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Showing posts with label events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label events. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2009
Monday, March 3, 2008
Karting no go
It's been a long time since I have woken up early on a weekend. 6am, to be exact. That was the time I woke up on Saturday. The reason? my-Kart Round 3 DRIVERS 2008 Series event at Shah Alam. No, I wasn't there to race. Not going as a spectator either. Rather, I was there as a volunteer for the event. My company's sports club has requested for volunteers for Saturday's event and in return, the teams sending volunteers will be rewarded with points for participation. You see...our sports club has cleverly divided the staff into color coded team (...just like back in school days) and each time there is any activity organised, the respective teams will be rewarded with points for members participation. As added bonus on Saturday, we, the volunteers are also allowed 10mins track session on the 80cc stroke karts after the race event ended. Yahoo! Anyway, back to my earlier story....
My office mate picked me up at 6.45am and we headed over to Citykarting at Shah Alam Kart Circuit. Am so not used to being up and around with the sky still dark. The place was not even organised when we reached there so we just stood around...since we had no idea what we are supposed to do anyway. Volunteers mah...
Went over to speak to Mark Timms, our contact person from my-Kart whom I found out is also from one of our subsidiaries...ahaks. Mark himself admitted to being disorganised and asked that we hang around first. Racing members started coming in slowly. A few office mates arrived and we received our first duty notifications. 2 persons needed to help out with merchandising, 1 person needed to input race results and 1 person to help out with kart grid line-up. I decided to choose the 2nd task :-)
I guess God didn't intend for this event to proceed because it started raining....drizzling at first...then heavy rain. Or maybe God didn't want us to work so hard on a Saturday morning...ahaks. Everyone just hung around waiting for the rain to stop. There was announcement by the my-Kart team later that certain categories (K1 & K2) of the race had to be cancelled due to insufficient time. Seemed that the whole race had to end by 3pm. 5 hours are needed for the race which means the race had to start by 10am, at the latest. The track required at least 30mins for the rain water to subside which means the rain need to stop by 9am.
See...sky dark dark
While idling around, I chatted with one of the racer, Rizal Hamid who also worked as a stuntman for the local film industry. I wasn't interested to hear about the racing bit. Rather, I got some very useful tips from him on fitness and gaining weight.
The rain didn't stop by 9.45am so the race was cancelled. Racers are allowed to go on the track if they wish but there will be no championship points. Most of them packed up and left. The race will be postponed to March 16th, Sunday. Will not be able to volunteer on this day....anyway, it didn't matter...our team already got our maximum points. Yahoo!
Everyone hanging around waiting for the rain to stop...
Friday, August 3, 2007
Let's run
Today my big boss distributed pamphlets (I have to look up the dictionary to spell pamphlets...sigh) to everyone in the office for Larian Kardio PPUM.
Then....then....she said since I'm thin I should have no problem joining the run.
Haha...so farnee.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Rockstar nite
My friend Adrienne and I decided to go to NRSW at Sunway Surf Beach last Saturday just to see what the hype was all about. We went for our usual pump class which finished at 2.40pm. Adrienne told me Yanti would be joining us at 4pm...which meant we still have an hour plus to kill at the gym. We decided to spend that hour joining Body Balance instead while waiting for her.
When we arrived at the Surf Beach, there were already a few ladies waiting around. Apparently the whole area were not ready yet and the Nike and some FF staff seemed to be running around trying to get organised. As we waited, more and more women started arriving. We were very hungry and we had initially planned to get a bite to eat before the event started. However, judging by the number of ladies starting to arrive, we decided not to give up our spot..ok la...we were a bit kiasu. So, there we were, waiting in line... and it was only 5.30pm.
With nothing to do, we spent our time observing people's characteristics..and there were lots, I tell you. 2 japanese ladies behind us spent the entire time taking pictures of themselves on their mobile..giggling away, just like any young teenagers would. A group of ladies were showing off their abilities to boogie, some showing off their attire...macam macam. As for us, since we were hungry, tired, sticky, smelly, thirsty...we just couldn't be bothered. In fact, we were wondering why the heck did we even signed up.
Anyhow, you can imagine our relief when registration opened at 6.20pm. Some ladies tried their luck into cutting the line and were greeted by loud boos from the rest of us who had queued up much earlier. C'mon...did they honestly think they can get away with this?
