Why? To celebrate the 64th Birthday of DYMM Sultan Selangor
How far? 10K & 7K
You have seen the video, now the photos....
I tagged along with Ronnie See and Kei Meng. The race was held in a new area called i-City in Shah Alam. We got lost even we followed the direction in the map provided in the registration form.
The funny thing was, when we asked some traffic police officers for direction, they told us that they were looking for the place too! LOL!
Anyway, we managed to find the start area in time for the race on that glorious morning....
Volunteers getting ready a huge banner of the DYMM Sultan Selangor birthday wish for photography session.
Brass band playing marching songs....
Top 20 medals.
Angels with crooked halos? :P Nah..They were the i-City mascots. The "halo" on the head is the dot on the "i" in i-City.
Chief Minister of Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Elizabeth Wong and Teresa Kok were there for the flag off.
Daulat Tuanku!
3.2.1...Blast Off
Arrow going the wrong way? ;)
After the flag off, the politicians posed with antique cars...
Here ae some random photos of participants and also friends during the run.
I used the "portrait-soft" shooting mode in my camera. So, the focus might not be tack sharp but you will see the "glisten-in-the-sun" rather than "sweating-like-a-pig" effects in the photos. :)
Like father, like son. Aiman and his Aiman junior.
Elizabeth Wong drawing some lucky numbers from the box.
Selangor Tourism BOLEH!
To see MORE photos of Larian Rakyat, please click the below link to my photo albums.
A short post today. I leave you with a video of this morning's run in conjunction of the Sultan Selangor Birthday. I still have tonnes of photo to be sorted out before I post them here. Please comeback for updates.
Who? 95 passionate Mass Communication students of KDU College.
Why?
- WALKABRELLAs objective is to highlight the plight of the chosen beneficiary.
- To generate awareness on Cerebral Palsy within the community.
- To enter the Malaysian Book of Records by getting and attracting the largest most number of people to participate in the walk-for-a-cause with their umbrellas open during the event!
Last weekend, while most of my running friends were either participating in the Singapore Marathon or the Salomon Trail, I decided to be at this unique walk for a cause event.
Wow! Look at the amount of umbrellas at the registration counter!
What we needed to do in Walkabrella was to walk 6km 3km with our FREE umbrella! It was not a race so, everyone was taking it easy! It was a Sunday morning after all.
Aiman and his students.
Remember the spirit?
I arrived at Central Park, 1-Utama around 7:30pm. Bumped into Kei Meng, Chen Kwok, Aiman and later Julie and her two hyperactive god-sons.
I walked around the Central Park while waiting for the event to start. The sky was cloudy but I figured even if it rained, the show would go on since everyone had gotten their FREE umbrellas. :)
The event started with some speeches from the VIPs. Among them were YB Tony Pua (MP of PJ Utara) and YB Senator Datin Paduka Che Mei Fun (Deputy Minister of Women, Family and Community Development of Malaysia). No pics...because I'm feeling lazy to post politicians pics in my blog. :)
These two were the KDU student reps - Brandon Liu & Matthew Ong.
The event was continued with a warm up exercise dubbed the UMBRELLABICS! It was fun watching everyone getting physical with their umbrellas! (Watchi it in the video below) Thank God, nobody poked the eyes out from the persons next to them with the umbrellas!
This is one of the emcees.
Isn't she sweet? :D
If I heard correctly, I think her name is Melissa.
Wield umbrellas, not keris! :P
Everyone was ready to open his/ her umbrella for a good cause!
3..2..1..Open! The Walkabrella was officially launched!
It was quite heartening to see the VIPs, our MPs also joined the walk. Usually, the VIPs only come to "grace" the event and leave soon after the speeches!
Thank you to YB Tony Pua and YB Senator Datin Paduka Chew for showing that you cared enough to walk the talk with all of us!!!
Julie and her "kids"
The walk too us around the housing area of Bandar Utama.
No scenic views...But the sight of thousands of white-blue umbrellas was quite something, eh?
Traffic was well controlled by the police. Water stations were efficient, dispensing water and also boxed juices.
Committee members of Walkabrella making rounds to ensure the "walkabrellers" were safe on the road.
