Let's recall some memories

These are the medals at hand.. except for the 2009 PD tri.. the rest happen this year. Some races only got certs or due to the fact that I wasn't fast enuff to beat to get the limited medals.. hmm..there is one Broga medal which I feel I so righteously deserve is not here.. ah well..shit happen.. let it be let it be..
*This is my 3 half marathon ran this year. The first is being Setia eco run, which I did run well. Thanks to the rain as well. Then standard chartered which I suffered a stitch and came in 5 minutes later than the Setia record... prolly too much water and my fault for eating hearty porridge breakfast. Then the Penang marathon that I managed to change to half due to my hypertension. That was the walk run lah.. a lazy run indeed..
* This 3 will be memorable medals as I did this with my ex. Well, we did ran another two other races together that gave only cert.
Now the left medal is PD tri 2009 relay which I DNF at the swim due to bad flu.. then the next square one is the relay we done this year..
The two bronze medals are relay for Powerman which I did both the running leg and Lam cycle. Well, forever remember the second leg running under the hot scorching sun with Khoo the lethal boot camp sergeant "motivating" all the way. That was fun...

Yes!! I did my first virgin cycling century ride ever on 1st August. A really good one and will be forever remembered..Nice medal too
These are few of the grassroots run.. nice medals of all different shape.. Klang pacer's medal stand out to be fine crafted and beautiful indeed. and u got a momento of figurine instead of medal for the Nike 10km run.
This is hooha 5km which I thought I could run over to run this race after the Nike run.. but get over there oredi ppl almost finish the run.. and the goodie bag got the medal.. so nice lah as a 10.10.10 momento medal.. hehe..
This one.. this one is a beast... I ran 31km for this and really kaput after 7 hours. Did another 1km to keep Mr. Lam motivated.. so total should be 32km lah..Hehe..

This is a beast because I still am yet to recover after 16 days of walking like a cripple and cost me a bomb to see doctor. Well, I will definitely be back for revenge next year and wise up a little bit..

Nokia 3720

I bought the Nokia 3720 from Thailand during my recent working trip there. It wasn't really a pleasant experience and surprisingly for the first tiem I dint even massage in Thailand. How unusual. All thanks to the Melaka walk which left my left leg really cripple. It got so bad since last Tuesday..

and on Thursday I finally succumb and went to pharmacy and bought the medicine and trip and bang so loud that the security guard came and check me out. Then he insisted I the wheelchair.. Sitting on a wheelchair and make myself thru to the food court.What a perculiar experience that is!! Nevertheless it was kind of fun..ahaha..

So at least I got this phone that I was looking up and down for. It wasn't available in Malaysia sadly. It is a simple phone.. only thing is this is a tough phone which surprisingly doesn't seems to package like one that is rugged. Straightforward.. There yellow sideline are not available and only this grey plain one is available ania. No choice....at least it it dustproof, waterproof and drop proof with passing the IE85 standard.

I did a test myself on the first day and put it in the basin tab that is fill with at least 8cm of water..Perfect!!

Then Lam put it into the ice-water bucket and somehow the fogging does slip in to the inside panel. Took me awhile with the hair dryer to dry it out.. but still work great!!

Now next to the pic is my beloveth Nokia 5130 which gave way on 21 Nov during Penang half Marathon. Couldn't revive it due to heavy rain. Maybe I could send to for a quick fix and see how much it cost. At least it did last me a year...

So now I could do my outdoor without much worry for weather condition on my phone and camera.. hehe..

Check out how it was abuse in youtube and yes... it was run over by car too to test it durability..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxRwEtIOumE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk1UYBblq0&feature=related

Hopefully this phone will last me along time.... Let see how tough it could go..

EE JI BAN RESTAURANT AT MELAKA RAYA

Now I hardly comment about food that is really bad.. just ignore it..but this this one..

