sick sick sick...

oh god..don't ask..

these days fever and watever that comes alongside with it is no longer attacking us in the usual way it used to do..well at least not for me.

last week thursday i had a mild sorethroat when i woke up in the morning, i bought some Strepsils on the way to work and by the time it was 12noon..i was practically feeling pain all over my body and i knew i was starting to have fever. i decided to just pack up and go back home since the crazy freezing aircond in the office wasnt helping either.

i reached home and took the necessary medication and went to take a nap..when i woke up in the evening, i was already having pain all over my body. OMG..i was like wat the heck man..i just got fever like few hours ago..takkanlah the effect already so teruk and to make things worst..i was vomiting..seriously i hate vomiting coz it makes me very weak and irritated.

finaly at night, i went to the hospital where my mom works and saw the doc and got my MC for 2 days and spent the rest of the weekend sleeping and scolding everyone for every small reason (i dunno y i get so moody when im sick :P)...fast forward to Monday, i was somewhat recovered and was back to work.

and as if the weekend ordeal wasnt enough, yesterday i suddenly had food poisoning..and for the first time in my life i had the chance to actually vomit and drive at the same time..hows THAT!

i had no clue how this whole thing started..i went to work as usual on Tuesday morning and suddenly by lunch i was vomiting. vomiting and vomiting...every few minutes..goshh..horrible..

finally i decided to go back home..and THAT, was the most craziest decision i made..
once i started driving, the vomiting started again and i was practically holding a plastic in one hand and the car steering in another!oh god..i couldnt even find a place to stop!

so it went on and on..every 2 minutes i would vomit..and i think i did it 20 over times..until i finally reached home.

gosh..i was already like a sotong when i stepped into my house..i straightaway went to bed.suprisingly the vomiting also stopped..

man..seriously when i think back..i really kenot understand what happened. i was all okay in the morning until suddenly at 1pm this whole drama started..no clue or indication at all that this was coming...sheeshhhh...crazy lah!!

speechless...

if there is one time i can make good use of this word..then definetely this is the moment..

1 week ago i had the chance to witness the rehearsal and actual performances by the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe or also known by their team's name My Dream. To me it was definetely a very special opportunity to actually get the chance to be part of this whole program and witness these blessed artists perform such an amazing piece of work on stage..i wonder if i will ever get the chance again..

First and foremost, i think the biggest question that was left playing in our minds after watching the show was to ask ourselves, who's the actuall handicapp....me or them?

i believe that not only me, but the entire hall would agree that the spectacular performances by these talented souls made us truly realize the ability within us. it made us realize that we are so far left behind as compared to them in utilizing the strength that we have within us as humans..

frankly speaking..disability wasnt even an issue there, they were far off more confident and capable of handling everything by themselves perfectly fine..if not even better than most of us. it made me wonder if even a person with no disabilities can even do such a stunning performance as perfectly as them...it was definetely an eye-opener show for the audience..thanks to them for making us realize how handicapped we are.




the show

initially we were worried that we might not be able to sell all the tickets for each nite's show as the sales were going a bit slow..but on the day of the first show (Saturday), amazingly the ticket sales started picking up and within no time the entire hall which could accomodate almost 2000 over audience was almost full.

the audience were left speechless as they artists started their performances one after the other..they clapped and clapped and clapped as loudy as they could every few minutes to let the artists know how meaningful is their effort to us. one of the most touching performance was by a blind singer, Yang Haijun. he sang a song titled "When a child is born" with his fabulous voice which was so beautiful and could bring tears to the eyes of the listener.

the most interesting part to be noted was the perfect syncronization of the music and the artist's dance steps when the artists were actually unable to hear the music. so it makes us wonder how much effort and training needed to be done by them in order to understand the dance moves according to the music which they cant hear..truly their trainers have done a wonderful job.

and not forgetting the malaysian performers from various organizations who also took part in the event and gave equally remarkable performances which made us all wonder the gift God has given them and how they fully utilize it to show their appereciation towards their creator.

the second day show also had a huge turnout and almost all the seats were filled. thanks to the media's highlight on the 1st day's performance, many people were eager to come and watch it on the second day.

the audience could not stop applauding and all the artists received a very long standing ovation by the audience at the end of the show.

the effort they have painstakingly put in order to bring the realization to us about our own stregth would have definetely reached the audience..i believe this show would have woke many of us up from our deep slumber of laziness and arrogance of how great we are.

little did we realize that somewhere in the corner of the earth..some special people are far more ahead of us..


**note : all that i've written here is solely based on my opinions and views alone ;) and ohh..i must admit that all of the artist are really really good looking u know..we were rushing to take pics with them..:P

volunteering..

one of my major accomplishment for this year would be to finally volunteer myself for an organization which does charity. well i've been thinking of this for a long long time but never actually found anything to my liking as i was a bit choosy in the way i'm going to volunteer myself. I wanted to find an organization where it can really meet my objectives of volunteering and not volunteer just for the sake of volunteering.
After the long wait, i finally found AFM. It all happened when i knew Amma was coming down to Malaysia again in April 2008 and i wanted to do something for Her organization during Her visit here. The reason for this was because when i first met Amma in 2006, I saw hundreds of volunteers helping out for the event and i liked to see the unity spirit in them as they were from different races and religion but all working towards one goal with loads of love.

Although i'm a Hindu by religion, i prefer not to join orgazations which are focused on serving only Hindu related activities, i prefer to be more open so that I'm able to reach and serve more people in this world, regardless of their race or religion. And when i saw Amma's charity work and the way She reaches to the people, i immediately decided that that this is where i wanna serve.

When i first sent the application form, i expected to be given some very small task such as serving food to the devotees or distributing pamphlets as the organization was already so huge and there were almost 1000 over volunteers who already signed up for Amma's visit. But never did i expect that i was straightaway pulled into the main organizing committee to help out the organization's top management in planning out the whole event as it was a huge event with almost 20000 people coming to visit Amma in one day and almost 800 over volunteers working to manage them.
It was truly a staisfying and most memorable experience in my life as i was really able to contribute something meaningful which met my objectives to be a volunteer.

Now once again the organization is organizing a charity show with handicapped children & adults performing. It will be held this weekend at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center with handicapped artists coming from as far as China and also Malaysia.

It has been a busy week again as we're sorting out all the volunteers and everthing else to make sure the show runs smoothly. Once again its gonna be an eye-opener experience for me as i work with these handicapped children and take care of their needs personally. Only tommorow, for the first time i will be meeting the whole group which consist of almost 80 over handicapped artists . Just reading their background alone sometimes brings tears to my eyes..i dont know what will happen to me when i watch them performing.

God bless them..

For mor information about the show you can visit here.

c u after the show guys :)