Based on: this recipe… my changes below!
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August 2010
(we shall now take a break from nail polish and election ranting)
PAKISTAN IN DIRE NEED OF BILLIONS IN AID AS FLOODS AFFECT OVER 14 MILLION
9 August 2010At least 1,600 Pakistanis have been killed and over 14 million residents have been affected by the worst floods in Pakistan’s history. With entire villages submerged and more than half a million hectares of farm land the tragedy from this ongoing natural disaster is immense and help is desperately needed.
“The devastation by the floods is enormous, and some towns have been completely washed away. What used to be small streams are now highways of fast-flowing water that are destroying everything in their way” said Josep Prior Tio, Field Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Swat.
The special United Nations envoy for Pakistan’s flood disaster has said the country will need billions of dollars in aid to recover from this emergency and further billions will be needed in the recovery and reconstruction in the months and years ahead.
Pakistan Floods Emergency Appeal is urging Australian’s to go: www.pakistan.com.au where they will be directed to a number of charities accepting donations for the disaster including Oxfam, Unicef and Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia and can make much needed donations.
The disaster has been described as worse than the tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake by Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Funds are not only desperately needed to help those already affected but also to alleviate further illness and deaths associated with the contamination of water.The northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been worst hit after receiving heavy monsoon rains to week ago, much of the aid needed for Pakistan will go to the recovery of this area.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appealed to those outside Pakistan saying in a televised broadcast, “I would ask international community to support and help Pakistan alleviate sufferings of flood-affected people.”
Any donation no matter how large or small will help those affected so please go to www.pakistan.com.au and give to those who so desperately need your help. If you don’t have funds to give please spread the word of the Pakistan Floods Emergency Appeal to friends and family.
Visit http://www.pakistan.com.au/ to get the links to your charity of choice.
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Let’s call it Opposites day, hey? After yesterday’s sunshine and desperately-needing-repainting toenails, here I am inside on a rainy Wednesday, redoing my nails in Rimmel Hypnotise… Gotta love their prices!
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The only photo in my flickr stream tagged “Election”. Disappointment all around that there haven’t been any megamagnets this election from Labor’s #2 Senate candidate, David Matthews! ;)
I know, I know, it might seem insane to Vote Below the Line with the bajillion candidates on the NSW and other Senate ballot papers, but do you really know where your preferences are going if you just put that ’1′ above the line?
Take some time, put some thought into your vote, and use all your numbers below the line.
BelowtheLine.org.au gives info and links to candidates, parties and how their preferences flow. Don’t let your vote be an accidental one for Family First!
(ps If you’re like me and had no idea who the independent candidate for the ACT senate was, here’s John Glynn’s webpage)
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In need of sunlight and a pedicure. Poor purple feet!
Got out of the house for a walk, stuck my toes in the sunshine at lunch, and took a lot of photos of flowers… Shame the walk took a lot of oxygen out of me! whee!
Daffodil Day is Friday August 27. I used to love buying them at school!
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Made the other night based on this recipe from Taste. I made mine a little too oily, because I was at the end of my peanut oil so just dumped it in instead of measuring. Oops! Live and learn.
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While the doctor ran about an hour late, I gathered some pamphlets on milk, anxiety, contraception, ovarian cancer and more, oh and kept up with Twitter. There is a foot for 31 photos with knee high socks under some jeans.
I have three days off work with a medical certificate, two “for if you get worse” scripts, one for if I actually get worse, the other for if the nose dries but the cough keeps going. I’m going to have to watch the time I spend on the computer the next few days so I don’t get too angry with politics. As if that could happen :p
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While my vote in the ACT will probably be going to the Greens on Saturday, I will be crossing the border to Queanbeyan to hand out how to vote cards for the Australian Sex Party.
There shouldn’t be discrimination based on a person’s gender or who they love. Why should it be accepted that I should have the right to marry Rish (whether I want to or not!) but if we were to part for some reason and my next partner was a woman we’d not be allowed to marry, and some organisations that are church-run, but still receive public funding could choose to discriminate by not employing or allowing adoption. Not that I’d want one, but a job with Catholic Education would be pretty much out of the question. I’ve had friends in straight defacto relationships having to lie (or not tell the truth) about their living arrangements so that their position wasn’t threatened… Just because their idea of a family does not extend to anything other than a man and a woman (who are born biologically as such) married in a church and 2.3 kids (born through ‘natural’ means, only within wedlock, of course). *glares*
Separate religion from our laws, and allow love to be love.
Vote for the Secular Party, or the Greens, or the Sex Party, or anyone else who will come out and stand up for what is right, and not hide behind caucus decisions or party lines.
And in case you haven’t seen it yet:
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Sitting in the Uni library, trying to focus on some reading by I can’t my head is too goopy, my coughs too often. I think I’ll give up and head back home under my blanket soon. Semester starts tomorrow, and it’s all a little bit much right now!
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Schwiney! The reason Germany beat Australia 4-0 in the World Cup. A pig in a German lei
I was very happy to arrive in Berlin on June 12. Two reasons – one, I got to be with Rish after a week apart, and two it’s freaking BERLIN. How cool is that???
Hauptbahnhof
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I shall hang out with the heater this evening rather than heading out and passing on my germs.
Aren’t I lovely?
(And isn’t it <– cute?)
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