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    <title><![CDATA[its been a long time!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 01:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I had forgotten the password to this blog. I think I should archive this but I still like the old fashioned look. Here's a recent photo! at Disabled Voters Operation at the HoC ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Review: Sunrise Medical Quickie Salsa Mid Wheel Drive powerchair]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have not used this blog so long I had to come back and familiarise myself with it again. And using this blog because a wheelchair review would not fit the remit of any of the other blogs that I do - this is my personal blog, I ve had this for more than... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Another year another age]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I ve been that busy that I feel like I ve been chasing my own tail. Its now Dec 2010 - I am meant to be in Strasbourg but the bad weather - worst since records began - means that I am on my own in Coventry. Being hermit like not even venturing out for... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[it has been 25 years....today is a day to catch up with old friends]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Tonight I spoke to an old classmate to whom I have not seen for over 25 years and we arranged to meet in December. I felt the years have not changed our relationship - she's still as efficient as ever, she told me what she was doing, what she's spending... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[disability art - to be or not to be?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I ve been having quite a few conversations about disability art - what constitutes disability art? do we label certain art disability art..is it art fuelled/inspired by our being disabled. At what level is art to be labeled as such? Would I want to be... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Divali and schooldays remembered]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today is Divali/deepavali and brings me back to the days when we celebrated it in Malaysia - where we took advantage of the open houses of our Hindu friends and visit each and everyone in their turn while stuffing ourselves with festive food.. There has... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rest in peace, Sam and his parents]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I've been following Sam's progress for a long time - well, since 2005 when there started a website to fundraise for equipment for him http://stuff4sam.wordpress.com/ and had a link to this site since then. It is so sad to learn about his death - and that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Settling down in Coventry]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[i've been neglecting this blog because I have so many others to write and administer - I am beginning to feel I haven't got a life! But I think this blog is reserved from the other part of my working life - this is where I meander and just write about... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[snow in Coventry, Lily Allen vs Leonard Cohen]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It wasn't as copious as what they had in the rest of the country - certainly not as dramatic as scenes featured on the BBC - with the snowmen etc. or the skis. It wasn't more than a sprinkling which became bits of ice. Today I did go out to the railway... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[disability portrayal in Asian soaps and films]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Christmas has come and gone - the days fly by and new year resolutions come and go - with many hours frittered away. One of the luxuries that I did fritter my time on is catching up on films and soaps on the internet. It was not intentional but I soon... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Going home - when home is not a wheelchair user friendly environment]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nothing about us without us]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[what a small world some people live in]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I just left one disability forum - I think it was the proverbial straw - when somebody remarked on the Obama victory such: I'm not American, I don't live in America and America isn't what it used to be. And disabled was pretty far down Obama's list (right... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Obama's acceptance speech]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am so tired today. I sat up to watch the live broadcast on the BBC of the election coverage. And I wished I wass back in the US to celebrate it with my American freinds. He mentioned disabled people - I did not believe my ears-for the first time, not... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Equality 2025 public meeting in Birmingham]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I went to Equality 2025 Annual Public Meeting at the ICC. There were more people than last year - just about over a hundred. I don't think there was enough time allocated to 4 hot topics - some of them, like Individual Budgets were too complex... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Being caught parking in disabled car parking spaces]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Peter Tan in his blog wrote about the inconsiderate drivers in Malaysia who park in bays marked for disabled people. He said its one way for them to catch notoriety and be marked by their behavior and be splattered over different blogs for being shown... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Invitation to Equality 2025 Public meeting in Birmingham, 3rd Nov 2008]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Equality 2025, UK Advisory Network on Disability Equality is having its second Public Meeting in the ICC, Birmingham. Tell Us Equality 2025: taking your views on disability equality to government Monday 3rd November 2008, International Convention Centre,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Impact of Icelandic Bank collapse on services]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Malaysian politics on youtube]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Lately all the news is full of the global economic disaster, its fightening. I cannot even think what will happen to resources for disabled people, benefit recipients because their councils have had their bank deposits frozen. I went back to look for... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Coventry City Council is providing adequate services]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[According to Coventry Council website today - Coventry City Council is providing adequate services to safeguard adults and some services to support older people, and its capacity to improve these services is promising, according to government inspectors.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Choice and control as a disabled person]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Do I feel I have the same choice and control as a non disabled person? We examined this question at the Equality 2025 Walsall public meeting today. On the face of it, it seems like a silly question. So much of my life is tied up with what I cannot do... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to friends back home in Malaysia. I am not sure what they wish here - I think it is Happy Eid. Over here I was working - I went to a public meeting in Walsall. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Eden Project is not that accessible]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Norvegian visit]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was in Norway to attend a seminar and visited ULOBA - the only co operative for personal assistance in Norway if not the world. They look like a great success which is sustainable, they own their building and it had great facilities with a well equipped... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Liberty Festival, London]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was at the Liberty Festival 2008 in Trafalgar Square. It was a lovely day, very warm and sunny. I saw a bit of wheelchair dancing, Liz Carr and Laurence Clark with his comedy act but most of the time i was helping out at a stand. I did manage... ]]></description>
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