well well, the whole day was practically just lecture since all pratcical lesson are done on wed.and to survive this gruesome theory class, i actually finish the whole box of mentos. the sudden sugar ruch do work as i manage to keep myself awake for straight 3 hours of lecture. worse than jc.....

during my free time, i read some old newspaper and found a rather interesting article. it is about rice and food price rising in the world.

as everyone know, thailand is facing food shortage and price of food is rising. apparently, US Bush is blaming all this on india and china. he say that due to the high develpoment in india and china, these country are supposing keeping all their food in their own country as their people now need better nutrition. this cause a sudden shortage of food and price is rising due to this. i personally feel that this is totally rubbish. firstly, what is wrong about keeping their own food in. it is logical to help your own people before helping other right? secondly, if they really were to export all their food out, it could have been them who is suffering form food shortages now due to their large population.

in return, US was blame as well for their bio-fuel plan. since the start of iraq war, oil price have been rising and to sustain, bio-fuel was being used. record show that there is a rise of corn used for bio-fuel from 15% in 2005 to 33% in 2008. corn can be used to produce ethanol. cool ar? and to sustain the production of corn, many farmers have turn to producing corn instead of wheats or other grains. this result in less food production.

ha, both sides are correct in some way but still, US should not blame everything on other country. they themselve should think about it and see what they can do to solve this problem. Oil price is now us$125 a barrel and expert are saying it could easily rise to us$150 or even us$200 due to the unstable inflation. which also mean it could just drop all of a sudden. sound like a good investment to me, if only i have such capital. i guess this is only a game for the riches.

ASEAN currently say that it emergency rice supply is enough for all 10 members state or even for the whole world so there is no need for worries for the moment. distribution plan are now being work out just incase if needed. the main issue now is pandemics, climate changes, enegry security and exeternal preesure that cause the rise in pice for food. but no matter what, i think we should not put too much hope on the emergency supply. it is just like our singapore water supply. although we have alot of reserve, it is still limited and if no solution is found, the reserve could still run out one day and by then, we might really be doom.....




~~Burned into ur eyes @ 5/09/2008 10:46:00 PM~~