one sunny day!

sidewayz?

saw tis at te nkve highway apparently te lorry was overloading wit heavy steel cables n turn sideway negotiating a sharp bend.

furniture!

woot! my 1st furniture..

ray of hope..

got this frm kota damansara around 9am.

house cleaning!

took a saturday weekend to do some cleaning at our new house. with some assistance from lis@ friends (thank u) n wailam n ahsiong, thanks!

vacuum!

where's that sucker!

(singing) in the jungle the mighty jungle (singing)...aiks apa ni!

well, we did pretty fast i would say...took around 3-4hours? then headed off to kepong makan steamboat..hmm..yummm...

Klcc at nitez..

bhp run - 13th apr 2008

3am - rain like crazy...
4am - even more heavily...
5am - hmm...rain started to slow down to drizzle...

ahsiong cakap rendezvous in near fitness first at the curve. was at the curve around 0645hrs, looking around for fitness first. saw ahsiong with his orange running suit gear with gps on his belt and training watch? wah, so high tech! the run will be starting around 0730hrs so decided to do some warm up before the run in 10mins time. you can see people drag their asses out from this cooling weather which is nice to be in bed covering with your blanket with air cond blowing down. aih...

if not mistaken the run should be started exactly 0730hrs when the gun went off in the air. air was cooling that added an advantage to everyone i guess! so started off normal, sprint about 50meter just to get my legs to warmup. the women started 5mins after men, about 10mins into the run the 1st women went pass through me. she was wearing a cap and boy she could run! feeling a little embrassing (i guess alot men did that time) went up my pace a little.

looking confident

went this going to be over!

dazed n confused!

into the hills i came! it was like dragging another extra 10kg each of your legs. i thought i will stop at some point. but my determination speaks for it self! do not stop! didn't took any water at the water station too (big mistake). it was crowded with ppl anyway and i do not want to stop either. after a successful climb and exit out to the ex-sony building heading towards 1u, saw jazzmint taking picture of the bhp run (thanx for the pic!). the last 2-3km was not easy for me, exhausted and feeling a little light headed. must be lack of liquid, walked about 5mins to rest then continued all the way to the finish line.

distance : 9.98km (according to ahsiong gps)
time started : 0730hrs
time ended : 0840hrs
total time taken : 70mins

p/s : all pics are courtesy from jazzmint

upekka @ sec17/8

another place for ppl in pj to dine in this little humble restaurant at sec17. as we know sec17 is a peaceful and quiet neighborhood, preferred by any university students to stay there. i had stayed there for almost 3 decade for now. u can actually find your way in and out for food easily. no hassle. but for this case "upekka".

here's the sign board

kam heong rice

spaghetti with tuna

fried rice, not sure what kind of style

mee hon goreng

fried loh shi fun

mainly there are quite a number of local dishes. but for a change you also get spaghetti and western delights. haven't tasted their western yet but i forsee it would be nice but nothing to shout about. pricing is quite reasonable as their customer mostly are from uni or college student. this is a place that you or your partner can sit down and relax. no rush hour timing, just enjoy the food and the chit chats.. :D

ipoh fellowship ride 2008

started off to the nkve highway around 1130hrs from damansara tol. traffic was ok and some parts of the highway are upgrading to 3 lanes road either ya coming down from south or heading north. exited through tapah and headed to kampar for some makan time! anyway, it's been raining since i got to ipoh with heavy downpour along the highway until i exited at ipoh selatan tol. gosh, this going be a fun ride for tommorow! check in the hotel and headed to jusco a couple of hours later to makan dinner. the place my wife and i went called "bamboo" something. couldn't remember the name but it is at the 1st floor heading towards the GSC cinema area.

this is the place

prawn with mayonnaise and dragon fruit

ohh...the juice is superbly done!

sinchuan style noodle

next morning at 0430hrs, woke up and get prepare for the ride. rendezvous at nasi kandar nasmir just beside the tesco ipoh there. 0600hrs head off to mk land office for the registration. got my number # 071. :D can't hardly wait to flag off the ride!

