Blog on being a disabled person, different cultures, diversity, equality, disability, travel, being diaspora Chinese and disabled travel.
Following my complaint to Hastings bus company about my being unable to get on their low access buses, I recieved this e-mail from the manager: Dear Ms.... I have checked all the vehicles and everyone works. All are manual ramps. I have seen the driver...
I found myself on a train to Plymouth on the way to a meeting at the Eden Project, St Austell Without going into the boring details, I ended up staying in a Plymouth hotel to take a taxi to St Austell the next morning. I found that a bit ridiculous so...
I seem to be going to a number of disability events and nothing else these days but I also have this notification I thought I should mention here: _________________________________ Tell Us Equality 2025: taking your views on disability equality to government...
In the UK, disabled parking is allowed by a system known as the Blue Badge system. The government has released a Blue badge map where you can search for parking etc on an interactive map. This includes airports and train stations and shopmobility centres....
Quite a few people knew I went to London for an interview to be part of an advisory board and they asked me how I did. I said I was terrible I didnt answer the questions at all well. I did not really prepare for it, maybe I should have done a bit more...
In the UK, previous campaigners before me have fought hard and won the Disability Equality Discrimination legislation - it gave us certain rights such as the right not to be refused access ( with " reasonable accomodation" thrown in as a loophole) . As...
Coventry did not have any of its money in Icelandic banks luckily but neighbouring Nuneaton and Bedworth did. I was wondering about the impact of services if the Council has lost so much of its money. I read in their council website - In light of the...
This press release gives the UK stand on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. What can I say? --------------------------- 8 May 2008 UN Convention Campaign Coalition (UNCCC) calls for ‘Ratification without Reservation’ STOP PRESS...
I should really try to write more often but some evenings I have been too tired, and then my pc gave me the dratted blue screen (crashed) but I do want to jot down a few lines about events in the past couple of weeks. I have been to Strasbourg to see...
Scott Rains of Rolling Rains report told me to check this out in his blog - I am smiling at the thought. Would' nt what he suggest below be a dream? from Rolling Rains Report The Beijing government has decided to make every 16th of the month the “barrier-free”...
A Malaysian fellow disabled bloggist, Peter Tan, told of his discriminatory treatment from Air Asia: " I was required to sign an indemnity form to release AirAsia from all liabilities. I protested vehemently but was informed that if I refused I would...
Recently I've come across so many services, information sites etc purporting to help disabled people and making independent living more accessible. And yet upon examination, they are many geeks who love to use their PR to 'help' us. I should not be cynical...
I recieved this in my e-mail from Wheelchair Steve, Steve Wilkinson. I thought this sounded like a great idea! Let's see if it gets taken up. Actually there is a local Chinese restaurant near me which closes its premises downstairs and serves only upstairs...
I have been all round London looking for the easiest way to Charing Cross Hospital to see my mate, Andrea, who had just had her major operation. I was dumbfounded when at Charing Cross station they told me that the hospital is away in Hammersmith. I figured...
I have not been writing much here because I have been busy uploading photos into my Flickr account and found a few disability commnities there. Flick is mostly visual so it is a virtual representation of disability. The discussions and groups were started...
I took my Otto Bock with e-motion powered wheels to work last week since my Invacare motorised wheelchair was being sorted out. I was fed up with waiting for the no 27 bus which takes a circuituous route these days through Pool Meadow station and the...
I ve had been chatting with friends back home in Malaysia - because its the Christmas festive season and because class of '76 had a reunion and I was not there. I grew up with many of my classmates, from age 7 we were in the same class until 17/18 years...
Since I was going to France, I thought I'd try to get to the Femmes pour le dire, Femmes pour agir conference - the disabled women association which is chaired by Maudy Piot whom I met in 2004 in Paris at a cafe philo evening. To my surprise, she asked...
I volunteered to do some research on disability and disadvantaged minorities - BMES, the older generation etc.What is the divide between the black disabled and those of the majority disabled? Here are some websites- REPORT HIGHLIGHTS LONDON'S HEALTH DIVIDE...
There is a sprinkle of snow on the ground and its -4 C at the moment. I ordered the GIHP transport for tomorrow's appointment. The last time I went to l'AFPA it was only the fifth bus which was accessible and I was frozen out of my guts and kickying myself...
My friend,Michelle, told me about this on the phone last night - that a guy in a wheelchair got pulled over for being on a motorway. When asked as to why he was on the busy road, he said he got lost looking for a brothel. Excerpt from yahoo news: The...
It looks like they have having regular track maintenance every weekend for British Rail. This caught me by surprise but they had an adapted van instead of the bus service for their disabled travellers. Unfortunately it was a long wait till they turn up....
Midweek before Easter. Paula is coming tomorrow from London and I looked up public transport from Entzheim. I do not understand why there is not direct services from the airport to the city. There is a shuttle service that takes you to Baggersee tram...
It felt good that the sun came out and I did my homework out several times. Matt, my young French friend who helps me when I get stuck is ill with an angina. I was by the quay among the young busy students on Wednesday, in the Citadelle with the elderly...
Yesterday, at 12.20 am I took the train to Paris and arrived in Paris at 6.30 a.m. I went to the workshop on e -accessibility at Cite des Sciences in La Villette. Policies and Legislations in favour of e-accessibility in Europe - a one day workshop. the...
