Sebahagian Kuala Lumpur bergelap

SEBAHAGIAN besar Kuala Lumpur termasuk Menara Kembar Petronas bergelap malam tadi sebagai sebahagian daripada kempen Earth Hour 2009.

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DEMI BUMI. Malaysia turut bergelap malam tadi bagi meraikan Earth Hour 2009 di mana ribuan penghuni rumah dan pemilik bangunan menyertai jutaan penghuni dunia yang lain memadamkan suis lampu mereka selama sejam.

Di Kuala Lumpur yang selama ini disimbahi cahaya lampu pelbagai warna turut bergelap.

‘Earth Hour’ yang mula diperkenalkan di Sydney, Australia dua tahun lalu merupakan agenda penting sebagai tanda sokongan terhadap usaha untuk mengurangkan kesan pemanasan iklim di peringkat global.

Sebanyak 84 buah negara, 2,848 bandar, 6,299 organisasi dan 21,014 perniagaan di seluruh dunia menyertai program tersebut dan satu bilion penduduk dari 1,000 bandar seluruh dunia disasarkan memberikan sokongan terhadap program tersebut.

Malaysia yang tidak ketinggalan dalam menunjukkan sokongannya dengan menyasarkan lebih 5 juta rakyat pelbagai kaum menyahut seruan kempen itu.

Antara kawasan yang bergelap ialah Menara Kembar Petronas, Sunway Pyramid, Mid Valley, Hotel Marriot, Hotel Hilton, Angkasapuri, Menara Kuala Lumpur, Menara Maybank, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, Dataran Merdeka serta beberapa bangunan lain di sekitar Kuala Lumpur.

Penduduk di kawasan perumahan dan perniagaan turut disarankan memadam lampu yang tidak digunakan, memadam perkakasan elektrik dan mengurangkan penggunaan air panas.

note:- *copy dari Kosmo online. aku tak sempat nak padamkan lampu. aku dan wife waktu ketika itu ada je Jusco Cheras Selatan. Banyak juga kedai tutup lampu waktu itu bagi support kempen ini.. Taniah utk semua!

World switches off to save planet in "Earth Hour"

A combination picture shows the landmark Piccadilly Circus in central London, top before, and bottom, with its billboard advertisement lights switched off during 'Earth Hour', Saturday March 28, 2009. From the Great Pyramids to the Acropolis and the Las Vegas strip, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries joined in the (WWF) World Wildlife Fund-sponsored event, a time zone-by-time zone plan to dim nonessential lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Lights went out at tourism landmarks and homes across the globe on Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, a global event designed to highlight the threat from climate change.

From the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London's Houses of Parliament, lights were dimmed as part of a campaign to encourage people to cut energy use and curb greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

Organizers said the action showed millions of people wanted governments to work out a strong new U.N. deal to fight global warming by the end of 2009, even though the global economic crisis has raised worries about the costs.

"We have been dreaming of a new climate deal for a long time," Kim Carstensen, head of a global climate initiative at the conservation group WWF, said in a candle-lit bar in the German city of Bonn, which hosts U.N. climate talks between March 29 and April 8.

"Now we're no longer so alone with our dream. We're sharing it with all these people switching off their lights," he said as delegates and activists sipped bluish cocktails.

The U.N. Climate Panel says greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and will lead to more floods, droughts, heatwaves, rising sea levels and animal and plant extinctions.

World emissions have risen by about 70 percent since the 1970s. China has recently overtaken the United States as the top emitter, ahead of the European Union, Russia and India.

BILLION PEOPLE TAKE PART

The U.N. Climate Panel says rich nations will have to cut their emissions to a level between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 to avoid the worst effects of warming. Developing nations will also have to slow the rise of their emissions by 2020, it says.

Australia first held Earth Hour in 2007 and it went global in 2008, attracting 50 million people, organizers say. WWF, which started the event, is hoping one billion people from nearly 90 countries will take part.

"The primary reason we do it is because we want people to think, even if it is for an hour, what they can do to lower their carbon footprint, and ideally take that beyond the hour," Earth Hour executive director Andy Ridley told reporters at Sydney's Bondi Beach.

In Asia, lights at landmarks in China, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines were dimmed as people celebrated with candle-lit picnics and concerts.

Buildings in Singapore's business district went dark along with major landmarks such as the Singapore Flyer, a giant observation wheel.

Other global landmarks that switched off their lights included the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Reserve Bank in Mumbai, the dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Egypt's Great Pyramids and the Acropolis in Athens.

(Reporting by Reuters bureau; Writing by Jon Boyle)

33 weeks

Dah 33 minggu ke 35 minggu?

Perkiraan kami 33 minggu. Dalam internet pun sama. Tapi Dr. kata lain pulak.. Teradvance 2 minggu pulak dia. Mybe disebabkan saiz baby kami agak besar, itu yg buat mesin yang digunakan oleh dr. tu bgtahu baby kami dah 35 minggu.. hmm.. Apa2 pun, kami sudah besedia. Insya-Allah..

note:- Illis kini di JB, ada seminar di sana sejak isnin lalu. Esok baru dia pulang..

32 weeks

31 weeks

6 hingga 9 Mac 2009, Kami di SP, Penang, SP..

Salam semua. Kami akan balik ke SP bagi menghadiri di majlis perkahwinan "saudara" illis pada 8 Mac 2009. Kami akan bertolak selepas habis kerja. Kami janji akan bawa perlahan-lahan sepanjang perjalanan pergi balik kami.

Untuk makluman sama, pada 8 Mac 2009 adalah hari ulangtahun perkahwinan Haji Razak & Hajah Ramlah yang ke 35 tahun. Majlis makan dah diadvancekan pada minggu lepas selepas kami pulang dari kampung di Majid Tanah.