Forever 28~

Taman Negara (National Park) Malaysia is one of the oldest tropical rainforest in the world. It is located in Pahang state and about 3-4 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. One of the destinations for our company trips this year was Taman Negara. I’ve never been to this place before, hence I chose to go this time!

We stayed at Rainforest Resort Taman Negara. Before I went, my colleagues told me don’t have high expectation towards this resort. But, I’ve never thought it would be that bad!

On the first day, there were few rooms encountered water shortage problem. We were wetted with river water after the activity, and when we back to resort, there is water shortage problem! See?

At night, I was about to go to bed. But, too bad the basin tap had no water to flow out! I had to wait and wait for very small water supply to come and brush my teeth. I couldn’t go to other colleague’s room to brush because it was raining. My feet would get wetted after all. Then, when I came back to room, I have no water to clean my feet as well! See? How embarrassed was it!

As the people run the resort, you should have to make sure the resort can accommodate or cater for big number of visitors come for holiday. Otherwise just don’t get the project! The water shortage was because of their internal problem. I was so disappointed with Rainforest Resort Taman Negara. It wasn’t a pleasant stay!

I have been with Fitness First for many years. I am quite happy with their service for all the while, but something happened today that makes me feel so disappointing with their service.

If you have been to Subang Empire Fitness First, you would probably know the changing room space is ridiculously small. Hence, we have to squeeze like a sardine when many people are there. There are many people in the changing room this evening. I put my hand towel on the bench while changing my clothes and prepare for shower. Then, my towel went missing. Perhaps there are too crowded in the changing room and people might mistaken your towel and return to the towel counter. This incident happened to me in the other club and they are fine with it. Hence I just went for shower without any worry.

When I was returning my bath towel to the counter, they couldn’t find my hand towel return back together with the bath towel. Hence I explained the situation to the person politely that it was really crammed in the changing room. The person in-charge said their towels went missing a lot lately; hence they would penalize customers for losing their towel. If they ‘found’ the towel by the day, then they will refund the money to the customer.

Funny, how would they go and FIND the missing towel? He claimed that they would count the number of towels at the end of the day. I tell you, there are A LOT OF towels being used in a day, I don’t think they would find ONE missing towels. And, what if MANY towels were missing on the same day? I don’t have time to argue with them, so I just paid the fine (RM 15).

If I were wanted to steal their towel, I could simply tell a lie that I didn’t request hand towel when I collected my towel. But I chose to be honest and tell them the truth. Then I was being penalized for being honest to them. That makes me feel so disappointing. It is not only for the RM 15 but also the trust between the club and the customer.

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!