Recent happenings..

On the previous sunday, i joined a chess tournament which was held in UTP in conjunction with Convofair. The special thing about this tourney is that it was an attempt to be the biggest chess tournament ever held in M'sia.

N they DID IT!! With a total of 960 participants, it has successfully made it's way up to the M'sia's Book of Records!! Wow.. An attempt like this is simply unexpected to me. I mean, if i would be the organisers, i'll never ever thought of attempting something like this. N trust me, all of this were planned by the students, not the management ppl or whichever big shot. UTP ppl are ambitious isn't it??

However the proccess of the competition that day was horrible. Lots of mistakes and delay made by the organisers. From a 40 mins game, it became a 20 mins one, which gives each player only 10 mins t complete the game. And u can imagine how fast each step has to be taken!! And it was supposed to be a 8 round competition, however, it ended with 7 rounds only due to time constraints. Terrible time management. Maybe it's due to the overwhelming ammount of participants, or... the inefficiency of the organisers. I personally prefer the latter. Kaka...

N the category i was in is the IPT category. It has more than 250 participants, and again i couldn't climb into the top 10. However, i was in the 18th rank!! Got a hamper, and a cert with the M'sia Book of Records logo on it! Cool ya? hehe..

Some pics to share below:

The hamper which i've won!



N this is the result of playing 7 20mins games continuously. Tired n exhausted.



Besides the chess tournament, there was a talk from Tun Mahathir on the topic "cabaran2 mentadbir sesebuah negara" in the previous week. took some pics on that day. Couldn't get a clear shot of Mahathir thou, due to the far distance n no-flash circumstances.


This is taken with Jia Min while waiting for the arrival of Tun Mahathir.



N this is one of those blur pics of Mahathir.