Wonderful Wednesday with My Purple World, Oh My Heartsie Girls and Friends

Astoria, my beautiful home in NYC.. Welcome back to our weekly link party Fall is here and I couldn't get more excited to be back to NYC during this most beautiful season of the year. For me :). I haven't really got time to enjoy the beauty of fall in NYC as I was directly dragged down to our endless meetings. But I am confident I will get the opportunity to do so insya Allah.  We will soon have the election of the UN Human Rights Council and we are one of the candidates for the period of 2020 - 2022. Wish us luck and hopefully we...

WW: Back to NYC!

Morning flight from Frankfurt to NYC Back to NYC and I am super excited indeed! Our annual UNGA meetings as well as the election day for UN Human Rights Council are coming and definitely we need a lot of preparation, including our trip. We have booked our trip to NYC through Japan by ANA but Typoon Hagidis hit Japan on October 12th, the exact day when we were supposed to be flying! I was so disappointed as I have been waiting for my transit in Japan for quite a while. Long drama short, we looked for the last-minute changes and I took the Singapore...

#WeTalkAboutCancer: Chemotherapy and its impacts

Disclaimer: this is a repost of my previous note on World Cancer Day  IT'S THE WORLD CANCER DAY! Every 4th of February, we salute those surviving cancers, cheer those fighting it and light the memories of those who have lost their lives to cancer. Last year, we had a special event for World Cancer Day 2016 at the United Nations But this year, I haven't seen one at the UN. I have come across more infographic about cancer from worldcancerday.com. From the top 5 most frequent cancers, breast cancer stays at no. 2 after lung cancer.  Moreover,...