Quoted from jodi picoult : Vanishing acts
spoke at : Thursday, November 13, 2008
13th & 14th Oct
Vision Screening @ Rainbow centre (A school for children with intellectual disability, multiple disabilities and autism)
Everytime when I have vision screening, I never fail to feel reluctant and dreadful to wake up because it either always starts very early, or that I have to travel far. but the weird thing is i always feel much alive when i'm carrying out my tasks, and I must say i really enjoyed interacting with these needy people, or be it just general public. A sense of satisfaction i must say, and this brought back what miss lek told me before, that you must really enjoy what you're doing if not sooner or later you'll be drained out by it ..
Anyways, I've chatted with one of the young teacher over there, and I came to know their jobs better and understand a little more about Autism.
Autistic kids do not just live in their own world and are always quiet, hiding somewhere in the corner. Autism is a brain disorder that impaired social interaction and communication, and people with autism have repetitive and restricted behaviour.
Some of the symptoms include:
+ Purpoely movement like hand flapping, body rocking
+ Compulsive behavious as they appear to follow rules
+ Perform daily activities the same way each time and repeat the same thing over and over again especially if they like doing it. eg: turning a door knob, imitating the tv characters
+ Easily distracted
+ Focusing only 1 thing at a time
+ Self injury ( which i've seen it, when they are under stress, or facing unfamiliar strangers or envirnoment which is out of their routine life)
(Autism can also be accompanied by hyperactivity)
Here are the photos (:
Color vision test
Oh and My mama finally came back from Europe, I've seen the photos and I went : wahlau, I go India you go Europe, what a big difference in the photos we've taken..
I'm so so envy because she went to the harry potter 9 3/4 platform, she went to the davinci code pyramid! And lotsa places with really nice architectures! RARR I will upload some photos in the next post!
spoke at : Thursday, October 16, 2008
And today i recevied a call : " Wanwan(the dog) was found.... but dead"
yes...The dog was found dead at the bus stop, with ants crawling all over...
It hit me and my family hard, and its unbelievable that it actually happened. if it was missing, then at least, we know its probably alive somewhere, but now, found ..dead..
If i went to the busstop to find, i could have found her alive, if i went all the way there..
Its puzzling, how the dog manage to get out the house, and its blood boiling as there might be a high possiblity that someone actually attempt to kill it. I really hope not. I heard from my cousin there's this indian man who always tried to beat the dog up but HELLO its just a small innocent dog, screw him if he's the one!
ARGH. I always thought if the dog was able to get some training, perhaps she would be able to enter competition. she can sprint really fast, and jump really high, great agility, and she's gentle in nature, but perhaps she was too timid and gentle and that brought her down...
sigh.
things arent going smoothly ever since i'm back..
Anyways photos from my india trip are all here
http://indiavisionoutreached.shutterfly.com/
spoke at : Thursday, October 09, 2008
well everytime I browse at selective bunch of friends, haha they never fail to amaze me in some ways. Ok I shoudn't be reacting that way I guess because its been long since I graduated from secondary school and of course primary school. People do change right?
And everytime I thought to myself Why hadnt I changed much? I still look the same, still behave like what I used to be just that I learnt much more about life that I see things in a different way already, not as childish, and selfish compared to who i used to be. When I see my friends having funs and great nights out there, huge company of friends, I'm envy honestly. how much fun have I missed out?
Then.. I questioned myself again whether fun is what I want? Which are the things I want to do most?
Here is the list:
1) Spend more time with my family
2) Be an active volunteer in community service
3) Learn to live, perspective of life and mindsets
4) Connecting with more people be it young or old.
5) making more friends
6) Play! fun! getalife
spoke at : Sunday, October 05, 2008
i've decided to remove the caption !I cant wait to come back while I'm in india because I'm starving over there, while people were stuffing themselves with local food. Hence I've lost abit of weight and become botak bamboo pole while they've gained weight.haha. I remember the first and second day I was there, I already told myself singapore is just a perfect place to be in. Be it the food, living conditions, cleaniness, organizations, buildings, transport every tiny little thing, they are just too perfect and ready for us to live in. While over there at India, its polluted air, drains, water etc. me ailian and jess was even thinking how we are to brush our teeth as we were told the tap water is not safe to consume.
Despite the majority of things they have lacked of over there, the imperfect place has molded people of great personality who possesses great skills and humanity. People there are contented with what they have, proactive, straightforward, eager to learn, willing to take the hardships, warm, and individualistic is not what they seek for. In india, the optometrist work/study 12 hrs a day spending most of their times seeing 100s of patients a day. While us in singapore we only see 3 patients in a day, and we were all complaining how tired it is.
In the perfect place in singapore, where everything is already planned and a path already laid ahead of us, and also with the mentality of " if i get good grades, i will go into good course, good uni.." "If I" "If I" when I comes first, when our government unknowingly emphasize on individualistic. Imperfect people and younger generations like us were then being brought up a wrong way. We became more self centred, Like how i dislike my juniors because they only listen to themselves. we think about ourselves first, and we GIVE only if we know it BENEFITS us, or in someways allow us to gain what we want. A talk with Mr sim that day allowed me to understand the "Essence' of the india trip.
Its visible during the india trip, how we had behaved, and that when we were all stripped off from our computers, connections with our families, and we have to take care of one another be it whether you like that person or not, people became more caring, and understand the importance of human interactions and relationships.
Alright I shall continue another day! hopefully with peeeektures when i've got them all (:
*Stuffing myself with food and more food eevryday!*
spoke at : Tuesday, September 30, 2008