Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Ucal Blind rally !!!















Rally flagged off by Writer Kanimozhi

We attended the blind rally again this year. For people who are not aware.The UCAL annual car rally, where drivers are given authorised blind navigators who read maps in Braille, while we follow their instructions.
The visually impaired navigators are certified by the National Association for the Blind. The 50.03 km rally is based on the time, speed and distance format and is supposed to take 124 minutes.

Last year we had participated in the same rally and as i jumped one of the check points (avasaram, avasaram) we lost. This year we made a resolution not to miss any check points. As usual my daughter wrote what Mr. Muthu(our blind navigator) dictated and handed it over to my wife in the front seat. My wife read out the instructions and excited she was , started giving her own directions/asumptions too. As usual (illati life'il kala kalapu irukathu) we went into an argument. stopped the car. the blind man was having fun (like listening to a serial from last year). we then sorted our differences and continued.

We achieved our goal of getting through all the check points, though we did not finish at the top. But then we had lots of fun and so did Mr.Muthu

48 Comments:

Blogger starry said...

Interesting.Never heard of the ucal blind rally. Blind Navigators reading the maps in Braille.that is awesome.

08:43  
Blogger KC! said...

yeah, I havent heard of this rally either. Good to know that there are such things..

13:13  
Blogger Keshi said...

wow what a noble mission!

Keshi.

16:53  
Blogger Nirek said...

thats really different rally! Good to see you enjoyed it with your family!

21:45  
Blogger Jeevan said...

When i know this rally through news, first you comes to my mind and i hoped u may be their. Great to know u make fun on the drive; Muthu must had a big laugh:)

01:07  
Blogger Syam said...

I don't either...great to such event occurs... :-)

09:17  
Blogger SKM said...

so unga veetula kala kalappuku kurachalae illa.very good.
about the rally..WOW! Here participation is very important, not winning.It is fun to be there and it is for a good cause. Congratulations!

09:28  
Blogger Princess said...

Good to read such nice things in life.

Happy and joyful I am.

-Aiz.

23:23  
Blogger Ponnarasi Kothandaraman said...

Oh tht was a news :) Nice post! And wife,kid and Muthu part was fun reading :)

08:31  
Blogger Shruti said...

great fun...

03:40  
Blogger ashok said...

wow..thats interesting...

03:03  
Blogger Has to be me said...

good 2 note that u were a part of it! :)

05:18  
Blogger smiley said...

starry nights, they don't read maps, they read the instructions for which direction we have to proceed at what speed.... :)

usha, i was also surprised when i came to know of it at first :)

21:27  
Blogger smiley said...

keshi, i wouldn't say a noble mission, more of a fun trip :)

nirek, u should try it, mebbe next year. it is held 4th last week of jan :)

21:29  
Blogger smiley said...

jeevan, muthu must have great fun watching us squabble which direction to go, left or right :)

syam, it is good to know that there are noble people who organise events like these for people like Muthu :)

21:39  
Blogger smiley said...

skm, Here participation is very important, not winning.It is fun to be there.... u should try it next year :)

princess, good to participate also... pls participate next year :)

21:45  
Blogger smiley said...

ponnarasi, sometimes in the heat of an argument we fail to realise the world around us... well Muthu was enjoying the same :)

shruthi, it was great fun and we were happy that we got thro all check points :)

21:48  
Blogger smiley said...

ashok, interesting and exciting :)

has to be me, our car had the max participants with all the kids and this year they gave a participation certificate also :)

21:52  
Blogger Ponnarasi Kothandaraman said...

Smiley,

//sometimes in the heat of an argument we fail to realise the world around us... //

Is tht a general statemtn? or any intention which relates 2 any of our eralier conversations??? Am puzzled! :)

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