A New Day

It was a little earlier than the usual, Jonny woke up with a fresh motivation. He became thirty-nine years old today, and he knew what to do for his last year of the thirty's.

Jonny is a staid and stodgy man who lives with his wife and their two daughters. They live in a modest and frugal lifestyle in a seaport town of a southern island. He had been working hard every day for a better future of his family. He could ever hardly make time for himself.

His mind was made up.


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Maze

What would you do if you didn't have fear? *
The fears often come from own negative imagination.
The fact that facing or the reality coming later may not be as bad as imagined.
If an unconscious imagination cannot stop picturing the worst case,
perhaps, that's because you are careful person.
Set yourself a third person for now... then ask,

"What would you do if you didn't have fear?"


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* REFFERENCE
a phrase "What would you do if you didn't have fear?" is sited from:
Johnson, Spencer M.D., 1998, Who Moved My Cheese

Experiments of Your Life

Life is experiment.

If you don't know what to do, just do whatever.

And then see the outcome to determine whether if you would do again or never.

Don't be afraid of failing because nobody can teach you except yourself.

First, listen, read, and touch. Next, speak up, write, and do.

Getting used to it is the only way to make an impossible to a possible.

"Custom reconciles us to everything."

Cheers.


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Atlantis

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Atlantis is not somewhere else but could be in our close future.

The increase of CO2, carbon dioxide, in our atmosphere is causing a global warming that leads climate changes all over the world. Many scientists and climate experts are claiming 350ppm concentration of CO2 in the greenhouse gases of our atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity but currently is already up to nearly 390ppm.

The greenhouse gases are important for us because when we receive the heats from the sun, the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere prevent them going out to the space, and keeps them on earth to provide warmth for living creatures to survive; in other words, without greenhouse gases, a lot of creatures will die because the average air temperature on earth will be around -18C. However, what we are facing now it this precious gases are continued to being thick, or we can say condensed , the heats are overly staying on earth and that is causing the global warming.

It is because 70% of the greenhouse gases are CO2, and its emission has been increased since 18th century after the human started to rely on the fossil fuels for their energy. Majority of the CO2 are created when we create the energy from oils and coals. Most significantly, one research showed that among the over 190 countries, only few countries are high emission countries such as America and China, almost 40% of all the emission, and followed by Russia and Japan, nearly 10% of all. And another research shows the average emission for per person in the developed countries like America, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Russia, German, Japan, UK, Italy and France are 3 times more than the one in the developing countries. It is clear that the people in some countries are using much more energies on their livings than the others...

Here are some of the possible effects of the global warming:

1) Glaciers
Glaciers everywhere will melt and disappear faster. This invokes the loss of land and lack of drinking water. For the island countries, loss of land means a loss of country. And source of many headwaters of rivers or spring waters, those provide us drinking water, are the glaciers.

2) Plants & Animals
The ecosystem will be damaged. When the ocean temperatures become higher, many marine species, for example corals, will have difficulty surviving. All in all, the ocean will not absorb CO2 as much as before. The animals will relocate to find the new land with enough food but some could not find a new home will be disappear from the earth. The mosquitoes pandemic will distribute new diseases to the countries where used be a cold weather.

3) Human
The effect on agriculture will be obvious. The farmers are hard to predict the weather, temperature, as a result, they cannot utilize the existing farming routine or methods, as well as the product to grow will be limited. In addition, the increase of natural disasters promotes increase of diseases, deprivations and depressions in human societies.

The first step is, I think, to know it better..

WWF International
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/

COP15
http://en.cop15.dk/

350.org
http://www.350.org/about/science

... and discuss with your friends & family.

Celebration

This is one of my memorable photos taken at my previous workplace, in Dubai. It was March, 2008, if I remember correctly, we were celebrating the completion of installing the first 10 km of the Dubai metro Red Line. Most of the workers were from Pakistan, India, Philippines, and Thailand. Their camp was next to the site office where I worked, and we had chatted about their culture, religion, family and many many things. We were all quite different but had same target and assigned duties respectively for the goal. It was such a wonderful experience and would like to share, at least, their passion through the photo.


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For the brothers.

Footstep

Satomi is twenty five years old. She has been having difficulty communicating with people. It always comes all of the sudden after she encountered a big shock. She lose her word and become unable to open her mouse until her fears go away. Sometimes for a week, sometimes for months. She has one friend called Hikaru and is the only person she can communicate while she is mute. Hikaru has lots of friends but Satomi is also very special person to him. Her sensitivity and strength are unlike any other that he admires more than anything else. The lights glitters in the dark. The shadow born from the light.


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Awkward

I just wanted to make her happy. Like always, I let her down. How long have we been felt this way? When she wants to have a Chinese dish, I want to have a Indian dish. When I send her a dozen of roses, she said she has allergy to rose. She told me to call her, but she doesn't pick up the phone when I call her. Where on earth can handle this difficult woman. I am wondering if I really should marry to.


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Siam4

Why is this city always crowded? Is there any other road? She was panic about being late because she felt that her perfect first date is vanishing. Shoot, I shouldn't have gotten change. Just one of those things, the taxi driver. I know I know I know I know... oh pls Bob Marley help me I know but we ain't even started.


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Many Thanks

Till the silence returns, he sits still and
calmly waiting for the progress.
Get himself under control without
glamorizing what his senses capture.
His ability to endear himself is
what he has bred in the bone.

I asked "Why are you so kind?"
He said "Take a turn."


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Escape

"CK Escape", unforgetable scent. My wife's favorite perfume since 1991. I never imagined that I can find this comfort after its boom faded away. But it was not only the cent. The beautiful stranger walk past had almost same hight and curves. Am I dreaming? The crowds gave her a chance to escape from my eyes.


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Calvin Klein Escape For Her
This feminine scent contains a blend of apple, mandarin, rose, plum, peach, and top notes of musk and sandalwood. Escape contains more unusual fruits, such as lychee, and less traditional floral overtones, such as French Marigold, osmanthus and the tartness of carnation.