Penang 2 weeks ago
Posted by pyeong at 02:23 PM on December 1, 2008.
The view from my sister's place in Penang. Kinda overlooks the Penang Bridge, if you cut the pesky trees away...
This post is due for quite some time. Everytime I get around to writing it, I end up deleting the whole post. This has been happening for a few times. I don't know why I do it... Hmm...
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Penang Bridge run 2008.
This year's run for me, had been a disappointment. After getting myself a medal last year, I came home empty handed this time around. They only give out medals for those people who finishes the marathon within 3.5 hours. Sadly this I think I clocked in about 4 hours and plus-plus. Very steep deterioration in conditions since one year ago.
The knees seemed to be uncooperative and was in pain for almost through out the run. I've never experienced anything like this before and was quite shell-shocked about it. At the beginning, I put it down to insufficient warm-up but after running awhile, the pain was still there. The feeling of countless needles poking both my knees was too unbearable and I reckon I only ran about 400m of the 22.5km race. Heck even Ee Mee ran more and finished ahead of me. Aih, here's to next year then. Better preparations and more sleep the night before!
Some pictures taken from the center of the bridge, overlooking Penang Island. They are doing some renovations to the bridge to accomodate 2 extra lanes for motorbikes, hence the big kontenas on the side of the road.
On another sour note, my camera was sorta broken after the event. I was so happy when I reached home, I just passed the bag of dirty clothes to my mum for washing, forgetting to tell her my camera was inside. I guess she must have just dumped everything in the plastic bag into the washing machine and let it run. She only found out my camera was in there after the washings' done. Too late then.
The pictures was okay seeing how they were in the memory card but the camera itself was definitely gone. My reaction to it was seemingly ... calm. I just went "Oh... ok lo". Some where inside me, perhaps I was thinking about getting a new one. With the old one now gone, I can do it guilt-free! Now I just have to find the $$$ for it. That's the hard part.
Unemployment and Retrenchment
Posted by cheepan28 at 11:40 PM on November 23, 2008.
Just read the headline of Nanyang Siang Pau today on the unemployment that is affecting about 500,000 Malaysians working in Singapore.
I hope they will be able to persevere and survive through this difficult time until the economy recovers. I wish them all the best.
Currently feeling: grateful
Before I head home...
Posted by pyeong at 07:24 PM on November 13, 2008.
I'm heading back Kulim tomorrow for the 2008 Penang Bridge marathon. It's an annual thing for us KulimKia to participate in this event, even though the numbers are getting less and less every year. There's only 3 of us this year as compared to 4 the previous year... Hahaha! To me, this event is just a measuring yard on my fitness. No preps going into the marathon and I just run as much as I can. After that, it's just walking to the finishing line. I think I finished about 5 hours last year... running about 10km along the way heading to Butterworth. See if you can still find the post about it. I remember writing about it after I finished then.
This year will be tough as I feel my stamina has dropped dramatically from last year. Moving to KL has limited my jogging and futsal isn't really a good way to depend on to increase your stamina. My plan this year again... similar to last year's, is to walk all the way up to the ramp going to the bridge and then start running from there. My aim is to see where I felt I've reached my limit and stop there. The goal here is to reach the Butterworth side of the bridge and maybe jog a little more. I'll say this is an ambitious goal right now so we'll see how it goes. Hehehe...
I've always enjoyed jogging in the wee hours. Shamefully, I used to do it when I was young (in my teens) and tried it again in the Uni-days. Somehow the idea of waking up so early just got the better of me and I stopped pretty fast. It's just of the things that thinking about doing it is harder than actually doing it. Err.... get it? Ah well...
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The job market does't look all that good right now. Yeah there are still openings everywhere but looks like there isn't much of what I'm looking for.
I'm not sure if I fit in here now. Already used to the fast pace of the Semicon feel, the relaxed environment here in the Telco business ... feels draggy. Yeah sure they say it's urgent matter but the way they go about doing something "urgent" here is VERY SLOW! Oh man...! Alot of my work depends on others doing their work. Once this guy finishes task A, I look through it, analysis the task and then decides the course if the next guy should proceed with B or C. Well, this doesn't really tell the whole picture but it's just a general description of my dilemma. The thing is... finishing task A seems to take ages around here!!! Argh!
Ok enough of work angst. I just blabbered without realising it.
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How are you guys affected by the financial crisis around the work?
Me... Not so much. I'm just sad looking at the AMD stocks nose-diving everyday. It's basically dropped to the USD$2 now. I still remember the days when it was USD$40. It will be a miracle when that day comes again. You will see me selling this stock faster than Usain Bolt running the 100m! Oh man, the amount of moolah gone into thin air.... :( So much hope went into buying it but it only brought ... well nothing right now. I still count myself lucky and look towards the brighter side that this is all I feel about the crisis around the world now. Maybe later we'll feel the shit from this global recession.
Man... You won't want to open a bank now!
Hi I'm still here...
Posted by pyeong at 10:46 AM on November 5, 2008.
I'm still here. I don't think I will leave my journal writing just yet. Even more so when I just found weeks ago that my sister is also blogging! Hahaha, talk about jumping on the bandwagon. Everyone is blogging now in Malaysia. I seriously doubt my Dad will start though... Hahaha, that would be an even bigger shock than finding out my Brother is on Facebook!
Anyway, I was writing this long post about my latest job development yesterday (it was another long day in the office) but it got deleted when my boss paid an impromptu visit to me. I hastily closed Firefox and lost all the contents. Crap. Well, after the long day yesterday, I've basically finished my report then and I'm quite free'd up this morning to write a new post. 
Another thing to point out, I did my job after lunch in Starbucks yesterday. Changing the environment really helped. It was less stressful working off that coffeeshop area and the soothing music they play is really nice. I didn't suffer any of the usual headaches that I've been getting lately (since they put me in charge of the WHOLE Southern!). I would want to do it again today, if I have the time before the meeting.
Okay work aside...
I really need to find myself another room to rent. Staying with my uncle in Hartamas now is getting irritating. I mean the place is quite nicely-placed, seeing how I'm just 20 minutes away from my office and roughly 30 minutes away from my usual futsal haunt. Everyplace I go to alot, is quite nearby and the environment around the place... well, IT is Hartamas, so no complains there. Trying to find an affortable place to rent in KL is really a tough thing. Most of the locals I know around here, don't really know much about places for rent to intro around... while the out-of-the-towners are just staying WAY too far to introduce a nice place around KL. I was thinking I should apply leave and run around looking at the notices in convinience shops like 7-11 and apartments. Weekends should allocated to maximum relaxation and doing absolute nothing-ness. Hehehe... My budget is RM250 max. Any higher and I would bleed.
I gotta thank my blog-lurker Chin Siong for willing to take in my resume. Hahaha, and here I thought I had Kulim Kias as the majority of my blog lurkers...
