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Happy Birthday Kid! =p

Hope you cruise thru uni and everything else, smoothly & happily :D

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Thank you to two Samaritans.

When a stranger offers you his/her help during a very heavy downpour, even when he/she is not exactly in a position to, you just can't be thankful enough.

Bless you =)

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Went for a Professional Development session today with my boss and colleague, learnt a great deal about the deaf community and the challenges they face in reality. The two speakers were deaf and throughout the session, two cultures - the deaf and the non-deaf, communicated effectively via helpful interpreters, visual aids and group activites. It was a humbling experience to gain insights from a deaf's perspective and from many experienced Disability Liaison officers throughout Melbourne.


The speaker first introduced herself as an Australian, and later added that her first language was AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language). Pretty unexpected yet seemingly reasonable. Made me realized how unconsciously we take our hearings for granted.


Yet she (Stefanie) had no resentment being profoundly deaf, and considered herself lucky to be born into an "all-deaf" family. In her words, that's as good as a hearing baby born into a hearing family. She felt belonged in her own community, as the deafs too have their own culture, social norms, beliefs as well as what they call, a "deaf accent".


Will be going for the second session of this course next week! =)

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Btw, good luck, JY!


PS: Ah, exhausted.