Hello and welcome to Earthwatcher. There are currently two contributers to this blog:-

- Founder Wilz, and
- William, the parasitic newcomer :)

Wilz

Ello! This is Willie Poh Kaw Lik, often known as Wilz. I’m from Sarawak, but live and work in Melaka, Malaysia.

I’ve been trying to work against ignorance and apathy for some time, an effort that drags anyone down considerably. The biggest, most unanswerable questions for me right now are :

How do you have an intellectual discussion with someone for whom logic and correctness does not matter?

How do you even begin to approach the most basic (and often important) of issues with people whose answer to the most difficult questions are, “Don’t care” and “Whatever-lah”.

If you know the answers to these questions, please do let me know at my gmail account. :) (althras)

William

Hiya, this is William L. There’s not much to be said of me, except that I am currently trying to understand my purpose on this bloo planet and how I can best contribute to advance humanity (it is not unfathomable that they are mutually exclusive). You can probably call me a humanist, though I will look at you funny.

The most exciting (perfectly sane, though!) thing I’ve done is to quit a cushy job at Exxonmobil, squander an opportunity to become an SAP professional, all to teach games design in the same country as Wilz. I hope to have more entertaining and incredulous paths presented to me in the future.

Also, Wilz frequently drags me into meaningful discussions, if only to stop ourselves from “growing up”. I accept all strange propositions at my email williamljh courtesy of gmail.

Cheers!

Why earthwatcher?

The name came from Earthwatcher.org, a blog we were writing jointly. We came up with the name to describe ourselves - watchers of the going ons of the earth. :)

Earth felt more appropriate than world, since that world usually refers to a human centric view (my world, your world), whereas earth immediately gives you a picture of a blue globe - a much bigger and humbling image. As for the other word, watch felt appropriate since that watchmen look out for problems and (usually) respond to them.

Combining the words together was a funny story. There was this character in a MUD Wilz was playing who was named “Earthroamer” as opposed to “Skywalker”. Rest’s history.

Other Stuff:

We both play World of Warcraft. :)