Persisting

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.

posted by Chan Ming @ 2:27 AM