i'm on wheelchair!

assalamualaikum...

DATE: 07.03.11
PLACE: times square
ACTIVITY: simulation as oku
CONDITION: paraplegia (both legs cannot move at all)
DISABLE PERSON: me
MOBILITY AID USED: wheelchair

Simulation at times square??? At the public place!!! whoooaaa!!!! 1 group 2 person.
At first rasa macam malu pun ada...Tapi bila fikir ini untuk ilmu and kami buat untuk merasai sendiri bagaimana oku itu rasa. Haaa bila sendiri dah cuba baru tahu. macam mana susahnya mereka. Selama ni, asyik fikir diri sendiri je..Nak shopping, nak naik tangga, nak pergi toilet semua senang. Macam mana dengan oku yang guna wheelchair? tapi tempat tu tak sediakan lif. How they gonna go up? Pernah fikir tak???

I will story from how we start it and how our simulation end.

Our briefing this morning was held at the Bangunan Yayasan Selangor(BYS). So, we start our journey from bys, to the chow kit monorel station, to the times square.

At first, we take taxi from bys to the monorel station. Quite challenging. Coz we need to cross the road. But the taxi driver was very good. I respect him coz he is helping and friendly to the disable. Tapi, yang tak boleh tahan, the driver asking me, "ni memang dari kecik ke??" hehe disebabkan kami kan berlakon sementara jadi terpaksalah 'goreng' sket dgn pakcik tu..huhu maaf pakcik.. T.T aku jawab la, ''eh tak ada lah pakcik.Ni sementara je. Hari tu terjatuh bilik air. Jadi bahagian pinggang lari sket.'' hehe. Then sampai dekat chow kit monorel. me and my partner selamba je naik escalator tu dengan wheelchair sekali. Nampak sanagt malas nak turun. haha. beli tiket ke Jalan Imbi.....then...., alamak! tangga! mana lif?! tak ada! jadi?! kena naik sendiri la! huhu T.T (sedih coz di tengah2 bandar raya yang pesat membangun tapi kurangnya kemudahan untuk mereka yang kurang upaya) my friends 'papah' me up the stairs. Dalam momorel ok, tak ada masalah.

Sampai lah kami kat JALAN IMBI di mana TS itu terletak. Monorel jalan imbi dia sekali dgn TS kan..b4 tu kena turun dulu then baru boleh masuk TS. nak masuk TS! kena turun! tangga lagi! lif mana?! tak ada! huhu T.T but i really respect at 1 lady from middle east. She willingly want to help me down the stairs (terharu~)

Dalam TS ok je. Me and my partner just pusing jalan2 around TS. Then shopping sket. Naik lif pun ok. Orang bagi keutamaan. Then terfikir plak nak tengok wayang. Nak cuba macam mana kalau OKU nak tengok wayang. Boleh ke? especially dgn wheelchair? macam mana ek? kami pergi ramai2. ada la 3 org OKU including me. :)) beli tiket untuk tengok movie. GOOD! coz aku dapat price for HANDICAPED! that mean ada la jugak ruang untuk OKU.time nak tengok wayang tu memang tak boleh tahan. hehe. Me and my partner masuk lambat. Aku kan pakai wheelchair, dala masuk lambat pastu jalan kat depan tu, tersalah tempat duduk plak tu. Haisyhh.., malu nye dah macam aku plak yang buat movie lawak pendek kat depan tu! haha



Tiba-tiba, terasa macam nak pergi toilet la plak! adeiih.., macam mana ni? masukla OKU toilet. Masuk je toilet OKU, i check. Cukup tak facilities if the real OKU nak guna. After check, you know what? no paip! how nak cuci? huhu yang ada pun sinki. It is NOT PRACTICAL! T.T

habis tengok wayang, we planned wanna go back to the BYS..Dah penat. Almost 5 hours i sit on the wheelchair! Kaki dah kebas and pinggang dah sakit! huuhu~ Time balik, part yang tangga tu memang tak payah nak cakap la. Tak larat nak ulang banyak kali. T.T

sampai kat chow kit station, turun tangga slowly with help from my friend. Thanks! :) Naik teksi. Tapi teksi kali ni, tak mesra OKU. Boleh tak, driver taxi tu JUST pegang bonet kereta dia je time my friend masukkan wheelchair dalam bonet. And tanya, "berat ke???" huh! N dia Charge RM1 for bonet! huh! pakcik yang mula2 tadi tak macam tu pun!

setelah itu, selamat lah we arrive back to the BYS. SOOoooTIRED! HAVE FUN! and really LEARN something!

in my opinion, government should modify and think how we want to improved the facilities for the OKU. Coz the facilities now provided is not really friendly to the OKU. I can tell this coz I have been in that experience for a moment. Sometimes if u guys noticed, they r car park for the OKU, but it is close.(erk?) how the OKU want to park their car? huh!

condition: hemiparasis
mobility aid used: walking frame

condition: right/left leg weakness
mobility aid used: elbow crutches

p/s:: Its not easy to be an OKU. We should really appreciate on what ALLAH had give us. Hand, legs, ability to walk, see n etc. :))