Pada hari Kemerdekaan Ke-48 yang lalu, saya telah bertanya “Kemerdekaan Untuk Siapa?” dalam blog ini. Dua tahun sudah berlalu dan saya masih lagi menanya soalan yang sama. Negaraku yang tercinta meraikan 50 tahun kemerdekaan pada hari yang mulia ini. Tetapi apakah maknanya kemerdekaan untuk aku yang masih tidak benar-benar rasa merdeka di tanah tumpah darahku? Apakah kami yang digolongkan sebagai OKU tidak berhak untuk mengecapi kebebasan untuk bergerak dengan mudah ataupun menggunakan pengangkutan awam seperti warga lain? Apakah maknanya kemerdekaan sesebuah negara kalau masih ada lagi rakyatnya yang hidup dalam keadaan serta persekitaran yang penuh dengan rintangan? Malaysiaku sudah 50 tahun merdeka. Rakyat OKU masih tidak merdeka. Inilah hakikatnya.

Facebook - another way to waste time when one should be working; another way to spam friends effortlessly with useless information; less irritating than email spams but irritating nonetheless. Fiddling around Facebook made me miss all my deadlines. Facebook is evil but I am addicted to it.

Have been awake since 10am yesterday. Rushing out another paper for DPI World Assembly. This topic is Transportation and Access to Physical Environment. The structure is finalised. Going to catch some sleep. Have set the alarm for 1pm. Plan to complete it and submit.

This is to capture the mood of the moment. I have just completed the manuscript for my presentation at the 7th DPI World Assembly. Deadline is today. I am very panicky. The manuscript still needs to be formatted. Yes, I procrastinated until yesterday to do all these. I have not started on the Powerpoint presentation yet. Help!

Yesterday, evening, I had a meeting with two of my mentors in Bangsar. We discussed, threw ideas around, cleared doubts and in the end, we agreed to work on the one project that has been dragging on since 2005. I am glad we had that meeting. In that two hours we managed to set the stage to take the first step in realising one of our few common dreams. Here’s to the success of our endeavour!