As we approached the registration table, we were asked if we had registered already. We were honest, so we said yes. IF we had not registered beforehand, we can also be dishonest and said yes. Afterall, they didn't have any way of checking right there and then. I thought that was real stupid. Very disorganised. We then went on to pick up our early bird freebie (meant for the first 300 people), which consisted of a nike string bag and a little water bottle...hmmm, that's all?? As we approached the event area, we saw refreshments being served. Being hungry as we were, we waited not a single minute. Who cares if yoga and cardio were starting soon.. satisfying our hunger was more important. There was a booth for hair braiding and a long line quickly formed...to my surprise. I can bet you some of those people in the line had no idea what they were queuing up for. Main ikut saja.....
After we had eaten, we waited for the event to start. No announcement...nothing. After waiting for another half hour, then only the emcee announced the event will start at 7.30pm. By then, we were practically bored to death. Even as all of us were waiting at the main area, we still had to wait another 15 mins before we were allowed in.
The nite started off with 15 min of yoga. I can tell you it's a not a good idea to be doing yoga on slippery sandy tile floors. It was plain ridiculous and stupid. From yoga, we moved on to cardio, Combat style before the actual Rockstar routine kicked in. It wasn't easy to follow the instructors from way behind cos whomever that was handling the projector screen obviously wasn't very efficient. The nite also included a fashion show which showcased Nike's new summer collection, with the Jam instructors as models...ok la, got gaya. We left halfway thru the event so that we can beat the jam later on...yes, we were very kiasu... again.
We ended the nite with dinner at Lemongrass.
When we arrived at the Surf Beach, there were already a few ladies waiting around. Apparently the whole area were not ready yet and the Nike and some FF staff seemed to be running around trying to get organised. As we waited, more and more women started arriving. We were very hungry and we had initially planned to get a bite to eat before the event started. However, judging by the number of ladies starting to arrive, we decided not to give up our spot..ok la...we were a bit kiasu. So, there we were, waiting in line... and it was only 5.30pm.
With nothing to do, we spent our time observing people's characteristics..and there were lots, I tell you. 2 japanese ladies behind us spent the entire time taking pictures of themselves on their mobile..giggling away, just like any young teenagers would. A group of ladies were showing off their abilities to boogie, some showing off their attire...macam macam. As for us, since we were hungry, tired, sticky, smelly, thirsty...we just couldn't be bothered. In fact, we were wondering why the heck did we even signed up.
Anyhow, you can imagine our relief when registration opened at 6.20pm. Some ladies tried their luck into cutting the line and were greeted by loud boos from the rest of us who had queued up much earlier. C'mon...did they honestly think they can get away with this?
As we approached the registration table, we were asked if we had registered already. We were honest, so we said yes. IF we had not registered beforehand, we can also be dishonest and said yes. Afterall, they didn't have any way of checking right there and then. I thought that was real stupid. Very disorganised. We then went on to pick up our early bird freebie (meant for the first 300 people), which consisted of a nike string bag and a little water bottle...hmmm, that's all?? As we approached the event area, we saw refreshments being served. Being hungry as we were, we waited not a single minute. Who cares if yoga and cardio were starting soon.. satisfying our hunger was more important. There was a booth for hair braiding and a long line quickly formed...to my surprise. I can bet you some of those people in the line had no idea what they were queuing up for. Main ikut saja.....
After we had eaten, we waited for the event to start. No announcement...nothing. After waiting for another half hour, then only the emcee announced the event will start at 7.30pm. By then, we were practically bored to death. Even as all of us were waiting at the main area, we still had to wait another 15 mins before we were allowed in.
The nite started off with 15 min of yoga. I can tell you it's a not a good idea to be doing yoga on slippery sandy tile floors. It was plain ridiculous and stupid. From yoga, we moved on to cardio, Combat style before the actual Rockstar routine kicked in. It wasn't easy to follow the instructors from way behind cos whomever that was handling the projector screen obviously wasn't very efficient. The nite also included a fashion show which showcased Nike's new summer collection, with the Jam instructors as models...ok la, got gaya. We left halfway thru the event so that we can beat the jam later on...yes, we were very kiasu... again.
We ended the nite with dinner at Lemongrass.
Will try to post some pics when available [:p]
