My mom's birthday is coming up this early February. I have to start saving some money to buy some ingredients to bake a simple cake for her. I would also want to experiment with a vegan/vegetarian recipe. Hmm.. see first lah.Finally, I’ve moved to Shah Alam. Packed only bags of clothes and books. No furniture yet. Last Friday was a nightmare as the house was flooded with rainwater. The contractors who worked to renovate the house did a lousy job coz they didn’t make a hole on the newly tiled floor on the balcony of the master bedroom on the first floor. The water from the rain formed into a mini kiddy pool on the balcony and had nowhere else to flow except into the master bedroom. It was a disaster! The water came gushing in none stop and we tried to scoop some of it but to no avail as it rained all night long. So my sis and I decided that the situation of the house was not yet fit to live in. There was a waterfall under the staircase!!! So much of the excitement moving into a new house…
The day turned out to be one of those bad days because I had received a letter from the phone company asking me to pay or get my ass sued! The letter was sent to the new house coz I’ve used the new address in my IC. They tracked me until here!! Talk about persistence! Gosh! That was way in early 2005. Where am I to fork up 600 bucks??! God help me!~
On top of that, after we left the house, we had to walk in the middle of the rain to get a cab. The irritating part was that when we finally got a cab an hour later, the cab driver cheated us by taking us for a spin around another neighborhood and told us that he didn’t know the place and that he was running late to pick up his kid. We were utterly speechless.. He dropped us off to take another cab. We paid 5 bucks. The thing is, the place where we wanted to go was very near and yet he don’t know the place and I thought the places in Shah Alam is easy to remember especially when you work as a cab driver. The new cab driver whom we later took said the previous cab was probably a private cab. That’s why he can do that selamba je to us. Hmm.. pening kepala~
Grrr!! We left it at that and went to the restaurant where we had sze chuan soup to fill our hungry stomachs. Nice and hot to fight off the coldness of the rainy night of frustration and anger.
So on Monday, we cleaned the house. The house is near a field with lots of tall shady trees and shops. I like it because it’s closer to my friends so that we can do more stuff togetha! The other day I went on a bus in Shah Alam and spotted a scribble at the back of a chair that wrote “Tambang mahal, jom naik basikal”. I loved it! I knew instantly who had “vandalized” the bus. <3
I’ve really have gotten a bit serious to stencil stuff and compiling articles/data about enviro. Temporary abandonment of craft projects. I’ve also discovered that I like reading articles off the net on the actual paper rather than read them online. That made me have some kind of weird feeling of guilt of using paper and imagined that I could dumpster from recycle paper boxes from offices to print stuff on them.
I’ve been reading stuff about the carbon trading, carbon colonialism and stuff from Copenhagen conference. It was a revelation for me to find out more on what Malaysia have been doing about the carbon market. Every time I read about climate change or see a docu about it, I would get a funny tingling feeling as to what will happen in the near future. It seems so quite here. No real stories or news about this at all. As though we are blinded by the stuff going on at the top there. The only group I know that is “supposedly” take on the issue is Sahabat Alam but when I went to their website, nothing was being posted about the conference and Malaysia’s involvement in it. It is saddening that the groups here have little capability of taking up this issue when they should.
Quoted from the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law
(http://law.nus.edu.sg/apcel/dbase/malaysia/reportma.html)
"The environmental NGOs in Malaysia face many challenges, chief of which is the difficulty in having their standing to sue (locus standi) recognised by courts. In addition, the NGOs are generally viewed with suspicion and distrust over their perceived "anti-development" positions. NGOs also lack financial, manpower and research resources."
In the article also wrote about PROBLEMS IN IMPLEMENTING ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION
Many articles that I found that are relevant to Malaysia are from FNBKL’s blog and through search engine. Some info I found from Bernama news:
"According to a new report, UN data shows Malaysia’s carbon emissions in 2006 stood at 187 million tonnes or 7.2 tonnes from each Malaysian. Even though Malaysia’s emission is less than neighboring Indonesia, the world’s third largest emitter with 2.3 billion tonnes or 10 tonnes per capita, Najib has been reported to have said that all nations must contribute."
There were no real feasible solutions from the Copenhagen conference but to keep the carbon emission issue under the carpet so that the corporations can keep their business as usual. Under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) an over-developed country’s corporations can offset their carbon emissions by paying less-developed countries to protect their forests. This scheme is very “licik” as it doesn’t solve the climate crisis but divert it to make it as though the corporations are doing their part.
Dengan scheme REDD, negara membangun seperti Indonesia dibayar untuk menjaga hutan mereka sementara negara seperti Australia (negara maju) boleh meneruskan perniagaan mereka seperti biasa yang mengeluarkan gas karbon pada kadar yang sama. Penyelesaian cara begini tidak berkesan kerana walaupun hutan menyerap karbon tetapi tidak selamanya dan hanya didalam tanah sahaja ianya disimpan selamanya. Proses tumbuhan dan pereputan secara semulajadi melepaskan semula karbon ke dalam atmosfera. Tambahan pula perjanjian REDD akan menguggat kehidupan 1.6 billion penduduk yang bergantung dengan hasil hutan akibat penswastaan tanah pusaka dan sekaligus menafikan hak orang asal atas tanah mereka. Kerana REDD mendefinasikan tapak penanaman mono-culture sebagai hutan, kemungkinan besar meninngkatkan lagi pembalakan di hutan asli dan merisikokan pelimpahan permit offset yang murah ke dalam pasaran karbon yang mana akan melambatkan aksi sebenar dalam usaha menyelesaikan krisis cuaca. Ini adalah dipanggil carbon trading dan sekaligus menjadi carbon colonisation! CRAZY!!!These are some sites that I found useful to read
http://www.sydney.foe.org.au/news/new-report-released-what-scam-australia%E2%80%99s-redd-offsets-copenhagen (thanks Luka for sharing this link)
http://www.redd-monitor.org/ (thanks Luka for sharing this link)
http://www.anarchiststudies.org/node/309
http://www.walhi.or.id
http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/top-20-greenhouse-gas-emitters
http://mockmeat.wordpress.com/
http://jura.org.au/mutiny
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=463275
http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/climate.php
http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/23236
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=465537
http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/greenscared.php
MALAYSIA : http://law.nus.edu.sg/apcel/dbase/malaysia/reportma.html
MALAYSIA : http://en.cap.org.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=3
MALAYSIA bikes: http://en.cap.org.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=197&Itemid=15
http://en.cap.org.my (search for climate crisis / Copenhagen)
Okay totally out of this topic (penat dah). I will write my two cents later.. As I’m writing this, I’ve been spending 2 days at my friend, Hana’s house. We’ve been playing Café World on Facebook. That was really fun. We had decorated my virtual café. It’s called **~Kedai Manis~** (I dunno why I write this here) It was just the things I did today besides reading up on the climate crisis stuff and chilled with my buddy.
Hmm.. that’s all for today. I need to get the leaflet for cyclist done soon. I wish I can do stuff with Photoshop. I need to learn! Can’t wait to see Mono this Saturday!~
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