The Standard Chartered Marathon was held in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday. Ming & I and quite a number of my friends took part in the 10km race. This was my 2nd time taking part in a 10km run and this time, I ran “For a Cause” and managed to raise RM2293 for the Malaysian Association for the Blind. I finished in 1hour and 16 mins on my clock but I’m anxious to find out my time clocked on their watch! Unfortunately, their results link is “temporarily suspended due to high traffic”. Boohoo!

A big THANK YOU to Daren, Calvin, Susan, Bruce, Daniel, Cat, Wee Fan, Sow Ling, Juliet, Jocelyn & Jinh, Kim, Ming, Chai Seng,  Robin, Karen, Emily, Nancy, David, Alex, Zaidah, Christopher, Duke, Mark and Koh for their generous donations and support for my run!!! Appreciate it y’all!!!!

My deepest condolences goes out to the family and friends of Lim Wei Yee who passed away during the 10km race. I hope this would be a lesson to all future organizers to take more responsibility in making sure all aspects of the race, especially medical help which is one of the most crucial in any sports events. Let this also be a learning lesson to all runners – that it’s also important to know yourself, and be prepared for the run, not to over-exert oneself and to know when to stop if your body tells you to. David posted a good and very relevant article here. I am most disappointed with the 3 city hall officers nearby who had no sense of urgency to help during the incident. This is so typical of our local authorities – the “Tidak apa” attitude. (The other day, we noticed 2 blind people trying to cross the street at Petaling St and two officers who were on duty, standing about 5 feet away, just looked on and didn’t bother to help. It totally pisses me off!!! Our local police force is useless and lazy.)

Click here to read a firsthand account of someone who helped Lim during the incident. The Star also reported it here.

Here are some photos of the race, thanks to David!

Bling Bling Ming

And here are some photos with my trusty iPhone!

Before

After

TGIF. It was a hectic and stressful week. Amidst the chaos, I learned how to remain calm and collected, (well, I tried my best to be but couldn’t help becoming flustered when I initially found out how so many people in the professional service industry can act in such unprofessional manners!) I’m glad the week is over and I have a weekend free of shoots! Most of all, I’m all excited about my 10km Standard Chartered marathon this Sunday. In spite of the lack of training, I’m all psyched up for it and am waiting for that moment in pure anticipation! This will be my 2nd time taking part in a 10km race and although I have a feeling this would be slightly tougher than the Energizer Night Race, I’m feeling really good about this run, especially coz I’m “running for a cause” and have raised over RM2000 for the Malaysian Association for the Blind. A big THANK YOU, again, to everyone who donated and support my run! YOU ROCK!

There’s only one word to describe Baby Nora. ADORABLE. She’s super cute, thanks to her mixed Malaysian-American parentage. And at 2 months, it was a breeze to shoot her! (although Hana, her mom, was feeling all nervous about it the night before). Oh how time flies! I shot Hana & Michael’s wedding almost 2 years back!

Congrats to Hana & Michael on their little Baby Nora! Pssstttt! You guys are gonna have to keep a close eye on this little one! She will be a heartbreaker!

Hana – Safe trip back to the US!

I love this shot of Nora! Look at her eyes!

Not long after, she fell into a deep deep deep sleep… (which was fun for me too coz I got to take these shots!)

Papparazzis probably have the best jobs in the world. I wonder why Malaysia has got no ‘real’ paparazzi. Would be fun to be one!! for a while at least. hehehe.

Was in charge of taking the photo wall portraits for the premier of Sex and the City 2 at GSC Pavilion last week. Guests were dressed to the nines, and were made to walk down a long red carpet while ‘fake’ paparazzi flashed their cameras incessantly, after which, they would then stop by the photo wall to have a quick portrait by me and then off to marvel at Jimmy Choos’ latest collection while sipping on Moet. After all, it was the Sex and the City 2 premier and of coz it was going to be classy!

The screening of the movie was not the end, there was an after party at Rootz, and as expected, there was more Moet!! Rootz was of course also transformed with long drapes covering the walls, velvet covered tables and rows of champagne glasses, all waiting to be filled with the heavenly bubbly. A truly enjoyable evening the guests must have had. I most certainly did!

Friday couldn’t come soon enough! Having gone through 4 painful days of lowerback pain (I pulled a muscle from sneezing in a cross-legged position last Sunday during lunch and had to shoot a wedding that evening, which pretty much killed my back!), I’m glad the pain has subsided significantly, just in time for the weekend!  So the week is finally over but my weekend is looking wayyyyy more hectic than the past 5 days, in a good way, of course!

Here’s a portrait shoot I did a couple weeks back for Chaswood Resources, who you may know them better as the people behind TGI Fridays, The Apartment, Italiannies, Laundry, just to name a few. We go back a long way…. back when Laundry first opened, and actually if my memory serves me, even way before Laundry days! Chaswood Resources is a comprised of close knit group and very much family-oriented. Everyone there is warm and friendly and the people I’ve seen and photographed there since day 1, are still the same old friendly faces I see today. Needless to say, it was a pleasure photographing them at the Apartment KLCC that day as I got to catch up with Petrina (brainchild behind Laundry and the Apartment and the rest of it!) and discovered Andrew’s hidden talent for modeling!

Have a great weekend you guys!

This father-daughter pair make a good team. They are so cute and sweet together!

Andrew requested for some “personal” shots for himself…. he’s looking super stylish in his Raybans!