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Year: 2014

  • Battle Report: Sundown Malaysia 2014
     
    After a long pampering days , here is my Battle Report: Sundown Malaysia 2014. My first hand experience travelling via flight out from Klang Valley to partake a running event.

    Pre-carbo loading

    A day before of my trip, had a late resting hours due to mamak session after cell gathering. Woke up the following day right on the daily working clock (8am)  maybe due to my excitement for a far away running event even though my flight was at 2pm.

    After preparing my gears prior to my trip, (I’ve kinda missed adding my GPS NIKE+ watch in the picture) . My uncle hitched me a ride to KLIA2. First impression on the airport was huge and spacious! even tho some of my friend over exaggerated that a requirement of walking distance from check-in counter to departure gate would take at least 40 mins. I’ve manage to snag a notice board showing different figures.

    After a little exploring in KLIA2 I was kinda shocked when they were selling mineral bottle at the price of RM6.50!!!! wow crazy.. lucky there is water fountain for you to drink from. QUICK TIPS: bring empty drinking bottles via hand carry, so you could refill it up at the boarding gate from the free water fountain.

    Best part of the flight was getting a random seat, which was actually a hot seat near the middle (which is actually emergency exit door) doesn’t matter. Due to its taboo sitting location, non of the other passengers sat the same row as me nor the row behind mine. So what did I do during the entire flight after took off?

    After touch down, I tried to get a cab for a 10KM ride to my Motel, but the crazy taxi driver asked for RM40. I straight exited the cab and on the nick of time , my friend manage to drop by the Senai airport and offered me a ride. (thanks Haja!)

    Motel was situated nearby a quite recent AEON shopping mall, where I manage to have my final carbo-loading session and head back for a quick shower and geared up myself for the run.



    Apparently the event location was kinda new for my fellow Johorian friend as well and it was somesorta like a Putrajaya for Johor which consist of empty under develop lands. Manage to take a stroll at the new mall connecting towards LegoLand. So near yet so far, standing at the entrance of Legoland but unable to enter. (probably somewhere this year I shall adventure inside).

    After taking the shutter bus to the race venue, we manage to explore a little of the stadium area, and i must say it is very quite a modern age structure stadium with awesome indoor court.

    As the sunsets, the race starts where my friend and I started at the same pace, however half way through the first 1km where my friend said “see you at the Finish line”  That’s where we part ways . for 2 and a half hours the route was pretty dull except a nice pass through via some Istana .

    Slow escalated route in addition didn’t really bothered me however I pancit around the 14km on the last water station where i manage to grab a huge bottle of Revive isotonic drink which totally spoiled my pacing. Overall a good run !! manage to finish it in 2hours 35 mins.

    My new running shoe (Adios Boost) pretty much stayed loyal to my feet without any heating, or mushy feeling throughout the run. Kinda loving it.!!

    Without sleeping after the event checked out at 4am from the motel and off to Senai Airport . After touching down back to KLIA2 I kinda crashed flat out on my bed once return home.  guess its pretty worth the trip over to obtain a finisher Tee and an awesome medal.

  • BSN Putrajaya Night Run 2014

      Happening this 11th October. Come to witness the Energy, the Camaraderie, the display of Strength and Support. All in one night. Enduring a marathon is beautiful enduring it at night is Sublime. BSN Putrajaya Night Run 2014 is here with the tagline “Nulli Secundus”

    Watch the Trailer here :- http://vimeo.com/97927071

    Totally forgotten about another famous run which I’ve registered. This would considered be my 3rd year of joining BSN night run. I was pretty impressed with the organizing team and management of the whole run.

    Great atmosphere before, during and after the run makes a great time to enjoy the event as a whole, from school muscial bands, fire breathing-dancers, to some quirky superhero cosplayers, and not to forget cheerful crowds along the way of the route.

    On the first event , they had bubble machine during crossing the Putrajaya mini bridge, sadly it was not there on the 2nd year however being replaced by a cabaret woman dancing with a DJ grooving some tunes on a mini DJ-console. I really hope they would bring back the bubble machine, to have that  dreamy feeling towards the finish line.

    As for the goodies this year, all running mileage will be getting medals!! Yup thats right 5k, 10k, 21k and 42k will all be getting medals! Exclusive to 21k and 42k on the other hand would be getting finisher Tee and a sweet looking baseball cap

    so hurry up register now!

