How Many Glass of Water Did You Drink Today?

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So I asked you, “How many glass of water did you drink today?”. But no, I didn’t ask you to know about the health of your kidney, let us talk about that in another time. I wanted to know about the access you can get to clean and healthy drinkable water. If you’re able to manage to drink 8 glasses of water a day, bless you!

There are people who drink tap water at home. Let us define tap water as water that runs through your plumbing system at home. It could be supported by PAM (Perusahaan Air Minum – Ind). Sadly, not all of us have access to PAM, therefore some of us have plumbing system that runs from groundwater through water well and pump.

Though drinking tap water, I rarely find cases in Indonesia who drink it directly without cooking it first, whether it camos from PAM or groundwater. While in other countries, it is safe already to drink tap water right from the faucet. This is another clean and healty scarcity problem we have to deal with.

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The other side of customers usually drink water from mineral bottled water, outside and inside the house. They drink bottled water dispenser because they don’t trust the heathiness level of tap water. Outside the house, whenever they want to drink, they will easily buy little version of bottled water, the more handy one. They think that carry their own tumblers isn’t practical or whatsoever.

Funny if these people join ‘Stop Global Warming Campaign’ with reducing the usage of tissue, filter garbages, even always turn off electricity and or lights whenever they step out of room. Didn’t they know that every bottled water they drink generates up to 600 times as much CO2 as tap water? While most climate scientists agree that CO2 causes killer weather, earthquakes and flooding, ergo global warming. Ha!

If we’re the type of consumers who choose to drink from bottled water dispenser, it is still forgiven. At least dispenser is reuseable and has longer life cyle than the travel pack bottled water. But try to be a moderate consumer. Use the dispenser and refill our own non-plastic tumblers whenever we want to go out of the house. Don’t forget to always bring it with us where ever we go. Of course it would be much better if we refill the tumblers from the tap water.

As a comparation, the process of exploring water from the oasis, packing the water into a travel pack bottle, distributing it into markets, and reselling it to consumers do emit lots of CO2 thus cause global warming. Don’t forget the fact that a bottle of mineral water will cost us too many than it should be, especially if we buy it regularly. It is only a small container that will runs out of the water in a short time.

In the other part of the world, people are having problem in getting clean and healthy water. If we fortunately are having unlimited access to get it, why we limit ourselves by accessing the limited package of mineral water? Be smart. It really is our choice.

So, how many glass of water did you drink today? I really hope your answer is 8 glasses of water, instead of bottles.

Also worth to read: here, and here.

[review] Movie: A Scanner Darkly

MINOR SPOILER ALERT!

This is the other movie that I watched without any pre-knowledge before watching the movie. In fact, I didn’t know that such movie is existed, though it released back in 2006. I found the original vcd in Gramedia in the early August this year, which only costed 8 thousands rupiah. Not knowing the story, finding the name of Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey, Jr., and Winona Rider on its cover, I bought it right away hehe

This animated movie potrays the exact physical appearance of its casts, very look alike in my opinion And I so love James Barris‘ character (played by Downey). He’s the crazy friend of Bob Arctor (played by Reeves) just like Barney in How I Met Your Mother the tv series, in a cranky way. Winona Rider acts as Ryder plays as somebody’s girlfriend, as always. Watch the movie to find out whether she’s Arctor’s or Barris’ girl

Full of drama from the beginning until the end, we might ask in my mind, why did this movie made in animation? One possible reason that came into my mind was because of the technology that been used in the movie couldn’t be provided in non-animated-movie. But simple animation is enough, doesn’t have to be full of CGI, because, like I said, the genre of this movie is drama. Though it needs specific technology which will be simply provided in animated movie. Can you imagine how complicated it is to apply The Invisibility Coat‘s technology in Harry Potter the movies? It is something like it.

This movie has double twisted ending, which you will never imagine. In the end of the movie, I did smile though I could only smile bitterly as the movie runs Like I always said, I think movie’s ending is one of important part of the movie. I do judge a movie by its ending. Ha! Therefore I recommend you to watch this movie eventhough you’re not a fan of Reeves, Downey, nor Rider. This is one of a kind movie that you’ll never see and or forget .

Happy hunting!

PS: to read my late movie review, click here

Do You Believe in Global Warming?

Have you ever watched An Inconvenient Truth (2006)? It’s a documentary film by Al Gore, United States former Vice President. He made this film as a campaign to raise global warming awareness as a worldwide’s problem.

Along with this film, from news everywhere like newspaper, magazine, internet, TV, I’ve known that global warming is real. It’s not only an unproven theory anymore. I mean, look at our global temperature. Whether it’s too cold or way too hot. Left alone the unstable whether, that we’re supposed to have dry season in August but we still have heavy rainy day in the middle of it. Or the frequent rise of sea water level because of the melting gletser in the pole? Did you know that the snow thickness in Puncak Jaya, Papua, is degrading by years? What do you call that if it’s not global warming?

So it did bother me alot when a friend of mine said that he didn’t believe in global warming, that there’s no global warming happening. Instead he said, “There is somekind of World Secret Organization that takes control of everything that is happening, and takes some profits of it. This organisation also manipulates informations that related to it”. That statement really did make me rolling on the floor, laughing out loud. Any Russian guy really always think that everything is secret-agency-related. Haha.

Seriously. If we don’t believe in global warming when science proofs are everywhere, then there’s no other thing to say that it’s God’s work, right? I’m not gonna say something about punishment for what’ve done to the earth in the past, but it’s just how it works. The causality effect, Newton’s 3rd Law, they’re all talks about the same thing. When we do a thing, we got something in return. If we don’t believe in science, then we must be believe in God. Because there’s no other explanation how could gletser at the pole is melting? How could, let say, we, human make them melt when we can’t even control the pregnant moms to give birth?

That, my friend, is something we need to overthink. And if you also haven’t watch The Happening (2008) yet, in my humble opinion, you have to. We need to be good with mother nature, because somehow it has somekind of self defense, that I bet we don’t want to mess up with.

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