Archive for February, 2008

Gaining and losing weight

Monday, February 11th, 2008

                            

After Chinese new year, I found myself putting on some weight, mind you it just the fifth day with the sweet BBQ pork meat and other tibits.it seems unevitable that I need to lose weight fast.
Many people seems to take medical leave cause of stomach upset due to overeating which is never a good practice.The Oil economy has done her job of feeding masses with rich food.Obesity tends to be the norm in the developed parts of our world raising a generation of consumers of food that hardly knows where the supply and process of the calories comes from except in supermarkets.

Sedentary living in the cities make things worse for us taking in so much high calorie meat based diet without working off like running daily will take a toil in our health.Ok..that’s it I’m hitting the pool to swim it off

Celebrating lunar new year!

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

                            

It’s one of this day again celebrating Chinese lunar New year again down here in Singapore.With lion dancing and gluttony for the next few days for the chinese community here.

Weird though it’s more of a village celebration with the lions scaring off the evil spirits in the chinese folklore but now the art spread to most urban cities with chinese populace when celebrating the spring festival.

I’ll be back on next monday but would not expect any heavy eating as I believe it’s bad for one’s health, days of poor villagers scraping for a good meal for the whole family during New Year has become endless dining for fine gourmet which I think defeats the meaning of the family gathering , I don’t mind more red packets though:)

Friendship

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

                                  

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”

Cheap Oil coming to an end?

Monday, February 4th, 2008

After the first month of 2008 and now the first monday of february, one would think about how come the 100USD Oil barrel price is not broken and often the oil barrel supplies come to mind.If the decline of supplies continue than the price will shoot off the roof, this is a rational outcome as one guess if the saudis are cooking the numbers about the actual supplies.

After 911, it seems that there are 2 topics that’s bugging the minds of the public unless you stay in the middle east like UAE then maybe you will be prone to this problems.They are both terrorism and peak oil,it seems both are unrelated but a closer look they are unidentical twins.

Big powers like USA and China import Oil for their energy consumption and when Bush cited the addiction of Oil from Americans, we know the terror scenerio in the mid east that spread worldwide are more or less sponsored by petro dollars.So as Peak Oil is an impending crisis, terrorism will rise as oil prices goes up ,the sponsors will continue and expand the funding reaching a point when the world cannot ignore the threat happening at their backyards and grassroots public will start demanding their governments to be accountable of the actions of the terror misdeeds.

2020 seems far from the horizon but many uncertainty of events can happen in the following 12 years.The Hirsch report came to some conclusions about peak oil which I will go over the few key points:

a)Peak oil production will happen and will be abrupt and definitely highly disruptive to our modern way of life.

b)Intervention by the States will be required

c)Trillions of dollars will be employed to deal with the problem

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