I am me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like me but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose it.
I own everything about me - my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all my thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feeling, whatever they might me - anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth and all the words that come out of it - polite, sweet and rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud ans soft; all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me in all my parts.
I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests. I know there are aspects of myself that puzzles me, and other aspects that I don't know. But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find to more about me.
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.
When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that which is unfitting and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something new for that which I discarded.
I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do. I have tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, to make sense and order out of the world of people and things of me.
I own me and therefore I can engineer me.
I am me and I am Okay
(Virginia Satir : Chicken Soup for the Soul)
Monday, February 16, 2009
An article I wrote in 2004
Kuala Lumpur is not a friendly city for the physically challenged people, as many buildings and public transportation do not allow them to move freely in their wheelchair.
Most of the public transportation such as the bus services, LRT, Monorail, Commuter and ERL are only accessible if they have someone to help them out.
The number of physically challenged individuals out in shopping complexes, theater halls, national library, or any other public place are very small.
Most buildings and public transportation do not have an alternative pathway apart from the stairs in order for them to fully utilize the facilities.
They have no choice but to stay at home as they cannot travel outside their house on their own without any assistant.
"There is no point coming out of the house, as there is not many place that are accessible for us in the wheelchair," said Encik Ismail sho was wheelchair bounded since childhood.
Every state of the art building fully equipped with advanced technological equipments that is being build should always gives enough considerations to this community.
However, currently only limited access was given to them including the restrooms build for the physically challenged people in public places, which are not enough.
Every Malaysian from all walks of life must be able to enjoy all the public places and facilities by the government
Tim@2004
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This article was written as an exercise in the CIJ Journalism Skills Training 25-26Sept04. I used to be a volunteer for CIJ in 2004. This one-and-a-half-day course was designed (1) to train CIJ volunteers who are interested in contributing to their media and radio projects and also (2) to encourage people to write about their community and issues affecting them.
Most of the public transportation such as the bus services, LRT, Monorail, Commuter and ERL are only accessible if they have someone to help them out.
The number of physically challenged individuals out in shopping complexes, theater halls, national library, or any other public place are very small.
Most buildings and public transportation do not have an alternative pathway apart from the stairs in order for them to fully utilize the facilities.
They have no choice but to stay at home as they cannot travel outside their house on their own without any assistant.
"There is no point coming out of the house, as there is not many place that are accessible for us in the wheelchair," said Encik Ismail sho was wheelchair bounded since childhood.
Every state of the art building fully equipped with advanced technological equipments that is being build should always gives enough considerations to this community.
However, currently only limited access was given to them including the restrooms build for the physically challenged people in public places, which are not enough.
Every Malaysian from all walks of life must be able to enjoy all the public places and facilities by the government
Tim@2004
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This article was written as an exercise in the CIJ Journalism Skills Training 25-26Sept04. I used to be a volunteer for CIJ in 2004. This one-and-a-half-day course was designed (1) to train CIJ volunteers who are interested in contributing to their media and radio projects and also (2) to encourage people to write about their community and issues affecting them.
Memory Lane : GKII March 2000
During my single mingle life, I was an active person, participating in various activities and events. Even before that in high school and primary school, I was participating in soo many persatuan and kelab... I did a lot of things in high school and one of the highlight was being the EDITOR for the school magazine... MUTIARA BANDARAYA 96. Yoohoo! one of my dream too... since I love to write...
Even in college years, I took the Mass Communication course (no surprise there!) haha... doing Public Relations. Since private college have limited extra curricular activities... I got bored... due to the fact that the whole to and fro process every single day! So as any restless teenager would do... (or youth adult since it is already college years) I went out to find my own activities! no no... not clubbing and not rempit also... (no motor license anyway), I explored my options in events and actitivies in the real world. Which I did... yohoo...
GKII was the first international conference I was involved in... as a youth volunteer, and I must say that it was the first step of everything else that happened in my life. (GKII-Global Knowledge II)...It was one of the best! I learned a lot and I met lots of new friends!...
* The second Global Knowledge Conference (GKII), hosted by the Government of Malaysia, focused on building knowledge societies through the process of identifying practical means to harness information, knowledge and new technologies to promote equity, fairness, social justice, empowerment and informed decision-making. Over 1000 people from more than 120 countries met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to consider the special challenges facing communities and nations in the rapidly changing information and communications environment.
Access, Empowerment and Governance - three crucial elements in building equitable and sustainable Knowledge Societies - formed the core themes of GKII. In the context of these themes, GKII also focused on the importance of empowering women and youth through the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and highlighted the role of the media in facilitating greater access to, and thereby promoting, knowledge for development.*
(*...* source:http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org/gkp/index.cfm/pageid/338)
Even in college years, I took the Mass Communication course (no surprise there!) haha... doing Public Relations. Since private college have limited extra curricular activities... I got bored... due to the fact that the whole to and fro process every single day! So as any restless teenager would do... (or youth adult since it is already college years) I went out to find my own activities! no no... not clubbing and not rempit also... (no motor license anyway), I explored my options in events and actitivies in the real world. Which I did... yohoo...
GKII was the first international conference I was involved in... as a youth volunteer, and I must say that it was the first step of everything else that happened in my life. (GKII-Global Knowledge II)...It was one of the best! I learned a lot and I met lots of new friends!...
* The second Global Knowledge Conference (GKII), hosted by the Government of Malaysia, focused on building knowledge societies through the process of identifying practical means to harness information, knowledge and new technologies to promote equity, fairness, social justice, empowerment and informed decision-making. Over 1000 people from more than 120 countries met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to consider the special challenges facing communities and nations in the rapidly changing information and communications environment.
Access, Empowerment and Governance - three crucial elements in building equitable and sustainable Knowledge Societies - formed the core themes of GKII. In the context of these themes, GKII also focused on the importance of empowering women and youth through the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and highlighted the role of the media in facilitating greater access to, and thereby promoting, knowledge for development.*
(*...* source:http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org/gkp/index.cfm/pageid/338)
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