The show must go on

October 2015 was when Haikal Johari thought that life as he knew it was over. An avid outdoorsman who spent much of his spare time in the gym or dirt biking, Johari was working as the executive chef of Water Library Group in Bangkok, a key player in the F&B and hospitality scene, when he was involved in a head-on collision while making his way to a motorbike circuit on his Yamaha R1 motorcycle. The initial diagnosis by the doctors there was dire; Johari broke his neck, lost his ability to speak, and was expected to remain bedridden. He had a three percent chance of regaining movement in his body.