The goodies bag!
I am very surprised with the value of the goodies bag! It is definitely more than the registration fee of RM10. We get an umbrella, free TGV movie pass, packet drinks and some other samples. Well done to the organiser!
On top of that, we also get a cert!
I have nothing but praises for the efforts of the mass com students of KDU College for stepping up to organised such an charitable event to highlight Cerebral Palsy and to help those people affected by it. (Insert thunderous applause here!)
I enjoyed the walk very much and I am sure others did as well!
Well, as a cherry on top of the successful event, Walkabrella was entered into the Malaysian Book of Records for having the largest number of people to participate in the walk-for-a-cause with their umbrellas open.
The record now stands at 1321! Congrats!!!!
Here is the video of Walkabrella. I edited it in such a way to show the Umbrellabics and the walk proper.
ENJOY!
Note: The soundtracks used are Poker Face (Jody Den Broeder Club Mix which was used in the umbrellabics) and what other proper song for Walkabrella of not - Umbrella by Alejandro Manzano. Can't use the orginal by Rihanna because YouTube would mute it due to copyright issue. Dang!
Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng are back to the highly anticipated sequel to 1998's "The Storm Riders" as Whispering Wind and Striding Cloud respectively.
Aaron and Ekin were in town with the directors of the movie, Oxide and Danny Pang to promote the movie which is slated for Malaysian release on Dec 10.
Can you believe this guy is 44 years old? I wished I look that good in my forties. LOL!
Ekin Cheng also known as Noodle Cheng, (鄭伊麵} after a popular noodle product with a similar sounding name. :)
I have waited at the stage area since 6:30pm. Aaron, Ekin and the Pang Brothers only appeared on stage around 8:20pm.
In between those period, there were some games for the audience and not to mention, our ear drums were assaulted with the theme song of The Storm Warriors on repeat for about 183 times! :P
As with the previous installment, "The Storm Warriors" is adapted from the "Fung Wan" comicbook series created by Ma Wing-Shing. The film will focus on two of the most popular story arcs in the comicbook series - 'Japanese Invasion' and 'Death Battle'.
The mall appearance was brief. No autograph signing. Aaron, Ekin and The Pang Brothers played judges to some "sword fighting" competition before officially launching the film in Malaysia by pulling their swords out....Erm, not that kind of sword! LOL! (Insert confetti here!)
Aaron caught making funny faces.
Kissy! Kissy! He loves his Malaysian fans. He mentioned it a couples of times. :)
I am sure this movie is going to be a box office hit. Can't wait to watch it in the cinema soon!
Check out the video.
Watch out for the hilarious identical greetings from identical twins directors - Oxide and Danny Pang. I do not know who is Danny or Oxide. LOL!
ENJOY!
Note: I am very annoyed with the media photographers and video camera-totting reporters who stood on their chairs, blocking our views during the launch of the movie. Can't they just move closer to the stage since they have the privileges to be in the reserved area? We, who were outside the partition, had to strain our necks trying to catch some of the action. Bloody inconsiderate idiots! Luckily my camera has a flip screen which enable me to take over the head shots, otherwise I was going to throw my water bottle at them! Grrrr!
World AIDS Day is a global event where the world takes time to recognise the issues relating to HIV/AIDS and remind ourselves how we can all do our part to combat HIV/AIDS.
This year again PT Foundation organised The Red Carnival at Sungei Wang Plaza over the weekend of November 28 and 29, 2009 in conjunction with the World AIDS Day.
Over the two days 80 performers had entertained the crowds while over 200 volunteers had distributed HIV information, red ribbons and other merchandise to members of the general public.
I managed to stopby Sg Wang Plaza to hear my favourite local singer performing at the Red Carnival.
Check out a soaring (pun intended) rendition of R. Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly by Dayang Nurfaizah.
ENJOY!
Dayang Nurfaizah has been appointed a Red Ribbon Support Celebrity by the Malaysian Aids Council to spread the awareness of HIV and to help stop the stigma and discrimination.
Her new single called Sayang (a duet with Marcell) is on rotation in many local radio stations now.
