United Voice: 3rd NSAC -2nd Day

Woke up at 7.15am today. Felicia has already left for breakfast. Had a good breakfast of sausage, eggs & toast. Then went to setup my laptop as the morning session involve Esther, Hooi Ting & Johari. The maintenance guy came a bit late and Terri was a bit worry if we could setup in time. I told her dun worry... I'm ready with my laptop... just plug & play!!

Esther started with presenting the "Akta OKU" Her malay is superb... well better then mine!!

After that each of them are break in to groups to discuss the resolution. Then Hooi Ting talked about the Shanghai workshop and how they come out with a resolution. Johari then came out with a short presentation on "Why we need a resolution" Some of the points is that persons with learning disabilities need to stand up for their rights and be treated as equals.

Tea break. And we had the second session which is focus on Employment for persons with learning disabilities. Hooi Ting talked about employment opportunities for PWLDs, UV members who are working in the open employment, UV employment project and also her work experince. In between she also invited Esther & Johari to share about their work experience. wah all 3 of them are like prefessional trainers. Even I am also not that confidence standing in front of people talking. Good job!! After this Ms Tan Chin Chin shared about her life and the Gap between PWD an the Society.

Lunch was great! We had nasi kandar. I had 2 helpings. Hey..... Need to replenish my energy after the morning session!! hahahahaha After lunch we had the opening ceremony. Diana gave her speech and a representative from the Penang State exco came to officiate the opening. And don't forget Zaid Ibrahim who was the keynote speaker. He gave quite an inspirational speech. Everyone wants to take photos with him including me! Had to wait until he's going off before I had a chance for that.

After another tea break, MVC's very own Public Relations officer Loo Jian Wen did the session on "Bridging the Gap between PWDs & the Society". He even rope in Johari & I to do a very, very short sketch for him about the public's prejudice against them. Of course we both gave oscar winning performances!! hahaha He open up to the floor to ask them to share their experince of being disciminated against. He also asked for opinions on how to change the public's perception of OKU's and how NGOs and others can work together. It was a good session where people can share their thoughts and opinions.

Session ended around 5:30pm. Tonight's a free night so Fadz has been asking me to go out jalan jalan. Guess we'll most probably be going to Gurney Drive since it's walking distance. Food sucks and expensive there but no choice...........