we'd both read about it in the papers earlier the week, and thought what the heck, it's so darn near our homeplace and it's been darn long too since we'd been to the Green Day celebs at FRIM.. apparently, we'd both been to the celeb days during our kid days.. and i suppose all kids stayin in the area had too... given the proximity of the green lung to our housing estates..
nevertheless... i'd been half expecting a carnival-like atmosphere of some sort there upon reaching at 9-plus. well, at least that was what greeted me during my last visit there, with dad back in primary 5 i think.. i was half looking forward too, to perhaps another shot at taking a rm10 polaroid with an albino phython... for the sake of re-living my childhood ^@^
alas, that didnt happen.
what they had, were some car boot sales (on items like clothes and old issues of Cleo.. well, i hav plenty of those at home too y'know..); some face & t-shirt painting booths catered more for the parent + kid crowd; some booths on eco-natural stuff like some enzyme thingy DIY-ed from leftover foodstuff, which you culd miraculously turn into cleaning agents and even growth-enhancing fertilisers... enterprising ppl all of 'em there i tell you. of course, any events like these could never be short of some radio stations making their mark there, and while we were there, we were entertained by some DJs from red fm... dont really tune in to radio stations these days, but they provided some laughable banters, entertaining nevertheless... and the highlight booth of the booths (to me) was the one by WWF-Malaysia (initially stands for World Wildlife Fund, then changed to the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1987, to reflect on the broadening of their work, and now, simply, more affectionately,.. WWF).
we saw their campaign for pledges on saving the turtles, and also a petition on revamping the current (outdated) wildlife act in malaysia. we wasted no time in putting in our names, in fact, no further explanations nor campaigning be needed to us. we were two very willing pledgers and petitioners right there and then. more info of course, at www.wwf.org.mysince still in the Green Mood.. this, i felt, is just how much (or little?) that i could do on my part..
on highlighting the recent hoo-haa on captive whale sharks across the straits, where they had more than 10K plus of online hits, i was rather dismayed when found that the current online pledges at the WWF website were merely some 4-digits statistics.. pathetically not even tipping over 5,000 pledges. sigh.... still, i do believe we still love our turtles dearly... perhaps i culd blame this all on the lack of awareness and promotional efforts?...
at the WWF booth too, after signing our pledges, we both bought something to show our support to the cause. jamie got some car sticker and some pretty neat collar-pins i believe, while i got myself a simple canvas bag for 18bucks. i too, "pledge" that the next time i go for some light shopping at the local supermarket, i'd refuse their plastic bags and instead practise BYOB (bring-my-own-bag) !
some laudable efforts there eh? but sadly... after our lunch later the day at McDonald's... it didnt occur to me at all to bring the canvas bag along to Guardians, where i did almost some rm100's worth of shopping... =S
well, again, with "better late than never" being my green-mantra,.. i'd promised myself that i will remember to bring my bag along the next time i stop at Jusco @ Desa Park City... =)
until then, do stop by WWF's website and do something there, albeit passively, still, with each pledge/ petition signed, i believe the awareness level will only be heading towards a more positive growth.
way to go!
ReplyDeletehehe.. paiseh~
ReplyDeletebut i promise to live-up to it ok?!
^^