Environmental day....

This week marked the World Environmental Day. In conjunction with this event, local newspapers had published a few articles on environmental issues. The current hot topic is global warming; thanks to Al Gore for publicizing his "Inconvenient Truth". Although most of the facts in the documentary are referenced to the National Geography, these issues are no new things for us. We learned it from our science and geography classes. Yet we pay little attention to it.

As the world was created by God for us, shouldn't we pay a little more attention and do our part to reduce the pollution? Preserving our resources will ensure the continuous benefit for us in sustaining life, learning, joy and as a capital. Ultimately we are the beneficiaries. Some individual effort which you can help to contribute:
- recycle your waste. Segregate the organic waste and aluminum can and plastic.
- car pool. Or take public transport.
- reduce usage of electricity.
- plant some plants.

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The wedding of ....

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