ITS LIKE PUTTING SHIT INTO YOUR MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is how digusting I felt about this two weeks ago when I was down for the 12 hours Melaka walk. Was jam for like 2 hours plus from the Ayer Keroh toll. Walking to Jonker street is not an option as we are kind of running out of time as we parked in Melaka Raya.

So I told Lam we should just eat here. Of course Ole sayang and Makko offer a good choice for Nyonya dishes but we would want to skip it due to the walk we have to endure the whole night.

A simple chicken rice balls will cut the deal as Lam had never tried before. Therefore we saw this heavily self promoted chicken rice ball shop and decided to give it a shot.

It got halal cert. ler... There weren't much ppl coming here to eat. and later those that pop in are mostly first timer by the way they ask questions and looking at the menu.

I tell u.. I had the most lousiest Melaka Rice ball to date.. Really cannot eat one!! The chicken are cremation-ready... smack it so thin.. you wouldnt believe how long have this chicken been kept!! and cold as ice.. Really go try and see!! If you strike 3 millions in lottery and decided how your day could be spoilt at the same time. Go eat this restaurant stuff.

We ordered individual dishes of vegetable and also sambal prawn petai.

You know usually for that kind of price they charge.. Those dish got to be freshly cook here and then as the same we dine in most chinese restaurant disregard it is halal or not as from chinese culinary. This one the vege was precook and like those economic rice one. and charge us the premium price. This is too much man!!

The petai sambal prawn.. yucks!! Wanna puke man the petai.. The prawn also not fresh oredi.. u can chew the lemikness to the max!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really spoilt nyonya cuisine.

In fact when the waitress came and give us the balance of change. I told her to tell the boss about all our comment. I told her I had never eaten Melaka chicken rice ball as worst as this.

It self promoting shitty marketing really a big phony!!

So if you decided to make ur nightmare as worst as it can.. come and eat lah at this EE JI BAN restaurant!!

I am truly humiliated by such lousy cuisine that is authentically Melaka.. Shame of you!!

Awesome book!!

Running book has been quite a bored subject as bored as the motion of running itself. It is repetitive and as one of the book in the Bible that keep on saying there is nothing new under the sun.

Bingham really get me into Penguin mode and mediocre stuff so its got this bad image of running book slam on my face everytime I try to figure out which running book to get. Well, u might argue Karno stuff.. it will kick you to admire that Greek fler and wanted to be like him.

But I am talking about writing stuff that is editor-love-story-telling thingy. Apart from that, about wandering into more that routine stuff.. spiritual and the holistic history of running make you easy and confidence in running. Despite whether it will advocate you to barefoot running or not, this book will take you into a fresh paradigm that hit you so hard that you wouldn't know it by the time you flip the next page. It knock and inject into your subconscious like a subliminal tape. Yup, you gotta have the passion for running to identify the depth of this book... IMHO of course.

There are still 100 pages to chew thru and I hope Chris McDougall has more of his flashy story style twice of that of Malcolm Gladwell will come out with more.

It a book you would not want to miss at all if you found so much in running and joy in doing it.

It's kinda like lapping the timeline for next greater height for human in running history.

I think this book is cooking up the volume like never before and Kinokuniya has 1000% more copies than the other running book or similar sports stuff.

It will tame your wildest imagination and let it make sense and I-knew-it and I-told-you-so if you always have this ultimate cracking zen to certain running doubts or answers.

Get a copy and your brain will love it for it with the soul refreshing reading.

Alternative to Powerbar or powergel

Ok.. I am not following the mainstream for refuelling anymore. Avoiding all unnecessary caffeine and process sugar in the powergel. So just got this recipe from Brendan Brazer as a direct fuel bite. There are few other recipes as well which I do not have the time to make. So for this one I do not have the coconut oil to substitute.

