Survey in UBD

From the movie Mountain Patrol and the documentary "Home" we learnt that that there is a great need for all of us to conserve the environment and reduce greenhouse effects which cause climatic changes. On Monday 14th Sept 2009 we (Syahir & Malek) were asked to experience a community action at the UBD to reduce greenhouse gases through Electricity use at UBD. So our task was to survey the building and area allocated to us which is at the UBD library.

Level	Electricity (Light)	Electricity (Airconditioner)	Electricity (Television & Computer)
Ground Floor	Good	Good	Good
First Floor	Bad	Good	Good
Second Floor	Good	Good	Good
Third Floor	Good	Good	Good

Level	Electricity (Lift)	Electricity (Automatic Door)	E- Resources Room
Ground Floor	Bad	Bad	Good
First Floor	Bad	None	Good
Second Floor	Bad	None	None
Third Floor	Bad	None	None

Level	Ablution Room & Prayer Room (Light)	Study Room	Stair Light
Ground Floor	Good	None	Bad
First Floor	None	Good	Bad
Second Floor	None	Good	Bad
Third Floor	None	None	Bad

Level	Photocopy Machine	Self-Service Book Borrowing Machine	Toilet (Light)
Ground Floor	Good	Good	Bad
First Floor	Good	None	Bad
Second Floor	Good	None	Bad
Third Floor	Good	None	Bad

	Good	Bad
Ground Floor	Air conditioner-very comfortable. Light-very comfortable. Computer-very good access and facility. Photocopy machine, Self service book borrowing machine-a very good facility and use well by the student. Light-useful in the discussion/study room, in the toilet.	Lift-we can use stair. Entrance door-instead of using automatic door we can use manual door that can save more energy. Stair Light-still use at the stair even though a great amount of light come from the window.
1st Floor	Light-useful in the discussion/study room, in the toilet. Air conditioner-very comfortable. Light-very comfortable. Computer-very good access and facility. Photocopy machine, Self service book borrowing machine-a very good facility and use well by the student.	Lift-we can use stair. Light- some corridors with sunlight coming through a big window at the wall but still they switch on the light Stair Light-still use at the stair even though a great amount of light come from the window.
2nd Floor	Light-useful in the discussion/study room, in the toilet. Air conditioner-very comfortable. Light-very comfortable. Computer-very good access and facility. Photocopy machine, Self service book borrowing machine-a very good facility and use well by the student.	Lift-we can use stair. Stair Light-still use at the stair even though a great amount of light come from the window. Light- some corridors with sunlight coming through a big window at the wall but still they switch on the light.
3rd Floor	Light-useful in the discussion/study room, in the toilet. Air conditioner-very comfortable. Light-very comfortable. Computer-very good access and facility. Photocopy machine, Self service book borrowing machine-a very good facility and use well by the student.	Lift-we can use stair. Stair Light-still use at the stair even though a great amount of light come from the window. Light- some corridors with sunlight coming through a big window at the wall but still they switch on the light.

Kekexili mountain petrol.

Last Monday we watched a movie Kekexili mountain petrol. It was a Chinese movie and based on a true story. At first it was really hard to understand what was the story about and this make it an interesting movie. This movie was directed and written by Chuan Lu and been released on 1st October 2004. The genre of the movie was Action and Drama. The movie was about a group of voluntary Tibetan petrol which are against the poachers. This poachers are people which hunt antelope just to take their skin. They almost killed more than 10,000 antelope each year. This voluntary Tibetan petrol was joined by a journalist from Beijing to stop this poachers. At last the story ended by the main character were killed and they can't stop this poachers due to many disaster they face such as snow storm, lack of fuel and food and many more.

Environment.

The environment in this movie are mostly taken in china and it was like a desert kind of area with dry sand and hardly can be found any tress, However only small shrubs are found which are scattered. This kind of environment is different from our country environment where in Brunei mostly of our area are covered by Tropical Rainforest. Plus in our country mostly we have rivers and seas.

Infrastructure.

Mostly houses were only found there. Their houses were old kind of houses with dirty kind of surroundings and only one small hospital can be found and also small club house where as on the other hand in our country mostly in the town there were many building can be found which consist of big school, hospital, houses and many more.

Practices & Economy

Mostly the Tibetan used to work as a farmer and cattle ranching but then as the climate change become hotter and the land changed to desert area so in this sense farming and cattle ranching is no longer practiced so this factors had push the poachers to hunt the antelope and took their skin and sold it overseas. Furthermore this poachers now work as skinners and their work were being passed down to their childrens and many more. Here in Brunei different where typical Bruneian work with the government sectors and mostly people don't work as farmer and cattle ranching or even skinner which are illegal. Brunei lean on natural resources such as Oil and Gas.

In addition, after the journalist went back to beijing this situation had changed as the government put a strictly policy and illegal the selling of skin of the antelope. So with this our situation were much better than the situation that were faced by the Tibetan people in china where they struggle to live as the government doesn't really help them.