 here we go hello everyone I'm here with a very very special guest one of my best students one of my favorite students May Fong Chi is that your full name yes that's my full name all right do you prefer people to call you May or May Fong or just May Fong Chi or Miss Chi or would you prefer well I guess almost everyone call me May so who you can call me May or May Fong I don't want to do I I I I want to know what do your friends call you do they call you May or May Fong some of them call me some of them call me okay is is May Fong your first name or is Fong your middle name how does that work May is a second name so what's your first because my first name is Robin my middle name is James my last name is Shaw can just call me May all right we'll just call you May well welcome me to the live stream we don't have many guests on this live stream student guests so I am honored to be with you here and of course if people don't know you are blind at 100% blind is that right yes I am and you were born blind or is it something that happened later in life I was one blind you were born blind all right so I just wanted to say that so everyone knows because I asked them to ask any question to you you're comfortable with questions about your blindness oh yes all right now we're not just gonna focus on you being blind that's not exactly why you're here I'm more interested in your English do you speak English of course you speak English okay so I'm looking I'm gonna check the chat for a moment Pallavi says hi May and she's excited and there's Dewey who's here hello Layla is here and Layla says wow it's wonderful to have an interview with lovely May and I think you are liked by everyone thank you Alice is here and Alyssa was my guest previously on the live stream she came on she's so brave as as you are Salome is here and sleepwalker says May we are glad to have you on this live thank you sleepwalker we have Willie Wills here and I'm getting to the questions sleepwalker asks May what do you find the most difficult in learning English these days what okay I I am learning English from YouTube and other online site these days I for me the most challenging part will be some like whenever some website provider they didn't label the details or document with proper wording so that will be a challenging challenging part for me other than that I'm fine I watch video I try to do some exercises so all that will be fine I think sleepwalkers questions great but I missed a lot of earlier questions we should ask how how and when did you learn English did you learn it is it mandatory to learn English in Malaysian school yes I learned English since I was in school but then when I left school I forgot most of the skills so I started reinforce all my English skills like two years ago two years ago okay yes and you are you're from Malaysia I think Pallavi is asking if you're in India she's in Malaysia Pallavi and I'm getting scrolling down the questions and you know as the chat often do they talk to each other a lot and Layla's getting into your blindness so what kind of difficulties do you encounter because of your blindness difficulty I would say maybe that nothing I mean I think much difficulties for me because I was born blind so since I was small I already do all this daily routine I've learned everything until I go and for difficulties nowadays maybe I would say when I work I'm working around out there although there are a lot of kind people here in Malaysia but sometimes when I mean maybe the road or the facilities is not so accessible to blind people so that will be part of the challenge as an English teacher and I've been teaching you for well I can't I can't exactly use the word teaching I don't know well I've been talking to you because you already speak English very well I've been talking to you for a few months and I must admit I do wonder certain concepts because you're very active in the chat in our WhatsApp group and you know they're always talking about certain concepts like colors okay blue red and when we say a color how do you what is a color to you because what a color to you is very different than what a color is to us right so when we say blue what does that what does that mean to you I don't see okay I don't see color in real I mean I don't know how they look like but whenever okay let's say for example I want to wear a clothes or I want to buy something I will ask the person who is with me I'll ask them what is this color or maybe I'll ask them is this suitable for me how does it look so based on their recommendation I will choose and I mean I mean if I mentioned that I like pink and purple because whenever I wear pink or purple days most of the time they say it look nice on me so that's why most of the time I'll choose pink or purple okay so yeah you have no concept of what a color is no and then when we're the students are often saying where it's like beautiful pretty ugly also is that something how do you approach those words when someone that's a beautiful scenery or a beautiful chair I don't know what they're talking about so they when they describe I would just I mean when you come to the scenery I can't really imagine it but for me when they say beautiful that means something nice to make it easy so something nice yes and what what is beautiful to you in from your from your perspective what is a beautiful thing is that a voice is that a sound is that a feeling can be all