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Thursday, June 16, 2005

*[[ TALK ]]*

Last evening I went out with about 10 other envcomm people (Margaret, Meiling, Yawen, KaiWei, Mark, Xuan Yi, KangJie, JiaYun, Sharon, and someone I recognise but duno her name! oopss..=x) for a talk at NUS..The talk was not bad..It was about the history, ecology and the state of the world's oceans by TP Hughes. (He looked like he was frowning throughout the whole talk lol..) Don't think anyone managed to understand everything coz they used lots of jargon! ahh. I never knew that over-fishing was so severe. But at least the situation has improved slightly with the increase in awareness of the effects of over-harvesting. yeah.More action has to be taken.Many corals have become endangered such that the oceans have lost the 3-dimensional structure of the coral reefs, which also accounts for the decline in the number of fish. There are bascially three distinct phases in which the ecosystem is destroyed. Firstly, there will be the loss of macrofauna, followed by the loss of the ocean's structure (e.g. corals, kelp forests), and lastly the rise of pests due to climatic changes, which will lead to a rise of marine diseases. Hopefully we can reverse this in the next decade or so. I love the Great Barrier Reef and I seriously don't wish for its beautiful coral reefs to turn into a mass of seaweed! =(

Anyway we met Mark's mother after the talk..so he decided to treat us to sugar cane juice with lemon. So sweet of him huh!~ THANKS MARK!!! =D heez. then we got bored and played catching with some kids at the playground for one minute. wOw. And gave them sweets afterwards. HAHA. ok I was so embarrassed that all I could do was stand at the side and watch and laugh and shout that we're from W.I. (waffles institution)! ok that's being mean. But can't help it.. =p haha...anyway envcomm's going to ECP this Saturday! I'm sure we'll have lots of fun! YAY!! =D

~.*hUiYiNg*.~ says Amen. @ | Thursday, June 16, 2005

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