My first 5km run

The day for our run has arrived and we are very excited about it. About a month ago, BS and I decided to sign up for the Men's Health Night Run 2010. Along the way I got my colleagues to sign up, in total there are 9 of us.

We decided to start our journey to venue (Putrajaya) early since we are not familiar with that area. We arrive about 5:30pm. The run is at 8:00pm that is how early we are. Maybe it's our first time and we do not want to miss out any action before the run.

The start point for the A to E category.

This is our start point for the fun run category.

To kill time, we checked out few of the sponsor's booth.

Juice Work giving free drink (small cup only, to try).

Main sponsor of the event.

Healthy snack bar.

Professionals waiting to assist. We guys do want to look good too ya.

Oh, hotdog . . . My favourite. . .

Used to be my favourite brand during my secondary years.

Strolling along we saw the MIX FM crew. BS and Angeline, a colleague of mine took part in one of their mini game.

The crew setting up.

BS and Angeline paying attention to the instruction given.

To be honest, I was not sure what the game was about. All I heard was BOMB here BOMB there.

We headed back to the center stage and were just in time to catch the pole dancing performance; sorry no picture ~ forgot ~ was too busy admiring the performance.

After that, two trainers from True Fitness took the stage and gave us a warm up by doing a track from Body Step.

We met up with other colleagues after the warm up session by the hotdog stand. How could we resist and ended up sharing one with BS.

Angeline, Mai Li and May Wan (taken right after our hotdog session and another 45 minutes to our run)

Amy couldn't join the run as she was not feeling well. Don't be sad, we can do some other runs soon.

Amy's bf, Jacky, doing some stretching. He was the only person in our group that is doing this for the second time. He participated in the MH Run 2009.

Just look at the crowd. Thank goodness we have mobile phone. If not I will have no idea on how to locate if one of us are lost.

It's time for us to check in and get ready for the run. We were directed towards the start point and I felt we were like sheep and cows being led towards the slaughter house. Nah, am just exaggerating.

Flagged off at 8:20pm.

Grouped back around 9:30pm.

Said our goodbye and left with tired legs and empty tummy. We headed down to Puchong for our dinner cum supper. By the time BS and I reach home it's already midnight.

Thought I could get a good rest but somehow sleep won't come hence my late night posting.

Oh yeah, the race ended with a goodie bag.

And in the goodie bag we have this

Last but not least, our certificate (without name, have to get a good friend with good hand writing to help)

It was a good experience for me. I was worried that my asthma would attack me in the middle of the run. I controlled my breathing and I completed the run without an attack. I am so happy and proud that I did it.

I will definitely be back for 2011 run. Till then, I will try to find some runs and challenge myself for a longer distance.

Woof Woof

I would like to intro two of my best friend, Baby on the left and Goldy of the right. There is a reason why they are named that way. Baby has always been the manja type since we got her and Goldy has this glitteing gold coat on him when he is out in the sun. By the way, they are brother and sister.

In total there are seven of them in my home, Ipoh. one of them is a Golden Retriever. I will try to post them up soon. I am working in KL and I misses them dearly. Too bad my I am staying in a condo and dogs are not allowed, sigh. . .

It's alright I think, it will be something for me to look forward too whenever I go back home for a visit.

Towards a goal ~ achieavable?

Been working out in the gym for around 3 months and trying hard to push myself and motivating myself to go the extra mile. Now looking back at myself in front of the mirror, am asking myself is there improvement or changes? A little perhaps hmm maybe none at all.

Working out three times a week; is that sufficient? Another 3 months to my big day, hope to see better results by then. Need to work more harder to reach my goal. Would be ideal if I could reach the one in the picture but that would take ????? gosh, how long would that be looking at the devotion I put when I work out.

I was told that body building is all about building and cutting hence his recipe for me;

1. Protein requirement : 1.5 grams / lb body weight


2. Meal frequency : Protein Requirement / 40

= No of meal per day

3. Carbo 1.5 grams / lb body weight

* Half of daily carbo need to be taken in

i) Breakfast ------- Low GI

ii) Post workout meal ------- Hi GI

4. Fibres : 20 grams during lunch and dinner respectively.

That's about it. Simple but hard to maintain but will try my very best to follow it (think I have to bring out my little weighing machine the next time I go out eating, LOL)

Apple that talk

BS and I got ourselves our first iPhone a few days back signed up with Digi (telco provider). We had breakfast with Wolf and Cub at Coffee Connexion near Atria, Damansara Jaya. After that, we headed down to One Utama where the iPhone road show is which is also the venue for us to collect our phones.

Digi had a very well organized road show compare to Maxis when they first launch the iPhone (chaos). Digi had proper counters set up with sufficient manpower to run the show (good one, as ppl nowadays doesn't like to wait in long lines).

Since we were the early birds, the whole process lasted about half an hour for us to get the phone. There were different packages to choose from (RM88, RM138 and RM238 plan ~ took quite a long time for me to choose) and it come with a yellow casing (Digi mah). After putting it on, it's like apple with a yellow skin (hehehe).

BS put it, we are now part of the "finger apple man" (now that gave me a smile). It was open to Digi customers who pre-ordered the phone early. It is now open to public. For those who are interested, do check out the different plans, I am sure there is one for everyone.