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Make sure you bring your BIB and timing chip to claim The Run medal. The collection times are from 9am to 5pm on Level 1, Indoor Stadium. 13th to 15th June 2013.
The Awards Night for the Celebrate The Sea Festival 2013 in conjunction with the World Oceans Day was held on Sunday, 9 June 2013 at Indra Samudera Grand Hall, The Empire Hotel & Country Club. Attending as the Guest of Honour was Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Utama Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Yahya bin Begawan Mudim Dato Paduka Haji Bakar, Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources, who also graciously presented the prizes to the winners of the various competitions held during the course of the festival.
Various categories of competitions included Local and International Shootout for keen photographers, and a Children’s Art Drawing competition with the relevant theme, “Sharks are Friends”, which tied in with the recent ban on the sale and consumption of Sharks’s fin and related products.
The children’s competition had 3 categories, Category A 8-9 years old, Category B 10-12 years and Category C 13-15 years old. The winner for the Category A was Cherilyn Caryl Lesmana who took home a cash prize of $400, and in 2nd and 3rd place were Khairunnisa Balqis Hidayah binti Awang Ahmad, and Michael Ho Yii Kiong respectively.
For Category B, Jason Khoo Lik Wei took top prize, while Yeo Yeo and Kelly Tee Gi En, came in runner up and 2nd runner up.
The winner of Category C was Jamia Mei Tolentino, who also won for being the overall best entry in the competition, took home an Ixus 310 camera and $500 cash prize. The 2nd and 3rd place winners, Noorashiyik binti Salim and Noor Ashdina Salim also were awarded Canon cameras for their entries. The shoot out saw s few photographers win multiple entries in their categories. Andrew Chieng swept four up prizes for the local shoot out competition, winning Best Digital portfolio and the top 3 prizes for Best Macros, while Kieran White got honorary mention for Macro and Best Seascape Merit of Excellence.
In the International shoot out, Emily Chan from Singapore took top prizes for Best Digital Portfolio and Best Seascape Merit of Excellence, while Allan Wigs of Australia also took 2nd prizes for both. Among the judging panel was Michael Aw of Ocean Geographic, who was in Brunei to attend the festival as well.
Juliana under Yayasan (voluteerism) and JT helping out at the Youth Centre
It was such a pity about the Kampung Ayer incident that happened last week. I was quite overwhelmed with the responses from the public in pouring donations in terms of clothing, necessities, food and many more for the homeless victims. Last week, 11 homes at g Saba Darat “A” caught on fire and I remember going there once for a video documentary for NHK TV (Japan).
I dropped by last Monday at the Youth Centre (Pusat Belia) to check out the place where the donations are being placed. Almost half of the hall was filled with clothes lying on the floor. According to the volunteers, almost the whole area was covered with clothes and many of them chose the items. I’m not sure what happens for the rest of the clothes or will they be stocked up for future use?
The organisers have already stopped receiving donations for the moment as the responses have been overwhelming. I will update you again if they need help especially for logistics. I am quite impressed with our community especially those who helped and volunteered throughout the weekend. I’m always touched how JT was so willing to help out as well and she ended helping last Monday. I had a conversation with Juliana who works for Yayasan as a volunteer and she started all this volunteering work ever since the Tsunami incident in Thailand. So it’s pretty amazing to come across individuals who have the passion to help those in need.
This post is dedicated to those who poured their energy and efforts in contributing to the community in terms of volunteerism :))
There were still ton of clothes lying around
JT and Juliana arranging the clothes
She found an Adidas top
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