Singapore's Haze Fiesta.

Over the course of the last few days, Singapore experienced the thickest haze in it's history since its independence. The Haze was not a surprise to most of the residents of Singapore. What surprised Singaporeans was the severity of the haze. In recent days, the haze has spiked upwards to an astounding value of 401 PSI (Pollutant Standard Index), with many speculating that the actual value should have been upwards of 500, some even claim that the government may be playing down the numbers to prevent widespread panic. One should note that the previous highest recorded PSI in Singapore was 250 in 1997s. Thus this haze was rather unexpected and it caused quite the uproar among citizens, many of which going online to vent their frustrations.

The Haze caught everyone off guard, everyone knew that there would be haze at around this time of the year, caused mainly by indonesian farmers engaging in the "slash & burn" practice to clear their lands and prepare for the next season of plantation. Thus, every year, without fail, in this season of slash & burn, haze would be blown over to singapore from indonesia, blanketing our little island in haze and polluting our airspace for weeks.

Every year, the haze would come and go, without much hooha , aside from the occasional complainer.
But not this year. people felt the thick haze affecting their face, throat and eyes. People started wearing masks, few at first, but more and more people started wearing masks and soon, everywhere you looked, dozens were wearing masks. Things were really bad then, visibility dropped below 1km. The government finally stepped in, they made a haze committee of sorts, told everyone to avoid "strenuous physical activity" particularly the young and elderly and advised the people to only buy and use N95 mas filters 95% of airborne particulates )  The problem was, the market was not ready for the sudden demand, and within hours, many shops were out of these N95 masks, thus leaving many.. without a mask.  
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Because of this shortage of masks, many stayed at home, hiding out from the haze, those who had masks had to deal with going about their daily lives with a new accessory on their faces. The lives of singaporeans were truly
affected negatively by the haze. 

In light of singapore's troubles, the ones whom the haze originated from do not seem to be doing anything at all the help stop this haze. instead they made statements like this. "It's called sharing, you go through good times together, don't make noise to the world when things go bad. It's just like husband and wife, don't take your quarrel outside," Personally, i think such a statement is totally inappropriate and unprofessional. i mean, if obama were to say such a thing i'd think he would lose a lot of support.

Here's another golden quote. "Let me remind our friends from Malaysia, Singapore, don't just because of the haze, tell stories to the world,"  courtesy of the indonesian  Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik .

i think the statements speak for themselves. 

inspite of all that talk,, he said, that the indonesian government was also doing its utmost to put out the fires. so hopefully he'd stick to this words and stop this haze once and for all. 
credits: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/haze-update-malaysia-singapore-should-know-themselves-says-indonesian-mi

Naruto 633

Spoiler Alert

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In this week's chapter, we finally see some classical Naruto action. most of the ninja fromNaruto's generation reunite here on this forsaken battlefield, to fight for their world. light gray are my ramblings.  The infamous team 7, consisting of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura finally reunite, and it was known only just last week that sasuke was even on naruto's side. The week before , there was heavy speculation about Sasuke's allegiance. would he follow the path of vengance and darkness (that he himself created many many chapters ago) and seek an end to the world or would he be convinced by his brother's final words of advice and traverse back to the path of light? Seemingly , he's taken the latter choice and now, united with his friends he's fighting to correct his mistake and bring down the evil mastermind that is (Madara Uchiha.) and thus, this chapter showed the shinobi of konoha(and the rest of the ninja world) fighting against the greatest evil.  Ino, Chouji, and Shikamaru are shown to be executing a highly polished version of their infamous combo move. Fast forward to another scene on the battlefield, Hinata shows off her latest skill, a sixty four palm strike. , that'll be something incredible in the anime. Tons of amazing skill and teamwork are shown in this chapter, it'd be one of those chapters that the anime can drag on for 5 episodes. There's just so much content that leaves tons of space to the imagination and later on, the animators.! The anime adaptation of this part of the series is going to be awesome. 
Shortly after/ simultaneously after Hinata's cameo, Sai confers his worries about the battle but naruto sasuke and sakura blow away all worries by summoning their beasts. and thus the manga ends off on a really high note. I personally can't wait for the next chapter! Shortly after/ simultaneously after Hinata's cameo, Sai confers his worries about the battle but naruto sasuke and sakura blow away all worries by summoning their beasts. and thus the manga ends off on a really high note. I personally can't wait for the next chapter! 

this is one chapter you cannot miss!. go ahead and read it if you hadn't 

(credits: Masashi Kishimoto for the manga, Mangastream for hosting and translating it )