    Without much further due below are the details :-

    Date: 11th October 2014, Saturday 
    Venue: Precint 3, Dataran Putrajaya, Putrajaya
    Distance: 42km / Full Marathon, 21km / Half Marathon, 10km & 5km
    Closing Date Registration: 31th July 2014 or upon reaching 10000 participants, whichever earlier
    Official Website: http://home.hooha.asia/BSNPNM-2014.aspx

    Categories and Fee:-

    Running Route: –

    Goodies:-

    Caps are exclusive to 21k & 42k runners

    See you guys at this awesome event!! 😀

  • Blended

    Blended is about a couple after a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren and Jim agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again. But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week .

    Blended is a comedy movie between stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymoore. After getting a bad taste from Seth McFarlane’s Movie, I had to go to get some good laugh.

    At least the show was pretty decent with silly laughs which are bearable. Even though Adam Sandler’s acting remain lazy, sloppy through out his recent films, Drew Barrymoore was able to save this movie from going terribad. Also not to forget the cameo done by Terry Crews which never seems to fail in giving me a few giggles here and there, during his intermission through out the movie.


    Story line was pretty direct and straightforward where two single parents met up coincidentally at their Africa trip which made them get a closer bonding which eventually lead to a happy ending. However its not about the results but the journey of them getting together with all of the silly comedic scene and what not. As you all can know that there is subtle advertising in this movie like in his previous movies production.

    Well at least towards the end of the movie , it tries to add some moral values about putting higher priority on your children.

    Not to be getting a wrong idea, this movie is quite good to watch just for laughs. Overall 7/10 if you would like some comedic movie for this month, probably this might be one of the movie to watch on the big screens. But its an easy miss anyway..

  • A million ways to die in the west

    Seth MacFarlane directs, produces, co-writes and plays the role of the cowardly sheep farmer Albert in A Million Ways to Die in the West. After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love.

    Okay the movie left a bad after taste when walking out of the cinema . Well at least a final cameo of django with “everyone dies in the fair”

    Story kicks off a sheep herder that had a mentality of our modern society. Well since is Seth mcfarlane’s movie like from his previous movie ted, this movie has no future introduction of nitty gritty dirty dirty jokes. At least for the first 30 minutes or so, where it suddenly toned down drastically to follow up with the story plot.

    Props, amazing scenery and great Costume were perfectly done in this movie with vintage type music score which set a nice setting towards it. All clearly executed.

    However it fails in the story department . Even with good casting didn’t manage to save the movie. Jokes are pretty bland, and straight up vulgar. Many scene, we pretty much censored off due to Malaysia censored board …

    Overall its a good dumb laugh and quite able to say one of Seth ‘s worst flim which should be straight push on home videos instead.

    The only liking of the shows was cameos from back to the future 3 and django … I kinda pitty the new generation that watched that particular scene on bttf3 since they got no idea what was the inside joke it was ….

    A slapstick dirty joke movie which tries to be funny 4.5/10

  • How to train your dragon 2: Review

    How to train your dragon 2: Review – Dream Works Animation returns to the world of dragons and Vikings in this sequel to their successful 2010 outing How to Train Your Dragon. The original film followed the exploits of a Viking chief’s son, who must capture a dragon in order to mark his passage into manhood and prove his worthiness to the tribe.

    Firstly would like to thank Nuffnang for providing me a few days earlier screening for this long awaited sequel of How to train your dragon 4 years ago. Manage to get toothless mask and not too shabby cupcakes!

    Over hyped, and much anticipation to my liking on the first predecessor , Dream Works did not disappoint in any aspect of the story line, CGI, music score and humorous fun times. The story takes place 5 years later where both viking and dragons leave in peace and harmony… well until Hiccups stumbled across some Dragon trappers which a while master plan of capturing dragons and build an army out of them to rule over humanity.

    Returning cast from the first movie was never missed, stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig with the addition of Kit Harington, Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou.

