Choking Haze Season

It's been a month since the first haze blanketed our city. I was truly worried because the haze keep getting worse and worse almost everyday. It is also a very dry month. The rain has stopped falling. 

Everywhere looks terrifying. The ketapang trees seemed like autumn trees with many falling leaves on the ground. While the haze gave an extraordinary mysterious background, I didn't feel quite certain about their beauty. No beauty at all under this smelly haze, when we cannot breath easily.

Light haze near my house.

We were instructed to stay home by the university executive last week. Sadly, I still need to travel to the uni under the thick white smoke to finish our last-minute-accomplished task. The air was terrible like there was a big blaze somewhere. We, literally, cannot breath and see things easily. 

On the next day. 
I gave up. For the first time in this month, I bought a breathing mask. 

The air was unbearable and the visibility was very poor. Cannot help myself to curse the arsonists and the arsonist corporation that did all this mess. Who can't help to breath, work or think under this stressful unhealthy air? Our health are completely ruined.

To be honest, I think the law enforcement is the only key. Talking or threatening those arsonists won't give them any lesson to be learned. A strict law enforcement must be applied for those who deliberately burn the peat land for commercial purposes. The corporates must carefully study the environmental impact and the produced carbon emission of clearing land by burning them. They must use their brains and hearts properly.

I'm pretty blessed, that while I'm writing this post, the rain starts falling again in Pekanbaru. I

Hope it will be a big pouring of water tonight, so tomorrow we can get the fresh air again.

Pekanbaru,

My hidden seashell

I was pretty much hiding in my seashells for the last couple of weeks. I didn't have time to update my blog and write some wonderful lessons from my brief encounters with other people. Some people were astonishingly embarrassing. I must cope with some difficult individuals for whom I really care so much. But, I like to say that I tried as much as I can to offer win-win solution and treated them still nicely. I opted harmony than rivalry. Although this has caused me a lot of trouble until I need to hide somewhere to gain my insanity back. Consciously, I regained my strength back with help from Allah and lots lots of reading. I certainly want to come back to my ordinary life with less hassles and envies. Those new strategies, hopefully will work in the future.

By the way,
I'd like to imagine my seashells are longed from somewhere in the deep ocean. However, I got heaps of these shells from my last adventure in Belitung beach. 

It was a private and pristine beach, owned by a wealthy philanthropy who resides in Bali. He allowed us to enjoyed a nice December afternoon in his big garden with big swimming pool and let us to enjoy the sunset from his private beach. That was the time when exactly I saw those little creatures. They are round, white and looked like being stamped with five petals flower. I was overjoyed to find them and craved for more of them. I picked them and brought the fragile shells with me home. Those little five petals flower shells were one of my treasure of happy life and adventure memories. 

Pekanbaru,