it could be used biologically?
This is what I call science. And contribution to mankind. I could feel the surge of interest when I read it. Really, it's marvelous!
And there were lots, lots more..

The advancement in technology is great:)