Self-employed general medical practitioner who love his wife and kids in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Dedicated his spare time by serving the people with precious information about climbing the majestic mountain of Borneo, Mount Kinabalu. Contact me @ drizad(at)gmail.com4th Special Olympics Mt. Kinabalu Challenge - Flag off ceremony
I am back to my clinic today. After having a very exhausting trip up and down Mt. Kinabalu on Friday & Saturday (18th & 19th April), I am now back to my usual work. Feels good to be back, but missed the fellowship with other volunteers, Special Olympics athletes and escorts.
I am not sure how to write this, as writing every bits and details would bored you up with the schedules and things that I did. I don’t think what I did would matter to you most, as what I did was just climbing up Kinabalu (which almost all of you did). The main star in time around was a group of 40 special athletes from this region, that never climbed the mountain before.
What I think I would do is separating this Special Olympics post into several series of post over the next few days, with a lot of photos (maybe 10 photos in one post) during the climb. I am going to photoblog this post and the next few to give you the picture on what I have did with these athletes. I snapped more than 100 photos. It will take some time for me to upload all…
This few photos were taken during the flag off ceremony by our newly appointed Sabah’s Ministry of Youth & Sport, Mr. Peter Pang at Timpohon Gate on Friday, 18th April 2008.
Early morning view of Majestic Kinabalu seen from Bundu Tuhan Retreat Center. We stayed here for one night before we start our climb the next morning.
Our new Sabah Minister of Youth & Sport, Mr. Peter Pang, whom officiating the flag-off ceremony.
Freddy (an athlete) with his escort, Dr. Lai from Kudat. Freddy is a hyperactive child. He managed to reach the peak.
Harris (with dotted cap) is a Down’s Syndrome guy from Sarawak. He only managed to reach the Rockface.
We have to take photo with the sponsors…
To be continued…
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 am
great job drizad. i was also a volunteer in 1st Special Olympics Mt. Kinabalu Challenge . too bad i lost all the photos…
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 am
Cheer up, bro!
April 25th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Luckily I still have the newsclip (Chinese) and souvenir programme book.
Good news is you still can see the photos in the PowerPoint slides I made for them in 1999. You can downlod it here:
http://www.mysabah.com/so.ppt
It is about 2.5 MB in size.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:42 am
June 17th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
wah bestnyerrrrrrrrrr mendaki gunung kinabalu bersama menuju ke puncak yg ting.ssssssssssss C muSANG BERBULU pun aAAAaaaaaaaaaaaadaaaa……..KUat jg!!!!!!.. budak bahang paling best nda pa kami sabah youth summit pun mau naik nda lama ……………………………………………lagi kalau DAPAT harap ada org nampak
August 1st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Dear Doc,
What a way to climb the mountain sharing it with those who are well below the capacity to attempt such a feat. Shame to all those who should be able to make the climb but shy away from doing so, including yours truly. Congrats to those special people who dared to take up such challenge. And of course orang yang macam you all ni yang memang berperi kemanusiaan.
Tahniah Doc and friends.
ramli
August 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Thanks Ramli. Have a nice day!