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16.5.2010
Run the race

16.5.10. Four significant events happened today – the New Balance 15km run in Padang Merbok, Teachers’ Day, Sibu by-election and the passing of Pastor Indra Shan.
The day started with New Balance 15km run. This time around I had a fellow running bug-hit comrade (maybe midlife crisis at 44 years), who join this run too. We ran our race and completed it good times.
Category
Gender
Overall
Name
BIB No.
SPLIT
TOTAL TIME
80
300
338
SURESH KUMAR SHANMUGAM
3160
41:12.59
1:30:25.65
104
426
491
ASOKAN SHAMUGANATHAN
3027
45:32.00
1:36:46.53
The run took place from Padang Merbuk all the over the hilly terrain of Bukit Tunku (Kenny Hills). It was a good exercise on a Sunday morning. Of course we not were telling that while we were running. We were asking why we were not like normal KLites who enjoyed getting up late on a Sunday morning after a late Saturday night outing! Like the hard core runners will tell you, the joy in running is after the run when all your endorphins are at its peak. So, we ran the race. Period.
16th May is marked to honour our teachers who through their tiresome efforts have managed to mould us from a white plain piece of cloth to a colourful floral designed piece of fabric paraded in the fashion shows of Milan to New York! They prepared us to compete in the rat race of life. They helped us to run the race.
DAP won in the Sibu by-election today. After intense campaigning by both sides (ruling and opposition parties) hitting each other below their belt, shooting from the hip and ungentlemanly conduct, democracy ran its course. The DAP candidate ran the race and won with a paper thin majority.
Finally, 16th May 2010 saw the demise of my aunt, Pastor Indra Shan (nee Indra Devi S. M. Muthu) after a very valiant struggle with breast cancer. At the wake prayers held at The Mercy Home in Taman Wahyu, it became apparent to us all the good things she had done and the changes she has helped to make in peoples’ lives! It is amazing how a puny lady with just gift of the gab and belief in God could touch so many lives. Unless, of course if it is all mass hypnotism –like in the Wacko incident in the US where there was mass suicide! If only eulogy were read for the living, more people would be appreciative of each other! In the obituary announcement in the Star newspaper, there was a mention of a verse from the Bible (from the book of Timothy?) about running and completing it. It looks to me that Indra Shan not only ran the race but came out with flying colours! May her soul rest in peace in Heaven, Amen!
N.B. The amorphous head of coincidence strikes again! Sibu by-election and Mercy Home is situated in No. 47, Jalan Sibu 6, Taman Wahyu!
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  1. Anonymous18 May 2010 at 18:22

    scary!

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  2. sheila19 May 2010 at 13:36

    She has a strong personality and may she rest in peace.

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  3. sheila19 May 2010 at 13:36

    She has a strong personality and may she rest in peace.

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  4. sheila19 May 2010 at 13:44

    Anneh,

    Mum always has something to tell... This time she said that she did not know that Indra was so famous till the crowd and mass gathering was held during the funeral.
    If she had stayed with her husband she would not be this popular among the church community.
    First time she approves her sister of leaving shan.

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  5. sheila19 May 2010 at 13:45

    interesting article . Praise the lord..

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  6. Anonymous19 May 2010 at 22:35

    i always knew she was a great lady, and after attending the memorial mass, I figured out she was like our Mother Theresa. It is an honour to have Mother Theresa as our relative! Long live Indra Shan.

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  7. rifle range boy19 May 2010 at 23:07

    Timothy 4:7
    I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

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