me
LOVES
# Joy JM
# Dancer
# Believes in the spirit of volunteerism!
# Future backpacker:D
# NATURE-lover
# welcome all who wants to make friends:)
# To Sing:D
# Sunflowers!!
# Musical boxes:)
# Yellow & Orange
# Kids!!
And most importantly my brother, sister, mum n dad!!!
~Beautiful fragments of my life~
Sunday, November 28, 2010
The end of exams marks the beginning of an awesome holiday. Although I dont get to go on a holiday this holiday(:D), there are still plenty of things I can do in Singapore.
Over the weekends, I went to BUkit Timah hill with LY and went Vivo shop with my sis. Bought a new canon camera(like finally after more than half a year!!) at Sitex. Sunday night was spent at my Ah Gong's house. My cousins are going to Taiwan for holidays!!
Christmas is coming! My birthday is coming too!!:D I am so excited about the lightings and christams music. Getting in the festive mood man:)
"Santa Claus is coming to Town~~"
Heehee
On a side note, the time of the year is here too. I hope to be in the pink of health!
Love,
Joy
jiamin=) out
@ |Sunday, November 28, 2010|
I am so bored from studying!!!! 4 more days and it will be over. Hhaha. Actually it doesnt make a lot of difference since I didnt really study very hard.
Look: Some pretty pictures:)
Here's a funny one.
My first time buying potato chips from the vending machine in the library, and guess what. It got stuck halfway!!!=.=
Love,
Joy
jiamin=) out
@ |Monday, November 22, 2010|
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Joy@central library
jiamin=) out
@ |Wednesday, November 10, 2010|
I miss being with my family everyday!:(
I must confess at times, I am either too busy with my work or having so much fun with my friends that I forget about my family. Forget to contact my mum for a few days, make her worried. I am a guilty daughter and a not-so-caring sister:(
And thus, I was really glad that we had a family gathering at Ah Gong's on Deevapali!:D AWESOME meeting my relatives and spending time with them. My primary school cousin has anger management problem, but his parents arent doing much about it. I've gotta do something!
Saturday night my OG went out for supper at Laupasat! We also mangaged to eat the famous Tau Huey at Rochor Road:) Great time spent, partly coz of the good food, i have to admit:) At about 1am, we then split into 2 groups. David drove me, stan and Yk home:)
Sunday was mugging day with Xin Tai Ruan. HAHA. Fruitful time spent on revision too:)
Oh did I mention that I've been super addicted to pool recently? I've been playing it every other night last week. The record was on Thursday when me sm stan sebas played till 4 plus! Haha I will stop this till after exams!
Oh yes, I must proclaim my love for dance once again, and the wonderful room sessions that we dancers always have:)
Now its time to go back to your textbook, isnt it? CHAN JIA MIN! Hhaha:D
I havent had a good chat with my sis and bro for almost 2 weeks already!
Love,
Joy
jiamin=) out
@ |Monday, November 08, 2010|
Its time to do some sharing again:)
THe topic for today's social work lecture was on disability. The first qn that Dr Nair asked was: "When I say disability, what do you think of?"
The first thing that came to my mind was "impairment and a lack of something". Some others suggested "wheelchair bound, handicap, mentally ill".
But really, the types of disability that the society recognises go way beyond all these.
An individual is disabled when an impairment(loss of physical body parts or abnormality) restricts him/her from carrying out normal activities independently.
Disability affects 10-15% of a nation's population!
In Singapore 1 in 7 children is born with learning disability!
I am shocked that the morbidity rates are so high!
There is an urgent need to do something. The guest speaker of today ended with another qn, " What difference can social workers make?"
Personally I feel that the issues that needs to be addressed are:
1) Making places accessible for those with physical disability(wheel chair bound)
2) Reduce social stigmatization!! (create a culture not of handicap, but one that is enabling, accepting,with care and concern for the disabled.)
3) Support group for the disabled,where they can meet other people they can relate better to. (push for interaction, to boost their self-esteem, to motivate)
4) Protect the disabled; prevent exploitation, bullying and victimisation. Be gracious towards them. (for dementia patients,mentally ill, down syndrome)
5) Advocate for services to cater to specific groups of disability (medical care, education, skills training, help them seek employment)-->empower them; disabled can be useful to our society too!
6) Identify them and intervene early.(Education is important to let families with disabled people become aware of the resources available in the community)
7) Strengthen these families, family support is crucial!
How can we successfully integrate people with disabilities into our society? Is it ever possible to 'normalise' them?
I feel that Singapore really needs a nation-wide event(e.g. An "I CAN" campaign to advocate for equal social rights together with people with disabilities) to bring to light the possibilities that disabled people can create if our society have been more inclusive.
SEE! People with disabilities can play and do things like you and me!
Social worker's role is really to step in to empower and encourage them, to make them and others see what they can actually do and achieve. They are humans like us! I think the major obstacle is still how we as members of the society react towards them. I understand that there are many types of disabilities and the general public would not have background knowledge of all of them, and this may end up with stereotyping, sometimes behaving insensitively towards them.
I shall ponder more on how to improve this! Changing of attitudes and perception needs time I guess!
One thing I need to constantly remind myself is that I shouldnt sympathise with the person, but empathise.
Even if it is the most insignificant, quietest or a public enemy, they have something to say about their lives. Lend a listening ear to them once in a while!:)
Hope i didnt bore you orange! haha. How i wish i put in more of my own views and thoughts for my portfolio! Think i'll fail it:(
Love, Joy
jiamin=) out
@ |Tuesday, November 02, 2010|