Kuching Convention - 17th till 19th Apr'09

Kuching International Airport
Me and Idris Jala

The hotel that I stayed

Kuching Landmark

Temple in Kuching

My first ever trip to state of Sarawak.

I was really eager to go for the trip as I needed a break from my hactic work. I knew I wont have much time at to look around since the convention will eat up most of my time.

Since my wife followed me along, we tought of going around Kiching at evening before dinner, but it was raining like cats and dogs.

I went to a restraunt to buy hot milo. The shopkeeper gave me the milo in the mil tin. Thats how they "bungkus" hot drink.

On 2nd day evening, we went to the only Hindi temple at Kuching but it was closed. So I went the next day morning.

The best part was night life of Kuching. I sneaked into several pubs and realised mosdt of them were school children. These children are really spoil brats.

The main highlight was the speech by Idris Jala, CEO of MAS. He gave a inspiring speech which not many CEO could do.

The city was quiet as most of them practices slow lifestyle. theer weer no traffic Jam, nobody rushed for anything and people really enjoy the living.

On final day, I went shopping and bought some nice stuffs.

Things that you should buy:

1. Slice colourful cake
2.Pepper
3.Woodwork

4.Puah Kumbu (Shall)

BHP Orang Run - 12 April'09

After being rest for 6 days, I wanted to go fr training. Then I realised, there's this charity run which is 11km long. So why wait? Rather than training alone with no return, it's better that i challenge myself to challenge the rest.

Although the entry fee was free, but the goddies were really good. I manage to grab as follows:
- 10 cans of Energy drink
- 9 packets of chips
- 3 packets of assoted nuts

All this could worth more than RM20 and all I paid was nothing. Furtehrmore, we were provided with 7up Revive, Tongkat Ali, nescafe, Indocafe, Mamee slurp, Fitnese cereal, Dutch Lady Milk & H20 Isotonic Drink as for breakfast.

I have never tried the track before. It covers The Curve, Bandar Utama, Kota Damansara and Tropicana Club. Definely it was new experience running around the housing area ( luxury houses which could cost RM7million).

I started slow by pacing Kenny Tan for 1st 3km. He was quite fast. So I told tomyself that I should not loose to him. After 3km, he lost his pace, so I was on my own.

Recahing, 4.5km, I was starving for water but they had only 7up revive. so i just grabbed a cup and took 2 sips. It was flat road till the water station, but upon that, the challenge beginned. It was hilly at 3 points which tested my patience.

Whatever, I just maintained the pace till 9km. Suddenly, I saw a pelathon of 5 runners which includes Hamidon chasing me from behind. I just followed them by increasing my pace. Hamidon was shouting "Speed, Speed, Finishing".

I just pushed myself and while reaching 50metres to finishing, I came out from that pelathon and pushed more. At last 20 metres, I realised two runners were in front of me andI on my turbo to sayur them. That wasthe real satisfaction for me in this run.

Men Open 10km :---------------------
40'32 - Casey Lim (9th)
43'21 - Gavin Bong (15th)
43'58 - Rozmi Yunus (17th)
44'19 - Toh Wai Kuen (18th)
45'09 - Ben Swee, Pm50
45'50 - Ronnie See, Pm1
47'32 - Meyyappa Manickam, Pm58
47'40 - Khoo Yit Kiat, Pm28
48'50 - Kenny Tan, Pm27
49'10 - Bong Teck Yong
49'20 - Stanley Cheong, Pm53
51'54 - Victor Loh
54'26 - Frank Chong, Sub Pm6
55'56 - Zulazlan Shah, Pm43
56'08 - Lionel Lee
00'00 - Suresh, Pm47
00'00 - John Tan, Pm30
00'00 - Kenneth Teh, Pm20
00'00 - Ryan Teoh, Pm17

Men Veteran 10km :------------------------
46'40 - Daniel Tan (12th)
47'07 - Steven Loong (15th)
47'27 - Tee Teck Bee (16th)
47'39 - Tan Wah Sing (17th)
50'54 - Tay Poh Chye
51'02 - Kenny Choo
53'35 - YS Lee
58'55 - Kelvin Ng, Pm20
0'00 - Choi Chik Choy, Pm42

I registered for MARATHON

Finnaly, the day will come. I have registered for my maiden marathon, KL International Marathon which will be held on 28 June 2009.

The qualifiying time is 6hours. Im confident of meeting it. Since this will be my 1st marathon, I plan to enjoy the run rather than making myself suffering.

Greetings From Area Governor

Happy Day Fellow Members of Area B1,

3 quarter of the term has completed.

We welcomed New Prime Minister, New Budget, and soon new District Team. Things can change around us, but the depth of our members relationship remains sturdy.

