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One of my favorite shots. I shot this at the recent ITF Junior Fed Cup at SLTA, Kuching. Korea’s Jang Su-Jeong cooling herself off with an ice bag during game interval.
Archive: ‘Sports’
Ice Bag
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010ITF Women’s Circuit @ Kuching, Sarawak
Friday, November 6th, 2009I was told about the ITF Women’s Circuit in Kuching recently. So, I’ve decided to drop by to check out the tournament. The last time I was there, I fell in love with the game even more. It’s quite excited to get such an up close experience with the sports. Really. The greatness of the young Korean lass is still fresh in my head! 
This time round, I make sure I don’t fire too many shots, else, I would probably would pile on more headache for myself later on. I only managed to fire 19 frames, and after filtering, I have these 5 pieces remain as the last ones standing. All these 5 shots, came straight from my camera and Apple Aperture. I didn’t perform any adjustment or any processing at all to any of these five pieces.
All these shots were taken with my Canon EOS 50D, mounted with the age old EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM.
Allen Ang 2009 © www.allenang.com
Allen Ang 2009 © www.allenang.com
Allen Ang 2009 © www.allenang.com
Allen Ang 2009 © www.allenang.com
Allen Ang 2009 © www.allenang.com
I’ll drop by over one more trip before the tournament ends. This Sunday’s Finals should be a good reason for me to wake up early in the morning. Hopefully I can get more interesting shots that day.
Cheers!
Wesak Day and Mother’s Day Weekend
Monday, May 11th, 2009Short Note: I’ve updated my WordPress from 2.5.1 to 2.7.1, and managed to clear of some tiny portion of my total outstanding tasks.
It was quite a packed weekend, especially when you had Wesak Day on Saturday, while Mother’s Day falls on Sunday. The weekend wasn’t exactly happening for me, but I still had to settle few things over the weekend. I managed to squeeze some time for my hobby and passion. Mick Long, a fellow shutterbug, invited me to shoot at a beaute expo in town, as he was invited to be the official photographer by the organizer. Hence I just tagged along.
Then comes Wesak Day on Saturday, it was my first time to check out the pre-parade activity in Kuching as well. It was quite interesting. And, last but not the least, I checked out the ITF World Junior Tennis Championship at Sarawak Lawn Tennis Association in Kuching. The tournament is still on-going until 17 May 2009, with the U-14 Boys wrapping up their championship today.
Here’s the summary, or sneak peek, whichever you wanna call it.
Weekend 8-10 May 2009 Update
Up next, I shall post the fashion show run-in from the Spring the previous weekend, before unleashing the ones I got from my KL trip. Stay tuned.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Tiger FC Away Game – 21.03.2009
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Tiger FC finally landed in Kuching last weekend, 21 March 2009, bringing two live BPL (short for Barclays Premier League) matches. As mentioned, the two matches were Portsmouth vs Everton, at Fratton Park, and the second, being, Tottenham vs Chelsea, at White Hart Lane.
The match at Fratton Park started earlier, and boy I was disappointed, as Peter Crouch-y scored a brace to sink Everton albeit Leighton Baines’ great freekick. 2 – 1 was the final score.
Anyways, Let’s focus on the night itself. Tiger FC Away Game was setup at the DUBS Commercial, as shown in my previous post, with two big screens at both ends. And at the entrance to the Tiger FC Stadium, they have registration counters available for membership signup. Tiger Beer was available for RM 25 per bucket.
Peanut
Peanuts were good, but we didn’t see them selling. Oh! Mike brought Mr.A4 who plays for Tottenham. Well, being Manchester United fans, we all hope that Tottenham can do us favor by denting Chelsea’s title hope that night. Hence, we were supporters for Tottenham Hotspurs that night.
Mr. A4, as how Mike calls him, an important Tottenham player that evening.
During the match’s intervals, there were freebies to be won. All we had to do is to answer simple questions about the Premiership football. Piece of cake for football addict like us. Mike got himself a Tiger FC football jersey. Congrats to him!
Exclusive exposure! 
Frankie got himself into one of the big screen, along with a hot chick. Hehe.
Winner of the match’s score prediction for the first match, Portsmouth vs Everton.
Frankie looks happy.
Mike’s most reliable video gear.
All is good for the event to happen in Kuching. By all means, we welcome its return anytime. However, I thought the screen wasn’t bright enough.And, cos of that, the game actually got bored a little at certain point of the match. I don’t know what went wrong, but I guess the crowd couldn’t really focus on the game flow.
So, yeah, at the end of the second match, when Luka Modric scored the winner for Tottenham, against their London rival, take a look at Mike and his brother. Hehe!
Go Tottenham! Hail Harry Redknapp! Hail Modric!
End Note: Something is missing, no? Football, beer, but you must be wondering where the girls are? Will do a short round up post up next.
Beijing Olympic Break
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Let’s take a break and turn our attention to Beijing Olympic for a short while. Beijing Olympic will be closing this coming Sunday, 24 August 2008. China is leading the medal tally, running away with 46 Gold, with US in second place, who earned 30 Gold so far. (Last checked 7:17pm 22/08/2008).
When I saw this picture on my Firefox add-on application, Cool-Iris (formerly PicLens), I just couldn’t help but to post this up. 
Look at the picture below.
Picture source: JAMD.com
Phillip Idowu, a Triple Jumper of UK, sure finds it hard not to show it while wearing this tight athlete suit. Hehe. (you see the pun?) LOL! (Hint: Check out the groin area.)
It’s Friday, let’s relax. Happy weekend!
Pending Posts
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008There are a few posts pending, and I haven’t exactly got time to post them up. Main reason behind that is the photos for the posts aren’t ready yet. They’ll all pending for filtering as well as post processing. I still have to filter out the bad shots at least, right?
Two weekends ago, my weekend was occupied with the event assignment, 2 days coverage.
Then, I was also at the 11th edition of Rainforest World Music Festival. I was there for two days.
I dropped by the Spring when they have this bridal exhibition going on. They even had photography contest going on there.
Then earlier that morning, I was competing in the Boulevard’s 3 on 3 Basketball competition.
Then there is the seminar I attended last Sunday. So much to share, but not much time to get it done. Sigh. I didn’t even get to spend time on setting up the rest of this site. I have not even upgrade my WordPress to 2.6!