There was an interesting piece in KL Time Out’s June edition, on how a blind masseur who lives at Bangsar Utama, Kuala Lumpur, related about how he goes about to his place of work.

I was reading the piece from an analytical eye on the “access angle” and I find it very interesting that “bumping into a pole” as something natural to do.

Having arthritis myself, I have my own quirks which would help me go about independently. Yeah, being independent is about having one’s dignity and is a common basic need for everyone.

What would be indignified for the blind masseur is when someone suddenly uncover the drains or create a barrier for his usual routine and he would fall down unnecessarily, thus breaking his arm and him not being able to massage for sometime.

I mean, in Malaysia, we try to cope. We don’t have discrimination laws, just talk and talk by people of promises to be made. Well, in a way we cannot blame them, because that’s what they have to do. So we cope and live dangerously. Nothing is totally independent.