okay I'm getting I'm getting deep into the questions do you do you consider do you consider it a disability your blindness do you consider that a disability most of the time I don't but at a certain point I have to admit or I need to declare so that is the only time I need to tell people and other than that I don't consider it as a disability unless if there is something I can't do it then at that time I will consider it as something out of my ability and I'll ask someone else to assist yeah you you will continually amaze me of how independent you are and you're very good with technology you're you I guess you look really like using your phone a lot it not only that helps it helps you but you use your phone a lot for entertainment so what kind of what kind of things beyond beyond just a tool what do you use your phone for I use phone and laptop actually phone and laptop and with a screen screen reader installed so it helps me to connect with almost everything I can see from website to chat to online shopping all of that yes yes but what kind of entertainment do you use your phone for any sort of entertainment do you watch it or listen to a video or something the connections not so much video do you watch movies or TV shows no I'm not I don't really enjoy watching movies I watch reality show like concert or maybe singing contest so I'll watch this kind of program all right so sleepwalker what hobbies do you have besides learning the language I have a hobby besides English English is the hobby right not really okay all right sorry my jokes are interrupting your answer what hobbies do you have besides learning the language I like to listen to music listen to the radio and then and now this I like to do online shopping online shopping although I don't buy all the time I just like to have a look and Layla asked do you think learning English is harder because of blindness or is there no difference between blind being blind or not there's no different actually the only different is the way we learn like when it comes to watching video we watch the same video but I will choose whatever video that is not so friendly to blind I will just drop it and choose another one and there are millions of video online you can choose so no problem also exercises there are a lot of exercises that is accessible to blind so I can choose that one whatever not accessible I just leave it so no not so difficult actually are my videos good for blind people oh yes definitely I was saying really yes I don't know on the daily English homework channel I don't think a lot of those videos are good for blind people but because I'm asking for descriptions and such but you you're active it's amazing I have videos that require you know looking at an image but you still do the homework because you I think you describe some of the video so I try I try I don't always remember to because I'm nervous making videos so sometimes I'm not I'm not thinking about you I'm so nervous making a video that I forget to describe better or something all right Laila says if you don't mind what kind of job do you work okay I'm working in an office so mainly my job is as a telephone operator sorry can you hear can you say your job again I work I'm working okay I'm working as a telephone operator telephone operator and what does that mean it's my main job so my main job function will be attend to all calls that come into to my office and I make outgoing calls so I take down is that reception like a reception job something similar to reception the only different will be I do not sit at the reception place I sit inside and how long have you had that job I've been working there about I think about 17 years 17 years wow and do they pay you very well okay so far it's enough me to survive it's enough to survive that doesn't sound is it enough to save yes okay so why can't save I would say they're surviving and they're surviving and saving but you can see okay and Laila again ask what kind of accent do you speak with my guess would be a Malaysian accent as long as people can understand I don't really follow any accents well Malaysians you have your most Malaysians are tri-lingual is that correct you have to learn Malay Chinese and ink well I shouldn't say most demo yes you tell us what languages do the kids learn in Malaysia mainly and then if you choose to go to a Chinese school then your main language will be Chinese because you will be learning all the subjects in Chinese and then of course everyone have to learn English did you go to a Chinese school no I don't know I didn't okay so do you do you speak Chinese yes at home I speak Chinese but when it comes to official writing or reading I can do that is that Cantonan or Mandarin I speak Cantonese or man Mandarin I speak Cantonese at home but those who are in school the official Chinese language will be Mandarin all right we have yeah yeah yeah yeah saying we have a movie and review how do you watch videos to make it easy I will say I listen to the video so I will look at whatever appear on the screen but like whatever image of who is acting in that video but I will listen to all the words mention all the details are you interested in any Hollywood movies have you watched any Hollywood movies okay okay I don't watch them either Pallavi asked how long have you been in learning English from school and then recently three years Fabio Dinez she reminds me of the book my guide in the