Tofubox's First Assignment

Yay! Our first assignment!

Tofubox was tasked to help out in a corporate's "save the environment" activities.

The day began with the members from the corporation cleaning up West Coast Park by raking the leaves and clearing up the rubbish. Everyone was pretty enthusiastic at first but I guess the novelty died down pretty fast as people start to hang around and chitchat.

Raking leaves in West Coast Park

After the cleaning up, there was a little lecture on how to save the earth. Members of the corporate took turns to present and they did a pretty good job with all the charts, puppet and other visual effect.

A "penguin" giving his views on how to save the earth

Then comes the games segment. We introduced a game called "Water is precious" where everyone's gotta top up a glass from a bottle of water without having their hands on the bottle. The game is meaningful because it really requires everyone to work together. We had plans to make it more difficult by making everyone throw the bottle into the recycling bin before they can proceed to the next bottle but seeing so many kids around, we had to modify.

Having fun

The day was hot but we hope everyone had a good time.

Earth Hour 2009 Singapore

It has been a month since my last entry. I took a bet, lost and was banned to pen any entry. Ok, kidding. I was simply too busy, lazy and tired to write.

Anyway, Earth Hour 2009, which was on the 28 Mar, has passed. So how did Singaporeans fare?

A trip down Orchard Road did not show any difference from the other days(or nights). But we had a pleasant surprise at Tiong Bahru Plaza. Shops like The Pasta Shop and Coffee Bean actually made the effort to switch off their lights durin Earth Hour.

The Pasta Shop at Tiong Bahru Plaza

We proceeded to the neighbourhood, hoping to capture on video the effect of many lights turning on after Earth Hour. It didn't turn out the way we were hoping for though, but still we did managed to catch a few households switching on their lights after the clock struck 930pm. Probably some of the households got so used to having their lights off that they couldn't be bothered to turn them back on.

Lights off at Jalan Membina

Proud of my mum and dad too. They also did their part for Earth Hour.

Verdict of Singapore Earth Hour 2009:

6/10 marks = Not bad but could have been better.

See ya next year in Earth Hour 2010.