Sunday Activities

I was on a solo long run yesterday morning. Met quite a few runners on the road along the way. Some were not doing the usual Sun long run as there were two events held back to back. One was the 12-hour walk in Putrajaya which started on Sat at 8.00pm while the other was the Chin Woo Biathlon on Sun morning.

After the long run, I made my way to Chin Woo Association to watch the biathlon event. This is an annual event which sees competitors swim 800m before completing it with a 7km run. I took part in the first edition. It was pretty embarassing for me at that time, as I was last out of the pool. Some even claim that I didn't even finish the swim leg as the judges were feeling tired of waiting. : )) Anyway, I was there to meet Jeff as well, who was keen to buy the Adidas tights which I was selling off. Got there in time to witness Iwata finishing first in the veteran event. I was told he came back to Malaysia just to support this event, which was organised by his nemesis in local tri scene, Don Khor together with Chin Woo Association.

A strong finish by Iwata

Don awaiting to hand out the finisher's medal

I went off earlier before the prize presentation as I had an appointment with my cousin and her bf. Took them to Alex's stall to have Sarawak Laksa and Tomato Kueh Tiaw. I had one bowl of Laksa and a bowl of Kolo Kueh Tiaw.

I went back to the Japanese anime DVD sales near Pandan Safari in Cheras and bought some more anime titles. There were more titles that I wanted to buy such as Gundam and Initial D (complete set) but both were more expensive. Might as well buy more titles with that price.

Some of the titles I got yesterday:

I think I can start opening a Japanese DVD rental shop soon. Anyone who wants to be my first customer?

I came back home feeling tired but watched a dvd on new Singapore movie called "Where Got Ghost?" It's a Jack Neo's production.

It was supposed to be a Ghost movie but this is a hilarious one. Those who hasn't seen it, go check it out. Of course must understand a little bit of hokkien and mandarin to watch it. Otherwise you got to rely solely on the subtitles! And usually in Jack Neo's production it has some elements of everyday life and morality tale. For this one, it's a three part tales. It reminds us about the consequences of greed, taking shortcuts in life and chasing after riches.

Moving A Big Aquarium And Japanese Anime Series

Had breakfast with Aaron and Bernard at Pandan Indah 2020 coffeeshop. What else would 3 Sarawakians be having besides our very own Kolo Mee. Not many West Malaysian love eating it, probably because too it is too plain for them. Let me tell you it has so much "nutrition" or "natural' goodness. Lots of pork lard, pork mince meat, char siew, etc. They used to sell "Kueh Chap" as well, many years ago but now they're only selling Sarawak Kolo Mee and Laksa. Kolo Mee is pretty much everyone's meal in Kuching.

The Kolo Mee and Sarawak Laksa stall

The curly mee used for Kolo Mee

Head out to Bukit Serdang with Bernard to do an inspection of one of the 2 & half storey house. It was believed that the area was infested with termites. The owner was worried of termites infection so he wanted to prevent it while he is doing his renovation. Took us a while to search for the place since both of us weren't too familiar with Serdang area.

A nice house

Right after the inspection, we went over to Sri Petaling for lunch with Geoff and Aaron, who were there waiting. Then, proceeded to Aaron's place to help him move his blardy BIG aquarium. and F%#$ing heavy too. Even 4 of us had a hard time to move it. Just the aquarium, we still have the bottom base to move. Aaron is moving it to our current office. Well before moving our 2 finalist of the Biggest Loser posed for the first time together showing their "one" pack stomach. Watch out everyone! 6 packs coming soon!

So who's bigger?

As soon as we reached the office, we decided not to move the aquarium till Mon, since we will have 2 of our help us out to move it together up to the office. We rested at the comfort of the air-cond in the office.

There was a DVD sales yesterday which I saw when we drove pass behind Pandan Safari. The shop is selling all the popular Japanese Anime. And mind you, they are pretty cheap. I bought 5 anime series (complete season) for mere RM35. Well I only had RM40 with me!

The big crowd turning out for the sale

The titles I bought

Well, got to sign off for now as I have to head to my cousin's place to fix up my computer. HDD is making sound. So need to change my internal HDD which I bought at the PC Fair. Might have to leave my laptop with him for a while! Doing my long run tomorrow morning! See ya!

