Forever 28~

Sometime it is cracking my head to think of what to write in my blog. I have to admit that my enthusiasm in blogging has dropped drastically since last year. However, I still want to blog, not giving up yet.

Blogging used to be a platform for me to generate income. Perhaps that’s the motivation that drove me blog. Now, I just want to keep my blog as a place for me to rant, to complaint, to tell stories, to share, and to make friends…

Of course, if I can generate some extra peanut from here, that would be bonus~! Haha!

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.

It has been one week I didn’t visit to gym, that’s really unusual to me. I visit to gym about two to three times a week depending on the schedule. However, I didn’t go for the passed week!

I noticed I get hungry easily. I tell myself that would be caused of my metabolism rate is high. Hence I need more food :D. I keep eating crackers, finger foods after meal. Besides, my meal portion is obviously bigger than last time. I drink soft drinks and so on! OMG, I just hope tummy don’t come back again.

Finally, I did it.

I completed my first half-marathon on 27th June 2010. It was a milestone for my running record. I started my very first run for 10km at SCKLM 2009. Then, I soft of addicted to running. Hence, I decided to take this challenge, to compete at half-marathon!

I was the 655th runner to complete the half-marathon and it took me 2 hours 11 minutes 57 seconds. I am glad with my achievement especially I could complete it within my targeted time. I ran continuously without stop (except very short period for taking sips), and thanks to the flat route as well.

Should I challenge full marathon next year? This is still a big question in my head. As I aged, my stamina decreases drastically. Let’s finish all the up coming run in this year first, then only think about next year~

Check your personal time and position at SCKLM 2010 here: http://www.kl-marathon.com/reports/check_race_time