Friday 28 March 2008

MC having mood swings

okay so as everyone know that MC is supposed having Spring - beautiful sunshine and lush greens. The weather for the past 2 days was great, i actually perspired a little. How little did I perspire? I dont want to go into details of the volume of the droplets.


But today the weather was horrid man, at 12 noon where incandescent sunlight was supposed to great me, I was faced with a blanket of dark clouds that engulfed every inch of the sky - no sunlight could pass through. And for the first time, I actually was caught in a very light shower when i was walked to class for my afternoon lessons. It was so cold that I could see vapour when i breathe out. evidently, the sight of vapour exiting from my mouth has ceased to amaze me, now its an indication of how many layers do I have to wear to face the confused climate of MC.


so tonite, my classmates decided to go chill together with 2 of our teachers. too bad i didn't bring my camera so i didnt have any pictures. something i realised about lunching with koreans is that they are really noisy at the dinner table - boisterous laughter coupled with jugs of alcohol. It was great fun hanging out with people form different origins. Through this dinner, my perception towards some of them has changed for the better. Though they maybe real lazy to not do their assignments, but that doesnt make them bad just that they indulge in fun and games a little too much.



So I was supposed to write out any article on the newspaper which I thought would be interesting. So I ended up with this one, it speaks of how a glass of coffee actually requires more water than you were to bathe. The article delves into the amount of water required to sustain the coffee plant prior to production of coffee powder/beans and how much water does the machinery for the production of the powder/beans require. It also speaks about the amount of water used in production for beef. After reading this article, I gained a fair amount of insight and definitely would not look at food superficially.

The journalist then ends off with " So will you cut down on coffee powder and beef."

Okay look, I mean yeah its great to let people know about how much resources it takes to meet up with our dietary wants but is water really that much a deal to actually change our diet? What huge amounts of water we may have used with regards to production of beef/coffee is not irrecoverable, I believe the journalist should have heard of something like evaporation and condensation or RAIN at the least. I felt that he should actually tabulate his findings on the amount of money needed to get the water and the amount to sustain a factory for coffee reproduction. I could just imagine him writing "will you now take public transport?" if he wrote an article on pollution.

So I wrote my paper on how the journalist should have approached his case since his last line ruined the entire essence of the paper. It should be "will you look at potable water the same way again?"
Okay so now my mother is back is here in beijing. I hope I survive the weekend.

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