Finally we are in year 2009 with one small catch though, the lunar calendar is still very much the Rat year, not Ox until the 26th of this month. But psychologically, it's still a relief and hopefully the bad of 2008 have left us all 2 days ago.
All over the world, cities welcomed 2009 with huge displays of fireworks - which coincided with the start of the smoking ban in more public spaces. I wonder if people who are screaming "YAYY" or those who came up with this idea, gave a thought to that 10 minutes of shooting fireworks on our National Day, Chinese New Year and New Year contributed to more air pollution than whatever bans they have so far implemented here for smokers. After the fireworks display, the trail of smoke is so obvious in the dark sky, yet I haven't heard a single person complain about keeping our air clean - how convenient for basic humans to only notice when they are not being inconvenienced - how convenient for basic humans to support any ruling that doesn't affect them directly.
I was watching all the clips of new year celebrations and cannot help but think about why this necessity to spend too much money to ruin our already sick planet and her air. Do we need to welcome the new year with a bang? Are we so lame that we need to light up the sky, pollute the air before we are able to loose our minds and enjoy the evening?
There is something obviously wrong with humans here who on one hand runs an ad to save our air by implementing more bans for smokers and then goes right ahead to smoke out the Marina Bay - and within the same time frame, all smokers who lit up at the same time, couldn't have contributed this much of damage to our environmental air for days!
Goes to show, just how lame things really are - happy new year.
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