Kaboom!

Dat was basicly da sound ma lappie made yesterday evenin... Was workin on ma assignment - was almost finished actually - when all of da sudden I heard a sssss sound. Den ma screen went all black nd dere was "firework" - y'all remember those siticks dey put on an ice cream nd dat produces sumthang lookin like firework? Y'all do? But da one thang bothering me is dat ma lappie aint an ice cream!- comin from da power plugin. So quickly pulled out da plus to prevent a short-circuit nd settin ma crib on fire! But dang lappie was messed up pretty bad. Smelled like burned plastic! Hummm maybe cus its made out of plasic...

R.I.P dear lappie

October 14, 2006 - October 22, 2007

You'll neva be forgotten

Fincept studios©

Doing ma dirt outside ma territory... Haha! Law student turnin graphic designer. Hum... Actually more like doin da lil stuff no one likes doin (like replacin objects). Gotta start sumwhere!

But where it all started: a friend of mine has set up his own company Fincept studios©, specialised in web design. Think he was da one responsible for my addiction to PhotoShop. Was jealous of what he did with all dose pics dat I decided to start myself. Slowely but surely I "developed" -raise eyebrow- ma skills.
Now am officialy a member of Fincept studios©! Sounds cool hu? But gotta read between da lines though! Now he can use me to do da boring stuff! Smart boy I must say... But being da CEOs right hand is always cool. You neva know he gets big one day nd all those big brand sites want him as a webdesigner... Then am still a shareholder and he aint kickin me out! Haha! Lawyer in me is takin ova!

World Food Day

Its World Food Day today. Did y'all know dat each day, 854 milion people have to go to bed with an empty stomack? 854 million! Sumtimes I really praise maself lucky to be born in da rich West. Like today: was home at 3 p.m. so found it stupid to eat 'cus 3 hours lata it was suppa time... So I just didnt eat nd waited till suppa. But cus I didnt eat since yesterday noon, I was hungry as hell... Dang I actually felt guilty dat I could eat all dat nice food when dere are otha people who cannot... Hope dat one day I will be able to help nd feed people who have absolutely nuffin...

FAO insists on food as a human right

World Food Day theme seeks renewed commitment to the Right to Food

16 October 2007 - FAO today called for a renewed commitment to guarantee the right to food for the world's hundreds of millions of hungry people.

Speaking at the World Food Day ceremony on this year’s theme, "The Right to Food," FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf asked: “if our planet produces enough food to feed its entire population, why do 854 million people still go to sleep on an empty stomach?” At the same time, Diouf said that “a right is not a right if it cannot be claimed.”

The President of Germany, Horst Köhler, said that “hunger is not an inescapable destiny, but can be eliminated by wise policies.” This requires that governments of developing countries make food security a priority. He said “all people have a right to healthy food, produced in a sustainable manner appropriate to their culture. Democratic participation by the people is the best guarantee that governments will genuinely understand people's basic needs and will take these into account.” He noted that people should have an adequate supply of food from their own fields and the surrounding region, which requires a type of agriculture based on "ownership" in developing countries and on functioning local structures and know-how.

Tanzania's President, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, stated that "40 000 children die every day throughout the world due to malnutrition and related diseases. These are the people who are being denied the right to food. These are the people who are the subject of this year's World Food Day." He also said that the ultimate solution lies in improving agriculture, especially in Africa.

In a message read during the ceremony, Pope Benedict XVI said that food is a universal right for humankind, without distinction or discrimination. He urged all members of society to ensure the right to food, the non-fulfillment of which is a violation of human dignity.

Despite the fact that the right to food was included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948, commitment to enforce the right has been only very gradual. However, Diouf said that while “national commitments to implement the right to food would have been unthinkable only ten years ago, such commitments are already bearing fruit. In Brazil, for example, the right is now firmly entrenched and hunger is in retreat.”

FAO has been working with both governments and non-governmental organizations to promote a set of guidelines and a framework aimed at helping policymakers and others realize the right to food.

Italy’s Minister for agricultural, food and forestry policies, Paolo de Castro, underlined the importance of the right to food guidelines as the most effective means of moving governments as well as civil society towards achieving global food security.

"Demographics, climate change and commodity prices appear to be working against us right now, threatening to swirl up into a perfect storm of overwhelming need. But there is hope to end hunger, and science and education are on our side," stated Josette Sheeran, WFP Executive Director, who also attended the WFD ceremony.

In a message from IFAD President Lennart Båge it was noted that “three quarters of the world’s one billion extremely poor people live in rural areas, many already suffer from hunger and malnutrition, but new and growing challenges such as climate change are making them all the more vulnerable. This is why now, more than ever, the world has a pressing moral obligation to invest in agricultural development to combat hunger and restore dignity to the poor.”

Still too many hungry people

Eleven years after the 1996 World Food Summit the number of undernourished people in the world remains unacceptably high, with 820 million in developing countries, 25 million in countries in transition and 9 million in industrialized countries. As a result, promoting the right to food is not just a moral imperative or even an investment with huge economic returns, it is a basic human right, according to FAO.

At the same time, still greater pressure is being put on food supplies. Staples such as wheat and milk have seen price rises mainly due to climate-change induced weather fluctuations that affect harvests, the switch to biofuels and increasing demand from new and emerging markets.

World Food Day events around the world

World Food Day is commemorated annually in 150 countries. Highlights of this year’s events include a worldwide candlelight vigil starting in the southwest Pacific and moving around the globe to draw attention to the problem of world hunger; musical events in Cairo, Rome, Bamako and other cities; sporting events such as the Run for Food race in Rome and Turin and professional soccer games dedicated to increasing awareness of World Food Day by Spain’s professional soccer league. On the occasion of World Food Day 2007, universities in Italy, Ireland and Iran are establishing institutes or launching university courses on the right to food.