What's Hot? My successor has been chosen by the excos of Area B1. The majority goes to none other than the de-facto leader of UNITAR TMC, Julian Gan CC,CL. He will be officially taking over the responsibility from 1 July 2009 @ 12am. Hope the members could continue the support which has been spurring to me will be continued for Julian too.

Division B IT/TT Contest
Dennis Wee became our maiden division champion from our area by bagging the International Speech Contest title on 21 March 2009. Thank you to area B1 members who supported him directly and indirectly. He will be representing the division to Kuching Convention on 18 April 2009.

Kuching Convention
The commences on 17th April. As VPE and President of the club, we have to exercise our duty to vote for incoming term's district officers. For those who would be unavailable for the convention, do nominate your proxy and submit the "Proxy Form" to me by end of the week.

Realignment
As we are aware, District 51 will be separated into 2 different districts (Peninsular Malaysia & Sabah+Sarawak+Brunei+Indonesia). Please refer to attachment for the approved document from district pertaining the realignment.

Membership Dues
Well done everyone for submitting dues within stipulated time-frame. All the clubs has been awarded the half DCP point.

Current Status
As at 4th April'09 @ 12pm, we have achieved:

1. 3 Advance Communicators
2. 3 Competent Communicators
3. 2 Competent Leader
4. 1 Advance Leader
5. 48 new members recruited

DCP

Deloitte KassimChan: 6points
MAS Melor: 5points
UNITAR: 5points
D'Utama Advance: 4points
Penapisan: 3points


4 clubs are on their way to achieve President Distinguish Club

Penapisan as newbie stands the chance to achieve their maiden Distinguish club status.

Super League
Area B1 Super League is still going on. I have witness the clubs has been:
- sending the speakers to other clubs to present speeches
- playing role at other clubs
- visiting clubs within Division and within Klang valley
- Ice Breaker breaking the ice within 2 months of registration.

Keep it up. The title is up for grab by all the clubs.

See you at Kuching.

Long run - 5th Apr'09

First of all, I was coming back home at average of 1am everyday except for friday at 2.30am. Can you imagine the life of auditor. Furthermore, I'm working with teamates who are workaholics who doesnt know how to enjoy their lives.



On Tuesday (31st march), Thursday (2nd april) and Friday (3rd April), I did go for my jogging. You may wonder how I did it with my tight working schedule. Everyone needs to eat lunch and dinner. So my teamates too. When they go for their dinner around 8.30pm, I make use of that time to go for my short jogging.



I started from Royal selangor Club(RSC) towards lake gardens, made 2 loops and back to RSC. This time I had to make bigger loop because they were having some function called "Stylo" at the main area. Therefore I had to take the hills going towards bird Park and come through Bukit Aman. it would be approximately 8km.



After that I go for my shower at RSC and go to 7-11 to grab a bun and Red Bull before starting my work again. My coleuges never knew that I went for jogging. It will be definetely tiring, but what to do, its my passion.



I was suppose to go for long run on Saturday (4th April), but I went to bed at 3am. I had no strength to wake up at 5am again.

So I went for my Long Run today at UM. It will be always nice to run at the place where you were educated.



Here's how my route goes:

3rd College --> Sceince faculty-->Arts faculty-->Accounts faculty-->Engineering faculty-->Faculty of Built Enviroment-->Medical faculty-->6th College-->1st College-->Law faculty-->Pusat Asasi Sains-->5thCollege-->Sports Centre-->Bukit Cinta(killing Hill)-->10th College--> Comp.Sceince Faculty-->3rd College



And I made 2 loops, which came up to 16km (8km per loop). I did 1 hour: 18 minutes.51seconds.

I was in a peaceful mind upon completion because after hactic workload and too many obstacles for me to do my running. At first I tought of doing only 1 loop, then I just said to myself , I want to do it. So I went for another loop.

My advice is , life is like a rubber band. u can be flexible how u want.

Ronnie was angry that I didnt join them. Hope he won't sack me from the team. Hope I can join them in near future.

Melawati 10km Run -29 Apr'09

After 2 weeks of hacttic job, it wanted to release all my tension. Without proper training, it was tough to go for tournaments and furthermore to perform.
Anyyway I wanted to do my best for the run. Upon reaching the runing area at 6.20am, I saw nobody there. It was dark and quiet. I toughtmaybe the evnt is going to be cancelled.

However, at 7am, there were officials there. They started the race at 7.35am. The route covered around houses, then towards the hill side and back to housing area. It was mixture of uphil, downhill and flat road.

I started pacing Sri at the beginning. Upon 2km, he got tired, but i realised Ronnie overtaking me. So I tried pacing him. Then "kuda Tua" overtook me. I just let them to lead me. Finally Hamidon ovetook me and I just stayed 50m behind him till finishing the race.

