Mom Carry Me To Kindergarten

I was only joining regular kindergarten during the second term after I had studied at Spastic Centre for about 4 years. At that time, I was 8 years old.

Actually the kindergarten was near to our house. Unfortunately, the kindergarten was under renovation and its operation was moved to a school permit which was quite far from our home.

In the beginning, my parents would like to bring me to the kindergarten by school bus. However, the bus driver told us that no adult was allowed to ride on school bus. On the other hand, I was really need someone to bring me and take care of me as I was not able to walk independently. At the result, my mom had brought me to the kindergarten by using public transports. Sometime we went by carpool, but most of the time we took public bus.

Everyday, my mom would carry me in her hand from our house to the nearby bus stop. She also put my school bag on her shoulder. She would be holding an umbrella in another one hand. I was asked to hug her hard with my arms and legs to ease her in carrying me. When a bus arrived, she took me aboard the bus and then looked for seats. Then, when we reached at our destination, she would carried me, aligning the bus and walked to the kindergarten. She would wait me outside the classroom until the lessons ended. After that, she would bring me home by bus.

The day became much more difficult when it was raining. She put my bag on my back and then let me wore raincoat. Then, she would carry me in one hand and held an umbrella in the another hand.

After one or two months, the kindergarten moved back to its permit. My mom carried me and walked to the kindergarten.

Merdeka & OKU

Hari ini 31 haribulan Ogos 2009. Genap 52 tahun negara yang kita cintakan ini mencapai kemerdekaan. Banyak pencapaian telah dicapai. Dari negara yang ekonominya berasaskan pertanian berubah menjadi negara perindustrian dan seterusnya ekonomi berteraskan perkhidmatan dan pengetahuan. Pembangunan juga pesat dijalankan sehingga kemunculan bangunan-bangunan tinggi mencakar langit. Taraf hidup rakyat Malaysia yang berbilang bangsa dan agama terus meningkat.

Bagaimana pula dengan OKU yang merupakan golongan minoriti yang masih dimarginalisasikan? Sememangnya tidak dapat dinafikan kerajaan sentiasa berusaha untuk membantu kami yang OKU. Banyak keistimewaan telah diperuntukkan kepada kami yang berdaftar di bawah Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat. Antaranya, bantuan alat tiruan atau alat sokongan seperti kaki palsu, kerusi roda dan alat pendengaran; bantuan geran pelancaran, potongan 50% pengangkutan awam, elaun pekerja cacat, elaun kepada pelajar-pelajar sekolah dan juga OKU yang melanjutkan pelajaran di IPTA dan sebagainya.

Sememangnya keistimewaan-keistimewaan ini dapat membantu OKU dan juga keluarganya untuk menjalani kehidupan. Namun, kami sebenarnya bukan mahu menjadi orang yang menagih simpati dan menerima bantuan semata-mata. Sebaliknya kami ingin diberi hak dan peluang yang sama rata seperti orang lain. Kami ingin mendapatkan pendidikan, pekerjaan, bergerak bebas, bersosial, berkeluarga dan sebagainya. Dengan adanya hak-hak tersebut, kami juga dapat menyumbang kepada bangsa dan negara.

Akan tetapi, sehingga kini kami masih tidak dapat menikmati hak-hak tersebut sepenuhnya. Kebanyakan bangunan dan juga persekitaran masih tidak mesra kepada OKU sungguhpun Undang-Undang Kecil Bangunan 34A yang memperuntukkan akses kepada OKU telah lama diperkenalkan. Sesetengah infrastruktur OKU yang disediakan pula tidak memenuhi spesifikasi yang ditetapkan, yang menyebabkan infrastruktur yang disediakan itu tidak dapat digunakan oleh sesetengah OKU. Kebanyakan sekolah adalah kurang mesra OKU yang menyebabkan banyak OKU tidak berpeluang mendapatkan pendidikan yang sewajarnya. Kerajaan sememangnya telah berusaha menawarkan pendidikan yang sesuai bagi OKU dengan mengadakan kelas khas di sesetengah sekolah biasa dan juga sekolah khas. Namun, hanya sebilangan kanak-kanak OKU saja berpeluang belajar di kelas atau sekolah tersebut kerana bilangannya masih rendah berbanding dengan kanak-kanak OKU. Selain itu, hanya kanak-kanak OKU yang boleh berdikari saja berpeluang belajar di sana. Tanpa pendidikan yang sewajarnya, OKU sukar mendapatkan pekerjaan yang bersesuaian. Sikap prejudis pihak majikan terhadap keupayaan OKU juga menyebabkan kami sukar mendapat pekerjaan. Persekitaran yang kurang mesra OKU juga menyebabkan kami tidak dapat keluar dari rumah dengan sendiri dan menyertai aktiviti-aktiviti.

