Today is Blog Action Day and the cause is Poverty. I’ve registered my blog to join in the cause about a month ago. If you haven’t already done so, please join today and make a post about poverty.

I am helping to create awareness and at the same time donating to the poor. Let’s just stop for awhile and help where we can. Besides monetary donation, we can also donate by simply playing online games or clicking on banners. I found out about Free Rice from Metz and I think this is one good way to help feed the hunger. Play as much as you can, hourly, daily, weekly because for each answer you get right, you will donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

Free Rice is a sister site of Poverty.com. Please take a moment to visit Poverty.com and take a look at the live feed count of worldwide hunger deaths; it is sad to learn that deaths occur every second.

Please click on below banners. It’ll only take few minutes of your precious time. By clicking you will help feed the world’s hungry, give free books and fund child healthcare.

More sites to visit:
From Hunger to Hope
The Hunger Project
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
United Nation’s Wolrd Food Programme

Last but not least, please watch this video. Thank you for your time.

1st commentator:

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Yay! How do you like my pink template? I’m on pink for October as it is the month to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness. I’ve got myself listed as particpant #582 in Pink for October. You can join too if you want. I’m doing my bit to help raise awareness, so please click on the pink button on the left. Your click helps sponsor free mammograms.

For locals, if you wish wish to make donations, please visit National Cancer Society of Malaysia. You can visit Women’s Cancer Detection and Breast Clinic to find out more about Breast Cancer detection. Below are the rates for overall services they provided:

*N.B: Pap Smear, Blood & Cytology results will be posted within 2 weeks.
** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR A BASE LINE MAMMOGRAM FOR LADIES AT THE AGE OF 35 AND ABOVE.

[Source: http://www.cancer.org.my]

For appointments and enquiries:
National Cancer Society of Malaysia
66, Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz,
50300 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603 – 2698 7351; Fax: 03 – 2698 2087;
email: contact@cancer.org.my

Other sites for you to visit:

Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Breastcancer.org

Patient Health International

International Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Breast International Group

My son thought we’re living in the clouds but it was actually the fog from the fogging exercise. There has been some serious fogging exercises every week for the past 4 or 5 weeks. This was due to the fact that Dengue fever is spreading and yesterday The Star reported that there have been 6 deaths and 1,008 dengue fever cases have been reported nationwide between July 6 and 12. Selangor had 4 deaths, while Kuala Lumpur and Johor recorded 1 death each. I heard from my mother that there was a fatality in the neighborhood due to the fever. Last week, Health Officers from the Health Ministry came knocking on all doors to check on breeding spots. Luckily, our house don’t have any breeding spots. We heard from the officers that there were quite a number of houses were being fined for breeding Aedes mosquitoes.

Now, fogging is effective to kill mosquitoes but does not kill larvae. Fogging will not stop mosquitoes entering your homes, however, it may deter them from establishing breeding grounds at homes where fogging is performed. So in order to really clear breeding spots, we need to:

• Remove garbage or unnecessary pots, bottles, cans etc from the garden area.
• Use mosquito larvicides or mosquito larvae-eating fish such as guppies in waters that cannot be drained.
• Change water in flower pots once a week and wash them thoroughly. Do not let plants stand in trays containing water. Scrub trays weekly to get rid of any mosquito eggs.
• Cover all water containers and eliminate objects that can trap rainwater.

Should you or your child present with any of the following signs, a doctor should be consulted immediately to confirm diagnosis:

• Abrupt onset of high fever (>39 c or 102 f).
• Headache.
• Pain behind the eyes.
• Muscle & joint pain.
• Rashes.
• Loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting.

I’m tagging Jean Chia to help me come up with more ways to get rid of the mosquitoes and maybe spread the words.

My son doing his own ‘fogging’ exercise

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A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the make of car I drove. But the world maybe different, because I was important in the life of a child.

A quotable quote by Forest E. Witcraft on Iskandar’s blog.

As I was browsing through my comments, I clicked through a link to a blog and I was stunned and emotionally touched by the noble deed that it’s owner has done to make a difference in the lives of children. The owner of the blog, Iskandar, has made charity a priority in his life.

Iskandar is currently in a mission to set up libraries for orphanages all over Malaysia and at the same time juggling to bring laughter, fun and magic to hopitalised children.

His noble enthusiasm to set up libraries began during his college days back in 1995. He and his friends started to raise funds and books for a library in Kg Banggol Sembilan, Padang Sanai, Kuala Nerang. After a 10 years hiatus, he continued with his second mission and set up a library in Bait Al Amin, Bota, Perak with the help of Islamic Relief Malaysia. Through his blog and friends, he managed to raise more than RM2K and bought good books for the library.

This year, he began to do it on his own. He managed to raise nearly RM10K and able to set up libraries for two orphanages; Rumah NurZaharah, Kg Janda Baik and Rumah Nurul Hidayah, Bukit Gantang Perak.

Currently, he is fund-raising and collecting books for Asrama Bakti Orphanage, Batu 25, Machang which mainly housed boys, age ranging from 7 to 17 years old. If you want to help Iskandar in his latest Machang Orphanage Project (or next projects), you can do so by donating funds or books. You can e-mail Iskandar at adabi99@yahoo.com should you have any queries. You can also transfer fund directly to his Maybank account: Iskandar Syah Ismail 162188016529 . For books donation, he will be happy to come and collect from you. This time around, he is looking for books suitable for boys and teenage boys. He accept books in good condition. Please do not donate your unwanted old books which are in bad or torn conditions. He encourages donors to give books as gifts.

You can read more about his effort in his blog: Blowing Bubbles

Books Iskandar bought during the last day of KLIBF 2008. "Borong saat terakhir," he said. I actually have met Iskandar at the book fair but didn’t realised that he was this Iskandar.
(Photo by Iskandar)

Iskandar aka Dr. Bubbles is also doing part-time clowning and is focussing on hospital clowning work and interactions with patients etc. He’ll be going to Sabah next week to clown for a young cancer patient and to conduct a workshop on theatre and hospital clowning for theatre students at UMS.

Iskandar attended the Clown Camp at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (to study caring clowning and clowning in healthcare setting) after winning a grant from the university and a foundation in USA in 2003. He furthered his clowning studies at The Celebration Barn Theatre, Maine, USA with a grant from KeKKWA in 2005. He studied Eccentric Performing with Avner Eisenberg & Julie Goell. Currently, Iskandar is applying for a grant to study under Giovanni Fusetti, one the great clown teacher from Italy, at Boulder International Clown School in Sept-Oct 2008.

For your information, Iskandar has served under various NGO namely Mercy Malaysia, SALAM and MAKNA as fundraiser, hospital clown and volunteer. He left the latter after serving for almost 5 years. Iskandar graduated from UK in Chemical Engineering at University of Bradford.

Iskandar dreams that one day he will be able to set up the first professional clown doctors program in Malaysia. For now, he is trying his best to introduce the theatre clowning concept in Malaysia by conducting workshops on the subject with the theatre students at local universities.

And yes, Patch Adam is his idol.