Area B1 Humorous Contest - 8th Aug

After dissapointment from last weeks contest, I prepared myself to perform better. I reviewed my script and added more humor lines as it was not funny enough.
Today morning I reviewed the script and rehearsed the main lines so that I wont forget. Then I watched Steven Fernando's to get use to the momentum.

I knew that my main contender will be Dennis, the defending Champion. When I reached there, I realised that that there were only 4 contestants: Dennis (DU), Jamilah (MAS), Jess (UNITAR) and myself.

I knew 2nd placing is in my hand as my target was to get top 2. But at 1 moment I tought of grabbing the championship title as I relised Dennis presentation is more dramatised and the content is not that strong.

I was the final contestant and when I presented my speech, my flow was just natural. I never feel the nervousnes. The audience laughed. I was confident after my presentation that top 2 is in my hand. I had to skip some points due to time factor.

When the results was announced, I got 1st Runners up. Then I knew Dennis will be the champion and as guessed the was. But I did realised that I had close fight with him and I jusyt need to practise more to polish my speech.

However, Im glad that I didnt end up 3rd placing as I did in previous 3 attempts, 2005,06&07.

I will start preparing for my International Speech from next week onwards to ensure I can beat Dennis and become Division Champion.

Adidas King of The Road - 2/8/09

After going all out yesterday on Track, I just wanted to take it easy today. Whn I reached the stadium, just jogged with Suresh around the stadium to be warmed up. When race started everybody overtook me and went. I just went on my own pace as my aim was just to complete it. I thought the route will be simple, but it was hill at every 2km. I was feeling exhausted reaching 15km. My legs were tired and I couldnt move. I saw alot of under dogs overtaking me. However, I didnt bother about them. I just wanted to complete the race. The route covered the whole area of Shah Alam, right from housing area, industrial area, city center and sports complex.

The run finished at stadium but we had to go through the underground car park which was like oven.

The handling of drinks section was "SUCKED". 100+ finished. Nobody bothered about "quee". I wanted to have MILO but it was just like mini pasar malam. No goody bags were given. Theer were adequate waters, 100+ n sponges at the refreshments stations.

I just want to take few days of before training for my Rat Race on Aug 11.

SCREWED UP DAY FOR ME - 1/8/09

Lost in IAFG (Inter Accounting Firm Games)
I was the defending champion for 1500M for 2 years and today I had to surrender my title to Muhammad Ali (the guy whim I beat last year). I just took a wrong strategy of starting slow and pacing with another guy fro KPMG. This let Ali to break the gap to 50metres. At 2nd lap that KPMG guy slowed down and started jogging. This left me stranded and I had to chase him. Imanage to close the gap to 20metres but it was too late. I will try to avenge my defeat with him at upcoming Rat race. I did 5:09 whereas Ali did 4;53. Some boost was my firm won 4x400M where i was the anchor. slighly happy for that.

Loss of Handphone
I lost my handphone today and felt as iff I lost my hand. It really ruined my day.

Disqualified in Evaluation Contest
My aim was to become Division Champion and go to Genting for District Contest. But today, I was disqualidied from the contest as I exceeded the time and made Dennis (the guy) whom I always want to beat. Today he under performed, but I lost . My dream to district contest dashed.

Larian Puncak Bkt Antarabangsa 26 July'09

I ahve never run at this place before. In fact, I never even came and look after the landslide tragedy. I came yesterday to survey the place and to know the route. I realise, the route was very hilly with steep hills.

As I left the house, I started to rain like cats and dogs at half way point. I had to wait like 15minutes. The race was suppose to start at 7pm. So when I looked at my watch, it was 6.50am. The rain didnt stop, so I just whack in the rain with my rain coat and reached there at 7.05am. But the race was not started yet as all of them were waiting for the rain to stop.

I didnt strech at all and never even apply my muscle cream. When the race started at 8am, I just saw around 100 of them at my category. As usual, I was with Veronica (Hot Portugese Girl). She stays there, so she has the home ground advantage.

When ther race started, the front pack just got of with fast & Furious start. One stupid old man came and stopped his bike between the runners. I just shouted at him " Puk***" and run away.

