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The Tweleve days of Global Warming.

Seriously I wonder why I should say more. Global warming is upon us and if we seriously don’t do something now well, there goes 7 oceans rising. 5 drowning polar bears. The two melting ice caps. 8 floods. 9 hurricanes. But the 12th one was the best. So don’t want to all of a sudden stop global warming when you see the ocean about to smash your house.

There is Hope.

Sometimes I wonder if I need to really say more but for those who aren’t convinced read on.

No. You know what. I have nothing else to say. That short and creative video said it all. Don’t believe me? Play it again.

Australia Trip 08: Entry 11- The GREAT BARRIER REEF

(Warning: This post may be long and rant-y)

Alright, I am in Cairns and all this time I’ve been spelling it Kanes. Dumb, dumb, dummy me…my mum wasn’t surprised though. I have always…always sucked at spelling. Oh well.
Cairns by the way is nothing like Tasmania. It is a lot warmer. A whole lot warmer. Trust me. When they say Cairns is the sunny state, boy do they mean it. They really do! It is so sunny. Its like…woah…sun…
I love it. I can finally wear the pair of shorts I brought . I just wore it once though. I got here yesterday.
Alright. I just want to say that all pictures and images or the great barrier reef are beautiful but in my opinion they are a crime. Call me crazy but that is what I think. You see, the reason why all the photos taken of the Great Barrier Reef (expect may be the ones taken from outer space) are a crime is because none of them, NONE of them capture the true beauty of the reef. It is breath-taking but then that is rather dangerous because the moment you’re in the water and you’re snorkeling or diving and the reef takes your breath away…you’re going to drown… I’m just being silly. The reef is absolutely gorgeous. No photo of the reef does it any justice, if you ask me. The reef is beautiful and I think I said that about 3 times in 3 different ways. But then again, there is seriously no other way to describe the reef. I don’t have the words to describe it. May be my vocabulary may be a little faulty but honestly. Sigh. I recommend you all see it before it dies, which according to scientist it will in about 20-25 years due to…well you know. The big G.W. … Global Warming….never mind.

If you do get the chance to see the Great Barrier Reef, please book Reef Experience or Reef Encounter. Don’t bother with ANYTHING else. It is entertaining and it offeres scuba diving and snorkeling.However, if you are suffering from any of their listed medical conditions ( like I was) then you may not be allowed to scuba dive   but that is due to medial issues and unless you want to risk your life seeing the reef up close, go ahead.

You don’t need to go scuba diving to see the reef up close. I snorkeled and I was so close to everything. The reef can be quite shallow however please don’t step on anything while out there. You’ll kill how-many-tens-of-thousands-of-years worth of creation. The corals and fishes that are nearer to the surface are more colourful and there is a wide variety. You might mistake the corals deeper to be dead but honestly, they’re not. They just look that way due to the bad lighting situation AT THE OCEAN FLOOR! I’ve read about light and the different colours penetrating in the sea water but to bore you with that would be a crime. It just gets darker as you go down and colours seem darker.

I could just go on and on and on and on about the great barrier reef but I don’t want to spoil it for you. That would be a crime, just like all the images of the Great Barrier Reef. I just like to end off by tell you that there are GIANT CLAMS, and SHARKS and Hump-back Parrot fish oh and normal Parrot fish and I named on Skippy and ….and…blah..blah..blah…

Take care,
Cheyenne Phillips

lets see how green can do for us

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What are you missing out on?

In every country, in every state, in every city and in every neighbourhood, you have people who feel that they have seen everything about that area. You are one of those people. Don’t lie. Down the road there’s the basketball court where some guys play B-ball almost everyday. The mall has the ‘cutest’ shop wear you buy all your clothes. You know who are your rivals and where not to hang out in order not to get bashed up.

I’m not going to lie.  I thought I knew a lot about Singapore. (It is so small!!!). I knew the best shopping malls. I knew where to keep out. I knew where the best food was and so on. That was until today. My mum was driving me and a friend and a teacher back from a competition. We were driving through little India. I have not been to that area before, I think. I remember driving through it a couple of times but I haven’t really walk through the streets. I felt like a tourist, pointing out things I have not seen. I thought I knew what there was need to know. Apparently there is alot more.

Look around your neightbourhood or city. What are you missing out on?

Words; suffering and benifits

The other day my malay teacher was showing the class something scientific ( yes, it is malay class but this was really interesting).

She showed us two cups of rice white were sealed in rip-lock bags. One looked really dirty and mouldy while the other look considerably clean. She told us another teacher did this. This was her little science experiment. Everyday, she said nice things to one cup of rice(cup A) and horrid things to the other cup of rice(cup B). She did this for about a month. Both cups of rice turned mouldy. However, the rice in cup A looked a lot nicer and cleaner than the rice in cup B, which had turned all green.

According to my teacher, this experiment has already been scientifically proven ( by a University I do not recall). Imagine this not on rice but on humans. Call someone ugly, they will be ugly. Call someone beautiful and they would probably turn out really beautiful. That kinda makes you think about what comes out of your mouth doesn’t it?

Well, it certainly has made me think.

Thank you all you beautiful people out there for reading.

channeling your energy helps

Hey World,

I know. I haven’t written to you in a long time. For that, I apologise. I’ve been very busy with school and all. However, I decided to come on today to tell you about something I learnt- from myself.

Today, after school, there was some events that took place which lead to my ’self discovery’, events that I wish not repeat. There was this one conversation with a friend, however, that made me look deeper to who I was.

In front of many of my friends, I am dramatic. No. I am over dramatic and I over react. Trust me. You don’t know the meaning of over dramatic until to meet me in person. I can take the smallest thing and make it a really big thing. I am very loud and I can be scary. I just never saw how scary I was until I had this talk with my friend. I have become so scary that there are secrets that even my closest friends don’t trust me with. That hurts.

There are always excuses I made. ” I am attention seeking”. “I am really dramatic”. ” I am just being me”.”My past has caused me to be this way. I can’t change it”. In the eyes ( or this case ears) of all my friends, all they hear is “blah, blah, blah”. I am going to give the real reason.

Me being over dramatic is my outer armour. Loud. Dramatic. Intimidating. Inside, well, there’s just me. Basically, every time you read a post, you see me. Without the armour. Just so you know, everyone has an armour. Everyone knows that their armour is very brittle and can crumble to the ground time. They keep this armour up because they see everyone else has a seemingly strong armour and feel a need to protect themselves. They feel a need to be strong.

This armour is basically made of energy. I need to be loud and dramatic to be strong. You might need to push people around or gossip to feel strong. This energy that we use to make us strong is actually making us weaker in the eyes of the ones we care for the most. So what do we do?  Well, I am not going to change completely. I just have to channel my energy so that instead of it being a big brittle armour, it is a little less intimidating and may be my friends would trust me more than they do now.

May be you can channel your energy for something more constuctive.

With regards,
Cheyenne

It doesn’t matter if you win or lose

I participated in a Science competition today. We were suppose to play this game which requires us to manage a town in economy growth, population growth and pollution. There are many strageries to this game. Some work very well. Some work for alittle while and some don’t really work at all. It didn’t matter that my team didn’t win. I already told them ‘I don’t care if we win, I just don’t want to get disqualified’. We did do pretty well for the first few times, then our stragery screwed up somewhere.

Completely not the point tho. We didn’t win, yes, but we had the time of our lives managing a virtual town, practising good governance. We always get really worked up when we were given a tragerdy and we had to slove it.  We had fun. Yea we didn’t win. Who cares? It was an amasing experience I am proud to be apart of.