well , icreate is a somesort of convention, called the "International Conference on Accesible Tourism", specially for the people with impaired disability, and my role is to originally to be the ushers, i heard from my fren that it will be very tiring ushering the special ppl, but i just told myself to treat them as normal ppl and give the equal respect but with greater carefulness so as to make them feel more welcome and happy.
it's around 5mins passed the meeting time when i arrived at the meeting place, well i am the first! Hooray! the rest came abit later than me, and i was SO shocked that they are all juniors /\_/\|| so me, as the senior just felt totally weird, thank God, later huibin came, and at least i have some one to chat with.. haha.. this really makes things easy.. :) by 15mins time, we managed to gather and set off to the exhibits for a briefing.
The briefing started abit later than expected guess the organiser was abit busy bah, so i juz wonder around the waiting area and looking aimlessly at the noticeboards etcs
by 0825 we were been told to gathered in the auditorium to receive our duties.. i was been asked to do the carry of the machine together with huibin and another junior, the organiser, Mr Ng, was seems like a friendly person to me, smiling and encouraging us, he told me to be the leader of the group to manage the flow of the event.. wah.. abit of responsibility leh, thought i can slack abit.. but okay lah.. not much, juz organising my 2 guys and to ask them to carry the 50kg machine and move up and down the stairs, and out of the auditorium to the stairs..
before that we were been asked to carry out the furnitures to the main stage, seems heavy, but we managed to carry all out.. :) but then coz of that, my arms muscles are already tired liao, this makes the carrying of machine even more tedious..
around 0940, the opening cermony starts with the chairman of the "Disabled People's Association" introducing the activities with a welcome speech, my job is very simple, just wait for the 2nd spokeperson (Mr Hideto Kijima Toyonaka")'s wheelchair to be inside the lever and to operate the machine to allow the platform to be inline with the stage ground before he can leave his self out of the machine and proceed straight to the stage front for the speech
with that, Mr Kijima can present with the least effort, a great innovative design machine really solves this kind of crucial problems..well, Mr Kijima is an amazing person, since 20 years ago, he has been living with his wheel-chairs coz of a backbone problem/injury that forces him to be a wheel-chair bound person.
thinking of his disability, Mr Kijima wants to do something different from others, some might choose to give up their lives, some might feel miserable, but Mr Kijima just live his life to the fullest potential he has, fullest maximum that he can overcome and achieve not only his goals but of his dream of travelling around 99 COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD IN 20 YEARS only...
i really admired him alot, given the difficult of mobile-ing, and yet he managed to travel so many countries and over come so many obstacles mentioned in the slides itself... i rmb some memorable ones..
- Riding a camel in the desert
- Climb up the mountain by the help of the water buffalos
- Climb up the hill with the help of the guys and a cloth, like a pivot and the lever theory.. AMAZING
- Bungee jumping
- Sky diving, (but at the last moment been cancelled due to some technical errors, but he did overcome his fears to give it a try
- Hand- driving around the town (but nearly coz an accident resulting in lots of inside humours, can share with you when you asked me.. very funny and lame..:))
his +ve thinking attitude & his cheerful character really motivates me alot..and his presentation was way to entertaining, and he just dun have any stage fright, and he is just there in front of you talking to you about his memorable experiences, and with some laughers and jokes.. his laughers and smiles from the slides and photos are all very real and you can see that he is really REALLY happy to be who he is, enjoy what he is doing and not to feel disgrace about his disability and to live his life with these 3 goals (i'm trying my best to rmb):
- Fulfill your dream no matter what difficult it is
- Maintain a cheerful and +ve attitude in handling things
- SMILEZ! :)
well isn't travel great? and isn't travel with more onbound access of the handicapped facilities better for the travellers with disability. we have not really done enuf, Let's make the world a better place and really, really, plays a part in helping the need and to heal a hurt! Shall we?! :)
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