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| Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:13 AM PST ARTIST MEET Sasaran International Arts Festival organised by Sasaran Art Association is being held at Sasaran Kuala Selangor until today to promote art activities. About 50 artists from 17 countries will take part in the art festival, including Hungary, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, China, Singapore, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia. Programmes include painting, sculpture, street performance, music performance, short films and seminar. For details, call Ng Bee at 03-6264 8235 or visit http://sasaranart.gomalaysia.com.my/en/news/13042 REFLECTION ON ART NN Galery is holding a group exhibition entitled The Prayer from now till Jan 7 at White Box, Solaris Dutamas. The Prayer is an art exhibition inviting 25 Malaysian artists to present their reflection on the theme. Participants include Datuk Sharifah Fatimah Zubir, Ilse Noor, Ismail Latiff, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Syed Thajudeen, Cheong Laitong, Tengku Sabri Ibrahim and Mastura Abdul Rahman. For details, call 03-4270 6588. CONTRIBUTE BOOKS Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya, is organising a Book Charity Drive with Cambridge English for Life. The public are invited to donate English language books, story books (fiction or non-fiction children age four to 17), picture books and encyclopedias. The public can pass the books at the Book Charity counter (next to the information counter) on the ground floor level. The books will be donated to poor children. For details, call 03-7883 0912/ 7710 1818. COLOURFUL CALENDAR Shelter Home for Children has come out with colourful desktop calendars for 2012 with a theme "Children are a precious gift of God" and it is priced at RM10 each. For details call Edwin or Brian at 03-7955 0663. BOOK WORMS GALORE Crescent's biggest book sale is back offering discounts up to 80% from Dec 23 to Jan 1, from 10am to 9pm at the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council's Multi-purpose Hall in Jalan BU3/1 Bandar Utama, PJ. For details, call 03-6184 2448 or e-mail crescent@tm.net.my GENEROUS GUIDANCE The Nalanda Buddhist Society is organising an event to offer robes and other requisites to the Buddhist monastic in cultivation of generosity on Dec 25 at 2pm at the Nalanda Education & Outreach Centre at Happy Garden, Kuala Lumpur. All are welcome. For details, call 03-8938 1500 or visit www.nalanda.org.my ARTWORKS FOR CHARITY The Malaysian Art Centre is organising a Giving Art Exhibition in aid of the National Cancer Society Malaysia until tomorrow at Melia Hotel, KL. Pieces of artwork are being sold at a discounted rate from 10am to 8pm. For details, call 012-381 0819 (Jacqueline). TEEN OUTING Buddhist Community Alliance is organising the 'Teenager's Camp: I'm So Blessed! at Nalanda Centre, Serdang from Dec 23 (3pm) to Dec 26 (8pm). The camp will be led by Samanera Amaranatho. Teenagers aged 13 to 18 years are welcome. for registration, call 016-908 7499 (Richard). Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Keeping our drains free of garbage is key Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:13 AM PST NOW they say "Rubbish blamed for the recent Kajang floods" (Dec 6). There could also be other contributing factors. That said, we just have to care more of our rivers and lakes. We have not been doing so and we are now paying the price in the form of floods. I have visited this area where the flood occured. I have seen the rubbish discarded everywhere. We must care more for our Mother Earth. We are already facing climate change and the extreme weather is causing much difficulty to the people and their livelihood — people are losing homes and valuables, and suffering severe damage to business premises and food inventories We have contributed to global warming in many ways, like increasing deforestation with fewer tree-planting activities, aggressive development with little care for landslides, and polluted air released into the atmosphere untreated. We continue to exploit the environment and nature with hardly any thought for the well-being of future generations. Planet Earth is our only home and therefore we must respect, care, nourish and cherish it. With the monsoon season at hand, floods and rising river water are things we need to keep track of. All of us must redouble efforts to keep our drains cleaner. BULBIR SINGH |
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