The Logic of Taking Many2 Photos

 With the widespread of handphone camera, the amount of photos taken in your lifetime had exceeded your own mental ability to appreciate it. This, is worsen among those photo fanatics especially those aunty, leng moi and many others. For each site angle, there are more than 5 photos that need to be taken.

Let break down it into component

1.      Time taken to shoot the photo: T1

2.      Time taken to process the photo: Upload to PC, Facebook etc : T2

3.      Time taken to enjoy and look back at the taken photo:  T3

T3/(T1+T2+T3) ==è approaching zero.

In a holiday, weekend trip, you probably have taken 50 photos for your trip.

IN one year, if you have gone through 20 trips there are 1000 photos. Then, your friends will also take photos and shared it in the whatapps group/facebook. So all in, double your photos. So, you end up with 2000 photos a year. This is very conservative. Those fanatics, they will end up taking 300 photos per trip. So, the amount of photos in their PC is countless. On last record, I got 2400 photos for 2019. I rarely recalled each of them.

Yet, how often a photo is view again. Most likely many photos are taken and never to be seen again. Then what is the purpose of taking it at the first place. Thus, it is better to restrict the number of photo taken in each trip. Just take the key one at various checkpoint and move on. At the same time, do spend some time to watch back and rejoys on your old photos as you have made so much effort in snapping them.

 

However, there are some exception:

If U R a sexy model, handsome fellow, or influencer where there are many people view your photos, then more photos are better. For example, suppose your photo will be able to influence/help someone to go a specific place/buy specific item then more the better.

 

Number of Important Contributions Per author

 There are many blogs with few hundreds of articles. If U wrote which argument U get into, what food U eat etc, your writing is infinity. However, I will be doubtful about the impact of your writing. Most users just want specific contents, thus a proper article classification is required so that search/filtering is available. What I want is, U search website found my article, U read my article, U get to know something and translate it into action. U R done. There is no need to come back.

In any scientific contribution, a scientist is known by their few main contribution such as Einstein : E = mc2 ,   Netwon : F = MA, Survival biases : Abraham Wald.

For a single person, their intellectual contribution (useful article) to the society is few. Thus, I will just write what I think it is useful. For me, if I see someone written tonnes of articles with lengthy nice wording, I will assume the information content is very low and may not worth the ROI to read it.

 

The Changing Trend in Amateur Sports : Running, Cycling, Hiking

 Back in 1980s, 1990s and perhaps early 2000s, people participate sports just for the joy of it. Most of them will be “Hangat2 tahi ayam” approach, where they will come on and off to train. They just come for the joy of it, because there are some company and nothing else.  However, recently I do see things are changing rapidly among those amateur sport takers.

Many of them take sports seriously, if they are in running, they are more than willing to go through a long challenge. Starting from 10km, over the years they will progress to marathon and some to trail running and ultra marathon.

In every distance, they come with a mind to set their personal best. Sub-5, Sub-4 marathon. Damn they take it competitively and seriously. They will come for training every week. They are more serious than you. Young, old, auntie, uncle, grand pa, grand mum they came for training and will certain train and run much faster than you.

The Chinese are more to running and Hiking. As far as cycling, some of the Chinese are a bit reluctant to fork out the capital$ to buy a road bike + accessories (which cost RM3 – 5K) and other are a bit fearful on the safety side of cycling. The malay they are more dominant in cycling. They have a higher willingness to spend $$ and willing to take more risk. On top of that, they like to be associated with an expensive road bike and fancy attire.

The number of cycling and running event have been on the rise so far. Every week there is a running event. Not only that, it is also expanded to Trail Running, Hiking Group etc. The number of event I think it is 3-5x more than what we have in year 2010. (10 years ago).

Even in badminton, people will go from matches to matches. Every year, each club will have 1-2 annual competition. With around 10 clubs, you will have at least 10 badminton competition to go for every year. Parent will be more than willing to send them for competition. In the end, those that came out strongly in every sports are those from sport groups. There are various running, hiking, cycling, badminton etc groups in Klang Valley. Each group are leaded by inspiring leaders who has a deep interest in their sports. Some goes to the extend to hire badminton coach to teach themselves in their 40s. The main purpose is to raise the level of their game so that they can keep up with others and have more fun.