Thursday, April 30, 2009

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Barack Obama

Friday, April 17, 2009

Oh Siew May & her book,Scaling Walls.
She was born with cerebral palsy, a condition caused by brain damage which affects her muscular control and coordination. Her disability has made her an easy target for taunts, cruel jokes and discrimination.
As if her lot in life were not bad enough, she has also experienced more than her fair share of tragedy and difficulty. A high fever rendered one of her four siblings mentally impaired while cancer robbed her of her doting father and her best friend.
However, Miss Oh chooses not to wallow in self pity but to chase and live her dreams. In 2005, she successfully climbed Mount Kinabalu in East Malaysia, which at 4,095m above sea level is one of the highest mountains in South-east Asia.
Last December, she scaled another peak when the story of her life became a book. Scaling Walls, which she wrote and published with the help of some very good friends, will be officially launched at the Jurong Regional Library tomorrow. Already, more than 3,000 copies from the book's initial print run of 5,000 have been sold.
The youngest of five children of a poor basket weaver and a washerwoman, she first started thinking about writing a book eight years ago.
'Nothing,' she added, 'is impossible.'
She has never give up.Even though she has difficulties she in working and climbing to the top of Mount Kinabalu,she still keep holding on.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Watch this video at http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=72a733d21704cf6c39d7
Adam Bender wants to play soccer but he only has one leg.... But...he achieved his dream!