Aalen Stadtlauf
Woot! Another entry,with only 1 day apart from the previous one :) A rare occasion indeed. Anyway, Aalen had a City Marathon yesterday, or Stadtlauf, as they say it in german. It was my first to attend such an event. If i have to describe the whole thing with just one word, it would definitely be 'Awesome', can't think of any other :)
I just love everything about the marathon. The energy, the colours, the spirit, the participation of the whole city and when everyone seems to know everyone just makes the event even more interesting. The way the crowds give their continuous support to the runners just blows my mind away. I mean, it doesn't matter if you are handicaped, crying (kids) or the last guy/girl running 1km behind the closest flock, the crowd will still cheer for you. It gave a big boost to the whole excitement and i am pretty sure the runners could feel the energy flowing endlessly from the side audience.
The marathon was divided to 3 main parts, Kids, Students and Main Marathon (my guess, it's for anyone who has the balls to run 10km straight). I skipped the ones for students, big mistake!!! Because that is the one with a lot of girls running in it. Well, there is always next year :)
Opto Party
If this blog was a book, it would be fully coated with dust by now and probably has some spider webs on top of it too,as a bonus.It is almost a month since i last updated the blog, crazy. Nothing interesting to shoot, so thats why.
But yesterday, something finally came up, fuhh! Daskin, being the bearer of the good news, asked me if i could take some pictures at a party that he and his course mates are holding. I wanted to immediately say yes to the offer, but then it spontaneously came trembling down my mind - party==(loads of strangers) - and yours truly here, doesn't blend with strangers really fast. Especially, when they don't speak english or malay, it gonna take super long for me to get acquainted.
All the issues apart, i did take up the offer and miraculously, managed to capture some decent shots as well, considering my problem above. Daskin told me that the event will begin at 5pm, i got there 5.30, still nothing, at 6pm, they finally started, but by then, i was already wandering away from the party, looking for a good spot for a photoshoot, came back 10 minutes later though.
When i came back, they already started with the games, games that are only to be played by the professors. It was amazing that in 10 mins, almost all of the profs had already played the games,and only 3-4 left,still waiting for their turn.
Apart from making their profs lugging around a coconut in front of their schlong (which i was seriously amazed,how did they persuade their profs to do that!)
and playing a 'Survivor' style bowling - they also had a limbo game, but the profs ran through the limbo stick so fast (they even cheated) that i didn't get a single shot of it at all.
Funny enough, the winners of the whole game had to wear something that was, IMO, equally embarassing outfit as the game itself. But the profs were a bunch of good sports. The students had a good laugh and i got my shot :)
And if you guys wanna know the 'devils' behind all of the suffering that the profs had to go through yesterday, i took a shot of them as well (previously was scouting a spot for this group shot)