darkness do you know what that book have you heard about that book my guide in the darkness no I've not heard about it okay and I think English language is the second language in Malaysia is a right yes it is and Zachariah Hussein have you heard about Helen Keller you haven't heard about Helen Keller she was the about a hundred years ago she was the woman who was deaf and blind and she had that she could not hear she could not see but she went on to I guess she went on to university and to write books and sleepwalker may is English your first foreign language that you learn oh yes I beside our local language I only learn English and Janina Costa says besides English is there any other language you would like to learn maybe I'll consider learning Japanese so Korea Korean is not on the list you you've been you've been to Korea right yes have you been to Japan no so you've been to Korea but you're not interested in the language you want to go to Japan okay which countries have you traveled to me so far Korea Indonesia and I think Thailand you think yes and were those all for pleasure or were there business trips all pleasure trip okay and what's your favorite country among that list I will say Korea in this because I love the technology that they have and then the environment is clean when I was there okay we have blue taeyang good evening sir salutations from India and good evening sister I guess your sister and Lavanya says how to deal with massage but I think Lavanya had a type oh and she was a say message or answer both how do you deal with massages and how do you deal with messages I didn't know to do massage although a lot of my blind friends out there are doing massage as a job as a job yes as a job yeah that's in Korea officially only blind people are allowed to become masseuses the people that massage not officially but there are ways to get in to get around that rule but so how do you deal with messages how can you keep up in the WhatsApp groups that can be overwhelming at times even to me I will the screen reader will do the reading for me so I will scroll whichever I like to reply I and I mean sometimes there are a lot of messages so I will put that put those messages aside I will put a star then when I finish reading all the messages then only I reply do you read everything sometimes I do sometimes I don't okay and whenever I receive like 300 or maybe it's three to 400 then I will choose check the last one Ali hello may thank you he said a nice comment to me Salma says how long have you known Robin actually I started watching videos from sure English to be specific in January 2021 or December 2020 about around that time but I only saw a few videos from sure English then it's like after that everything is everything is gone and in this year may I'm the month of May I started watching you again yeah some I think some as a new student and also may your new student you came in around the same time I started watching you few months actually but I didn't join the WhatsApp group but still it's a miracle that you found my shy English somehow you you found the WhatsApp group and you're probably not sent into the good group immediately you're sent into the there's other groups I have to check and for somehow I found out who you are and sent you to the better group there's there's a lot of people never find out who they are they just they leave because that group is nasty but any and now you're on the live stream so wow Salma when are you coming on the live stream so yeah we just know each other since May that yes officially in May Pallavi says you're great Harry 300 is coming in late asking about your hobbies again so her hobbies are smoking and drinking alcohol whiskey listening to music I think Robin is describing his hobbies my hobbies and how did you learn English May Pallavi's asking it I will expand on this how is there you know in America there's Braille for reading does Malay teach a certain Braille is it the same Braille I'm ignorant about that are there books Braille is actually a way of reading for blind people so the machine is called Braille I mean everyone every blind person need to learn how to read Braille actually because that is the main thing so yeah we learn from from the day we enter school we have to learn now is Braille a unique language or is it just Malay or Chinese language written in written in Braille it can be in Malay it can be in English and okay so it's just copying the language somehow yes so what they just transcribing from the alphabet to the Braille to the dots so when we press on the machine the dots some dots will come out so we can feel with our fingers so did you read English books in Braille when I was in school all right good and Lavanya is asking Robin why do you look so tired I'm I'm tired and Alyssa asked did you do you have Braille novels yes we just talked about that Pallavi what do you do in your free time May today Sunday you're not working what did you do today I watch video I chat with my friends I was chatting in the group just now sometimes I will go out but only I mean these days I don't go out often so just at home Layla is asking do you consider yourself that you learned most of your English from YouTube by yourself or from school I guess Layla is interested to know where you learned the majority of your English nowadays I learn everything from YouTube and also other website and two years ago I got a sponsor course