well, flagoff around 0800hrs i think...riders are getting excited and eager to sprint out like they had never been ridden for years. the crowds was echoing with noises luckily we are way out of radius within the neighborhood. alas! we had a lift off...my riding mates sprinted fast ahead of me where i need to catch up upon them. it wasn't easy as i used to start slow and steady, sprinting ahead of others zooming past other riders was my very first time. adrenaline rush was all time high on that period of time.

there were hills after hills at stage 1, which i never anticipated during this ride. with the fitness level i am having those hills never been easy at all. by the time i was about to reach the first checkpoint i think i had drained out. should had save some of the adrenaline... :( pushing my bike uphill was a torturing event. but what goes up must come down! downhill was awesome and the snake like trail was totally mind blowing. that was the most enjoyable moment i ever had. by the time i had reached to the 2nd checkpoint, i was totally worn out. to add some salt on the wound, the 3rd checkpoint was entirely uphill for about 7km! ok, thats it for me! i'm done! took the chicken loop to the 4th checkpoint which some mild uphill and flats all the way back to the finish/start line. that took me around 1hr 45mins for some 15km. i know it's a long time but to tell you the truth, i was actually struggling back to the finish line. each of my every muscles in the body was calling out pain, exhaustion, dehydration (forgot to drink water) and my brain cells are not actually working properly.

looking back the trails and suffering i went thru this fellowship ride, it was all well worth it. or else it won't be called mountain biking for no reason..haha..organizer and the sponsors of this event did a wonderful job and did not let down anyone who participated this event. two thumbs up for the ipoh fellowship ride 2008! :D

old skool pic..

well, was resting and having some coconuts at sg.buloh lepar town after an hour of riding.

oh yeah! did a 2.3km run at ttdi taman. look all the cars park there, was full pack with ppl.

testing with my phoneblog...my new SE K770i... :D

bowling is fun! but.....

working boringly at the office on friday...was thinking of shooting some balls later (bowling) alone while waiting for my wifey to get off work (she's in IBM). started off with some inaccurate shoots n cleaning the longkang alot, been lay off a while on bowling. i know my trusty arm will find my shoots back remembering the glory days a decade ago. it did when i was at the 5th game. the score board was like this:

9/ | X | 8/ | 9/ | X | 8- | 7/ | 81 | 7/ | 9--

ohh yeah! who's ur daddy! very climax already..i don't get this chance all the time..better quick take my phone n snapshot of the score sheet. blady hell! where's my phone? is not in my pocket either at the seat. sat there for 5 mins thinking where's my W660i phone? ok it struck me that my phone sudah kena hijackeD! arrggghhh...i was dumbfounded at that time. i left my phone at the seat covering it with the bowling ball handler. :0 . well, it's also partly my fault that i put it at the seat...but but it's covered! arrggh..the guy whole stole it must had been stalking me i guess...sweat!...well that's an expensive lesson to learn..anyway, i got 1 more game to finish off..what the hell, just continue my last game and the scores comes out like this:

-3 | 7- | -1 | -- | [8]- | 34 | 5- | 14 | 16 | -7-

what an anti-climax...aih....

my house part 2

what ya think about the house? much more cleaner! hahaha..yeap! 75% completed, some paint job and some electrical connections will do it. just take a look at a few pic taken frm my camera phone. a bit blur la.

my house part 1

here are some of a sneak peak of my new house which lisa n i bought. :) some minor constructions going on right now. hopefully all can be done this month jan 2008. can't wait..teehehhee..

the kitchen under renovation

my living room

did an arch for my wardrobe room

master bedroom looking at the arch

some idiot put his @#$% astro dish in between master n guest room

tagged!

