Sign Language

I've been immersing myself more into the deaf culture. I find it to be a passion of mine to help build the connection between the deaf community with society.

So after I went to TEDx, I met Alaine. She gave a talk there about her company, my smart hands, which teaches sign language to infants and toddlers to help them express themselves while they are in the transition of learning verbal communication.

We got to hang out a lot after and we became good friends. After that, I got to know more people, and I even introduced them to a deaf friend of mine. Truth be told, we've got big plans. So many plans and I really hope it pushes through. It'll be a big step forward for our advocacy for change.

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Earlier, I got to see this movie

I got to meet the actors and I even got to interpret for the deaf actor (Rome) during the last part of the open mic. I was caught unprepared to do a half-ass interpretation (excuse my french) and I don't think I made any sense, but I tried.

At the end of the night, I had a wonderful time. I really wanted to go and join them for dinner but that's being too much of a groupie.

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So I'll be going to an interview tomorrow for work. It's for an NGO and I really want to get in. But I'm still waiting for an update from DLS-CSB as well. I want to get in there as well and dive deeper into the deaf culture as much as I can. To sharpen my sign language skills.

But everything in it's own time and place. I just know it.

of all the sins to have

the second highest had to be envy.

i've always known that pride was my worst sin. but why did envy have to be close behind. it makes such an awful tandem. it shatters me whole an leaves me numb.

i had fun hanging out with friends (who i consider family) last night. but at the end of the night i ended up having one of my episodes (yes i have them) where in i spaz-out and suddenly feel as if the world is ganging up on me.

why so? i was the only one single during that night. and they kept on commenting how sweet the stuff we were seeing done in the movie (remember me) actually are. of course i was left thinking. "i haven't done that so yeah, of course i would react the only way i know how, be like 'whatever'".

i love them to bits. but being around them is like being smothered with the fact that i am alone.

so i was left numb last night.

of courage and boredom

well i guess both can make you do things that isn't really the thing that you would ever do.

courage, well that was well used when i went out (for fun, i love x-men origins: wolverine!) for the first time with my mom. it took lots of guts for me to go around the mall (gateway) in crutches and i can pretty much say that i did it quite well. it was fun watching people watching me. it was like as if i was a fish inside an aquarium or something (and i didn't even need courage to get through that).

i thought escalators would pretty much be the hill that i had to overcome, but what the... i didn't even break a sweat.

as for boredom, well, i proudly say that i manage to get through recording a video of me singing in facebook (message me and i'll add you up, let's mafia baby!) because a friend of mine wouldn't stop pressuring me into making one just like she did (ok, ok, that's an excuse. i pretty much did the video for me). but hey, i got it done and i feel good about atleast 2 out of 3. the other one was a bit of a disappointment, but who cares.

so, of courage and boredom in the midst of trying times (having my accident and all), productivity is the only way to go! wohoo me!