where I learned from company company was that a good experience learning company yes it was good okay good good for you and do most Malaysian speak this is from Layla do most Malaysian speak English according to your experience not really not not everyone speaks English here but I can say now I mean recently and most of the people most of us here started learning and we don't feel shy as those days so yes many people English and to pendra Kumar Ram hello we are a lot of people from India today so welcome to all the Indians new students Pallavi is asking are you feeling nervous I guess that questions for me and the answer is yes I am always nervous when I'm on camera may do you feel nervous yes I do it's difficult to come in on on the live chat and you know expose yourself to the world and the questions some asks you seem to be a calm person are you easily stressed I when I was younger yes I easily get stressed I was a bit hot but when I get older it changed a lot I mean I become a bit I become calm and have more patience in a lot of things yes I agree with some you seem to be very calm not so dramatic as the other people in our group Alyssa you like to watch not participate watch the drama Alyssa asks do you use audio description what do description is she referring to I don't know what do you think no I don't use any audio description apps Harry 300 because you're blind how do you go to work okay that's a very interesting question so I walked with walking stick or we call it white cane so I can feel the road or any obstacle in front of me like there's a step down or step up maybe something that's when there's something blocking so I go to work by train and by bus so I will I will know what are their shadows like I will follow how long is that journey how long is that commute from your house to work about one hour one hour and 15 15 minutes to one hour and 30 minutes that's a long journey yes you've been doing you've been doing that for 17 years oh yes no choice because I am depending on the public transport so I need to follow the shadow if they are late I will just sit there and wait well that's the good thing about Japan they are always on schedule Korean not so much that's but Japan they you know everything follows you schedule exactly and they apologize if they you know if they're 30 minutes or 30 seconds of one minute so what if it's raining like doesn't that just disrupt the whole process of getting to work well yes that's very true if there is a whenever it's a heavy rain so it will be difficult for me because I need to walk with an umbrella and then I need to hear the sound around me with the rain interruption all that so and then all the whole place will be bad so that was the challenging moment Layla asks do you try to read a lot of English or only listen to audiobooks or YouTube videos to be honest I don't I don't like reading I didn't like reading that's how you found me YouTube videos do you listen to audiobooks I listen to something short short easy I mean not longer than one hour like I will only watch things in 15 minutes or maybe 20 minutes half an hour is still okay I think that's the whole whole world right now we have no attention span what even for me watching anything over an hour unless it's a live stream oh yeah well you can just listen and cook or exercise Jawead Siddique what do you think about grammar while learning English and how did you learn about grammar I like grammar actually compared to writing I like grammar for me when you learn grammar you just need to write short sentence so it's fine willy-wills is great Layla says by the way may can you speak you can speak English very well that's more than amazing I like how you speak so she's just appreciating your English thank you thank you and Zachariah do you watch the news I read the news because news news is not a long thing so I read the news and usually Layla asks do you usually travel with your family with your friends or alone sometimes I will travel with my mom and then sometimes I will go out with my friends and Dewey is asking which place do you come in Indonesia I went to Bandung and Jakarta Pallavi made you type or speak while doing your homework I type Zachariah who's saying our guide dogs common in Malaysia no question not really we don't I mean I have not seen or known I mean blind person who used dog as a guidance in Malaysia I've seen videos where the guide dogs are very well trained to they are maybe they are mostly in Western country or I think it's Western country in Western country would you like a guide dog not really all right Harry is asking 300 do you mind to tell me what your eyes can capture when you see around is it like blurry things or totally dark I like sorry I like this question because you know it it's just showing he wants to learn about your experience and we all do so yeah your eyes are we can see you have eyes your eyes are looking around but what do you see me or not see I couldn't see anything but whenever there's a flash like coming near I mean direct to my eyes let's say in front of my eyes it must be very very near so I can feel the light it's like something shining in front of my eyes you can feel the light you cannot something is shining something something is bright in front of my eyes so that's all I can see but you don't actually see a lighter shade of darkness no yeah it's it's hard for us to perceive that so your eyes can detect something