    Well sadly for my humble opinion, the progress of the story line died down quite subtlety after a happy bonding family time that went totally wrong. This was quite the first time Dream Works manage to do something unspeakable like in the first movie where Hiccups lost his leg. However the irony of a full total recovery within a few mins didn’t not made a full impact of the shocking moment. I wished the director could add a more touching feeling towards the sadden incident. Actually two scene which supposed to made an total shocker for the viewers didn’t quite convey to me which actual sad emotional connection.

    Aside from the two major flaw of the movie, overall it was a pretty enjoyable ride where you feel immerse on riding a dragon. Touching times where son meets mom; mom meets dad, and also not to forget the humorous part where Ruffnut helplessly falls for a hunk due to her teenage female hormones. 


    With a good propaganda motives on bestowing peace to mankind and not making a tool out of peaceful things, I must say its a pretty well put moral story values. However trying to fit myself in kids age roughly around ages of  7-12 I’m sure they might get lost in the plot lines and dramas going around in some chatty scenes. I feel that Dream Works, kinda made this movie cater towards age gap of teenagers on wards instead a direction which is not swaying to Disney’s cartoons.. well its PG rating anyway.

    Dream Works musical score will always impress me with epic battle sound to the beautiful enchanted scenic sound with the flight of Hiccups and Toothless. Oh yea there will be another sequel in 2016, and all in all it’s a very darn good Dream Work animation yet it doesn’t quite have the same run for its money as its predecessor. Overall 7.5/10

  • Reebok One Challenge 2014

    Time to get gritty and dirty in this unique challenge run by Reebok. Since last year I missed the event and went on the dreaded Viper challenge, this time around I’ve make sure to register Reebok One Challenge 2014.

    Reebok ONE Challenge 20.5k 2014 comprises of running and at the same time completing 15 challenges along the running route. Each participant must complete all the challenges. Any participant that couldn’t complete any challenge must proceed to the back of the queue and start again. Each participant is allowed 3 attempts to clear the challenge. If the participant fails to clear the challenge in all the 3 attempts then the participants need to do the penalty of 20 burpees to continue with the challenge under the guidance of the drill sergeant. Any participant who is not able to clear a challenge in 3 attempts and the penalty, must remove the number bib and hand it over to the drill sergeant. The decision of the drill sergeant is final.

    Register at http://home.hooha.asia/reebokonechallenge2014.aspx

    limited to the first 3000 participants only!!!

       

    Date & Time: 14 September (Sunday) 5:30am

    Venue : Precint 3, Putrajaya

    Mileage: 20.5km (All terrains)

    Obstacle listing:-

    01. first hurdle
    02. Speed Shift – Tyre challenge
    03. cargo net crawl
    04. monkey bar
    05. Off-road Hill
    06. second hurdle
    07. stairways to heaven – stairs climb
    08. ant hill
    09. gradient run
    10. trail run
    11. the wall
    12. Rice bag challenge (15kg)
    13. mud crawl
    14. angled wall
    15. the bath tub – wet obstacle

  • Super Mario in my Happy Meal

    Mamma mia! it’s him, Mario! This line up of happy meal toy has been a product release of MacDonald Japan last year. This kinda came out right under my nose… But this is super great news for us Malaysian !!!  Super Mario in my Happy Meal

    A group of neighboring colleague bought a load full of happy meals which kept me curious on what was the toy included, and low behold the Super Mario toys! I was kinda surprised that this batch manage to came onto our shores,  which was sold like last year November.

    These koopa-tastic Super Mario toys are being offered as part of a Happy Meal at all McDonald’s Malaysia locations. The toys include Peach, Yoshi, and Mario in various power-up forms such as Fire Mario and Penguin Mario. Notably excluded is Luigi. Surprise, surprise.

  • Centro Klang Run 2014

    My 3rd Run for this year is the Centro Klang Run 2014 on 24th Aug 2014. Once again I would be able to run around Klang town reminiscing all the good old days.

    After my 4th day of training in my new toy, (review coming really really soon!) I’ve went and apply for my 3rd run event which is the centro run, I’ve manage to participate the last year event and thought it was pretty decent event.