Went to Carrefour and scout around. There only have ORGANIC Virgin coconut oil which the price might equivalent to rocket fuel. So I think I will get some other brand somewhere else .. perhaps from Masjid India or what. Well, guess what.. I substitute it with extra virgin olive oil. Anyway, I also put in the pulps together not just the zest.. :p

It suppose to be put into a food processor.. but I only have blender lah.. well not as smooth but edible.. Put in the freezing fridge now. So will pop it half way point during the race tomorrow.. hope I wont end up in the toilet... hehe...

Broga here we come tomorrow!!

Well.. here is the recipe :-

Activity Level	Recipe Name	Ingredients	Step-by-Step Instructions
1	Direct Fuel Bites	5 dates 2 Tbsp coconut oil 2 tsp lemon zest 1 tsp lemon juice Sea salt to taste	1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor, process until smooth2. Form mixture into a ½-inch-thick rectangle 3. Cut into bite-size pieces 4. Individually wrap in cellophane and store in the fridge or freezer Makes 8 ½ oz bars

Another one bite the dust

I have a sense of victory today and I felt it yesterday with great joy inside me.

I had won a battle over a long time fren turn foe now.. once a contractual slave to it as well...

SUGAR!!!

Yes.. I can live without it now.

Am definitely quite happy with this sense of achievement!!!

Wonderful!!!!!!!

Klang Run for IT 4...

The making of Tai Lin Ngong statue..
Lost 3.9
at the starting line..men category go first.. and this lady here kinda mix up her gender..
gempak dengan medalnye ... Ini lah ragam manusia.. manis di bibir... katernye.... uhukuhuk..
* Well, you could find images similar to this in the Mao's chinese cultural revolution RMB bill those day... wonder what is really meant those day..
Mr. Lam is a happy man.. having earnt his so call first blood and sweat medal. I tell u the mother was quite happy that he got the medal wei.. Mrs. Lam-wannabe here is no different lah.. having clock 1:27 really pia kaw kaw lat!!!
While Elaine decided to BKT with his friend..me and Lam decided that BKT two days in a row for middle-aged men like us is a little bit too exhausting.. ahaha.. so went to 五条巷to savvy the food recommended by Ashley...one of the dish here.. so next round gonna get her out to order more.. too bad the sotong marmite tak ade...

Running somewhere far require you to wake up wee hour in the morning. So that you get to adjust yourselves, having a light breakfast for energy... getting the mind ready and bit early to avoid what is unforeseen.

So we and Elaine left at 4am and meet Lam at SS2 for a quickie at McD. I quit fastfood totally unless there are no other choice in life anymore.. so chomp the avocado and tomato giap wholegrain bread.. perfect energizing food... eating it at McD without ordering any stuff from them...the only thing I can think of to eat in McD these day is the salad.. oh wait.. is there a salad?.. ahaha

We rode off and the event start from the Stadium. Race start off on time!! Really good!! I forgot my Garmin that morning.. WTF..how could that happen? It is my first race after my high B.P. coming out from hospital. It an ok run since I had run twice last weeks covering 4km and 10km which is good..and the ph diet does help to recover faster. In fact, there are so few L.A. in the leg now. Am still comparing brendan post run recover stuff and also his natural powergel to be use on race. One thing for sure.... 1.2 lit of alkaline water with one lemon squeeze in is perfect recipe for hydration. Now gonna snoop up some recipe for sodium during the long run.

It really took off at km 7 onwards where burning fat as fuel leaving me no panting at all.. For the first time I am breathing smoothly.. beautiful renaissance... Now when I shed this extra 25kgs..I will be trigger happy to run anywhere I guess.

Elaine is doing not too bad herself after hibernating since the last Newton run. Young ppl always have the extra edge.. Sigh.. really kowtow to them.. louyeh 101 jor..damn it..

Mr. Lam finally got his first medal that is out of sweat and blood which he totally despise the 10!10!10! race as an insult to his adrenalin rush.. cayalah.. more to come.. Someday you could have that belt buckle of Western state under your shirt? :p

oK... time to continue indulge in my lonely planet magazine asia...