cannot yes I can detect only can detect the right light in your in your eyes so I guess when you're dreaming what's happening what's happening in your brain when you're dreaming that's a very interesting question it's something like the real life real thing happened like I'll dream of walking around I although I don't walk I will let's say I just I think sometimes I'll dream about the people in my office what we do what we did where we where we went or maybe I will dream about having some small talk or small argument so just like a real life because when we say dreaming or even nightmare you have nightmares too so far I have not gone through any weird nightmare because to me dreams are such a visual thing where we can see to you it's just you're you're talking to people and you have feeling you still have the feelings and you can you can have conversations in your yes that's true that's true it's like that thing happened in our real life everything is so real sleep walker may may did you think long before agreeing to this live or was it a spontaneous decision I think I consider it about few minutes about 10 to 15 it was pretty spontaneous because I asked someone in the group today what should I talk about tonight may suggested an interview and I said are you volunteering and yes I wasn't expecting for that question actually Jawed Sadiq what do you think about grammar while learning English and how did you learn grammar please tell us and how will it take time to learn to be fluent do you think studying I'm going to rephrase this question do you think studying grammar did you study well let's go into your past did you study grammar a lot yes I do actually do you think that strong grammar foundation is the reason you speak English well or is it another reason two years ago I started when I started when I was learning with this e-learning company so they their main focus is on speaking and grammar so that's how I improve my speaking and my grammar and when I finish I look on the website and actually there are a lot of websites out there who offer grammar lessons so it and it is free the most important thing is so that's what what took you to the next level because at that time I was asking what what do you think really made you to improve your English like was it the grammar was it the friends was it the class the teacher what actually brought you to the level you are now what do you think reading what do you think mainly is because of the teachers at that time and after that since I have a lot of free times a lot of free time so I just explore whatever website that has grammar exercises so I just went into the website and I try the exercise all right Layla is asking do you speak to native English speakers in your job or only with some native speakers who Robin brought how often do you touch talk to native speakers I guess the people in the group are the only native speaker I have sleeparker say May is brave too I think that's because I said Alyssa was brave of course you're brave and certainly May is the bravest person in this chat right now because she's the one who accepted my offer to come on to the live stream the rest of you didn't accept that you're all cowards all right Joe it says sir I want to join your WhatsApp group usually in the description of my videos you can find the WhatsApp group I'm going to jump ahead we're a little bit behind in the questions so I'm going to sorry chat I'm going to skip a few questions just to catch up a little bit so I guess May do you practice speaking with your not online friends your offline friends do you use English in your daily life with my colleagues some of my colleagues speak English so you're you're speaking English with them yes we have mr frosty hello Shiva hello Eunice is here hello and Nemasha did you miss anything before you became blind and you were born blind yes I was born blind so there's nothing for me to miss she she's a different she how she perceives the world is very different than us and sometimes I think we forget that right we forget that we do not consider you enough and that how you perceive the world is different doesn't doesn't make you frustrated in the chat when we're talking about look at this picture of food and everyone's saying oh it looks so delicious oh what's that you know does that sort of thing make you frustrated or are you just are you just that's so common in your life that it doesn't that's something really common so that's nothing offends me when you come to come to that I would just ask what is that how it tastes like I'll just ask questions like that but it never offends me at all are you a foodie oh yes I am now we're getting to the real questions what kind of food do you like this is the question everyone really wants to know are you prefer spicy food in Malaysia and spicy food mainly from chicken I I like sweet chicken I imagine the food in Malaysia is very multicultural like it's coming from all kinds of places what would be the main dish in Malaysia mostly spicy spicy food spicy chicken or spicy noodles noodles rice with coconut and do you also cook oh I only know how to eat I can cook mr frosty do you actually enjoy English or do you wish the world spoke every language I'm not sure I understand the question mr frosty well we'll just we'll just focus do you act do you actually enjoy English yes I enjoy learning English do you enjoy speaking English yes I do why why because