Cheatin Death

Sup ma peeps. Ev'rythang aight?

Had a pretty scary mornin'. When I was walkin to class, I almost got hit by sum reckless driver. I was at da red light (which was on "walk") so I crossed da street when all of da sudden a BMW drove through da red light in my direction! Jumped away just on time! Othawise I would have been writin y'all dis blog from hell. lOl. - see image -

But now time to relax. Finally weekend. Totally exhausted. Been hit by the flu virus dis week. Head weights 100 kg, nose hurts nd is red, voice gone, ... Just had not enuff sleep *yawn*.

So amma let y'all in peace for now

Sweet dreams!

"Best friends"

Gosh I hate dat word. "Best friends"... Am always da best friend. Ma ex, da otha guy I was tellin' y'all about nd some otha guys... Always da best friend. But what is da meanin of da term "best friend"? To me it is sumthin like dis:

A best friend is sumone dat goes thru fire, stops a bullet for you, ... Dat is dere when you need sumone to talk to... Nd most of all; sumone who neva lets chu down, no matta what!

But what do you get in return? Zero, nadda! Cus wheneva dat best - male - friend finds anotha girl, you are "dumped". Den dey dont know you anymore, dont talk to you anymore, when you cross 'em on 'em streets he looks away, ... But den when its ova between 'em, da best friend is all of da sudden good enough. Den you are good enough to talk to, good enough to f*ck, ... Nd when dey back togetha, 'em act like nuffin happened. Y'all know what: F*CK IT!!! Dis lil gal aint diggin dis best friend thang no mo'! If y'all need sumone to talk to when ya gurl dumped cha, den go to your homie but I aint da one to run to. No mo' crying nd hot sexi nites anymo'. Cus lemme set one thang straight: I aint one of yo homies, am still a gurl! Not a "lil sis" dat you can bang nd stuff like dat. I aint wastin ma time no mo' on em "best friends". Cus in da end 'em end up havin 'em girlfriends nd I been put aside. Eitha 'em come straight or 'em get lost.

Jus had to let out all 'em rage. lOl! All of dis started when da guy I liked - past tense! - was talkin 'bout da sis of his homie. 'Em was talkin about dat chick like she was a queen. 'Em would never get bored of her - dis was da thang dat pissed me of most -. Cus his reason of why him nd I could never been lovas was build 'round mosty one thang: he gets always of 'em gurls afta a while. Nd now all of da sudden 'em would not get bored of dis chick. Was jus so mad! First 'em bullsh*ttin' to me 'bout da "dont wanna date chu cause it always ends up badly nd dont wanna loose chu" nd now dis. Nd he claims to have balls. Yh right! I aint diggin lies no mo'. Am done with 'em. Finito, basta!

But talked to ma ex yesterday. Think dis was da first time eva he truly opened his heart instead of avoidin ev'ry discussion bout our past relationship. But it was so heart wrecknin... 'Em tellin me dat it hurted so much to be in a relationship wif me. Dunno da reason - didnt want to ask any further since I didnt want to hurt him even more - but I guess it was b/c of da distance. I had da same feelin as he has but I knew it would just have been a matta of time befo' we would be togetha. He didnt have to power to continue nd I respect dat decision... Miss him still a lot though... Yh, even afta almost 2 months I still miss da guy.

Before y'all think ma life is full of drama, I survived ma 2nd week of school. Dis was da first full week. Ma heart broke when I had to get out of ma warm bed at 6 am. lOl. It gets worse ev'ry year. Last year I had some trouble gettin out of bed but dis year it is horrible to get out of bed! lOl. Or maybe it is cus dis year I turn da midnight sessions into a habit. lOl. Think I just need to go to bed earlier nd not stay awake till dawn nd only get 1 hour of sleep.

Nd now dis lil gal has to get to her study books. Peace! Am out!

Back in da game

Sup ma dear readers.

Monday again nd school took a new start. Cold nd rainy so y'all even forget how boring it is to sit in a room w/o any windows or natural light. What else can you do? Shoppin? Nope 'cus it rains. Home? Do da dirty jobs? Nah den I rather go to school - 'cos you can just sit nd do sumtin else like bloggin *wink* -. But in da end dere are always worse things - cant name one but I am sure dere must be at least one thing dats worse den school! -.

But got some nice prospects! Saturday October 2Oth it will be party time! Kaysha is performin @ decinema in Antwerp. Decinema @ Saturdays is like da place to be if you like urban music - like I do -. So it gon be fun. Me nd ma gurl goin out alone! No guys dat can hold us down - playettes take over da buildin *grin*-.

Oh yh, some guy I know is playin match maker! lOl. Nah seriously! He is passin all da addresses of da guys he knows. lOl. Yh I could add dem nd use da "*** gave ur address. Think he is playin cupid! Sure go ahead, whipe his ass!". lOl. Dunno, one had a cute face but he was like extremely skinny nd wanna-be model! Damn a guy dat spends more time in da bathroom den me! Da otha guy was like ... Dunno. He had some things dat looked fiiine but over all he was like totally untidy! Doubt he ever heard of shavin... So dats both a no! lOl. Startin to believe I am too picky! Me? Probably *wink*. Just got high standards nd want da best of da best. No wastin time on somethin dat will never work out. Maybe Ill search for some athletics guy or balla. Saw Asafa Powell when he was in Belgium for da Memorial nd damn dat guy got some nice ass nd body! *drooooooool*

Y'all still readin? No worries I will stop now *wink*

See y'all! Bye bye!

Greetings
C