I woke up early in the morning. In fact, it was very early to my standard; 6 a.m and my eyes were wide open. Dashed to get shower and prepared myself to go out today, I sped the car at 120 km/hr on MRR2 because afraid to get there later than 7 am (sure 'kena' kaw-kaw punya dengan May Phng if I got there late). Along the way, I saw a Malaysian flag flew high near the Seri Gombak area. Somehow, there was a dim voice deep in my heart said, "Today I want to make Malaysia a better place for everyone".
It didn't occur to me at that moment because I was so occupied with the stuffs I needed to do for LP 110 WOW Day. I was appointed as the Manager for the day and of course, my mind was clouded with 1001 things.
Things didn't go well this morning. LP110 people were not in place at the specific time. We broke our promise to be there at 7 am. So, we all kena laa from our LP coordinator, May Phng. Pagi-pagi dah kena sembur!
So today we invited 50 people with disabilities (PWD) frm Beautiful Gates Foundation and Tasputra PERKIM. It wasn't easy to ferry all 50 of them to Kepong especially when the place is actually split into two different locations. Some of the PWDs are amputees, some due to spastics and some are having Learning Disabilities. Quite a few of them have combination of two types of disabilities.
I had a headache and stress out dealing with transportation. Peng Ai was the assistant assigned for me and she get yelled at because I was stressed out. She was only reporting to me about the situation with transportation from Beautiful Gates but I raised my voice and said, "You handle it!". Mannnnn...I felt bad for my buddy afterwards.
The highlight of the event was the kite flying event. The day was almost dark due to the cloudy sky and it started to get windy. Kaduk & Joanna asked me whether should we proceed with the game or not because they were very cautious about the possibility of getting struck by the lightning. I was 'pening kepala' a bit, not because of I needed to make a decision on that issue, but because I was asked by someone else whether I should make an announcement to convey the message given by the founder of Beautiful Gates Foundation. She requested that everybody at the event to adopt one individual from Beautiful Gates Foundation as their life time partner. That was heavy thing to ask from people. After a short discussion, I decided to go on with the kite flying activity and said no go to the founder's request. I felt that if people truly honest and truly caring for OKU, they themselves would volunteer for this. After all, seeing our guests were so enjoying themselves playing kites although they are wheelchair bound, who wouldn't want to be their buddy for life anyway?
Then the rain came down and pounded hard on us. At the same time, people from BF and Tasputra left the place in their own transportation. Again, the same issue occured whereby we needed to enroll other LP graduates to drive some of the OKU guests to their respective home. It was done superbly by my buddy, Peng Ai, who managed to persuade GLP to assist us.
The WOW Day ended at around 3 pm. I felt relieved because I saw our guests smiled before they left the place. I sincerely hope I did make a difference in their life today, so as well with the rest of LP 110 members.
Looking back at the photos and video shots taken during the program really made me asking this question, "What else can I do to make Malaysia a better place to live?".
Note: Our LP 110 group managed to raise more than RM 15,000 for funding this activity through donations and fundraising activities. I myself managed to raise fund of RM 914. Many thanks to Fateen, Dato Syed Fakhri Barakbah, Ucu, Idah and Pak Long for their charity contributions. We also organized car wash for charity in order to raise the fund for this activity.