The sickening part of the race was:
1. No water station at 5km mark. My first race in 2 years finishing without water.
2. had to do 2 "U Turn" towards fininishing. This made the race to be boring.

Anyway, happy to clock 43:33. Hope to do better in the next race.

The organisers colected RM25, but only gave medal, "cheap skate" t-shirt and 100plus, vico upon end of the race. I was expecting food for that amount of money paid.

You know when "M***ys" organise, how they do it. Anyway I ran because of my passion.

My running mates results:
38'35 - Jasni Khairil (4th)
39'01 - Murali Nathan (6th)
41'40 - Naresh Kumar, Pm37 (8th)
42'59 - Ronnie See, Pm1 (10th)
43'33 - Chen Keat Hoong, Pm8
43'41 - Meyyappa Manickam, Pm58
45'20 - Kenny Tan, Pm27
45'23 - Stanley Cheong, Pm53
45'38 - Suresh, Pm47
46'25 - Zulazlan Shah, Pm43 (25th)
47'35 - Nazib Ngainin, Pm14
48'34 - Zulhassan
49'59 - Wong Kei Ming, Pm55
50'28 - Ahmad Farid
51'20 - Ryan Teoh, Pm17
51'38 - Wong Rambo
51'58 - Gunaselan Rajagopal, Pm39
57'48 - Kevin Chow, Pm32
00'00 - Ghejanthran

Men Veteran 10km :------------------------
42'33 - Daniel Tan
43'33 - Tan Wah Sing
43'46 - Vincent Wong, Pm10
49'34 - YS Lee

Auditor's Life is Crap

I was going to be not earlier than 1am for the whole of last week.
I tried not working on weekends, but somehow, the senior made me to work during weekend.
The clients dont understand our feelings. They keep on dragging their submission of documents. This made us to even work later. 2 weeks ago I went back home at 5am. My personal best okay.
Looks like i cant sustain this for long time. see how it goes for my future assigments. I dont know how this partners and managers can work that long hours.

Now I trealise that most of them in my firm is not married. No wonder lah!

The crap thing about auditors life:

1. You dont get enough sleep (only 4 hours per day)

2. You loose hair

3. You gain weight because you eat alot and dont exercise

4. You get stressed easily and start to shout at your loved ones

5. You get paid peanuts.

Dennis Found That Shark

Bravo Dennis!

We got our MAIDEN division champion from Area B1.

Dennis Wee who presented the speech entitled "Find That Shark". He overcame stiff competition from other title contender, Eugene Ng, D'Utama, Area B4 who had to settle down for 1st runners up. 3rd place went to Lee Mei Foong from Crystal TMC, AreaB5.

Dennis represented Deloitte KassimChan TMC for International Speech and D'Utama Advance TMC for Table Topics. He received thunderous of applause and hugs from the audience upon the announcement of the results.

He started the speech with Dr.MLK's speech and followed with "sushi kin" as example to stress the message. He finally ended the speech in his way of MLK speech.

Although he wasn't placed in the Table Topic Contest, he did put up great fight against season campaigners such as Dominic Joseph, Gerald Quinten, and G.Sivalingam.

It was even ostentatious the championship was witnessed by Distrct Governor, Joseph Gomez and District LGET, Ritchie Chong.

Hope this championship will spur more chapions from our Area.

"Begin, The Rest Is easy"

Regards,
Meyya

Larian Harapan Sri Sinar - 15 Mar

New place, New Track, New Experience.
The race started at 7am and the track was mixture of Highway and housing area. I was tougher than Mizuno Run because it was hilly.

During finishing,manage to overtake Stanley Cheong. Feel really great after finishing the race. My timimng was 45:25. Next race would be Melawati Run.

Wild Wild Run - 8th Mar'09

I was aiming to perform better after disastorous experiences in 3 previous races.
It was relatively new track for me and I was in progress of gaining my fitness level back to shape. Started well by maintaining my pace and leaving the elite runners i.e Richard, "the Kenyan", Naresh, Jasni and Murali to lead the race.

It was cold for 1st 2 laps but still I could feel the tiredness. I took water at every lap except for the last. I aimed for 4th position in myucatefory as there 3 of the elite runners were in my category. Since the race started, I never allowed anyone from my category to overtake me. Even "Kuda tua" overtook me at 2nd last lap.

Thanks to Chen Kiat Hong, who paced me for the final lap. I felt staisfoed upon the race and moreover coming back with the trophy. Hope to do better in Bukit Jalil Race on 15th.

DER PACEMAKERS NETWORK - Spirit of Pia!: Der Wild Wild Run - Result