PHOTO Marathon - Canon's Exclusive Pissing Off Session

I begin this post with saying: the folks at Canon Malaysia had better send those who waited for nothing some pretty darned nice 'tokens of appreciation'. They had also better fire whosoever that set up the server systems.

With that, I present my own little photoessay of Canon Photomarathon Malaysia 2009.

7.00am

The sun in the sky right in front of the LRT station. Feeling quite excited, actually.


8.10am

Me and LM camwhoring just a little bit - well, a lot actually. Started very late and we decided to kill time by taking pictures of ourselves. Location is Sunway Lagoon Theme Park; we were trapped there all day!


9.50am - 3.30pm

Flag off! The start to the marathon.

Themes: SPLASH!; RED and SHOOTING IN PROGRESS.




My first shot for the theme RED. Made this poor Wild Wild West mascot dude pose for me, and used the 'color accent function' for the red effect. Most obliging guy.



Folks were a-plenty at Sunway Lagoon, and kids are so the funny as subjects.




Pinwheels. In semi-colour.



A choice I had for RED but didn't use because there were so many people at the bottom panel of the picture.



A very adorable girl with a balloon. Going crazy with my 'color accent' feature here, as you can tell.




My eventual choice for theme SPLASH! Refused to take the conventional splash of water pictures so I took a picture of a boy sitting on a float tube. Splash, geddit?




My submission for RED. No explanation there, lol. I particularly like this picture, my favourite of the bunch.




My submission for Shooting in Progress. Shot this while LM and J were off to take more SPLASH! pics, he is actually the Sunway photog.


4pm - 7pm. Server Breakdown.

No pictures here, but lemme tell you that it was just frustrating. The servers got all jammed up and nobody could upload any pictures at all. Added to that, as they were fixing the servers, some SMART KIASU IDIOTIC people were STILL uploading their pictures, despite having been told that uploading the pics would be useless; as SNARFU and TARFU and FUBAR has happened.

But as Malaysians, they don't listen, and continued to make things difficult by attempting repeated log-ins nonetheless.

So what we did was go makan at Sunway Pyramid (after a 30min walk O_o) and then drove back to the starting point of the marathon. Only to discover that they were stalling for time by showing some entries and THAT THE JUDGES COULD NOT MAKE A DECISION. By now, 10.30pm and very angry. Murmurs were going throught the crowd, and when the emcee announced that the results will be released tommorrow (today, meaning 11/10) there were howls of protest.

Followed by claps when they announced a 'token of apology' will be given out. -_-

So I left, and hitched a ride back with another friend, who stayed back and was pissed too. In fact, he took this final shot at 10.50pm, just before we left the place.



A rather beautiful ending to a tiring, frustrating day - thankfully made good with friends who were fun to be around with. :)