Forever 28~

I woke up at 5am this morning because of Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009 (SCKLM 2009) event. I had two breads and one bar of Sneaker as my breakfast, and then go to LRT station to catch up the first train. This is Sunday morning, but it is packed with people that joined the same Marathon.

I was joining the 10KM run. So, it was started at 7am from Dataran Merdeka. This category had the most participants. When we arrived, we just go directly to the starting point and wait for the wiser to start the race!

This is my first time joining Marathon race, also the first time I running outdoor. I always run on treadmill at gym center. I have to say running on the road will be slightly harder than treadmill. At the end, I manage to complete my 10KM in 67minutes. This is not a good record, but is my virgin run! After the run, we were queuing up for the finisher medal. One thing very funny was they didn’t check anything but just give you the medal.

There was a critical complaint from those who ran for full marathon (42++KM). They couldn’t get water at the water station and also no banana at re-charge food station. The stupid organizer expects runners can finish their journey without supplying water, funny?

After I came back to home, I felt hungry and eat quite a lot for today, haha! The next run for me would be Shape Run, on 25th July 2009. See you there!

Yeah, I have collected my Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009 (SCKLM) race pack yesterday. When I opened the race pack, it was just fulled of disappointment. Let me tell you one-by-one about incidents during the race pack collection day, even though I was not there :p

For your information, a total of 12,500 of people registered to this SCKLM. During the collection day, the computer system was down due to the heavy pour. Then, everything became so unorganized. I heard some people queued up more than two hours under the hot sun just to collect the race pack. Some runner couldn’t get their bibs, I am one of them. I suppose to run in 0294 but they couldn’t find my bibs, so I have to take 0293. I tell you, if someone happens to be champion and get the wrong bib number, I can imagine the mess during the verification process.

Then, I requested size ‘M‘ for my vest. OMG, the size is ridiculously small for a man. It is really tight and look awful when I am wearing it! Keone double confirm with the person in charge for the size, they said yes, that is for man’s M!

There are a lot of flyers inside and other promotional pamphlets from Standard Chartered. I can say, nothing inside is useful except vest and bibs. Unlike other Marathon which will provide relevant sample to the runners. This Standard Charted put mortgage flyer, credit card application form in the race pack. I just, speechless!

This is my first 10 KM run in my entire life. I truly disappointed with Standard Chartered as the event organizer, from the process to the race pack.

Update:

Now I confirmed the vest that I got is for FEMALE! They are IDIOT, how can they make a fault confirmation to the public! Where can I complaint about this? I want to exchange my vest!

Two weeks ago, I was headache with my car insurance renewal issues. I know there are few online insurance companies in Malaysia, so I just try my luck there. During the journey of hunting car insurance, I found that www.EasyRenew.com.my giveaway FREE Cathay Cineplex movie voucher for those who had tested their system. You don’t have to become their customer to get the movie voucher. All you need to do is to test their newly launched online car insurance renewal system. There are three simple steps that you need to complete. The best thing for this test is you are not required to entered the genuine details of the vehicle, you can put dummy data for these fields! Upon the completion, you will be receiving a FREE movie voucher. It will be delivered to your corresponding address. But, please make sure you have entered the genuine delivery address and contact number:D

I spent about four minutes for testing the system. I like the part where it can give suggestion on the sum of insured. Most of the time, I have no idea about what is the market value of my car. Giving the suggestion truly brings beneficial to the user.

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Perhaps I am so busy at work, I always think of going for holidays recently. Besides, I heard my friends plan for their holiday and it makes me more tempted! It is not only to escape from hectic work schedule but also to relief my tension at work. I don’t think I could finished all my tasks even though IF I have been given 25 hours a day, so why not I just take a break and go somewhere else?

One of my friends decided take tours to Italy for their honeymoon. I just saw their pictures in FaceBook. I feel sorry because I did not attend their wedding. The pictures tell me that how beautiful the Europe is. Since it was a honeymoon, so they choose to go with escorted tours which technically will arrange all the things for them. Hence, they just enjoyed the arrangement that has been prepared by the travel agent. Indeed, they gave excellent comments for the arrangement when I asked them about it. Perhaps they were in the honeymoon mood, everything just nice and beautiful.

(Thanks to Jack for providing picture in Italy during his honeymoon)

Another colleagues told me that they will be going to Japan for honeymoon. They take the tour arrangement as well. I have never followed any tour arrangement before and keen to go for it. Where I wish to go for my holiday? I will say I want to have cruise holidays! Do you need a holiday too?

I attended my colleague’s wedding dinner last night. The dinner was held at the heart of KL city, Imbi Palace. The dinner should start at 7pm, based on what has been written on the invitation card.

Based on what has been told by all of my friends, the wedding dinner at KL will never be punctual. It will delay at least one hour. Anyway, I tried my best to go there as early as possible even though I need to work until 5pm. However, due to hectic jam in PJ and KL, I really could not make it on time. Furthermore, I don’t know the exact location of the restaurant so I had to drive to another colleague’s house and go with him. So, the process took longer than expected.

At the end, I arrived at 8:10pm, I felt so embarrassing because probably the dinner had started. But, when I walked into the hall, the dishes had not been served yet, there were still numbers of empty seats! Then I was just speechless. I saw my other colleagues were there for quite some time and had already no topic to talk about.

Finally, dinner started at 8:45pm and ended 10:45pm. Perhaps we shall rephrase it as wedding supper, should be more appropriate, haha!