Forever 28~

Initially, they were proposing petrol RON95 to be replacing RON92 at the same price, which is RM1.70 per little. But, recently, I heard that RON95 will be selling at RM1.75 which is 5 cent cheaper than the current price of RON97, and RON97 will then increase to RM2.00.

Tomorrow is the day to apply this new pricing scale for the petrol in the country. Then, I read news saying RON95 will be selling at RM1.80 and RON97 will be selling at RM2.05! I wonder they always wanted to increase the price of petrol even though the crude oil price is quite stable recently. I don’t think the government subsidies money on that!

They are lier! I rather they don’t do anything and keep for the old pricing! Or, is it a gift for Merdeka? Shall I be happy?

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!

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!

The sun light is too strong. It makes me hardly to enjoy my precise weekend at home. I don’t have any air conditional installed at home, so the house is very warm and stuffy. The wind from ceiling fans is warm.

The situation even worst at night. I cannot get into sleep even though I have one ceiling fan, one table fan, and one cooler in my room. I do not gain enough sleep recently and I need to sleep, sleep, and sleep!

When the rain will fall down from the sky?