Busy vs Lazy

Work has been making me busy for the past few months... is there true? Or i was being lazy to update my blog. Anyway, I shall kick start to update my blog regularly again. 5 elements of My Life has been accompanied me for 4 and half years. and it was there when i was having quite a number ups and downs... guess what? Readers of 5 Elements of My Life have supported me to get over those hurdles and challenges. 

Stay tune eh, i will be back soon... 

Happy Malaysia Day

OOPS~ Wrong Flag >.<

NIKE We Run 10K KL 2012 registration

captured from Nike Facebook page

September 7th 2012 - The popular We Run KL is back... The registration has open its business since 9am, thousands over people have rushed into the system to register. The system was jammed and many bugs has emerged as the time went by... Lots of complains have been launched in the Nike Running Malaysia Facebook page (1,600+ comments as of 2:30pm) i believe the comments will increase from time to time. 

Is the application FIT to use is one of my first question? Why i say so... 

1. There are bugs which shown that the system was not test properly prior to the launch. (I have tried at least 10 attempts and so so soooo frustrated cause every time i have to start all over again)
2. The system obviously didn't go through the performance testing, front end failed, database failed and connection failed. 
3. The most important piece which is the payment gateway. Is this reliable? Are the registration accepted after we gotten the transaction from Bank and IPay88? No one come out to give the public an answer. (My two transaction went through but I'm not sure my friend and I were in or not)
4. No FAQ publish to answer some of the common questions... I looked at this as the pre-launch preparation failure. Why? Cause the have anticipate thousands of people will rush in and register, why can't they take some action to make this more smoother. We run Singapore has a different approach...

Anyway, I was struggling a few hours to connect but at last only managed to registered one of my friend and I (two participants) ... I have another two more to go - Sigh~ Guess What? One of my friend actually say 

Do you agree with him?

To the organizer a.k.a NIKE, 

You are not only wasted our time on the registration but you also wasted all the financial banking call center resources to answer those users' call regarding the failed transaction from your payment gateway (iPay88). I was having the conversation with my bank call center and they told me they could not do anything as they have approved and transfered the amount to NIKE via IPay-88. If the registration failed, how would you gonna to compensate us all these time and effort loss? Can we sue you for RM10K compensate? :p

Anyone else managed to register the run?

Camwhore @ Patong Beach, Phuket

I was traveling to Phuket, Thailand on Summer 2012... 

Read carefully - Dangerous! Strong current NO swimming here.
You may walk...

Pose Pose here and Pose Pose there

Pinch the Sun

Walking on the sea bed during the sunset

Jump Jump pose
Of cause not as good as SmashPoP
but i'm learning

That's all folks... Till then stay tune with my blog eh~

Buff, Lean and Flexi

The Personal Trainer (PT) who trained me since March has decided to move on and he has resigned from Fitness First One MK to pursue his new career... Air Steward. 

Anyway, I changed to another PT who has even more years of experience. Last Tuesday was the first session. He was asking me what i would like to achieve. I told him... 

1. Six Packs
2. Strong legs and bigger lower body (someone comment my upper body was too big to match with my lower body. So sad eh~ )
3. Have a nice cut on the arms. Those drooling arm. 

Then my new PT commented ... "Buff, Lean and Flexi"  

He told me he wanna to plan to buff me up a bit by further reducing my current 14% fat... Usually a buff and lean person might not have a good flexibility of his body, so he also plan some exercise to strength my joint and make sure i have flexibility on my body and not walking like a ROBOT.

Before our new training chapter begins, he did two assessments on me... 

• Weight me with the electronic weighing machine that shown the % of fat etc.
• Planned exercises with total body workout to be the benchmark of the first day.

So, i finished the all the exercises within an hour... And we marked down all the reps vs time. Like total push up within 30 sec. etc. Guess how many push up i did for 30sec? Interesting eh~

Anyway, for the whole day today i was dreaming to have RAIN's body :p

Can i achieve?

Michelin Energy XM2 - good for Malaysia drivers?

After ran over the Malaysia Boleh potholes the night before, all the 4 tyres of my car have been replaced with Michelin Energy XM2... Nice to drive but yet to test on the wet and slippery road. Michelin has claimed that Energy XM2 are more durable, better grip and more important it's potholes resistance and tested...

Everyone knows there are so so so many 1Malaysia potholes or Malaysia Boleh potholes scattered around the city of Potholes. This is the type of tyres we should have when we drive in the city of potholes. LoL.

Picture adapted from The Star Online
Potholes @ Persiaran Surian

I found an article in Stars stated how dangerous is potholes @ Persiaran Surian, those potholes caused my tyre flatten and made me change the tyre :(  Just wonder how the lovely government going to close this issue?

Anyway, I was lucky as i was not riding a bike otherwise i would have injured and might be said goodbye to this world. 

Flat Tyre

Picture from
bestestoftheday.blogspot.com

Have you gotten a flat tyre before? What would you do when you have a flat tyre?

1. Call AAM

2. Call friends to help

3. Call siblings

4. Do it yourself

Which is your answer?

I have a flat tyre on my way back from the Curve after my gym and snack last night. It was around 10pm. I was driving and suddenly i heard a very loud sound and my steering was tilt towards the left side of the car. So i quickly on the signal and stopped by the road... Oh no the tyre has just flatten. 

WTH... THANKS TO MALAYSIA BOLEH POTHOLE. 

Without wasting anytime, I transfered my laptop bag inside the car from the trunk, got hold of all the tools. And kick start the project. 

The first thing i need to do is to locate the connector under the car to hold the Jack. 

After i located the connector, i jacked up the car with the Jack and the given tools. Next was the unscrew part, unscrewing the 4 tighten nuts from the flat tyre was not an easy job. You need strength and tools. I was using leg to step, arm to pull to unscrew all 4 nuts. 

Took out the flatten tyre and tried to fit the spare tyre on to the ring. The car was not high enough to place the spare tyre. So i continued to jack up the car until the spare tyre fit into the ring. Screwed the 4 nuts and made sure all the nuts were tighten. Again i have to use arm and leg to tighten the nuts. Of cause with the tools... 

Anyway, it was a second workout for me and guess what? I figured out this was another type of workout which i wet my whole polo shirt and i felt the whole body muscle being worked out after i completed the project a.k.a changing the tyre.

I drove home safely "HOME SWEET HOME"