My running experience
Sep 21, 2008 Events
So, you guys might have read my previous post on my experience at the Nike+ Human Race 10K in Singapore, where I posted some pictures from my trip.
Well, after a few weeks (yes, yes, sorry!), my article was finally published in StarTwo on Friday. I know I usually post on my blog whenever I write on the day itself, but Friday was pretty hectic for me. So, here I am two days later.
In the article, headlined: Running for life, I write about what it was like running and my impression of the event as a whole. It is more a chronicle of my first ever run.
Speaking of runs, I have signed up for another 10k run which will happen next month. It is the Mizuno Wave Run which will be held on Oct 19. Of course, I hope to make better time than my Nike+ Human Race time but I think it might be hard as the route looks pretty hilly.
But it’s all in good fun and I’m really looking forward to it!
5.45pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
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We’re all marginalised
Sep 21, 2008 Rantings
What a brilliant piece of writing in today’s StarMag, Stray Thoughts column. The standfirst - The various races of Malaysia are united in the belief that we’re the only victims. - in itself says it all. And then the article also reads:
Enough. We need to stop right now and look at this intelligently and without bias - “we” being both the people and the politicians we’ve invested with the authority to address these issues.
When I grow up, I want to be a writer like A Asohan.
Tags: A Asohan, StarMag, Stray Thoughts
Jonas Brother’s sweet 16.
Sep 20, 2008 Sounds Like Pop
Only because he’s a Virgo too. :)
E! Online reports, in an article headlined:
The Jonas Brothers Play the Field
E! News has learned exclusively that the Jonas Brothers helped celebrate Nick’s sweet 16 birthday last night at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium.
“[Kevin, Joe and Nick] rented out the stadium last night to play a baseball game with some friends,” a source tells us.
The article estimated that they spent US$30,000 on it.
Must be nice to have money.
p/s In case you were like me (I didn’t know which Jonas was which Brother until the MTV Video Music Awards last week), they’re like a only the biggest band at the moment, according to my 7-year-old nephew and 10-year-old neice. :P
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Seputeh MP Teresa Kok has been released
Sep 19, 2008 News Breaks
The Star reports that Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, was who arrested under the ISA last Friday, has been released at 1pm today.
The article quotes her lawyet, Sankara Nair, as saying that he was on the way to the Jalan Travers police station to meet her.
It is believed that Teresa will hold a press conference at 3pm at the DAP headquarters.
Teresa is the second of three people to be detained under the ISA last Friday. Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng detained and released after 18 hours. Raja Petra Kamaruddin has yet to be released.
2.05pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: ISA, Teresa Kok
Media Watch: nicster in KLue
Sep 18, 2008 People
Well, not exactly.
I just got a copy of KLUE magazine (September edition) a couple of days ago, the lead story of which is its The 20 Under 40 List: 20 of the Valley’s mover’s and shakers. It’s also the magazine’s 8th anniversary issue.
One of my friends, Zain HD (yes, yes, RandomActs, KL Freeze in Unison, RWP blah blah), was selected and the good people at KLue asked me to write an intro piece on him. This year, they decided to get friends, family, colleague etc of the people featured to write. You can read my bit on the cult leader Zain here. There’s also a blog post on him here.
I was quite honoured that Zain wanted me to write it - after all, I’ve only known him since April - and also because I feel like I was in good company (I never knew this until I got a copy of the magazine).
A number of my friends and acquaintances were either featured, or asked to write the intros, including (okay, okay, name dropping a bit) Pop TV’s Hardesh Singh and Malaysian Dreamgirl’s Jared Solomon, both of whom I met to interview them for their respective works; my Uni mate and fellow student activist/politician Kenny Sia who’s jetsetting off to London!; Gua.com.my’s Mohd Zulkifli Abdul Jalil, a former colleague (he was the first Editor of NewMan Malaysia, I was the third) and Jaya One’s Charles Wong, who I met playing Risk at our mutual friends’ house.
My friends Joyce Wong, Lim Su Ann and Fahmi Fadzil were among those who wrote the intro bits as well.
Oh, and just last month (I think - or the issue which reported on Urbanscapes), my name was mentioned in the magazine also in the What are they saying on the Net (or something like that) section in their post-coverage of Urbanscapes. They had gone online to look for reviews from the general public, and they printed my review which was published in The Star.
Published twice in KLue? By george, I think I’ve made it!
p/s I know this is a bit of syiok sendiri post, but again, if you don’t plug yourself, who will? :) Besides, I’m actually really plugging for KLue - I thought they got a good bunch of people together in their list of 20 including Nurul Izzah Anwar, Kokokaina, Pop Malaya and my favouritest of all - Tan Hong Ming and Umi Qazrina!
10.12am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: fahmi fadzil, Joyce Wong, Kenny Sia, KLUE, Lim Su Ann, Malaysian Dreamgirls, Nurul Izzah Anwar, PopTV, randomacts, The 20 Under 40, zain hd
