Life's been extremely hectic this week. We have to meet an internal deadline to finalise our investment numbers before Easter break - less than a week from now. I can't even cook a packet of Maggi mee in that time!
In the midst of our busy schedule, we took half a day to clean up the mess in a wooded area, near our office - Lousehill Copse. Corporate social responsibility?
What looked like a barren woodland turned out to be a treasure trove of rubbish. Our team of 50 came out with bags of rubbish in 3 hours that could easily fill up an entire double decker bus.
And if someone's creative enough, the furnitures and stuff that we found can be refitted to make a complete home. Maybe a car too.
I learnt that UK is a throw-away society, so our collection didn't surprise me at all.
I remember the last time I did something like that was 13 years ago when I was a Scout. We used to have clean-up campaigns and job weeks. We get paid in the latter and free publicity in the former.
Looking back 13 years on, you can bet how glad I am to have nailed down my most-feared subject in SPM and STPM - Chemistry; to avoid doing this for a living.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Social work
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3 comments:
Ohh I love chem...Can u still remember our 'intellectual' ego on STPM physics n chem? lol lol
How could people dump such big items in the woods? Wouldn't it be easier to dump a door and TV (as I see from the picture) at the recycling bins (got to be big enough though)? It will save busy working people a day to carry them out of the woods. Wondering what are people thinking off these days. If only people can think! :-D
Ai Ling (Singapore)
speaking of SPM chemistry, i never thought it very interesting. just some formulae to memorise and regurgitate at the hot exam hall and such.
A'levels at cambs made chemistry much more interesting, though. more critical thinking, more understanding of what's really going on.
hope you're enjoying that sort of golden age of understanding up there in reading. as for the T-shaped engineer thing, the horizontal component should be a given but given our lack of opportunity in the past, what would be the best way to (re)develop that vertical one?
saigo made owari dewa nai... ka.
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