Cerita Sita

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 Shindig, hegemon, bearing, prevailing, enraptured, delicacy, funk, frenzy, curmudgeon, paraphernalia No wonder, Mr. Ted, our history teacher was called “the killer shark”. Just by a glance you can easily recognize him as a curmudgeon. Whenever he enters the class bearing his paraphernalia, the atmosphere suddenly turned into a frenzy instead of delicacy moment. This is very contrast to the moment where the school held a jazz shindig where the funk music session was on. At that time, Mr. Ted looked so relaxed and enraptured by the songs. Such a paradox with his hegemon attitude, unfortunately.  

Kasim, a mason who lives across the street and came all the way from India to the States told us an imponderable story on the reason why he moved here. He told us that in his country origin he was labelled as Pariah or someone that has been soundly rejected by the community. He has neither any control nor opportunity to elevate his social status. The majority of the people there become so picayune whenever they dealt with him on a job, no matter how much he endeavors the job and never have done any egregious thing. This has led Kasim to retract from his life there and decided to travel and settle in the US. Initially he felt a deep contrite but overtime he felt relieved which showed from his beatific smile when he told us the story. I would imagine if he had stayed in his original country and tried to solely change the system there, I would perceive that as a very hopeless effort or even if it does happen it would be some sort of a pyrrhic occasion.

If you were given an option to choose between bottled water and tap water? What would you choose? The discourse between the need versus the impact of using bottled water have been lingering among us for decades. Some people argued bottled water provides more guarantee in terms of safety for the human health, especially for a drinking water, high quality is a necessity. However, in the other hand, bottled water to some people is considered to be more harmful for the environment. Hence, threaten its sustainability.   Given the drawback, bottled water still provides many more benefit compared if using tap water. Those who are opposed to bottled water view bottled water as a source of environmental destruction. First, since bottled water are mainly created from plastic, it is definitely not environmental friendly. The waste would need a very long time to be recycled. During the process in developing bottled water, a high rate of pollution is emitted to the air...