Thursday, February 19, 2009

LTdL 09: TIMING, RESULT AND PHOTO FINISH




My code was TRT 06, as a the vein in Le Tour de Langkawi 2009. The tour begun on 9-15 February 2009.Started at Putrajaya and the tour ended at Merdeka Square in Kuala Lumpur. This 14th edition seems like low budget tour, only covered the center region of Peninsular Malaysia.

I worked in the unit called Timing, Result and Photo Finish. I assigned to work under Mr Frederick from Hong Kong, along side with his staff Lam and Law, supported by our unit drivers Mr Mazlan and Mr Zakaria.We given a van and VW Golf GTI plus Proton Pesona as our transport to did our job.



Our job seems hard because we need to involved in pre-race preparation, during the race for instant result and timing recording, and post race to produced latest results of the day. Working closely with, the President Commisaire, the Commisaires, Judges, Time Keeper, and Team Managers.All this guys came from Ireland, Estonia, China, Malaysia, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, France and many more countries.Just used simple English to communicate especially dealed with Italian, French and Chinese. They are very proud of their langguage.



Pre Race Job:
- Prepared starting list of the day
- Prepared team's car order
- Monitor riders signing for the race
- Set up photo finish cameras at finish line

During Race:
- Set the timing
- Need to be at the intermediate sprints and King of Mountain (recorded the result)
- Sent a result to Chief Judge immediately after each sprint for announcing on Tour's Radio
- Need to proceed early to each line before the riders passing by

Post Race:
- received the data from each riders transponder once they crossed the cable on the finish line,
- processed the data
- printed the data and result
- the Commisaires will have a meeting to santioned the result
- once the Chief Judge have sactioned the result, need to print out the results to distribute to many parties like media, organizers, and the most important is Team Managers

Our job start 1:30 hour before the race begin, and normally completed at 8:30 pm every day.Are you fit enough? This job only for who are committed and interested..(+120% focus)

May next year LTdL, we can see local people will manage this kind of job, the heart of the tour success.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Time is Closer..

Le Tour de Langkawi 2009 will opened their curtain on Monday..one week, 20 teams, 120 riders will ride the tour covered more than 1000km.

I as a part of organizer generator, need to report myself tomorrow early in the morning. Ready to give and serve my country, in their mission to execute most celebrated tour in Asia since 1996.

So that, hope I can gain new valuable experience and new members from around the globe..

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Le Tour de Langkawi 2009

Yesterday, I'm officially appointed by race organizer as a part of the Race Result and Timing Unit. Directly appointed by Race Technical Director. Working together with Race Commisaire, Judges, and Race Timing System Team. Quite new for me to experiencing tour race, plus as an important role that our unit will play.

So this Sunday need to reported myself at Palace of Golden Horses early in the morning. Then my duty will started.

Le Tour de Langkawi 2009, will be held on 7-15 February 2009. The race consist 7 stages, more than 1000 km..but this year the tour just around centre of Malaysia Peninsular.

Hope I can gain an experience as much as I can. Then doing my job for the unit, the tour and for my country, Malaysia..

Tahun Lembu

Menurut kalendar Cina, tahun ini adalah tahun lembu..tak banyak info yg tahun mengenai zodiak ni..semoga rakan-rakan dan peminat-peminat sukan yang berbangsa Cina akan dapat menjalani tahun ini dengan lebih berjaya..HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

New Diet, Have to Experiment

Since when I was moved to KL from my lovely hometown in JB, I tried to have western meal for lunch, almost everyday..

The reason is, to improve my cooking skills, especially in serving western meal, which in my concern is easier and fast to be prepared.Second reason is to shave my daily meal budget..
So what I do is just bought frozen products such as burger meat, ground beef, chickens, salads, mayo's, cheese, potatoes (wedges), dried pasta, mushroom soup, pasta sauce, spice (oregano, basil, blackpepper, etc), bla-bla-bla..Then I spend my time almost everyday to cook my lunch..simple meal like a beef burger, bouble cheese burger, pasta, mashed potatoes, etc I can make it easily..

After 3 weeks, did it, I found my weight still same, I can cooked better, and started to love cooking as my hobbies..

Besides, my fitness still in development phase, didn't train on consecutive days..but what I did with my housemate were done sprint triathlon on Sunday morning..it was hard for me who are still struggling during swimming leg..hope I can improve a lot my swimming, futhermore my apartment had swimming pool to training