ACTUALLY, WE DON'T CARE
I think most of the people that read me are not actually with me here. So, for your benefit, let me tell you what has been happening here.
Singapore, is going through this strange phenomenon which I somehow do not recall experiencing before. But they tell me here that is an annual issue. You see, this country is now going through a dry spell. Dry not in the way that there is no water - this is an island and it can even make its own water. But dry in the, GOD PLEASE LET IT RAIN!
You see, Indonesia is burning off forests and vegetations (I want to say 'pastures' but there are none left). It seems once a year around this time, the whole nation become pyromaniacs and starts fires in their backyard. We don't really care that its damaging the environment or that it results in soil erotion or that in doing that, the lumberyards are simply getting away with not having to pay for manpower for logging - to clear land for oil palm plantations- what can be done in flames.
What Singapore cares about is that the winds bring that ash over here. It blows all this minute particles which measure less than something they call the 'psi10'. On a regular day, this reading should be around 20-30. Pollution and all that. The last two months have seen it in the 50-60 region and the last two weeks, above psi100. It's like breathing in BBQ smoke except there ain't anything good smelling or to eat.
And since there is no rain and the winds don't change ... it just smothers the country. Gok! gok! gok! My nasal cavity is a tingly saw-paper and my nose a tap. If the rains just came, then all this could be washed away... down the drain... If the winds just changed, then Indonesia can jolly well live in the smog that it insists on creating.
So God, please God, have mercy on us! :-)
Singapore, is going through this strange phenomenon which I somehow do not recall experiencing before. But they tell me here that is an annual issue. You see, this country is now going through a dry spell. Dry not in the way that there is no water - this is an island and it can even make its own water. But dry in the, GOD PLEASE LET IT RAIN!
You see, Indonesia is burning off forests and vegetations (I want to say 'pastures' but there are none left). It seems once a year around this time, the whole nation become pyromaniacs and starts fires in their backyard. We don't really care that its damaging the environment or that it results in soil erotion or that in doing that, the lumberyards are simply getting away with not having to pay for manpower for logging - to clear land for oil palm plantations- what can be done in flames.
What Singapore cares about is that the winds bring that ash over here. It blows all this minute particles which measure less than something they call the 'psi10'. On a regular day, this reading should be around 20-30. Pollution and all that. The last two months have seen it in the 50-60 region and the last two weeks, above psi100. It's like breathing in BBQ smoke except there ain't anything good smelling or to eat.
And since there is no rain and the winds don't change ... it just smothers the country. Gok! gok! gok! My nasal cavity is a tingly saw-paper and my nose a tap. If the rains just came, then all this could be washed away... down the drain... If the winds just changed, then Indonesia can jolly well live in the smog that it insists on creating.
So God, please God, have mercy on us! :-)
posted by The Chilibuddy @ 9:17 pm ::
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