deep green and not lime green

really am  interested to know what the G8 and the O5 can put on the table in this year’s Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. i mean hello?! history’s biggest summit on climate change should be able to see substantial cut on carbon emission by 2020 among the biggest polluters.

and the criticality of the temperature rise globally should drive them to grant support funds for other developing countries including those in G77 to afford clean technology and climate adaption.

not grand standing. not finger pointing. the world waits for realistic, truthful and unselfish deal after the summit.

we all want radical change before it’s too late, not some mediocre propositions that are not even qualified as solution.

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in pursuit of qualifying my plan to practice absolute green engineering, attended the LEED Core Concept & Strategies workshop in Portland. was satisfied with the whole day interactive conference but was dismayed not to be able to get an answer whether a compromise can be met if an engineer like me, who has no experience at all in practicing in a LEED certified project, but is a also degree holder of Environmental Eng’g and more importantly is very passionate in practicing green both in her future work and her family construction business (albeit we’re really a very small entity), to take the LEED AP exam (and not just the LEED GA only).

come on?! LEED practice has just started in my country (how many companies are members of USGBC? 6? 10?), how am i suppose to meet the prerequisites in taking the exam :-( does it mean i have to work with these companies for hmmm 2 to 3 yrs so i can be qualified?

i really hope the faculty of examiners would accept my appeal. otherwise, i will not waste 2hrs of my day reading, memorizing, preparing flash cards to prepare for an actually effin expensive examination.

BUT this won’t stop me from taking the 180 degree turn in my career. will continue taking the green path come what may.

especially not after my gap year’s realization has been solidified :-)

17-month old, top of the line series

was waiting for the Sandman to arrive so i can sleep before the world wakes up when at 4ish my laptop crashed just like that!

wotttta bummer!!! sony vaio? boooo!!!

i.desperately.need.a.new.one!!!

the child in me

been looking for this here in Manila. and was disappointed to know that a 4-storey book haven doesn’t have it on stock. *sigh*

no. i didn’t grow up reading the book. i knew Dr. Seuss & Silverstein by heart (met them first when i was in grade school) and read their books the most times than any of my collection, but i never heard of Sendak nor his illustrated book (which by the way shocked the world of J).

we just came back from S’ place and have a major buzz in our head because of cussing-drinking game when K & J animatedly read to me the book. and despite the microsecond naps in between (the warm spiced rum was the culprit, ok?!), i easily related with Max and got lost in his wild imagination. after the storytelling, i just have to grab the book and looked through the illustrations. i became an instant fan! too bad i was booked to fly out to NY the next day and missed the premiere day showing of it. would have been perfect to see it on the silver screen with the Crew!

and did i get the chance to see it on the big screen?

YEZZZ!! on my first night in Jersey. was lucky to catch it on its second day of showing.

it’s all worth the popcorn and soda i brought in! :-)

happy times!

she suddenly became a food bagger master

it wasn’t easy to say goodbye to Manila and say hello to San Francisco when you know there’s devastation around.

but with 2 days of lending my hands and time, no matter how insignificant my help was relative to the enormous need for help, i earnestly pray Filipinos will again show its resilience and be back to action soon.

i was humbled how a lot of people find time to be out and help out in distribution of reliefs. and though one would see scarcity of supply up to some degree, i can’t help but be amazed how people from all walks of life and from all parts of the globe give graciously to all Ondoy’s victims.

in a few hours – 3 hours to be exact, i’m flying out to North America for a 60 day holiday journey.

that said, i will be celebrating my big 3-0 birthday, not with my family, not with all my friends (just with 2 or 3 friends perhaps) in a city they all say never sleeps – New York. would it really be a big day to me as i inch to officially being a lady on her 30s? hmmm…let’s see…as the journey unfolds! :-)