Earth Hour 2010 @ 27th Mar 2010

I heart about Earth Hour last year but I was informed by WH that there will be an event that involves some 10,000 candles lighting at Esplanade field but what i have in mind was everyone will be given a candle and stand on the field and perhaps sing some songs or listen to some speech by some guess... but turned out I was wrong.. haha.. in a good way. ^^

On the field they have this little plastic cup which contains the circle shaped candle. Participant are given a candle and a cup for you to light up those cups on the group and your cup as well.

There's a few patterns and lettering which were made up by those candles in the plastic cups. EARTH HOUR 60 2010 WWF and some other letters which I have forgotten. and a few circle shapes scattered across the fields. It was a wonderful sighting to behold...

I lit a few and then proceeded to snap photos and videos as well.

At 8:30, the surrounding lights were turned off, and so were the spot lights around the field.. leaving only the candles in cups.. ^^ it was truely a good scene to see and the overall feels is calming... a few ppl cheered... glad i spent the Earth Hour this way and here writing this to share with you all.

The MCs at the stage talked about how we should take care of the earth and it is suffering now with global warmings, random earth quakes of various magnitudes, tsunami, all types of natural disasters. These were signs that the Earth is sick and greatly need each of our attention and care. They then sang a few songs particularly Louis Armstrong - what a wonderful world, Michael Jackson's - The Earth Song, etc.

What puzzled me was, they have ppl distributing papers which contains printed lyrics and some paragraphs of wordings the MC read out earlier. 3 - 4 pieces if i can recall, all printed on nice A4 sized paper and single sided... =_=!!!

Please people, this is against the theme which is to protect the earth, I'm sure people can sing along the song if they know the lyrics and even if they do, they can just hum along or some like me.. couldn't be bothered with singing songs.. real actions are needed, so let's all do our part starting from today.

Penang government imposed restriction so that shoppers are not given free plastic bags from Mon - Wed each week, I have been practicing this for quite sometime even without this restriction and for start its weird but seeing that the government even impose this just signifies that what i was doing all these while is correct. :)

Click here to see my previous post on how you can or may bring along your folded plastic bags.

2009's Earth day

Last but not least, I leave you with the panoramic scene of the field with most of the candles. Too bad there wasn't a high enough spot that i can climb at that moment to enable me to take the whole picture.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, people! for mother earth!

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