I feel like when I when I am improving my English I can speak with more people I can read a lot of things on the website so that makes me want to learn more hey Vichika says hello sir and miss I'm from Cambodia can you tell me about more about how to learn English faster and speak cleanly well I will take this one hey join our whatsapp group uh and also you know you have to study every day may here is active every day every day may is active with her English didn't talk about that but certainly being active every day whether it's just chatting or listening or writing that's going to help your English help at least to keep your level if it's not just improve it actually there's no way of learning fast uh well it depends on the age you know kids learn it so fast like when I teach a kid uh some grammar in five minutes you know they'll remember it forever if I teach some vocabulary they remember it forever but if someone's in their 20s 30s 40s 50s they forget after 10 minutes oh that's true that's true I forget you know I learned a lot of grammar teaching for my channel and I I forget it I forget it too anyway uh Pilavi says me you're great I love how you speak thank you also your voice is so sweet it is my pleasure it is my pleasure to see you and learn from you keep smiling like this and she has a smile emoji heart emoji hands thank you emoji and another heart emoji that's from Pilavi uh and Layla uh says or asks May how can you imagine the appearance of Robin well okay that question is very very very interesting I was I actually I am thinking of asking everyone or maybe someone in the group to describe you Robin no don't ask them to describe me so I am considering to do that actually when when I visit you May uh is it's it's a probe is it appropriate to touch face I'm touching my face now is do blind people touch the face and the body when they meet people is that a thing no most of the time we don't do that and we don't actually look at the person appearance actually so if you meet someone new like your co-workers you never touch their face you don't know we don't do that uh touch their hair or oh no we don't do all that you know in movies sometimes in dramas they have a blind person and that blind person will go up and touch the person's face and nose and that is only in the drama okay I'm just asking is your family members or maybe your spouse your sibling then you can do that okay outside people we don't do uh sleepwalker says Robin you're a good interviewer I am the worst interviewer and Jawad Sadiq who's a new member today asking a lot of questions good for your participation Jawad may uh will you ever would you ever think about an eye operation oh okay no I when I was small my mother used to hope for an eye operation for me but according to the advice from the doctor it is not necessary for me to do any operation not necessary that means impossible it looks like that but when I see some of my friends who did eye operation and the moment they after they did the operation they can see that's true but after sometime they became they become blind again so the advice not to do so uh does the government sponsor that or do they have to pay no they need to do it on their own so that must be expensive if you are rich you can do it but the risk is there there's no 100 percent of for guarantee well this is a sensitive question then is it is it worth it even if you go blind again would you do that you mean one you pay a lot of money you get eyes you get eyes for a year and uh you go blind again no it is not worth at all okay laffy how do you manage all the things how do you manage may all the things yeah how do you manage living well okay well I gotta guess everything you lived in the same house for 17 years yes or no for the past 10 20 12 years all right so you know exactly where everything is positioned yes do you live with someone you live with your mother yes with my parents my mom and my dad and I I guess they're trained to always put things back to the proper place or do they I put all my things wherever I want so but if you're walking through the hallway and there there's a chair in front if you stub your toe and you're like damn it mom no no no never going to be like that so I can actually I can feel or maybe I can adjust the position of let's say a table or chair or cabinet so I can roughly know where are the where are the position so if I asked you oh do you have a pen may no I don't have I don't use a pen but in my home yes I we have a pen I guess that's a dumb question what could I ask where's your hair brush you would be able to find that in immediately right yes your toothbrush and your can you give me a coffee you can all so Pallavi I think in her house she can manage everything very well even cookie cooking if she'd ever dared to do that because she doesn't seem to like that but you cook you can cook right you can manage the stove and the oven and the burners you can manage all that you just don't know how to cook but if if forced to survive you can cook some noodles instant noodles for sure I can cook but not spicy chicken no heavy duty but can you use the app to order spicy chicken of course I can order from I mean that we have a few apps here where we can order food so sometimes I order if I feel like eating something so I will just open the app and order Eunice has made you know Alyssa I think she has the same situation as yours yes we we were having