It was steep down hill for the 1st 400M and the front pack just left me. Then it started to go uphill. I tried to maintain my pace at uphill and at certain point theer were flat routes. Thus, I tried to close the gap / overtake the person in fron of me. As the uphill going more steep, Stanley and 3 other Malay guys overtook me. I just maintained my pace behind them as my strategy was to overtake them at final 500M.

Suddenly, when we reached the Petronas, the marshal asked us to stop and told us that we were at finishing line already. What the heck? there were no proper distance marker and the finishing was at juction and not straight road.

My placing was 16th. Then I realise, the distance was not 7km and it was around 5km. My pacing was for 7km. Crap.

Anyway, still amange to finish within top30 and came back with a medal.

My running mates results:
26'45 - Naresh Kumar, Pm37 (7th)
26'51 - Vincent Wong, Pm10 (8th)
27'04 - Gunaselan, Pm39 (9th)
00'00 - Ben Swee, Pm50 (10th)
28'17 - Stanley Cheong, Pm53 (12th)
28'22 - Meyyappa Manickam, Pm58 (16th)
31'01 - Ghejanthran (20th)
33'19 - Teh Seong Yee (24th)

Area B1 Toastmaster of The Year

Announcing to you "The Area B1 Toasmaster of The Year 2008/09" goes to...............................

"LOW LAI LIEN" from Deloitte KassimChan TMC.

1. She sustained the 10/10 DCP goal for 2nd consecutive term

2. Though the firm freeze the recruitement, she managed to recruite 14 members during the year

3.The club's membership dropped to 16 at Jan'09 but she didn't loose her hope and strongly came back to charter strength.

4.Under her management, the club produced a "Top 6 finalist" in District International Speech Contest'09

5. Her management enhanced the bilateral relationship between Area clubs such as DU Adv, UNITAR, Lafarge, Phoenix, YSP, and many more around Petaling Jaya

6.Succesfully bringing back "Speechcraft" to DKC after absence of 5 years.

7. When the firm had shortage of staffs, the members were busy completing their job responsibility. Yet, she managed to motivate the members and ensured them to complete their educational goals.

Let's give her our grand applause.

Siemens Run 19 July'09

Distance: 10km
Placing: 24th
Timing: 42:24

Though Im still recovering from KLIM, but I needed long run to ensure Im fit for IAFG. I got stuck in between of the crowd. So I had to get my way out. I saw Ronnie in front of me. So I just paced him. As the route gets challenging, I was lagging behind. Thanks to 5 water stations placed along the route.

I still managed to keep the distance at 50m with Ronnie. When I was at Bank Rakyat, turning into Jln Raja Laut, I increased my pace as it was only 2km to finishing. I thought that we will be turning at Maju Junction but it went further to Cycle and Carriage complex. Coming towards Sogo, I saw Traditional drummers were playing the music. Nice to see Malay, Chienese, Punjabi and Tamil, all to getehr at one place. That music really swithed on my Turbo. I knew at Globe, I had only 500M to finishing. I saw Ronnie was getting tired, thus upon the traffic light at Dataran, I just overtook him and sprinted all the way to finishing line. Finnaly, I beat Ronnie after long many attempts.

MIC New Line Up

President: Samy Vellu

Deputy President: G.Palanivel (Samy Vellu's Choice)
Dato S.Subramaniam (Old Face not giving up)
S.Sothinathan (Lost in General Election)
Only one winner

Vice President: Dr.S.Subramaniam (Samy Vellu's Choice)
SK Devamani (Samy Vellu's Choice)
S.Saravanan (Samy Vellu's Choice)
S. Vellpari (Samy Vellu's Son, who is not in his team)
T.Rajagopalu (Lost in General Election)
VKK Thiagarajan (Old Face not giving up)
Only 3 winners.

Men Youth Head: T.Mohan (Lost in General election)
T. Muthu Veloo (Samy Vellu's nephew)


My Comment:
Can all these people be trustable. No new faces. Our MIC Man happyly announce his succesor which is really unprofessional. As party president, you are not suppose to support anybody. Look at Najib. Though he supported some people indirectly but he didnt publicise it. It's totallly unethical. "Valzha MIC"

11 Gifts to Shut People's mouth

Yesterday at 11.11am, our dearest Prime Minister has announced 11 gifts for the people's benefit.

Let's look at some of it:
20% toll discount for frequent users who pay toll 80 times a month or more via the Smart Tag or Touch ’n Go, effective Sept 1
My Comment:
Are you expecting me to spend toll for 80times which means avaerage of 5 times in 2 days. This is not a plan to reduce "rakyat's " burden but to eat more cash from rakyat.

