WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Do You Know Who I Am?

Way back in September 2009, i was involved in field research with Sabah Museum. On the last day, i was too excited to follow museum staff to see how they set up medium size mammals trap. Along the way, i keep chit chatting with George. He is looking after fish collections at the museum. While talking i notice the movements of greenish thing on the leaves of the small trees on my right side. To be honest i still can't stand snakes. This snake is small and short. It is about 30cm long. And i am scared of it.

So, George catch it with his bare hands. We get the snake and bring it to our friends Pat and Fred. We show the snake to both of them and they not sure what is the species.

When we leave back to our camp and prepare the specimen, they still can't confirm the species. I think i forgot to keep the update from them till today. I am not sure if they find out what species of snake is this. I am no good in snake identification so can't help much.

Till then.

Environmental Awareness Workshop for Youth - Part One

I think i almost forget to share about the green programme that we organized for our youths two weeks ago. Seems to be it was yesterday we finished the training.  Nevermind, allow me to share some of my great moments with them and not so good moments.

It was my first time organized such a programme and it was a bit mess here and there. However, i am grateful because i have colleagues and friends to help me most of the time. Help me with the preparation and support me when i already feel down and thought that i will not make it. Hey guys! Thank you so much for your never ending support (walaupun aku dah macam maok give up dah time ya..huhu).

Get helping hands from youths that participate in our workshop set up the banner a week before the programme started [Thank you Chal, Noel & Etherly for your help]. 

The objectives of this workshop were:

1. To create environmental awareness among youths/students and reinforce responsible behavior that supports a cleaner living environment, sustainable resources, good public health in schools and all surrounding areas.
2. To empower the environmental capacity of youths through activating and acquainting them with their natural environment with various methods to sustain it.
3. To create environmental leaders who can pass on their knowledge and behavior to others in their schools and local society.
4. To develop environmental skills of youths by imparting them with basic knowledge and experiences needed to support environmental conservation and sustainable resources.

Okay, that is the idea why we need this workshop. We need more young generations that sensitive to the environments around them.

Are they really get it? Are they successfully absorb all the information and ideas that have been given to them through this four days workshop? Hmmm..... me, myself wonder what is actually they get from this workshop? 

Sometimes it is easy to explain by words, in our writing or speaking but how about ACTION? Do you think they will practice it? It is difficult when people (especially adults) around you didn't do the things that they told you (youths/students) to do. Am i right? [me, myself still struggling on how to make a difference myself guys, never stop trying, ok].

How about, buying your meals/food (tapau) by bringing your own food container? Rather than using those polystyrene container? Or, bring your own shopping bag to a supermarket rather than using plastic bags? Or, the simple action is to switch off lights for an hour on 27th March 2010 from 8.30pm - 9.30pm? 

From my observation and what i heard from people around me, what was their response to me? They told me this.... "Who cares? Other people also doesn't care about it. Why should i care?".... So, youths/students, when adults saying things like this what do you feel? Do you think you shouldn't voice out your own opinion? Speak up for what you think the right thing to do. Then, YOUR VOICE SHOULD BE HEARD. 

Ok. Till tomorrow. I have lots more to share. Need to have a good sleep tonight for a better fight tomorrow. Night all.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

21 March
World Forest Day

Theme 2010: Save Our Planet

22 March
World Water Day

Theme 2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World

For More Info: World Water day 2010

22 April
Earth Day

Theme 2010: You Matter. It Works
For More Info: Earth Day Network

6 May
Astronomic Day

Theme 2010: .........

22 May 

International Day for Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day)

Theme 2010: Biodiversity, Development and Poverty Alleviation

For More Info: Convention on Biological Diversity

5 June
World Environment Day

Theme 2010: Many Species. One Planet. One Future

For More Info: UN World Environment Day 2010

8 June
World Sea Day
Theme 2010: .......

2 July
World Population Day 
Theme 2010: Responding  to the economic crisis: investing in women is a smart choice

For More Info: World Population Day

15-17 Sept
World Clearance Week
Theme 2010: ...........

