HOT? or Not?
Lately, I haven't been going out of our house, except when I go to the office, do some errands, or visit the malls. I just don't feel like going out because the HEAT is killing me. It's scorching HOT outside and my migraine is killing me whenever the excruciating HEAT is ON!
While it is true that trees give us shade and provide us with what we basically need and that is oxygen, people in the MMDA seem not to notice this fact.
I have never been to Manila for a long long time, and I don't know how bad it has come. I can only imagine myself hustling on the walks because of the heavy traffic, and anxious that MMDA will catch me jaywalking even if I'm on the right track.
If there's one thing I hate about the MMDA, it has come to this point that they cut trees because of the traffic. They prefer to be giving priority to the widening of roads, because according to them, trees must not be in roads.
In Hongkong, recent news is that air pollution is at its worst in that big city. The industrialization has taken the best of HK, especially the environment. The news provides that more than 2,000 people and residents have been hospitalized in 2008 due to the unclean air that the residents are breathing in.
But Manila has trees, i mean had trees that could have blocked out too much carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere. They could have provided more oxygen and absorbed the carbon dioxide that vehicles are adding to the now dirty air of Luzon. Whether they are misplaced in road walks, they are still trees, and must not be pulled out, cut out or whatever MMDA wants to do with them. I heard they wouldn't be replacing them either because they are so called "misplaced trees".
I pity the MMDA, they are much in love with pink than with green which is the natural color for a good and healthy environment.
So what's there to do? No trees for the shade, not enough oxygen in the roads. I guess we just better visit the malls and eat:
Ok, yummy isn't it? And satisfyingly refreshing! Ahhh, sarap ng halu-halo.
*NB.
Huwag pahuhuli sa MMDA habang kumakain nito, baka pati ito matanggal sa menu ng mga restos.
While it is true that trees give us shade and provide us with what we basically need and that is oxygen, people in the MMDA seem not to notice this fact.
I have never been to Manila for a long long time, and I don't know how bad it has come. I can only imagine myself hustling on the walks because of the heavy traffic, and anxious that MMDA will catch me jaywalking even if I'm on the right track.
If there's one thing I hate about the MMDA, it has come to this point that they cut trees because of the traffic. They prefer to be giving priority to the widening of roads, because according to them, trees must not be in roads.
In Hongkong, recent news is that air pollution is at its worst in that big city. The industrialization has taken the best of HK, especially the environment. The news provides that more than 2,000 people and residents have been hospitalized in 2008 due to the unclean air that the residents are breathing in.
But Manila has trees, i mean had trees that could have blocked out too much carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere. They could have provided more oxygen and absorbed the carbon dioxide that vehicles are adding to the now dirty air of Luzon. Whether they are misplaced in road walks, they are still trees, and must not be pulled out, cut out or whatever MMDA wants to do with them. I heard they wouldn't be replacing them either because they are so called "misplaced trees".
I pity the MMDA, they are much in love with pink than with green which is the natural color for a good and healthy environment.
So what's there to do? No trees for the shade, not enough oxygen in the roads. I guess we just better visit the malls and eat:
Ok, yummy isn't it? And satisfyingly refreshing! Ahhh, sarap ng halu-halo.
*NB.
Huwag pahuhuli sa MMDA habang kumakain nito, baka pati ito matanggal sa menu ng mga restos.
Comments
for me, MMDA should start replacing the trees that they cut! they owe us!
anyway, i should start my sunday right.
happy sunday sheng!
happy sunday sheng!
with regards to mmda, well, they are just one of the agencies tasked to clean the metro. but without the help of other agencies, both national and local, and the active participation of the civil society, then anything it does is piecemeal development. we have no umbrella organization that controls them. what's worse, i think mmda falls under the office of the president.
but then again, pink is bayani's campaign color. mmda is a campaign machinery hiding under massive concrete u-turn projects and pink fences.
Masakit sa balat ang sikat ng araw ngayon. Ganda ang finale ng post na to. I love it too! Halo halo. Regards kay Ariel. Galing, he treated you.
So ayun, dapat yung mga vehicle owners din be responsible for a cleaner air. There are test naman para ma check yung mga vehicles at hindi na mag emit ng pollutions.
About the pink naman, we've attended one seminar na sya ang speaker, someone asked about it and he said, they used pink colored signage, kasi it can easily seen.
i miss halo-halo though, when it snowed here, i was thinking of scooping some snow for my halo-halo. ^-^
the malaysian version of halo-halo is called ABC (air batu kacang - 'air batu' means ice, 'kacang' means nuts/beans). but it pales in comparison to halo-halo with pinipig, leche flan, macapuno, mango, kaong, langka... *sigh* i miss halo-halo.
Di ko talaga gets. Enjoy your halo halo! it looks good! :D
If there are no trees, there will be flash floods. To control flash floods, the DPWH and MMDA will create "drainage" projects. You know, like burying those huge, oversized concrete sewers underneath the streets. Digging and installing these sewers will require large budget and intensive labor, leading to long project deadlines. The more expensive and time-consuming the project, the better. So that they can milk large kickbacks from these exorbitant project costs.
Contrast these with trees. Once the trees are in place, they will be efficient in sucking up flood water and polluted air. As long as the trees are in place, the only maintenance you will need is to periodically trim their branches.
Trees are indeed cost-effective in the long run, but there's more kickback from "drainage projects".
Sigh...
pero tama yan. maghalohalo na nga muna tayo.
I don't know where MMDA Bayani Fernando got the idea that PINK is an appealing color. Maybe with little girls, they are, but not to adult drivers. Pretty soon, those PINK signs will all turn gray due to pollution. The Metro will be so polluted and dusty that we won't be able to see those sight-for-sore-eyes PINK signs.
i dont like uniforms too. hahaha. what if pink yung uniform. oh no!!!!