RM150mil allocation for the Tekun scheme, which is a fund for entrepreneurs, and another RM15mil specifically for young Indian entrepreneurs
My Comment:
Does this mean that Indians are only going to get RM15mil and the rest wont be for them. This shows that you are doing segregation among races. Why can't you make it avaliable for everyone. We need unity. This is maybe to avoid another HINDRAF and tpo ensure Samy Vellu gets his seat back.

Some 44,000 low-cost houses under the Program Perumahan Rakyat in the Federal Territory offered for sale to existing tenants
My Comment:
These houses are damn low quality, where you need to spend another RM40-RM50k to do the wiring, plumbing and some goundworks. Looks like Najib has no money, so this is how he wants to get rakyat's money.

More than 7,000 individual taxi permits approved, with another 3,000 to be approved in the coming three months
My Comment:
Very Good. More Traffic Jam in Klang Valley. Every approval involves black money. More money for PM.

Setting up a new trust fund, Amanah Saham 1Malaysia, with a maximum size of 10 billion units.
My Comment:
Who's going to benefit from this? The Whole Country or only specific races?

McDonalds Olympic Day Run 12 July'09

The gisft of my harwork
The shoe that made me to move forward

The previous olympic run was during 2004 where I finished out of top 100 and came back empty handed. This time I told myself that I need to redeem my pride.

I heard that Choi (Running shoe marketer) is having FREE shoe trial at Bkt Aman. It's a new brand called "Newton". Therefore, I made use of the chance to try out the shoe and went there early. Luckyly, my size was available. When I wear that shoe, I had the confortable feelings.

The race begun, I was stuck in between, so I had to come out from the big group. I saw Amutha in front of me, I paced her for 2km, then I realised, she was going slow, so I went on my own. On my way I overtook Stanley, Teck Sin and Guna.

As the way was challenging with hills at Bkt Tunku, I had to manage my pace and not to push too much. When I reached the Parlimen, I knew that it's only 2.5km to finishing. So, I increased my pace and manage to overtake a big group of people.

Reaching towards Bank Rakyat, I realised there was a Kenyan Lady running in fornt of me. I overtook her too to make it a sweet finishing. I was placed 29th and my timimng was 31minutes and 41 seconds.

I realised that the shoe supported my running and enhanced my speed towards the final 2.5km. The shoe was light, flexible and breating.

My next race would be Siemens Run which will be for 10km. Hope I can do my season best there.

Back to Bahasa Malaysia

Yesterday, Our Dearest Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that the method of teaching for Science & Maths will be reverted to Bahasa Malaysia from Year 2012 onwards.

His reason was that:
1. Lack of staff strength for English Language
My Comment:
If you have lack of staff strength, then recruit more, increase training for them. It's important for us to have adequate Human Capital. This trainings are investments not expense. Train them during Teachers Training College itself.

2. Rural area students are finding it difficult to adapt to English Language
My Comment:
Our Vision 2020 is to see the country on par with Japan, England, US and Australia. To acheive that status, we have to move forward towards internationalisation / globalisation. How long are you going to pamper this rural people to be in rural. They need to change. Come outside their comfort zone. Make them to realise the actual international standards fo education. Looks like Kapung people will be Kampung people forever.

3. Chinese school students prefers their mother tongue to be used
My Comment:
This is Malaysia. Not China. Even in India, people are studiying history, geography and sceince in English. But they never compalined about their mother tongue as they do have Tamil Language. Moreover, the media and enviroment supports them to have stroing mother tongue.
It's not necessary to change the medium of language in order to pass the exam. Its the patriotism and love that sustains the beauty of the language.

Tun Dr. Mahathir's Comment:
“These matters, of course, cannot be resolved overnight. But it’s the Government’s responsibility to train and supply capable teachers. I’m confident that our teachers will be able to study and teach in English.
But if we can train teachers to learn English, why can’t we do the same by training them to learn and teach Science and Mathematics in English?And at that time, not many teachers knew the national language. Now, it’s all right if we mix a little bit of Malay and English, but at the same time we need to improve the ability of our teachers too"

Whatever it is. This move is just crap. It shows how SMART is our GOVERMENT.