I did not wake up of my own will this morning. I was woken up by Whatsapp beeps from my food dream. In it, SK cooked a full table of vegetables for me to eat. After replying to the messages, I badly wanted to go back to the dream but Mum came home. This was what happened next...
Hand-drawn depiction by SK of the most accurate scenario. |
Anyway, I complained to SK about it and she promised to keep the vegetable dishes in the fridge for the next one year. Thanks eh.
So I crawled out of bed and went downstairs to buy grocery and The New Paper for Mum. Then I saw that one of the headlines for today was this:
Ok, the timber loggers in Sumatra are at it again. Every year. |
I remembered that yesterday's haze looked worse than the picture above. I could hardly breathe so had to shut all the windows and turned on the fans. Friends, too, complained that their surroundings were so blurry. I tried to take a video of the haze around Mum's house but the quality of my phone camera was too good and sharp. So it wasn't a such a good thing at times like this.
While I was bored and trapped inside the house, I decided to research on ways to save my family and I from such air pollution. One of the most popular solutions was to use house plants as natural air filters. Not every indoor house plant is effective at filtering air pollutants. Below are some of the common ones that we can buy from neighbouring florists. I am already seriously considering buying a few of them later today.
(Credits to Wikipedia for the following images)
Do you happen to recognize some of these plants? Hurry N grab them now! |
There are other commercial solutions like buying an air purifier but that would burn a big hole in my already torn pockets. If you have any other methods, let me know! For now, I just hope that those timber loggers will stop burning the land and the haze be gone soon...
torn pockets.. wahahha. I like this expression
ReplyDeleteYea, there's quite a range of plants that can be used as natural air purifier. Some indoor plants are good to absorb poisonous chemicals emitted by furnishings (by that i guess it's referring to solvents used in the manufacture of such) and household products <== not sure how this applies unless its referring to detergents?
Maybe you might want to stitch them up for me. :S
ReplyDeletePerhaps household products like insecticide sprays and vapors from floor detergents?