a chat in the group earlier yeah I saw I saw a little bit of that chat how often do you talk to Alyssa sometimes days in the week we have a sifa hello and some name I cannot read hello Lavanya says my school's tamil language teacher is a disability I remember that what disability Lavanya and Leila do you get a lot of help from strangers when you need to get on the street or in public places sorry for asking this question why are you sorry for asking the question that's why we're here almost every day Leina so every day they're helpful I speak to strangers almost every day but they're helpful to you from time to time someone will come to me and ask where do I want to go am I taking a bus what bridge bus am I taking so yes there are a lot of great people that I meet every day Pallavi may do you imagine a lot of things right yes I do so again this is a something we we our brains don't speak the same language of imagining so how we imagine you imagine I must I don't know like how what when you what's going through your brain when you imagine I imagine what like what will happen in future if I let's say if I do this what will happen or maybe I will imagine what will this person say if I do this so this kind of things I will but let's let's make it clear for Pallavi this imagine is not images yes he will never in image images may does not yeah it's a thought may does not have any concept of color things like that she cannot imagine a scene anything is a thought and the follow-up question from raid do you like seafood we go from the deep deep questions to the basic seafood yes I do all right I'm gonna jump ahead to Zach Korea how do visually impaired people navigate finding a partner oh it's time to get into the love life they can be in many ways actually maybe is there a tinder for blind people if you have a phone you would like to access to all that chatting side or finding partner side you can do that so may do you do that no sorry I don't in fact I am not so in not so interested to join in the public chat but I'm I I don't know actually I really don't know how I can get into the what some do but normally I will reject all the public invite for chats and all that Gwee Anna says you're amazing me and Layla says did you prepare for this interview interview before starting with Robin no she just I sent her the link she navigated into the room and she's pretty good with technology Asifa Hussein says how to state positive you look so positive and I would agree may you seem a lot more positive than you should be not saying because you're blind your life sucks it's just life sucks in general for everybody and you seem pretty positive how do you stay positive I do have negative thoughts sometimes but then just remember whatever it is life must go on so we must live we must survive so that's all whatever it is we must wake up every day and do whatever we supposed to do and just be a little more patient in everything Janina Costa I wish I were so calm and tranquil like me when speaking English well Janina let's get you on here next week Salva says have you experienced discrimination okay that happened in real no doubt that happened whenever sometimes there are people out there who think or whenever they see a disabled person they will think like oh like how how to handle this person what can she or he do how is it will it be difficult so things like that will happen yeah and I'm one of these people may you know if I see you on the street and I'm gonna I'm gonna feel uncomfortable I know as we were talking earlier before we went live I I don't know about blind people very well so on the street if I see you I just I don't know what to do I'm gonna feel uncomfortable and if I'm in a business I might treat you differently if I'm in a company certainly I'm gonna be worried can this person work can this person do the same things as a person who sees but I I think you you're proven you had you you've continually had to prove yourself in your life that is you always had to prove which is a little different people might be given a chance but you had to prove always that I can do this to I guess call sometimes I'll just ignore all that and just do whatever I can and if you actually if you remember I didn't tell you that I'm a blind person during the earlier stage and I do all your homework I didn't tell you until I when I come into the WhatsApp group then only you find out I don't remember when you told me yeah I didn't tell you actually I just do the homework just like other students so normally I will do that because I don't want people to oh she's blind so we must treat her differently with some special treatment and all that so I don't prefer all that all but I but I'm giving you special treatment now yes I'm putting you on the live stream I'm not putting Harry 300 on the live stream he's not special I mean in the earliest stage not at the first first time or the first meet itself but the moment you tell me you cannot see then I'm gonna adjust the homework well sometimes to to make it more accessible to you or stuff like that so yeah there's pros and cons I understand why you would want to keep it a secret so initially people are just going to judge you for your effort without knowing and you did impress me uh and others yeah your blindness other than seeing you now your your work in the homework channel has been better than most students it's yeah you're very you're very capable of