Archive for April 2017

Surfing in Bali, Indonesia (captured with Nikon D 5100)

I love Bali.

And I miss Bali.

I miss Bali so much that last night I started to look at the pictures I took during my Bali travel over the years, including Bali Marathon 2015 (click here for my Bali Marathon 2015 race report).

Then my eyes gazed and paused at the photos I took during the Bali trip in 2010.

I couldn't get my eyes off the colorful surfboards, the clear blue sky and the white sandy beach of Bali, notably the long stretch of Kuta, Seminyak and Legian.

All the memories started to flashback!!

Wow! Such an awesome trip, connecting to the sun, sea, and sand of Bali. 😊

A couple of week ago, I saw some running friends posting on Facebook about Running Lab's Project Love Sneaker 2017.

It's a very meaningful project to collect old but still clean and reusable running shoes to donate them off to Destiny Starting Point Welfare Association to help the elderly, individuals with disabilities and less fortunate youths.

In return, Running Lab will present the shoe donor with RM 100 voucher to be used for your next pair of running shoe.

It has been a week since my first ultra marathon experience at Route 68 Challenge 2017 in Gombak on 16 April 2017. (Please click here for the complete race report).

7 days.

7 hard days - mentally and physically.

Until now, I am still not fully recovered from the "50km" trauma cum achievement!

I have always wondered how it's like to run beyond 42 km. And it's also on my bucket list to do it one day.

After 7 years of running and 23 full marathons, I finally took up the courage to sign up for an ultra marathon this year. :) A very "safe", 'risk-averse" runner, don't you think? Well, a chicken little has finally decided to turn into a baby ultra marathon man to F L Y! haha! 😜

I have chosen 2017 to run a 50 km ultra marathon for a very meaningful personal reason. See - I'm turning 50, becoming a half-century egg this year. Sad, but true. I wish I could turn back clock to be younger but I can't defy the natural ageing process. Sob! Sob!

50 km @ 50

Either now or never!

Physical activities / rehabilitation program with music and Swiss ball.

Last month alone, there were total of 5 days which I visited my aunt in a hospital with nursing facilities in Alor Setar and my friend's father at an old folks home in Kepong.

What I witnessed in a short span of a month really shook me up!

It's about the aged and forgotten - the old folks - our dear mother, father and beloved ones.

The old folks home that I visited housed 24 seniors in their golden years. The hospital that I visited housed 30 seniors at one floor with most of them diagnosed with Parkinson disease or stroke wwho need professional nurses to take care of.

Seeing all seniors, either sick or healthy under one roof can make a person very depressed.

After 23 years not setting foot in Alor Setar, Kedah, a place where I spent 4+ years attending Keat Hwa Secondary School and where most of my relatives (my mom's side) live, I finally visited this wonderful city that has always been special in my heart last week.

Alor Setar is the state capital of Kedah with a population of around 600,000. It used to be the largest city, but now Sungai Petani has overtaken Alor Setar to be the largest city in Kedah since 2010.

Alor Setar has really progressed and developed over the years. The whole city landscape has changed drastically. Having said that, there is still no traffic jam here (unlike Kuala Lumpur or even Penang) and it's a breeze driving from one destination to another. The pace of living in Alor Setar is very much slower than Kuala Lumpur, It's rather relaxing with the kampung feel (compared to KL) yet with great facilities and infrastructure.

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