    Of course the venue is in Klang ! my hometown, surely I would not miss this out. In addition, they also included a Tower run up their 31st floors (567  steps) however , that didn’t kinda attracts me since it bring shivers to my right knee cap ….. (it is still recovering from my last 2 years full marathon)

    Here are the info for the run below:-

    Register at Customer Service Counter, Level 2 @ Centro Mall or visit their Facebook, www.centro.com.my or call 03-33433011

    Online Register here: http://event.themarathonshop.com.my/centro_combo_run_2014-list.aspx

    Medal: Finisher medal
    Trophy: Top 10 winners
    Prize: Top 10 winners
    Closing date: 20 Jun 2014

  • Energizer Night Run 2014 Malaysia

    Yup that’s right folks, Energizer Night Run 2014 Malaysia is back on August 9 at Dataran Merdeka. Over the course of 4 years of this yearly event, I assume its pretty safe to said that the event has been picking up with better organizing?  Time will only tell..

    After did my 2nd day training in my new toy (yet to made any review over it), I just would like to share my 2nd running event that I would be participating. I’ve was pretty sceptical during the first event which was on 2010 and it went down spiral in 2011 when the organizing was terribad… literally BAD . Many runners complain about those two notorious event therefore made me avoid energizer night runs all the while.

    However this year  having reassured from their press release, I’m convinced that they would not repeat their past mistakes on poorly managing and organizing such a well worth global event. Sadly they didn’t include 21k which

    I was so hoping they did since as of right now, I would preferred to be doing half marathons in order for me to prepare for full marathons next year.

    As my ageing body takes its toll, I would prefer to fully utilize it to its fullest, and by god’s grace and strength I will definately accomplish my full marathon goal  (biggest scope was to partake in a triathlon event before hitting my prime age) Thank god my right knee cap is recovering at a steady pace since my end results of the last full marathon preparedness.

    Without much introduction, below are some of the details which I am able to collect over the internut.

    DATE: SATURDAY, 9 AUGUST 2014
    DISTANCE: 5KM & 15KM | VENUE: DATARAN MERDEKA, KL
    CATEGORIES:


    RUNNING VEST:

    GOODIES:

    Please do note that Registration will be open until 8 July 2014 or upon reaching 15,000 runners, whichever comes first.

    So hurry come and register, and let us conquer the night with Energizer!

    https://energizer.com.my/nightrace/

  • Maleficent

    Maleficent explores the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the classic “Sleeping Beauty” and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone.

    Manage to catch it after my jogging session today with my new toy (will review it later) . So here we are Maleficent, a fairytale story retold. I was in for a surprise on how well did Angelina Jolie portrayed Maleficent.

    Story narrates by some lady which is quite important at the end for viewers to clearly understand why it is being retold. Firstly yes its Disney’s Sleeping beauty movie  retold. Secondly, they can do what the hell they want with their fairytale franchise. I’m sure some viewers might “boo” and “hoo” on this new spin off for the fairytale of sleeping beauty.

    Not many children today even know sleeping beauty, even those that know the story was from the 60″ and we kinda outgrew they childhood Disney stories which I found it very suitable for an older age group of viewers to accept this retold story.

    I did watch the classic Sleeping beauty and actually kinda like how Disney is directing this particular retelling of it’s classic. It pretty much shows the softer side of maleficent well not quite soft but its like a crab metaphor, hard on the outside soft and mushy in the inside. Disney brilliantly portrayed the greed of mankind and their down spiral fall.

    Sadly enough the Frozen trend did caught into this storyline as well, so without any spoilers… just go and watch it and be prepare for the unthinkable (girl power!).

    Maleficent really makes you drawn into her personality like just being wicked enough by just giving a straight face on the camera but yet so enchanting and posh. You will actually felt more sympathy leaning towards maleficent throughout the show. Angelina Jolie is simply just too amazing to be looked at.. gosh 😀 that devilish look…. oh boy, her smirks and facial expression is just guilty-pleasure man..

    The amazing fantasy scenic view of flora and fauna really captivated me where put me into a feeling of wanting to be in that land. Its like James Cameron’s Avatar all over again…No musical singing, probably its live action, it would not be pretty appropriate due to its dark settings on most of the movie pacing.

    Build up of the plots is pretty good with the finale of an action sequence of fire breathing dragon and a duel between maleficent with the king. I can say it was an a proper development of the whole story put together even tho its actually a different point of view of how Maleficent reactions Overall a very nicely live adaptation done by Disney and a good movie to be watched with good moral values to be taught to children (7.5/10)