Saya bersyukur atas usaha-usaha yang dilakukan bagi membantu kami selama ini. Namun usaha-usaha ini masih belum cukup untuk membolehkan OKU menikmati hak kesamarataan. Banyak usaha masih perlu diambil untuk mencapai hak kesamarataan tersebut. Saya berharap agar semua pihak terutamanya kerajaan akan terus berusaha untuk mempertingkatkan taraf hidup OKU dan seterusnya menjadi sebuah negara yang mesra OKU pada masa depan. Semoga OKU diberi peluang untuk mendapatkan hak-hak yang dinikmati oleh orang lain. Malaysia pasti dapat melakukannya.

SELAMAT HARI MERDEKA KEPADA SEMUA RAKYAT MALAYSIA

FarmVille Addict

About two weeks ago, I saw Jumie's Yahoo! Messenger stated that she is busy in farming. Huh? What's she meant? A secretary has to do farming? How come School of Social Science has its own farm? I didn't understand what was she meant and I just didn't border about it.

When I logged in facebook, I came to know that there is a game on farming named "FarmVille" in facebook. Oh, Jumie actually plays the game, it is not do the actual farming! At that time, I did not have interested play the game. In fact, I didn't really like to use facebook especially its application such games. It's because the application will pull our profile information as well as other information before we can access the application. I had heard the danger of using facebook. Anyway I leave blank for most of the required profile information.


When we're going home after work, sometime I teased Jumie that she had became dark as she was busy working at her farm under the hot sun. She would tell me about the game and her farm. It seems an interesting game when she told me about it. She also persuade me to have my own farm too.

At last, I have started my own farm on 13th August. In the beginning, as a new farmer I was given 6 plowed land which 4 of them with plants and little coins (money) as capital to start my farm. I had invited some of my friends of facebook to become my neighbours. Soon Jumie and one of my colleagues become my neighbours. The aims of getting neighbours are to get more money by helping to clean our neighbours farm besides visit their farm and they also can give us free gifts such as trees and animals.

With the capital, we plow lands, buy seeds, plant them on the plowed land, buy animals and trees. Each seeds, animals and trees will take different duration of time to grow. Some seeds will completely grow into plants in 2 hours (i.e. raspberries), 4 hours (i.e. strawberry), 8 hours (i.e. pumpkin) or 12 hours (i.e. rice), while some seeds take 1 to 4 days to grow before we can harvest them. When the plants are completely grow, we must harvest them to get money. We should not wait too long time to harvest them after they are grow 100%. If not, our plants will become dry and it causes us lost money. Therefore, we must plan our time carefully based on our working time and free time.

The trees and animals will grow in 1 to 5 days. Once they are completely grow, we can harvest the fruits and collect milk, eggs, wood, etc which will give us money. Then, our trees and animals will grow again. We can sell our trees and animals but they are at much lower price compare the price we buy them.

We also can buy fence, hay bale, pond, etc. to decorate our farm; buy building and tractor; and expand our farm. Each action will give us some points and we must get certain amount of points to achieve higher level. Sometimes we will get rewards and bonus which will give us money and points as well as gifts. We will be allowed to buy more things when we achieve higher level.



Look at my farm. Until today I have 8 neighbours. I plant many trees which are included cherry trees, apple trees, orange trees, plum trees and peach trees. I rear animals such as cows, sheep, goats, horses, pig, chickens and rabbits. I also plant a lot of vegetables and fruits.