This sounds more like a pathetic pitch to sell breasts-enhancing brassiere rather than raise awareness for bone marrow registry. My advice to Wonderbra is that they try to raise awareness first among themselves on how not to objectify women.
A brassiere is seen to symbolise the repression of women's bodies. If indeed you want to feel free and unrestrained, you simply don't wear one. If they really want to celebrate femininity (and even freedom), they need to look at how UP does the Oblation run, female-version, au naturelle, without cleavage by Wonderbra.
It is also interesting to note that this event is celebrated in South Africa every year to "celebrate and rejoice women's femininity," the same country where rape statistics are so high it's unbelievable (one is raped every 26 seconds.) How can one rejoice in her being a woman in a society where mere possession of breasts and a vagina makes one a target.
We live in a world where a woman's beauty is judged by the color of her skin, the smallness of her waist, and yes, the size of her breasts. This is a society where people, through relentless advertising, are encouraged to want and buy more. And they'll tell you it's alright to give in by cleverly icing the real intent under the guise of social responsibility. While you party up a storm at a Wonderbra National Cleavage Day Party you can also affect people’s lives!
It's making me sick.
It's time for a phd.
Things are obviously hectic these past few weeks; work, school and a lot of things in between. It's easy to get caught and drown ourselves even with the mere idea of being busy and often, we forget how important it is to actually live for ourselves and for the people we love and care for. It's amazing how one can learn so much within a very short span of time especially once you've seen first-hand how beautiful yet short life really is. This is not supposed to be a philosophical post, I just wanted to share in a forum a compilation of beautiful music (fyi, another rare find of hny) which has been very helpful in keeping me sane and collected. After googling (Carl Doy/Martin Winch) in search of the CD cover, I came across the story behind the production of the CD titled Espresso Guitar. And this is the line I've read which lead me to write this quick reflective piece:
http://www.togethercollection.com/the-together-story.php
Weekend was spent meeting up with group mates for our two papers on traffic impact assessment. I was able to squeeze in editing articles for my volunteer engagement with a South African organisation and finish the e-bulletin for the CSI. In the midst of all these, I was able to watch the previous episodes of Naruto and Bleach. Both had extremely long fillers which started even before I left for Johannesburg and lasted until January of this year I think. With Naruto, I skipped the fillers altogether and watched the new season where Naruto and the rest are all grown-up and the new battles will involve the Akatsuki.For Bleach, I'm backtracking to watch the Bounto episodes which I have to admit is too long and after a few eps started to get boring, I started with episode 70+ and the non-filler episodes will resume at episode 109(?).
I also found an interesting Japanese series titled Gokusen. Watched the first episode online which was subbed by a fan but can't find the second ep. Though there are lots of uploaded episodes for season 2.
I'm also quite busy researching for the best places to go in Kota Kinabalu and its nearby islands for our travel in May. Like I've said in my previous post, we're definitely going to Mt. Kinabalu but not for the climb. I'm sure we're not fit enough to conquer it even though we can still get in shape as we still have several weeks. Quitters ;) Besides I'm reading posts from the Lonely Planet Thorntree forum and a lot were saying that one doesn't have to be a climber or be extremely fit to climb Kinabalu. We'll see.
I hope our next trip would be in Cambodia or India, which reminds me of the beautiful fabrics I've seen in the Rosebank Sunday Market in Johannesburg.
In the midst of my concentration in computing for the projected traffic volume for a proposed residential area in Sucat, a brown envelope was delivered to my uber comfy "office". It's my very own poster map of World Heritage Sites delivered all the way from the UNESCO HQ in Paris! I happened to visit the UNESCO website one day and saw that they're giving away free posters, so I signed up right away.
I have a penchant for traveling and I am very fortunate to visit some of the most wonderful places on Earth which would definitely make one think twice about the non-existence of a Great Designer. I have visited two in South Africa (the uKhalamba/Drakensberg Park and the Fossil Hominid Site of Sterkfontein), one in the United Kingdom (New Lanark), one in South Korea (Changdeokgung Palace), and one in our country (the Cordillera Rice Terraces). Unfortunately, of all the WH sites I've visited, the least conserved or protected is our very own. It is in fact marked as a "property in danger" by UNESCO and might be taken out of the list if it continues to degrade.(Although this action, despite being sanctioned by the World Heritage Convention, has never had to be applied, is our case going to be the first?)
There are still hundreds of places to be visited and explored, each of them of unparalleled beauty and each tells an interesting history/herstory of our species,
this thought alone made me realize how beautiful life is despite the difficulties we find ourselves in. There are still oases where we can find solace and bask in our God's/gods magnificence.
Some photos can be viewed here
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Next WH site: Kinabalu park in Sabah, Malaysia.
I never consider myself one, but today I have a feeling that it's quite apt to describe the intensity of my concentration in finding an easy and secure way to prevent the website that I'm tinkering from spam.
I've been a victim of comment spam too. All of a sudden I got a message from Rodrigo or Sara inviting me to try Viagra. Usually the reason for spam is to create links to increase page rank of that site. I didn't give a damn then but now that I knew better, I decided to make life more difficult for "email harvesters" or engine bots.
As everybody from Earth knows, Google is a very nifty tool to find everything you need (except for missing car keys, but eventually Google will get into that). I want two links protected: first, the mailto: link. The usual format uses the a href code, so when you click riskinnet, you're mailer (i.e, Outlook) will pop up and you can start sending email to the mailto: address. Second, is a web content form. I have created a from where non-malicious people who have legit queries or comments can directly type away their woes and when they click the submit button, it will directly send to the specified email address.
So I started with Google using keywords such as web content anti spam, mailto: prevent spam, etc and got more than 100 million results. I found several websites giving advice to newbies like me.
I decided to try two easy suggestions from those very helpful sites. First strategy is the use of a graphic @. You have to create an @ in Photoshop or in any image editing tool , save it in your server, and insert the image url in your address, like this one: riskinnet < img src = "/ images / @.gif" align = absbottom border = 0 alt= @ > riskinnet.com. The downside is that your email add won't be clickable, instead visitors need to type in your email address manually. The second defense is the use of ASCII characters in your email address. Letters and symbols in the email address would be converted to ASCII and then hopefully, the user's browser would convert those characters back to readable letters, but it won't be easy for spammers using automatic web crawlers. Related to this, I found a site which encodes your regular email address into a series of numbers and symbols plus the mailto: link and all you have to do is copy and paste in your a href code.
I still have to find among those 100 million results something that would help me protect the web form I created. I actually found one which uses CAPTCHA or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It has a web verification image for the user to type first before the form gets submitted. But my problem is I need to create an output page with meta html redirect in my form processing script. It's doable for a newbie but I'm quite exhausted at the moment.
If you want to put a stop on spam, you might want to visit these websites:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/stop-comment-spam
http://www.ohlone.cc.ca.us/org/webcenter/emailencoder.html
http://www.protectwebform.com/.
Good luck ;)
I've always been a lolo's girl.
I'm going to miss him so much.
