Collin Ng's Blog

Sundown 2012 is likely my last full marathon run but I did not set any target for it, to save me from disappointment if I didn't manage to achieve it - if any, I was hoping to come under 5 hours. The race was scheduled on 26 May, Saturday and flag-off for 21km and 42km runners was at 00.30 past midnight.  For the first time, the venue has changed to Nicoll Highway site with some part of the route covering the city area and into the East Coast Park before ending at Nicoll Highway.  Some of my running kakis, Kate, Hee Ling, Dora, CK, Long Chua and Kent (who took over Winnie's 21km tag) will be participating in 21km and 42km and we arranged to meet at Nicoll Highway Station, exit B at 11.30 pm.  We took some pictures (as expected, Hee Ling brought along her camera which is typical of her), did some warm-up and gave each other encouragement and at about 12 midnight, we made our way to the start line. As...

My take: Deliberate or not, Malaysia's NST has to apologise to an Australia politician for the wrong reporting which put this politician in bad light.  That, as far as I am concerned is manipulation of news to misled the general public by a trusted national media and on this note, I take comfort that our S.T. though owned by GLC will never stoop so low to cast aspersions of sorts for political gains.         Quote By Clara Chooi The Malaysian Insider May 03, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 — The New Straits Times (NST) has admitted to falsely reporting that Australian Senator Nicholas Xenophon had criticised Islam in 2009, saying today it regrets the mistake and will take steps to make amends. In a three-paragraph statement to The Malaysian Insider, the Umno-owned daily said that Xenophon, a known associate of Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, had not called Islam a “criminal organisatio...