Have I told you I have two elder brothers? And I’m the youngest in the family?
My 1st brother is called Keng Chye aka “阿强”.
He is a visually-handicapped person who has been blind since a tender age of three.
We live together but I seldom get to see him during weekdays cos by the time I reach home, he’s already sound asleep.
Saturday is the only day I can spend some quality time with him.
Last Saturday, we went out for lunch.
In the earlier days, I disliked bringing him out.
He always walks BEHIND me… and even when I slow down, he will still walk BEHIND me.
After a while, I become uncomfortable as I need to turn my head 180 degree each time to talk to him.
Once, I snapped “Can you don’t always walk BEHIND me? Walk BESIDE me!”
To please me, he clumsily quickened his footsteps but a minute later, he was behind me again…
I figure out he cannot help it.
He needs to catch a faded image of me in front so as to follow my trail. Otherwise, he is unsure how safe is the unknown territory in front of him.
I have to accept the fact that my brother will not walk beside me.
Do you know he is not angry when I shout at him? Instead, he was pretty apologetic about walking too slowly…
Guilt crept into my heart. I was really rude. There and then, I repented and said a quick sorry to him. But, my kind bro was not even offended in the 1st place.
When I was in my teens, I used to find it awkward to walk together with him because his stiff and unaided movements often draw curious stares from passers-by who will unreservedly scan him and us from top to toe, and TOE TO TOP… I hate that.
As I grow older, I accepted the fact that people naturally look because my brother stands out from the rest.
I must say… God is still fair.
Despite his sight disability, he is blessed with very long legs!
Do you see the drain?
Whenever we meet such drains, I will often be the GPS cautioning…
“ Drain ahead ”
“ Be careful of steps "
He will then SPREAD his long legs and STRIDE across the gap!
My heart oftens miss a BEAT when I see him do that. What if he misses?
Well well… Either God is watching over him, or he is just too skillful. Till date, he has not fallen into any hole. =_=’
Last weekend… I was entrusted with a project to set up bowling booth at S3 Fiesta!
To create that party mood, I decided to use some balloons as decor!
Roped in my brother’s help to sort the colors...
WAIT A MIN Joanne… What did you say? Ask your bro to sort the colors?
YES! Something to be thankful for… my brother can still differentiate colors!
Ta da!!!
Taking a closer look… you would have noticed there are different shades of color!
As such, his perfectionist sis, yours truly, decided to get him FURTHER sort out the colors.
That’s better…
and the next day… these balloons contributed to….
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His reward? We had fun trying out the game!!!
I’m really PROUD of my brother- a responsible and easily-contented man- someone who simply has no agenda…
Do you know he does a lot of house chores at home? Ermm………MORE than me, much to my mum’s disgruntlement…
It’s ok… I will gladly let my brother win
Compared to his friends, he is already considered fortunate.
One of his friends can neither see nor hear.
Try closing your eyes and covering your ears…
What is the world to you?
Love gives that SPECIAL TOUCH!
No wonder Hellen Keller says….
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.”
When I was a little girl… I used to hear this familiar melody from his toy piano…
JESUS- LOVES- ME
YES- I- KNOW
FOR- THE- BIBLE- TELLS- ME- SO
LITTLE- ONES- TO- HIM- BELONG
THEY- ARE- WEAK- BUT- HE- IS- STRONG
YES- JESUS- LOVES- ME…
YES- JESUS- LOVES- ME
YES- JESUS- LOVES- ME…
FOR- THE- BIBLE- TELLS- ME- SO
I really love my bro….
Ending off with my “PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2009”!
(one of my few siblings’ photo… This was taken durg food-tasting at Conrad…. A very treasured piece!)