Biggest Loser Training & A Pimp Up Ride

Today, Han came over to the office to help out with the internet and the wi-fi connection. All of us in the office are mainly IT idiots, so we know nuts about getting it conencted. It was working fine till we tried to install the new printer cum fax. That's when we lost the connection to the internet. I had to send out a S.O.S to Han for help. Thanks to him, everything is A-OK now.

Later in the day, Aaron and me were out to source for some shirts, landyards, caps for the company. We went to a shop nearby the office and tried to get the salesperson to quote us the best price. Instead of ordering now, we only bought some samples. After that, told him if he has time why not just go Cheras and have a look at the mountain bike which he has been pestering me to look into it. Since we got a van, easy for us to load into. Like everyone else, he was looking for cheap, nice, beauty bike. The only reason he is getting a bike is to bring his kid around with a baby seat behind. We went to a shop near Taman Len Sen, called Tat Seng Bicycle. He finally bought a bike together with the baby chair installed for RM700. I met Lee, who was there to buy a gel or padded road bike seat since he was complaining about the pressure he is putting on his "brother" with his current seat.

We came back to Aaron's shop and in no time, Aaron changed to his sportswear and helped his daughter, Haley, onto the baby chair. We went riding/running towards Pudu Ulu Park. Bernard on his "Biggest Loser" mission joined us too. Well, Aaron is also part of the mission too. But both he and Haley were enjoying their time riding the bike!

Haley: My new pimp up ride!

Ms. Fast and Furiuos

Father & daugther time

Bernard: I can run faster than a bike!

A satisfying day - The smile says it all!

Hospital Making Patients Feel Better or Worse Off?

My girlfriend requested a certain Dr. Kuan of Tung Shin Hospital to fax doc letter to her HR to get guarantee letter (GL) for a follow up treatment tomoro (suspected dengue), but they claimed they dont do it. Patients have to request themselves. Not sure for whatever reason, to save cost of a 20c fax? So gf called HR to prepare GL and she pick it up herself, but I think HR worried rather her being sick come into office, they say she can actually ask the hospital to fax over and they will prepare the GL. Seems simple and more logical way. So again, she requested hospital (Sharifah-not sure correct name) to fax over, but instead of getting help from hospital, she was scolded by a certain staff (could be the nurse of the doc) saying, "We've given you the doc's letter, what more do you want?!" Then she passed the line back to Sharifah. WTF!! What's so hard about faxing one piece of paper over?!! Next thing happened, the hospital called up, "You doing the blood test tomorrow morning? Can you fax over GL by 4.30pm because our office is closing." That was around 3.30pm. I wonder whether they are helping patients to get well or make patients illness worse off, asking patients to go thru such hassle when a simple fax can settle the matter.

Easy Run With Friends

Had a slow and short run with my two friends, Aaron and Bernard, who happens to be my boss and colleague respectively. I was surprised that Aaron wanted to join in the run, and Bernard too. Aaron who happens to be my topic of my first post in my blog. It was about his marathon attempt. A guy who only ran 1 or twice in a year, attempting a marathon?! Yeap, indeed he did it, in 7 Hours! Read my post on him. That was in 2007 and it was not only his last marathon, it was also his last run till today. Haha. Bernard used to be a middle distance runner from my rival school but he has long hanged up his running shoe.

Well I do hope they continue on the running or some form of exercise as both has gain so much weight since the last days of their running 'career'.

Look at both their stomach!! Haha!

Now this is supposed to be their "BEFORE" photo. Let us see how their progress go after a few months time.

Weekend Events And Leftovers Dinner on Monday

Me and my gf went to Christmas performance at the Federal Academy of Ballet in Section 14, PJ. It was organised by my cousin's church, Evangel BP Church. It was a wonderful evening of music performed by Calvary BP Church (Singapore) & Evangel BP church (Petaling Jaya) titled the Winter Rose.

Kid's performance

The adults' turn
 

I woke up late Sun morning, but forced myself to run. I just couldn't sleep the night before. Twist and turn in my bed, but I think I only get to sleep at around 3am. So getting up at 6.30am was a tough thing to ask especially  when I have been sleeping late last few nights and getting up early in the morning for work.

I started my run at 8.10am. Luckily, weather was cooling and it was cloudy. During this time, road's pretty quite since most runners would have finished their runs by now. And most of them are taking part in races somewhere, i.e. Singapore Marathon, Macau Marathon and Salomon X-Trail. It was good that I managed to log in 1h15m of run time. Nto sure of the distance but could be around 15-16km.

