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from the edge of langkawi - part 1
it took me almost half an hour to convince the crane operator to let me take a ride on the crane's chair-lift to take pictures of the whole marquee a day after the langkawi international dialogue ended. i almost showed him my insurance card. hehehe...
the result was the picture above and the quality wasn't that good, i know. :-(
you know, when i was perched in the lift, almost 20 feets from the ground and with no safety belt, i wonder whether i was an adventurous person or simply a moron, seriously.
my heart was beating like a hammer, i broke out in cold sweat and my hands and legs were shaking while the worker kept telling me not to move. i told him, i couldnt even if i wanted to. hehehe...however, i did discover that i was not afraid of heights and i have not sufferred from vertigo since i could look down without feeling faint.
but it was worth it you know. the picturesque scenery took my breath away. to see langkawi that close from a bird's eye view was simply fantastic and the experience was simply exhilarating.
and to hang in the air just like that for 10 minutes made me respect the workers more. you know, when the contract workers build high buildings, they were standing on the gondola lift/chairlift like it was nothing.
actually i was playing truant when i first approached the crane operator. my colleagues were busy packing our things inside the marquee while i ventured outside at the back of the marquee armed with my camera. that was when i saw the crane operators at work. it was our last day at the pelangi beach.
actually, taking photographs was some kind of escapism for me during the whole event. i felt trap, cooped up inside the marquee from morning till night. my colleagues and i were always sneaking out at the back to take photos. we always ended up taking pictures of the same object. so we had pictures of a marquee in the afternoon, during sunset and at midnight. a bunch of lunatics, that's what we were.
as for my duty, a few communiques and that's about it. we couldn't leave the media centre until the last reporter left. we were always hoping that the reporters would leave early so that we could go back early but to no avail. the LID's opening dinner had ended quite late and all those reporters finished writing their stories at about 1 am. i was already half dead because i was at the media centre from 8am till 2am the next day. sheesh!
i also had to coordinate a PC for a vice president from one of the african countries. he told me the pc would be at 2pm and after i had organised everything he postponed it to 4pm. sheesh! when he still hadn't shown up 20 minutes after 4, i received an "i'll eat you for breakfast" look from my boss. i had to called his liason officer to remind him about the pc. sheesh!
in a way, it was fun working at the LID because everybody except my boss were all cool people, from the technical boys to the website staff, we had a great time. even the ghost at the langkasuka hotel couldn't dampen our spirit of joy but that was another story. hehehe...
last modified Aug 13, 2004 at 2:20
saorangorang: samalah, pernah gak naik menara kl tu sampai atas. takde rasa apa sangat tapi exciting jugaklah. kau hero mana boleh tumbang. hehehe...
ladyfloppy: habis tu zaza, takbolehlah nak ajak naik belon. hehehe...best tau.
dania: u should try it girl! it was simply fantastic. phew! habislah, if all the handsome guys in this world are gay. fortunately Nesta is straight eh! tapi bukan dapat pun dia. huwaa!
zuril:kalau setakat panjat2 tu ok lagi tapi bab makan benda2 tak senonoh tu yg fail tu. ;-)
beraninyer akak,boleh masuk fear factor..hehe 
Yo!
Oi! That's one freaking hella whatever you can describe COOOOOLLL experience. I mean all those persuasions were not to waste right? I mean, with the whole bird's eye view from the top, that's like gotta be something. As always, what the photograph capture can never bring out the real euphoria of the moment. Especially not this one. But being Langkawi, it's an island one has to know personally where and when to "feel" it.
So atleast photography and beaches is your form of escapism. Thumbs up.
Btw, I know Kenny is so cool right? Good guys had to be gays. Sigh. I used to have HUGE crush on G.Michael back in the old days. Haih. Oh those dudes in Queer Eye for A Straight Guy falls in the same category. Sigh. Good guys are always taken. :(ehehe
hip hip hurray 3X utk siti! zaza memang sah2 tak boleh sebab vertigo!
p/s: lepas ni boleh la join Fear Factor!
wah, best nyer...bila la dpt peluang ke sana lagi...
tak gayat engko ya, tapi aku naik menara KL hari tu, sampai atas habis, cuma menara telekomunikasi aje tak naik. lama2 kat situ, seram gak... macam nak tumbang aje..samada menara tu atau aku yg nak tumbang dulu...
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