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tribute to the 5th year

// August 15th, 2010 // Comments Off // Journal

Remember the days of 2005 when you wished for more?
Those were the days with little left.

Remember the nights of 2006 when you were least sober?
Those were the nights at the masquerade.

Remember the battle of 2007 when you went all out?
Those were the time when we Titans won.

Remember the winter days of 2008 when you were brought down?
Those were the stronghold of a new deliverance.

Remember the call of 2009 when it came again?
Those were the days of life in a cell.

Remember the ongoing seven days in 2010 which passes you by?
Those were the days that ought to be treasured.

Forget I will not, remember I will always.

Bukit Bintang in HDR

// August 1st, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Journal

High Dynamic Range or simply known as HDR is a technique used to capture dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest area of an image.  Thus HDR images present better  intensity levels from the scenes captured.

Below are some of the HDR images that I produced during the weekend in Pavilion KL, shot using Olympus E-3 System.

Full scale pictures are available at my Flickr profile.

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010

// July 3rd, 2010 // 7 Comments » // Journal

And so it has begun, the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010 was held last weekend 27 June 2010. I signed up for the 10KM category early January right after Standard Chartered SG Marathon last year.

Apart from running with my usual buddies Dennis, Sophea and Jenn Ting, this year there were two new joiners Jane and Cheng Lam.

In order for the runner to receive the certificate, they will have to complete the race within the given time duration. For 10KM category, time duration was 90 minutes. In first thought, I wasn’t sure if I could still keep up with my usual pace since I’ve not been training.

Through midpoint of the race, I’ve realized that my pace was much slower as compared to last year. Now what may be the reason for slower pace this year? I thought to myself and after analyzing, it could or definitely be due to the following reason:

  1. 2009 – Slim mobile phone, 2010 – iPhone
  2. Two pieces of 20 cents coin
  3. Sony Walkman mp3 Player
  4. Credit Card & Touch n Go
  5. Didn’t train for the past 6 months

I guess it says it all. Towards the finishing point, it was disappointing to see the results of my finishing time.

2009 Finishing Time: 1:15:52

2010 Finishing Time: 1:21:13

In 6 months time, I’ll be running Standard Chartered SG Marathon 2010 on 06 December 2010. Not sure I would be training since these days, I just don’t feel good physically and mentally. But no matter what, the Standard Chartered Marathon slogan Run Your Race is what keeps me going. Every runner has a cause to run, every runner has its own race to complete.

Keep running Ted