Saturday, August 9, 2008

Olympics events you might not know

The Beijing Olympic 2008 has officially kicked off yesterday. You can expect to see a lot of pictures in the coming days on the mass media.

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However, this time for Malaysian, it's more unique as the government has offered RM 1 million for Malaysian athlete who managed to bring home a gold medal.

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In mass media, the events that you'll find are most probably are those "boring" events like badminton, swimming, running etc. However, only in The L-oh-rama, you'll read these very low profile events as listed below.


1. 1.1km hurdle driving

Contestants have to drive in a 1.1km long track where there will be tables and chairs lying around (International Olympic Committee has yet to confirm whether there will be humans sitting on the chairs). The fastest driver wins, extra bonus for drivers who don't hit any "hurdles".

Chances of winning (for Malaysia) : 98 %

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2. 1 km Bus sprint

In this event, athletes (a.k.a. drivers) have to drive a bus (the size of rapid kl bus) full of people (with a few people dangling on the bus door) along a 1 km track where the fastest athlete wins.

Chances of winning : 89 %


3. 4 km SMS driving

In sms driving event, the athlete has to drive a car while composing a short message which will be provided by the organizer during the day of the competition. The track is 4km long.

Chances of winning : 93 %


4. DVD sellers 4x400m relay race

In this event specially for dvd sellers (especially from petaling street), in a team of 4, will run for 400m each person, extra bonus for athletes shouting "DVD PANAS !" while running.

Chances of winning : 88 %


5. Long spit

This event is almost same as long jump, however, in this event, instead of jumping, athlete will have to spit. The winner is the athlete who spits the furthest with the biggest spit.

Chances of winning : 85 %


Stay tuned and bookmark this site more events and results which will be posted as soon as we get the results "live" from China.


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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Passion World Tour : KL

The passion world tour at KL was awesome ! A blog post wouldn't do it a justice, it's something that you must experience yourself to know the real feel. But I'll post a few photos here for your viewing pleasure. On another note, when I was queuing up, the official photographer for the Passion world tour approached me and asked me for my portrait. Armed with a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark 3 (worth RM 30k) , and (most probably) Canon 17-40L lens, he shot me. In that moment, I feel like I'm the Top 100 sexiest men alive. Anyway, here are the photos.

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We need to exchange our ticket for this wrist band and a poster

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A couple of people who are losing their way as they were looking upwards when they walk

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Stairways to heaven haha..

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The crowd

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The entrance

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The stage

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Trying some artsy fartsy style

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This photo was achieved by zooming in when shutter was open

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Same style as the above

When the concert began, I put my camera away to enjoy the whole thing. So, that's all.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Who the heck is Beau Bristow ?

I love music, to put it more clearly, I love live music, especially those unplugged and acoustic, where you just chill out and enjoy the vibe from the songs.

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(This has nothing to do with Beau Bristow) This was an acoustic performance by the church members of CHC

Songs from album, however, are too "clean" to my liking. I prefer to listen to something where the musicians were playing by the heart (as I do play some instruments and I play by heart, haha) and the vocalist will try to render the song a bit differently.

Anyway, as I attended Connexion student conference at Pj on friday, which after that there was a mini concert by this dude from US called Beau Bristow at connexion BU. He is a singer, songwriter and a guitarist. He's got an acoustic guitar, and a boxful of passbox and effects filter. At the end of the chain was an electronic unit that can record and playing it over and over again. So, in his 1 man band, he can create the sound of acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drum (by banging his guitar), and backup singer as well. His performance on the night was awesome by the way, though I don't have any video or photos of him performing, I managed to find a video of Beau Bristow on youtube.



In the end of the day, I bought his album for only RM10, where the songs in the album were a bit "clean". But no complaint though, it's very nice and I give it two thumbs up.

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