Run For The Nation 2010 Promo Video

So, after I did the video shooting back in early January, the promo video is finally out:

I just thought all the editing work done on the video is brilliant!

The start of working life again

Gosh! Time flies! I didn’t realised I haven’t been blogging for 2 weeks!

Well, I’ve started my corporate life again and man, it was such an adjustment for me. Being based in KL city centre means I have to plan my journey well getting to and back from work. As being stuck in KL traffic is no joke. Since my current branch that I attached to is just next to the train station, I’ve been taking train to work. That saves the hassle of looking for parking around my work place.

Since there’re limited parking around many of the train stations,  I’ve been making my way to Asia Jaya Station by 6.30am. Working out at Fitness First gym before I head to work. This seems like the best arrangement so far. I still get to fit in my workout routine, get a head start of the day so that I don’t feel sleepy while at work, get the best free legal parking spot near the train station.

On the other hand, my home seems to resemble a hotel stay. It’s becoming a place for me to rest and sleep before and after work. lol!

Anyway, work wise, things have not gotten into full swing yet, as there’s a formal training being planned out for me, before everything start kicking in after that. I just pray that the portfolio of customer base being assigned to me will be a good and resourceful pool of customers.

The come-back

Few months ago, me and a few partners started our very own corporate training firm. We brainstormed for our business name, our logo design, and the type of training service we’re providing. We kicked off the business and went ahead to source for client. It wasn’t a smooth start at first as sourcing and meeting potential client in this area was a real challenge by itself.

Along the way, things wasn’t work out quite well on my side. You see, all my other partners are married and with kids. It wasn’t a big deal at first but after working together for some time, there’s a lifestyle conflict. They’ve got their own family to take care of, so it’s either work or family for them; whereas me being young and single, I realised I can’t be just working and no where to go to after that. I think social life is a big deal in this time of my life. Perhaps it’ll be better having a group of colleagues to work along with.

In addition to that, my parents have been quite concern about my financial situation. Doing own business is a great opportunity to gain whatever one has contributed and deserved, however before all that can be achieved, there’re some other things which I could easily missed out at this point of time, such as insurance coverage, medical expenses, EPF contribution and that sort of things. (Having learnt my mistake for not heading my parents’ advice back in college days, where I chose to study engineering instead of business course. In the end found out that engineering isn’t for me and did heaps better when I switched to business course.)  I guess my parents meant well as they did thought about something to fall back on and my long term future. Well, being realistic that my parents aren’t from a very well-to-do background, whom can fork out a large one-off sum of capital into my own business, I think it’s only fair enough to take things one step at a time.

Anyway, about more than a month ago, I’ve been catching up with a lot of my ex-colleagues in banking. We started to catch up about what’s the market trend, the economies outlook, the development in banking world. Soon after, one of them submitted my contact to a few headhunters that are looking for talents in banking.

It happened quite fast, within a few days, I was called up to meet with a bank, they’re impressed with what I’ve got to offer, and offered me a position in the bank. It’s a reputable multi-national bank, so obviously their staff benefits are very good to resist. There’re at least 2-3 other banks that are trying to meet up with me over some of their positions available. Hmm…. I didn’t know after having a year long of break from banking, I still seems to have what it takes to be a banker. lol!

So, I’ve taken up the offer, starting work next week. I hope the people I work with are as good as how the benefits seem.

Someone fell to his death at my condo

It was a warm night, I was half asleep. It should be about 3am when I heard a sudden loud noise. It sounded like roof collapsing near by. First thing came to my mind was something must have fallen out of a high floor unit within my condo complex and crash down on the roof of the lower floor.

I rushed out to my balcony and looked out for what was happening.  As I glance around, I couldn’t see anything unusual. It was about 3.10am then, obviously it’s too dark to see.  I could only see a few guards was running towards their control room.

Within another 10 minutes,  a patrol car arrived at the scene. Police started to set parameter around a spot. By then, I’ve made my way down to check out what was that all about. My instinct was someone could have fallen off from high floor. That prove to be right, I couldn’t believe what laid in front of my eyes.

The body was covered with black sheet of canvas when I arrived at the scene. Broken roof tiles was all over the place. Blood was seen flowing under that black sheet of canvas.

Medic came few moment later and examined the body. The man was pronounce dead and so they left the body to be pick up by police instead of being carried away by their ambulance.

The body was being laid there for quite some time before they load it up in one of their patrol truck. Some of the police went up to search on a few suspected unit which the guy couldn’t have fell out from. I didn’t know what was the outcome, but the deceased is a African, dressed only in t-shirt and naked from the waist down when he fell. His legs were badly twisted with a few long deep cuts that probably caused when he crash through the roof. His face was  covered with blood flowing out from his nose and mouth. I don’t think someone who wants to commit suicide would jump down naked, unless he’s drunk. Whatever’s the cause of his fall, my heart goes out to his family back from where he came from.

National disgrace

I happened to be at KLCC on the past Saturday morning to do photo-shoot for RunNat 2010. As we were standing outside the grand entrance of the MPO, I stunned upon a Caucasian couple  trying to get a taxi to a nearby destination.

It seems that the first taxi that being flagged down didn’t want to use his meter and just quoted an upfront fare to the couple. Feeling that the taxi driver just wanted to take advantage of them, the couple refused to take that taxi and try their luck on the next.

By now, there’re a few taxis queuing up behind. The couple told the next taxi where they’re going and again, the other taxi driver refused to use his meter and quoted them an upfront price.

I was feeling so embarrass yet furious for the way our taxi driver behave. I’ve been to the big cities of our neighbouring countries such as Singapore and Bangkok, the taxi drivers in these 2 countries adhere to the taxi etiquette and never seems to reject their customers or not charging by meter. KL being one of the leading cities among South East Asia, yet our taxi drivers’ behaviour is not any difference from those of third world nations. Though this might seems like a micro problem to some, I truly saddened by such  behaviour as it tarnished the image of KL as a world class city.

Something wrong with my eye!!

Part of my left eye turned really red since yesterday. It feels a bit irritate at times. I hope it will subside within couple of days.

RunNat 2010 promo video shoot

Run for the Nation 2010, the inter-churches prayer run event, will be held on 22nd May this year, that’s about 5 months away from now. Thanks to Alex for submitting my name up to the previous committee, I’m now officially being rope into the RunNat 2010 committee.

In order to start our campaign of recruiting churches to send in runners for that event, we needed a good promo video to show everyone, and make everyone hyped up for RunNat.

So we did the video shoot today. Started at about 5pm at Taman Tun Park. I was one of the 3 runners in the video. There’re a few scenes for each of us, a few scenes of us 3 running together. It wasn’t as easy as I thought. We started under the scorching sun right till the sun sets. Here’re some pics taken by me during the shooting. I shall call it “RunNat 2010 promo video – the making”.

 

Scene of me tying my shoe lace

Raymond tying his shoe lace

Rachel reading the prayer card

Setting up the track for the camera

Shooting of our running footsteps

My footsteps moment

… and Raymond’s turn

And after that, all the scenes involve 3 of us at the same time, so I didn’t take any pic after that. It was quite fun doing the video. Oh did I mentioned that it was my first time meeting all these people. lol! Looking forward to work with them more for RunNat 2010.