Soft drinks is still the number one drink in America, but what's up with the rise of drinking more bottled water?

Do they know it's more riskier than drinking from the tap water coming out from your sink? Sure it's easily portable and has a cap and all that, but it's overpriced and it's contributing lots of CO2. When I say overpriced, I mean you're paying way too much for something that's very cheap at the moment. I mean seriously, 49 cents per year compared(tap water) to $1400 per year(bottled water). That's a HUGE difference.



In my opinion, the only time when bottled water is useful is when has to do with donations to help the poor and the unfortunates.

I'm pretty sure virtually everybody knows about this sad tragic event at Orlando Seaworld when ...

a 40-year old female trainer, named Dawn Brancheau, was killed by Tilikum in his tank in front of the audience about two weeks ago. Witnesses say the killer whale pulled her down and played with her too roughly underwater and drowned her. Then when she arrived at a nearby hospital, she was pronounced dead. So in response of this horrific incident, they closed down both Seaworlds in Orlando and in San Diego as they investigate what just happened.

Now what I'm surprised is that this killer whale was involved with two more previous deaths since his captivity. So why didn't they release him after 1999? Probably because of the word called money. Because releasing animals to the wild costs a lot of money, so Seaworld decided to keep Tilikum even after the tragic death of one of their own employees. Tilikum must be depressed in his own tiny tank, I'm not sure how much longer he can hold on for this series of tricks and stuff. He should be released to where he truly belongs after you trian Tilikum how to hunt, swim in a pod, and etc.



RIP Dawn Brancheau.

Thinking about buying an iPad on April 3, 2010 ...

then you might want to consider another thought before doing so. Hitler is definitely not getting one anytime soon.



Oh and this video contains a fair amount of profanity, so like most of the television programs say,"Viewer discretion is advised." :)

When you live near the coast in the open water and ...

at the same time the phytoplankton are decomposing, you have two choices you stay and die due to suffocation or you flee to somewhere with higher oxygen levels. That's the situation the animals and plants are facing on the bottom of the ocean floor when the high winds drives the water to the shores to create tides, which causes upwelling.The problem is that some slow/stationary animals like sea cucumbers, crabs, and sponges cannot escape this harmful event, so they end up dying in the end leaving a depressing zone of dead animals that couldn't do anything about this sticky situation.

While this may be natural, these low-oxygen(hypoxia) zones are increasing in size. Some scientists say this may be related to global warming as the three main oceans are absorbing the CO2 and other greenhouse emissions. This may upset the ecosystem and cause some of the species of crustaceans and fishes to decline in population. We're hoping this doesn't spread to the open ocean, where sharks, dolphins, and whales are living in along with the other marine creatures.

The summit about the health care reform was taken place last thursday and ...

well the two parties disagree to each other for the most part during this long talk about health care. The republicans pretty much want to put this to a halt while the Democrats wants to get something done at last. Obama didn't want to do either of the two plans that the Republicans recommended which is taking the health care reform step by step or simply starting over. Oh and this 7 and a half hours of conversation was on C-Span, though Obama is not sure if anyone would consider this interesting.

Taking a second glance at the health care reform ...

This video explains why our health care system is simply unfair and unaffordable for an average American citizen.



Note: This video was created about six months ago.

The food bank in San Francisco is planning to provide 36.5 million lb. of food this year.

That's more than enough to feed 78,000 meals every day, according to their site. You can make a difference by simply helping this food bank by packaging food like fruits, veggies, and rice(LOTS of them, by the way. You should see how much they had on that wooden platform. We couldn't even finish it all!) Anyways, so my sister and her friend and I went there around nine in the morning. Then we signed up through laptops; didn't expect them there, because last year we had to sign up through a form on the paper. Either way, it was quicker and more convenient for us and for the employees in food bank. Because they can count much quicker by seeing how many people signed up on the laptops. After that's done, we are reminded some safety rules like no food or drink in the working area or the warehouse, no slippers, and no running around. Which I seem to forget sometimes. :P So first came the rice where we package them through plastic bags closed by a closer(don't know what are they named as of now) and then packaged by cardboard boxes. Each box must contain 15 of them and each bag must weigh exactly one pound, which is why we have an electronic scale. Then we took a 20 minute break and then did the same thing over again. Once done, the employee said that we packaged a little over 2000 pounds, so our performance wasn't too bad. That's plenty of rice soups or cakes or any meal with rice in it to feed the poor people around San Francisco. So we thought we were heading back home, until our mom was like in downtown San Francisco spending time with her parents. Then my sister decided that we should do one more hour helping them while we wait for our mom. Eventually we agreed and we came upon giant boxes of oranges. Some were good, some were bad, and some were ugly. As you might of guessed, the oranges that were opened or feel very soft in the inside were thrown away in the bad box. The rest we keep them in the good boxes and they were put on the same wooden platforms. Once the half the shift was over, our mom was waiting for us and we head back home. In the end, I felt like we were giving the poor a lift in the spirit and body. Thanks a lot San Francisco Food Bank, looking forward to doing it again sometime soon! :D