World Vision was in town for their well-known international One Life exhibit at The Spring.
With all those good reviews of how inspiring and touching it was pouring in, I only had to try out the highly-acclaimed experience. Had to wait until the very last day before I could drag myself there though.
I was already impressed the moment I found the exhibit, with the deco and all. More so on the idea behind the whole thing, how they utilise headphones and mp3 players for narration, music and sound effects, how it gets you fully immersed into being inside the lives of HIV-positive individuals.
There was this turning point in the story where your character gets diagnosed as being HIV-positive during a visit to the clinic:
I felt a crunch in my heart when the nurse stamped me as HIV-positive.
What works so well about the One Life exhibit is that it takes you on a journey through the lives of real-life individuals from different locations who ended up being HIV-positive. So for 20 minutes, you’ll be ‘in their shoes’, going through exactly what these individuals experienced.
Thing is, I was trying pretty hard to get myself into the whole thing because I was walking the path of a girl in Cambodia. There was this part when she ended up in a brothel and when you’ll be standing in a rather dark, red-lit room, with lingerie all over the place, when the narrator said along the lines of, ‘You had sex with many men’
I shrugged.
It felt so, so wrong. I’m a straight guy man.
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Edit: Just realised I sounded as if I was picking on the whole thing. Don’t get me wrong, as I’ve said earlier, the One Life exhibit is really an amazing event. Enlightening, an eye-opener, it touches the soul and makes you think twice about how you live your only life. I really liked the part when you get the opportunity to write notes of encouragement that would be distributed to real-life HIV patients, I would very much love to be able to put a much-needed smile on their faces.
I LOL’d. 🙂
It was implying that you are a tranny?
Excuse me while I open the 9th floor windows and step out.
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@Free. LOL!
@Hans. L, Oh yes, so you do get the picture. Try not to make that much of a damage to the cafeteria roofs while you attempt your amazing feat. =P
Hans: ouch.
ember: I have very little time on my hands, and I really wanted to go on the trail. But … 20 mins? Cannot larr … I’ve only been to The Spring twice, and even then both for less than 1.5 hours (first time was actually 40 mins)/
=(
hahaha!!
oh you naughty naughty boy!
LOL
wow…i was at spring twice when the exhibition was being held…and i walked past twice too…didnt hv the “guts” to join the queue simply bcos i m not sure what r they showing inside lor 🙁 …chicken…
but all is good..or else i would hv to “sleep with many men” gulp
@Eli James, Woa, that busy? I see you may not be much a of a mall person (is there such an adjective? lol) judging from how you actually timed yourself.
The only time I would time myself in a mall is when I’m stuck on one of those drop-dead boring shopping trips with mom and sis. =(
@Pink Cotton, Oii, I was innocent okay? It was the narrator who’s naughty! =P Seriously, they should’ve let me through the life of a male individual instead. >.< Twice? Gosh you really should’ve walked in! I went to the Spring specifically for the exhibit and went back right after.
Hey.. I went to theSpring last week.. didnt notice em.…?? It sound interesting you know.. I mean the event…
I wouldn’t have noticed them if I wasn’t dragged there too. =P The exhibit was (rather) quietly tucked away in an empty lot on the ground floor around the area where the stage is.
And yeap, the experience was really worthwhile.
ah bad. i didn’t get to know the story of ‘your’s’. i was in there as a guy also what.
doesn’t matter. it’s a poor little girl’s life in REALITY, thats what matters.