just because..
July 14th, 2008 by iworkatayongtaufushopEverytime i log into friendster, they tell me "done, but with errors on page". Like the fuck i know what it means.. dunno how to rectify.
Was at an event with fungus at ECP on Saturday - Launch of the Handcycling Association Singapore (HAS). Aimed at creating awareness amongst able-bodied and disabled people, promoting the sport as an advanced rehab, hopefully to also get funding from various government and non-government agencies to bring the sport to another level. And, If possible, make it to the 2011 paralymics games to be held in Singapore. Most importantly, to have fun.
The event is, if i’m not wrong, a youth-initiated project by SMU inspira students, in conjunction with ITE college east, SDSC and Shine. Overall, the event was ok. There were however some downside - it was very much dis-organised.
Firstly, the hand-bikes were supposed to arrive at 1pm, but they only turned up at 3pm. This greatly inconvenience those who needed to check their equipment before use.
Secondly, the student(s) did not anticipate the crowd. The handcyclists present are disabled. Some are tetraplegic, which means they cannot grip the brakes. It will be a big problem if they hit others or if they fell. Creating awareness to the public is one thing, but safety is a big issue that the organisers overlooked.
Thirdly, there was communication break-down among the organisers. Routes were mysteriously changed and the handcyclists were not informed. Even the marshals were unclear of changed instructions.
Lastly, some of the students are not sensitive to the needs of those who are disabled.
One of the students, whom i believe is a closet case gay, was such an asshole. Now, i really wanna bitch about the faggot here. But, i decided to let it slide. Because, i already shouted at him on Saturday - i literally used the word "asshole" straight in his face. I’m not the only one who couldn’t stand him. Apparently, this poor fag stepped on lots of toes..
The only people who could stand him were probably his mates from SMU.
There is this other girl. She’s not a HAS committee member but she used to be a patient due to some rare nerve disorder. She recovered and she used to hang out with fungus’s gang and handcycle. She’s really caring and helpful to her peers. The only 2 problems about her is that she’s an overly drama queen and a serious attention seeker.
If you think i’m loud and drama, she’s 10X worse. (my colleagues said she beats me hands down. I replied that i’m not interested in being worse than her.)
Why am i talking about her? Obviously she stepped on my tail lar. Or maybe, i was just being overly sensitive.
U see, 2 weeks back, she eyeballed me the moment she arrived and saw me standing beside fungus. Then when asked by faggot boy to sit at MCDs instead of being at the booth, she made a very du-laned face and her attitude changed. When fungus and I went up to them at MCDs, she started talking loudly saying that she didn’y pay money to park her car at Bugis and sit at MCDs.. blah blah blah..
Again, i thought i was bad. Because i would have done the same.. maybe slightly worse cos i would have cursed and swear in hokkien vulgarities.
So, at least i found someone worse than me. hahaha.
The thing is, i found out that she used to have a thing for fungus and she actually proposed a no-string attached relationship with him. But, he declined.
She has never met fungus ex-gf. So, i’m guessing she was giving me the "what does she have that i don’t" kind of look. Well, maybe i’m wrong.
On that Saturday, we saw his buddies sitting outside subway while walking towards the main event area. We walked towards them and I moved a chair because i thought fungus wanted to move in and sit beside them. She muttered something in hokkien in the lines of "someone sitting here". Well, i obviously didn’t catch what she said so i moved the chair. I glanced over and saw that she was making a "what’s ur problem bitch, didn’t u hear what i say?" stare. So i moved the chair back saying that i didn’t hear what she said and i didn’t understand. She had to reply me with a sarcastic remark in hokkien that sounded like "u don’t understand hokkien ah?" I pretended i never heard her and walked away.
Now, you must try to visualize that all this "drama" happened in a span of 3 minutes.
KNN. pissed lar. Must be sarcastic meh? Cannot be nice and tell me that someone is sitting there ah? Very difficult to be nice meh? Not as though i know her very well for her to talk to me liddat lor.
Again, i do not respond to people i don’t know well nicely. And i take it personally. Actually i will hold grudges. And i remember them dearly. (them here refers to the incidents that people say or do to hurt me.)
I will let it slide because Fungus said that she has been really helpful to those guys- picking them up, driving them around.. etc..
I am a girl and i am sensitive. Any problem with that?
Honestly, I felt damn left out that day lor. So to make myself feel more useful, i kept finding things to do. Walking to and from the car. Helping fungus to do this, do that.
Why left out? Even though majority of the people there were able-bodied, I don’t know anybody. I don’t even know fungus’s committee members. I don’t like to mingle and talk to people i don’t really know. I am not arrogant. I just don’t like to socialize when i don’t have to. I only do so when i have no choice.
So, i chose to don on my rollerblades and rollerblade beside or behind fungus while he handcycled.
Halfway, i was so tired, i held on to the balloon string and let him pull me. My legs were burning lor.
On the way back, the string broke. I told him to slow down so that i could catch up. He didn’t hear.. so he pang seh me and left me rollerblading back on my own lor.
I hate being left "high and dry". The last time it happened, i screamed and cried out loud at darren in the car in public. Not too long ago before this incident, Jo and I have tension conflict while staying together in Aussie. Long story short, i ended up slashing my wrists 14 times or more. I’m not proud about it. But that was the extend of how pissed/upset i was then.
Last Saturday, i was more overwhelmed at being inadequate and insensitive to him and feeling left out than being super pissed.
I started feeling upset and started saying.. like maybe he should hook up with someone who understands his situation more than me. Like someone who is/was a full-time caregiver or someone who has had handcycled with them, or someone who has built the bond between them.
I told him that he probably doesn’t need me. Cos whenever he needs help, all he needs to do is to make a phone call and whosoever is available will make time for him. What then makes me any special/different from anybody else?
He once told me "nobody is that indispensable". Maybe i’m starting to understand what he meant.
I like to think that I am indispensable but he had to burst my bubble. Hahaha.
All’s well now. = )