Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Funniest MV on earth


I think it's very funny.......
Reason 1: they didn't wear trainers while working out (that's dangerous)
Reason 2: The song is called "Hold my tears while saying goodbye" but the MV has nothing related to the lyric

I can't hold my tears while watching these guys, that's so silly and has absolutely nothing to do with PN. What I need is to have a laugh, why so serious?

have a slow life! Donald :)

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Permaculture : Designing for Sustainability

I found out about this project by accident when I was searching about WWOOF project around the world, I found this word "permaculture" and I was really attract by it, so I want to know what is it and want to share what I've found to you all.

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments, was created in 1978 by Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist and David Holmgren, his students. The word "permaculture" is a contraction of "permanent agriculture" or "permanent culture."

Bill Mollison explains why freeing land for wilderness matters even for those who think only people matter

"Even anthropocentric people would be well-advised to pay close attention to, and to assist in, the conservation of existing forests and the rehabilitation of degraded lands. Our own survival demands that we preserve all existing species, and allow them a place to live.

We have abused the land and laid waste to systems we need never have disturbed had we attended to our home gardens and settlements. If we need to state a set of ethics on natural systems, then let it be thus:
  1. Implacable and uncompromising opposition to further disturbance of any remaining natural forests, where most species are still in balance;

  2. Vigorous rehabilitation of degraded and damaged natural systems to stable states;

  3. Establishment of plant systems for our own use on the least amount of land we can use for our existence; and

  4. Establishment of plant and animal refuges for rare or threatened species.

Permaculture as a design system deals primarily with the third statement above, but all people who act responsibly in fact subscribe to the first and second statements. That said, I believe we should use all the species we need or can find to use in our own settlement designs, providing they are not locally rampant and invasive.

Whether we approve of it or not, the world about us continually changes. Some would want to keep everything the same, but history, palaeontology, and common sense tells us that all has changed, is changing, will change. In a world where we are losing forests, species, and whole ecosystems, there are three concurrent and parallel responses to the environment:

  1. CARE FOR SURVIVING NATURAL ASSEMBLIES, to leave the wilderness to heal itself;

  2. REHABILITATE DEGRADED OR ERODED LAND using complex pioneer species and long-term plant assemblies (trees, shrubs, ground covers);

  3. CREATE OUR OWN COMPLEX LIVING ENVIRONMENT with as many species as we can save, or have need for, from wherever on earth they come.
    We are fast approaching the point where we need refuges for all global life forms, as well as regional, national, or state parks for indigenous forms of plants and animals. While we see our local flora and fauna as "native", we may also logically see all life as "native to earth". While we try to preserve systems that are still local and diverse, we should also build new or recombinant ecologies from global resources, especially in order to stabilise degraded lands.'

Bill Mollision, Permaculture: A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future, p.6

Sunday, June 21, 2009

The first of PN walking tour


“If you start with a Brazilian living in Paris, a Spanish in Delhi, an American in Phnom Penh, a Japanese in Singapore, and a Swiss in Bangkok, you could make a good multicultural joke or a walking tour in Bangkok. I think we were the first and the number one fans of this Nornlen Walking Tours.”

That’s what Enric – a Spanish living in Delhi wrote on his Facebook.

Our first walking tour was very fun and full with solo travelers who live in different countries. We took them to the places that local people go and walked to the temples and end at the Golden Mountain. They was not just enjoyed our tour, moreover they was talking a lot and get along well, so after the first day of PN walking tour, they were not solo traveler but a new friend.
The next two days, they were still joined us in PN walking tour (the other route).

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Save Our Planet!!!



According to our guest review in Tripadvisor.com about the waste of water and power that use everyday to wash towel and bed sheet which use only once. We’re trying as much as we can to safe the nature so our guest’s suggestion is very important to us because it might have something that we overlook.

Now we have new policy and we need your help to safe the planet!!!

In every room have 2 cards, one hang on the rack with the information that if you want to help us safe the nature, please hang your towel on the rack which means “I’ll use it again” but if you need it to be changed please leave it on the floor or on the bed which means “Please exchange”.

Another card is for the bed sheet, if you feel that your sheet need to be changed daily, you can leave a card on the pillow each morning. Housekeeping will be pleased to accommodate you.

Please decide for yourself and definitely for our planet!!!
Noo
PN Gangs