Saturday, November 13, 2010
Went to Ngee Ann Polytechnic for the trip to Dialogue In The Dark. It's an exhibition whereby the general public can experience for themselves the lives of visually-impaired people.
The moment we stepped in, we were warmly welcomed by the Polytechnic students who were in charge of the event. We were broken up into three groups, mainly red, orange and yellow. I was in the yellow group with Cynthia, Siying, Gowri, Huifang and Chloe. Our group's visually-impaired instructor's name was Wesley. He told us that he will be turning 44 years old next year. As we went into the mini world of darkness, he was the one who guided us patiently with his soothing voice. In the beginning, we were terrified as we couldn't even see our hands when we put them up. With one hand clutching our cane and the other holding on tightly to the shoulder of our friend in front of us, we walked on to explore the world of complete darkness which many poeple feared of being plunged into. The advice that I will be giving to those who are interested to go there is that it is best if you can close your eyes and rely on your senses besides your sight. If you squint your eyes trying so hard to detect anything, it will definitely strain your eyes.
After coming out into the bright world which we live in, I gained quite a lot of meaningful lessons learnt. Firstly, we should NOT look down on those visually-impaired around us. In the world which we can see, we are the ones who offer help to them, but do you know that once we were plunged into the darkness, we couldn't rely on ourselves or even our friends? Instead, they were the ones who helped us through the temporary world of darkness. They are talented in their own fields too! Secondly, we have to TRUST our guide with our whole heart. At times, we have to put our trust in our friends as well, especially if they are standing in front of you and giving you warnings on the road in front.
Lastly, to end this off, TREASURE YOUR EYESIGHT! ^^
The moment we stepped in, we were warmly welcomed by the Polytechnic students who were in charge of the event. We were broken up into three groups, mainly red, orange and yellow. I was in the yellow group with Cynthia, Siying, Gowri, Huifang and Chloe. Our group's visually-impaired instructor's name was Wesley. He told us that he will be turning 44 years old next year. As we went into the mini world of darkness, he was the one who guided us patiently with his soothing voice. In the beginning, we were terrified as we couldn't even see our hands when we put them up. With one hand clutching our cane and the other holding on tightly to the shoulder of our friend in front of us, we walked on to explore the world of complete darkness which many poeple feared of being plunged into. The advice that I will be giving to those who are interested to go there is that it is best if you can close your eyes and rely on your senses besides your sight. If you squint your eyes trying so hard to detect anything, it will definitely strain your eyes.
After coming out into the bright world which we live in, I gained quite a lot of meaningful lessons learnt. Firstly, we should NOT look down on those visually-impaired around us. In the world which we can see, we are the ones who offer help to them, but do you know that once we were plunged into the darkness, we couldn't rely on ourselves or even our friends? Instead, they were the ones who helped us through the temporary world of darkness. They are talented in their own fields too! Secondly, we have to TRUST our guide with our whole heart. At times, we have to put our trust in our friends as well, especially if they are standing in front of you and giving you warnings on the road in front.
Lastly, to end this off, TREASURE YOUR EYESIGHT! ^^
what we could have been, 9:10 PM.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Haha. I'm only posting here so that my blog will have a "November" post. lol. Feel so bored..I don't want to go to annual camp this year..I don't wanna waste 4 days of my life doing something totally lame -_-
Went to Playnation at Dhoby Ghaut with Jingni, Yueting, Germaine, Herman, Jingni's brother and his friend. It was fun! Next time if we go again, I wanna play the Rabbit game!
SNSD ROCKS!!! <3
Went to Playnation at Dhoby Ghaut with Jingni, Yueting, Germaine, Herman, Jingni's brother and his friend. It was fun! Next time if we go again, I wanna play the Rabbit game!
SNSD ROCKS!!! <3
what we could have been, 8:16 PM.
