Flood flooood floooood and MORE flood

          Thailand has been suffering through the biggest flooding of 2011 since 1995 so far, for the past couple of months. Unlike other occasions of flooding our people have experienced this is by far, the most disastrous and is affecting most parts of the country. Because the flooding is hitting the capital city 'Bangkok', it has raised chaos within the community. Many effects are mainly on the population. Bangkok is basically the heart of most developed in technology and civilization; therefore water will do enormous damage to home, stores, factories and people. First of all, people with their house flooded are either trapped inside their house with limited source of food and water or are away and unable to get inside their house, lose most of their valuable and are homeless. This causes many problems because in the case of getting trapped inside, people starve to death, may get sick and cannot be provided with medical help and restrained from doing their jobs. Farmers are especially threatened economically; since about 300,000 hectares of rice fields are destroyed by water overload, rice paddies may be able to recover quickly but the time of inconvenience have costs farmer fortune. Those that were forced to evacuate need to find temporary homes, this is easy for wealthy people since they can just rent a condo or find a hotel but for those that have limited amount of money are not as fortunate. People are seen camping by bridges, on their cars or even by the road. 400 or more factories are all victims of the flood, machines that costs millions of baht sunk helplessly under water. Since factories of all kinds are unable to operate (for example: Hachi Ban and Honda). Other problems that people got are the spreading of diseases. Having limited clean water to survive on and toilet cannot be used, people tends to release their waste into the water. As polluted as the water currently is (with trash and left over wastes all the way from Chiang Mai to Ayutthaya, Nakorn Sawun and so on),being in contact with contaminated water, people become more vulnerable in terms of health because water has become a transportation to many diseases (video). At least two people have already been reported died from leptospirosis or an infection that spreads through rat urine, many people have also suffered Athlete’s foot from wading through unclean water bare footed. 

Factories that produce goods are devoured by the water got destroyed, stopping the production (costing even more damage to the factories' owner) and also causing consumer’s problem of goods scarcity. Many people unfortunately die of many causes such as drowning, electrical shock, no food or water, diseases and many more, the death rate has gone up to over 600 people! This situation has been causing many problems throughout the country and it is sadly still continuing. But, so many people have been donating food, water, open free stadiums for evacuation and volunteer to help victims of the flood. 

Despite all the downsides, this disaster have been proving evidence to the whole world that our nation is united, strong, caring to one another. I has also taught every Thais a lesson that, even though we so many statuses in society but when it comes to helping we ignore the differences. I believe that together we will be able to 
move on to a brighter days of tomorrow with the same smile we are known for.

HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN THE EARTH HOLD?

HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN THE EARTH HOLD?

10) Sterilization and vasectomies are widely performed operations in India, to decrease the number of population.
9) The whole world will reach its' replacement fertility by 2030, but that is a long way ahead since babies today will grow and bear children of their own therefore increasing the number of population.
8) Women who are educated start having babies later than those who aren't, especially in India where people have children when very young and number of children indicates their social statuses. 
7) When fertility had fallen close to replacement number, the rate of birth since the older times sky rocket, we call this Baby Boomer! People assume that the cause of this was women's instinct to have enough babies for the survival of species.
6) Number of birth before and now (even though the number had decreased) will not balance out the world's population, since it would take generations for the fewer productions to take effect on the number of people.
5) Advancement of medicine (such as vaccination, cure to diseases, antibiotic) and sanitation doubles the expectancy of life in many countries. People found cures to diseases and are basically saved from dying. 

4) People must make use of their resources carefully and not over whelming to save the people from environmental challenges. For example finding alternatives source of energy.
3) People's ways of consuming resources is the actual impact that takes place on the population, not the number of people. 
2) People are growing exponentially, faster than the growth of food supply. (Thomas Malthus)
1) The number of population and the conditions of civilization will depend on choices individuals make throughout their lives.

first blog, yea it's pretty boring.

So, here I am, blank, not knowing what to write about. So, I’ll just write about my day......I usually go home by Montri bus, but today my dad told me to get off in front of this mall called Fashion Island. Heaving all my books, homework, a canvas with a messy undone flower and a container filled with paint I stumbled my way from the side walk into the mall. I looked like some kind of idiot awkwardly walking into with loads of unnecessary things. With my left arm aching my right shoulder starting to get tired from my heavy bag (which I tried shoving everything possible in) and my right elbow trying its best to hold the canvas against my tummy side I made my way to a restaurant ‘Pepper Lunch’. On my way, I went down an escalator and while waiting I imagined with it would be like if I suddenly lost my balance and fall off the escalator? Well, I almost tripped but got my balance back in time and continued walking. My dad was waiting inside the store, when he saw me he waved excitedly which unfortunately distracted other people causing them to turn my way, one thing led to another about a dozen of people laughed at me. The misery didn’t end there, my dad instructed me to go keep my things in the car. He gave me the car key and I walked off knowing only that the car is parked on the first floor. Once again carrying all my stuff down from forth floor to the first I tried my best not to let go of my things and just let my folder, laptop, canvas, paint and stationary drop from the balcony. But ofcourse I didn’t. I love my laptop, work and canvas too much. I didn’t know where the car is parked, so I walked around on the first floor and tried to find my car. After 15 minutes I finally found it, dropping my things off with such a huge relief I skipped back into the mall. Then Aim called me. Surprisingly, she was there at the same mall PLUS there was also an Animal Festival going on. Did I tell you I have an obsession toward animals? Well, I AM. My goal for the future is to finish university on Veterinary Medicine. Ok so back to my story, I went to meet Aim. We went to see the animals, there were tons of exotics and house pets. Looking at those adorable dogs, cats, turtles, squirrels, rabbits, hamsters and much more I had this big desire to buy them, but yea my mom would kill me if I do so. I had in my mind a plan of sneaking hamsters into the house, hiding it in my bedroom but I think it would suffer in the cold air conditioner. I brought something though, a bucket for my cat’s, basically buying it a new toilet. I also discovered that Rabbits are cheaper than turtle, some only cost 150 baht, which is kind of sad. Hmmmmmmmm that’s basically it, Aim and I met another close friend from school and we went to eat. Despite the bad beginning it had a nice ending. Oh and another embarrassing thing, I tripped over 4 times and walked into so many people, OH and a squirrel jumped into my bag and stole some bread I bought. :D er that’s it. It’s pretty boring huh? I just needed to write something for my modern world study blog hahah (Y) and umm, thanks for reading I shall proceed on doing some other homework now. Ttly.