doing anything all right Harry 300 since you said you're a foodie how can you find the restaurant you want to go let's say you want to go buy fried chicken in kfc how do you know that you are at the kfc already I will go out to eat with my friends or I will just order it from the apps so I mean even if the restaurant is just um around me or at my neighborhood then I'll I know how to go to that restaurant so if it is a bit far for me then I'll order it or I will go up with with with my friends I'm just Gowit says I didn't find any whatsapp group in the description so I just put some information in the description Gowit if you join the whatsapp group please notify me that you watch the live stream um Raid Raid asked me do you like a song what is your favorite song a favorite song uh I prefer ballad song that's as I actually I have many favorite songs but my favorite genre will be ballad song ballad yes I don't like those we um heavy rock music and all that Lavagna says so so we are having fun in our group your message reader reading every message yes Lavagna it reads everything including all your jokes uh jokes yes how about emojis it does it read the emojis yes uh sometimes most of the time it's right it's a smiling or maybe laughing or maybe baby food sometimes it will describe what kind of things do you absolutely need your mom to help you or your friends what what are you relying on searching for things sometimes when I can't find it um I mainly I would say to look at the color okay so you put on some clothes or just to check what's the color of the shirt my mom or my friend what is this um is this suitable with this one so that kind of assistance now are people nice if you have some food on your face or some grease on your face do they tell you yes some of sometimes my colleague will tell me you have something on your shirts or what happened because my students never tell me no my colleague I'll go all day with something on my face and I'll get home and I'm like oh my god why didn't anyone tell me this yeah because it is hard for for them to tell you because you are their professor so it it's hard for them to tell you hey something on your face it's not like me I I communicate with all my colleagues so we speak every day so it is easy for them to just tell me hey what's on your face why are you not washing it properly so they would just tell me things like that so I will know you have nice friends may shall says her English is very good thank you Leilas made you understand all the words that Robin says immediately because that's what I see I understand you understand everything I say yes I do so at this point you probably listen to me in over a hundred videos so you you've listened to my voice so many times I think everyone here watching you you must be masters at understanding Robin by now because I so many videos and well how does my voice compare to other native speakers may give me your criticism right now give it to me only bad things go I don't compare people voices actually as long as you speak clear is enough do I do I speak clear yes you do okay Mike is here from Mike's English lab hello Mike does Mike speak clear yes he does all right Dewey says I'm always proud of you may you have good motivation in life and never give up thank you and Joe Ed Robin sir you're authentic and a good interviewer thank you may is inspirational for us love you both thank you Joe Ed Sadeek hope to see you in the WhatsApp group join the family okay I'm jumping ahead here we're going to finish up in a couple minutes so any last questions or comments for me get them in as sleepwalker asks may are you proud of yourself now because of your new live experience I don't really get the question what you are live now do you feel proud of coming on to the live exposing your English I feel proud at the same time I feel nervous well how are you gonna feel when tomorrow no one is good I guess no one from my office is watching you can send them a link I see how because I didn't tell them that I watched I I watching all this on YouTube and all that because some of I mean sometimes they will you know say that you're watching this at the office or what so that's why I prefer not to not to share with them all this are you are you walking now may yes I do because my laptop is running out of battery soon all right all right we'll finish up here here all right chat I'm gonna skip ahead a few questions you can continue I'm talking shavani says hi may what what inspired you the most in life what inspired me the most in life the people who like who who like to learn and never give up all right we're gonna finish up may thank you very much for coming on the live stream thank you for inviting me of course you are loved by many people in the whatsapp group thank you everybody you're very you're very nice very as I said very calm very stable and I'm I'm a happier part of our whatsapp family in our youtube family here so you're one of the best things that happened this year to me was meeting me and certainly I'll come visit you in Malaysia as soon as I can okay you're always welcome here all right so everyone say your goodbyes to me we're gonna end so sleepwalker thank you may layla I'm so glad to join this special interview with me she is a superhero and maybe you can come back in the future Bowie says bye may all right thank you everyone and thank you for watching bye everyone we'll see you in the group