16 Sept
International Ozone Day
 Theme 2010: Save O3ur Sky: Ozone Friendly Planet, Our Target

For More Info: International Ozone Day

4 Oct
World Habitat Day
Theme 2010: ......

For More Info: UN-HABITAT: World Habitat day 2009

21-27 Oct
Malaysia Environmental Week

Theme 2010: ......

11 Nov
National Recycle Day

Theme 2010: .........

Support Earth Hour 2010

Earth Hour 2010 is coming our way. What is it about Earth Hour? What is the history behind this movements? 

I myself not really sure what is this all about. Then, tried to figure it our. Doing some search on the net (that is what the technology for)... What did i find out? 

According to the Wikipedia :

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances  for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2010 will take place on March 27, 2010 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time. [Read more at Wikipedia]

The EARTH HOUR LOGO:

So, what holding you back? Together we support this movements and Malaysian let us together switch off our lights at 8.30pm - 9.30pm.... For the sake of our Earth and living things on this earth!

Why This Blog?

Why i come up with the title of My Life Is My Choice for this blog? Okay let me share a little bit story of this blog. My writings is very bad. Grammatical errors is everywhere (and i think i still face the same problem till today). So, i come up with the ideas of blogging. Actually my friend Diana was started first. I saw her do online writing some sort of online diary so i wonder what is that. After a while i tried to discover what is Blogger and then i create this blog. I think it was about two years ago, in 2008. This year is this blog 3rd year anniversary.

Why i choose this title/name? I was thinking of writing about my life at work. During that time, I love my job very much. I like everything that i am doing. Staying in the forest for more than a week. Capturing animals, big and smalls. I just love exploring forests, plantations, rivers...anywhere i can reach. Excited seeing expertise in their own research field. Learn through hands-on experience with them. It was really amazing to work closely with big names, conservationist, ornithologist, biologist, mammalogist, herpetologist etc..... Many more to name them. Those experienced will not easily get and i was so lucky. That's why i wanted to write all of it here in this blog.

However, things change early 2009. I move on with another new job. I can say i totally change my gear from my previous job to this current one. It was two different field. However, my passion about nature, wildlife and forests is still very strong. I still hope that one day i will have another opportunity to switch back to my previous field. This is the reason that i still write about nature, animals, plants, forests, river, waterfalls etc in this blog. I just don't want to change it. So, i keep writing about nature in this blog even though the title is not related to nature. Suppose to be my life at work. Never mind...maybe i will make a little bit changes to this blog. I write more about my activities at work in my other blog Rose's Daily Journal and most of all just rambling and mumblings about my daily life.

Keep on support this blog because i will try my best to keep on talking about nature and other related topics. Still want to share information on the amazing biodiversity of Borneo tropical rainforest.

Till then.

Dry Season & Fire

Almost two months without rain, fire is almost everywhere. We struggle from the haze and the weather is very hot. This pictures i took during the fire somewhere at my work place shows how bad the situations about a week ago.

The sun.....

If you don't know, it looks like a morning dew but it is not. There was a forest fire nearby and it was a haze. 

We are so lucky to have rains for two days yesterday and the day before. The haze is no longer in the air. At least we can breath the clean air for now. 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Crab - Interesting and pretty

It has been three weeks i didn't update my nature blog. Quite busy with my so packed schedule. Works never finish but i need to rest a little bit.

Okay, what interesting creature i want to share today? Look at this picture and i hope you guys can see it....

While bringing youths during our Environmental Awareness Workshop to nearby beach last week, i was attracted to this little creature. I know that my camera is not good enough to capture a good quality photos of this crab. However, i still wanted to try. This one is my first try and i think the shape of this creature shows it is a crab..hehehe...

How about this one? Just nice even though not as good as high tech cameras. Anyway...i am not sure what is the species and any info of this crab. I have no idea. Want to know? Need to look for experts.....