Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009 - Race pack collection.

Walked towards Dataran Merdeka at 6pm. Before that I saw quite alot of bad reviews about their chaotic race pack collections on my phone at facebook, with some even commented they waited 1.5hrs for their turn, que jumpers and taking on behalf more than 19 people by a member of popular running community, but the limit was only 6(ouch...). I was bracing for the worse as it's after office hour, surely it's going to be more chaotic.

Upon reaching, to my surprise it was pretty quiet for full and half marathon runner section. Immediately it was my turn, collected for all 4 person in just 10minutes. Phheww.....

Took a look in the race pack bag, very dissapointed with the goodies....or lack of it. Seriously, in Standard Chartered SG, the pack was superb, I thought they had some benchmark of goodies for runners. Not even a Reebok voucher, 100 plus, Sheraton voucher was found or any crap goodies from Mix.fm or Era.fm, they were part of the media partners, official supplier and sponsors mind you. The best goodies would always be from Shape Run and Genting Trailblazer.

Walked towards the Powergel booth, they're selling powergels at Rm6, siow meh...Often near marathon days it's just hovers around Rm5-Rm5.50. End up go Watson stocking them up instead at Rm5.85.

Reached home, log onto facebook, the bad reviews are still floodling like mad....


Some rehersal going on for the launching of 1Malaysia logo. puik...


*yawn....


Yes, I still want to hang onto 21km, not thinking of 42km.




ARRGHH!!!!


WOOO~~~~~!!

Jacobs Walk of Life = crappy

Reached there about 6am, the parking was super limited, so I had to park by the road side. To ensure my car was not blocking any traffic I parked near to the barrier, which I regretted much later.

Walked about >500m just to reach the entrance, then the que was super long and super slow. No crowd control was enforced. It was free for all que jumpers. They come from left and right. Even when we told them off they keep jumping our que, talk about thick skin. The manual name finding on the counter was not helping either. Total time I had to wait for my turn.....>30mins, and there was only 10 people who line up following the rules in front of me, no thanks to the idiots jumped que, wanted to slap the thick skin old lady already, but then it wont do good to my image infront of Esther's mom. :P

Took our shirts and listened to the 2 long winded speech, that's it, I'm hungry, I'm sleepy, and it's getting hotter by the minute. I want to get out from there. Everyone agreed and we proceeded walking towards my car 500m+ away.





Upon reaching, what da ya know, double parking.......I'm stuck inside, nevermind there's a number on the car. Tried calling, kept going to the voice mail. I'm feeling boiling mad. There was so much urge to smash or break their doors, open it then release the handbrake, push the car away. I mean, I just need about 2m more my car can get out from there, so near yet so far.... kept cool waited, waited, waited.......45min this auntie, no sorry, open the car door, close it immediately then drove off. Bakayaro.....



Cooled down my nerves with hakka lui cha rice and cucumber drink thanks to Esther's mom soon after at Puchong. ahhhhhh~~~

Appreciating Moet & Chandon champagne.

Thanks to the HR we have the opportunity to gain more knowledge on the company brands in monthly schedule. The first to start was with a champagne, Moet & Chandon. Talk about drinking and work. Nice....

My parents has some sense of humour.....

Mom : Eh book me a hotel to somewhere cheap next week, anywhere also can.
Me : Err okay....Penang?
Mom : Okay, Tangjung Bungah.
Me : Nah. Here's the price.
Mom : Don't want la, think about it Penang always go.
Me : Okay Pangkor?
Mom : Can.
Me : Which hotel?
Mom : Swiss Garden Hotel.
Me : Nah here's the price.
Mom : Expensive, then Pangkor boring one.
Me : Then Cameron lor.
Mom : The Equatorial expensive la.
Me : Can get those smaller hotel one ma.
Mom : Don't want Cameron la, all expensive.
Me : Then where you want la?
Mom : I also don't know.
Me : What's your budget and plan were to go?
Mom : No plans and just want cheap rooms la you find anywhere also can.
Me : Then Genting lor, I can redeem free room for First world. No need pay.
Mom : Can also.
*5 min later.
Mom : Dont want la. Genting nothing to see also.
Me : *slap on the head*