I went out with Geoff in the afternoon to get his car serviced. Brought him to my regular mechanic In Kepong. Luckily he was there as they are not open on Sun. After the car was serviced, wanted to bring my laptop to my cousin. Trying to install a new HDD I just bought from PC fair. Need to get all my softwares reinstalled too. Since Im pretty much as IT Idiot, might as well get an expert to help out. But unfortunately, he had to go out when I was ready to go meet him. So went to Geoff's cousin's house. His cousin, Ben is actually running the PS3 Blu Ray games/move rentals company, Blackmango. He has 2 Minituare Schnauzer in his home. Am really missing my dog seeing them jumping around trying to get attention. We borrowed some games from him and it seems it really got Geoffery hooked to the game, especially Killzone 2.

That night itself, Bernard organised a house warming party over at his place. He and his gf can really cook.

Yummylicious Food

Geoffery tempting little Haley with Carlsberg

Little Haley Lau with dad, Aaron

The next day, picked up my neighbour Mr. OK Tan at KL Sentral who just got back from Singapore. He did a PB for his marathon. On the way back, we stopped at one of the malay stalls to grab some food. I was going to cook vege and rice but since it was quite late already, we "ta pao" (packed) some food from the stall.  Reaching home, quickly cook the rice and waited for Geoff, Joyce and Ooi Keat to come down for a late dinner. We sure had a lot of food that night as Joyce and Geoff also brought over some food. some of the food were from the leftovers from Bernard's house warming party. Well it still tastes just as good!

Putrajaya Night Marathon 2010

Not sure why sports organiser in Malaysia like to organised big events last minute, some more it's a marathon! Anyway, I'll be skipping this. Unless they have a shorter race, maybe I will take part. Just look out for more details soon.....

The first Night Marathon in Malaysia is here!

Held in conjunction with the month long FT Day Celebration in the Federal Territories, we would like to present to you the inaugural Putrajaya Night Marathon 2010.

Supported by the Federal Territories and Urban Well Being Ministry, this marathon promises to be one of the most, if not the most exciting running event to be held in the country.

Being the first night marathon in the country, participants will be treated to a running environment like no other. We also have a few things in store for you en route.

Putrajaya Night Marathon Details -
Date: 6th Feb 2010
Venue: Putrajaya Palace of Justice
Time: 8 pm

To make the event even more festive there will also be an onsite carnival with games, performances by local acts and also food stalls.

We will be launching the event really soon, so look out for that!

Organised by World Action Sports Sdn. Bhd. together with 21st Century Sports Sdn. Bhd.

For more info, contact :
Email :- info@worldactionsports.net

Office:-
World Action Sports Sdn Bhd
Unit PL 01-A, Plaza Level
No. 45, Block A, Medan Setia 1
Plaza Damansara
Damansara Heights
Kuala Lumpur

New Job and Track Training

Just started my new job at a pest control company, TIMES PEST CONTROL.

Set up by my friend only a few months back. Since it's a small company, basically got to do pretty much everything, cover seas and mountains. Ok, at least not catching rats with my bare hands just yet. LOL! Anyway, if any one of you or friends who are in need of pest exterminator, do give me a call at 012-2393077 (work no) or Bernard at 012-2788677/012-2279377. Thanks! Termites problem, Mosquitoes, Cockcroaches, Rats, etc....call, call! I'll bring my tennis racquet over....LOL!

Managed to hit the track in Kampung Pandan yesterday. Have not trained on track for many months although I did a 3200m race on track in Melbourne recently. Right now, I am trying to correct my running form and also improve my speed as I've been running too much long slow distance or LSD in short. I didnt do much yesterday since it was my first training on track for a long time. Trying to build up the training slowly. Did a 20 mins warm up (about 4400m), followed by a few 100m strides out before attempting on a 5 x 400m with about 90s jog (or 100m). Well it wasn't what I've used to do during my younger years on track, but it sure is tough coming back into track training. Old man liaw, can't do too much! But I was pretty happy with the time recorded yday, averaging around 78s. Met a Pacesetters member there and did a few laps with him for cool down. Will probably fit in a track workout once a week in my pogram from now onwards.

Next Race: Maybe Malakoff 12km. Not too far out from where I stay.