ahlam tagged me...so here's goes nothing:

me,myself & i
1. like to cycle and hit the jungle trails! for that you'll get jungle friends as well....leeches...
2. eat as much as i cycle..about anything except raw stuff...
3. like to sleep alot (if i had the chance)
4. when im not cycling..futsal is my physical exercise i would say
5. am a movie freak..love to watch movie with my wife :D

my stuff! which i am proud of!
1. my most precious bike..merida tfs 300..fully pimped! been with me about a year plus, been gone through alot with the bike. how i get my first fall and my first endo...hahahaha
2. my shoe..adidas..all terrain shoe, when cycling with it, jogging, jungle tracking and i got it for RM259! was on sale...
3. the car i'm driving now is fantastic..been with me for 6 years at least. the car was made in 1997 before i actually own it..luv my car!
4. my new house which my wife n i bought this year. small house and nothing fancy about it. just glad that i finally own a house
5. my new future bed at my new house..soon..it's going to be soft and comfy for me to sleep..after all i'd been sleeping with my mattress for a long time! :D

batu dam ride @ 1st dec 2007

this my 2nd time i'm on this batu dam ride. we have "me0@tim and myaho2@andrew" both are quite an average ride. been describing how great was the trail was and both tim and andrew are itching to get there. glad they enjoy every moment of the trail and experience there! also, the "kelolo" team was there. at least we're not alone in that jungle trail. :D

me0 with his sexy post

myaho2 enjoying the strong breeze

myaho2 n ak (me)

started off around 0845hrs and completed around 1225hrs roughly. we did about 15km give and take according to myaho2. thanks to his faithful sigma cycle computer. thought of getting a compass before i hit the trail the day before, but didn't get one. the trail ain't that hard to go by anyway. even if we get lost, we'll just have to track back the trail. is more fun! :P the start of the trail are quite flat until you reach to the second river crossing. that's where the uphill begins...it's all uphill for there but it is ride able. not much of an extreme uphill though. the trail is just nice at the beginning...dry... :D

me0 n myaho2 hammering the trail

things gets a bit more wet when we are around 1/3 of the way. slippery rocks and mud at some part of the trail. more leeches attack! those sucker are a real sucker! anyway, leeches are the least we are worrying about. at some point of the trail, me0 lost this spectacles while he enjoying the dh section of the trail. he can't see without this specs. thankfully he found them after 5mins of searching the ground fully covered with dead leaves and falling branches around the area. worst some more he's specs frame are in black color. how nice it blends into the jungle surroundings.

me0 speeding away

all in all, the ride was fantastic and myaho2 seems to enjoy it and so does as me0 (kept complaining he's hungry)..hahaha..

nexus pcc ride 2007

it was exciting, fun, tiring (of course) and more exhaustion! haha.. well to be honest the whole ride was great. getting your butt up at 0430hrs preparing the stuff you wanna to bring . not that i didn't prepare anything the day before even though i should, but i was in kuala lipis that saturday nite so was kinda rushing back to pj.

its me! :D

the turn out was quite huge..not sure what time was then before it started the event but i reckon it was about 0800hrs. alot of people was at the starting point as usual and the official was given out instructions. some familiar faces i'd seen at the starting point. alot of the bikers are quite excited and ready to go! once they flag us off, it was a quite exciting atmosphere around us. the pcc officials did a fantastic job by stopping the traffics before we enter the offroad track!

some guys pumping up already

traffic jam ahead!

the first loop was quite smooth besides the traffic jam (bring back memories frm last year pcc) heading towards the 1st uphill. at the peak there is a smooth downhill heading towards a small stream. but that's where i had my 1st puncture. couldn't test my downhill skill (dammed!). eventually took me 5 mins to fixed my puncture.

25mins later (still jam)

well, i had my second puncture at loop 2. now it's the back tyre that puncture. i got a puncture before the loop 2 insane climb! bad luck for me i'd been thinking. what else can go wrong la! one of the hill in loop 2 was a killer! didn't expect that...who does?! manage to power up 3/4 of the way up and the rest of the way had to push...pushhh..but at the end result you get a good eagle eye view of the scenery. and heck, you still see people from below the hill are pushing up. good luck!

my last pic at the peak of loop 2 hill..insane climb!

well, managed to collect 3 stickers which i had completed 3/4 loops. which is not a bad record for myself. for those who did 4 loops , i salute you! for me i had to take the chicken route at loop 3 and it was crazy (15-18km for chicken route?). was dead tiring and have to ride that long journey back! uugghhh..and also there's a bit of technical single track as well. I thought i was going to take the highway back all the way on tarmac! hahaha...but even that i do really enjoy it.

anyway this year ride was the smoothest ride i ever had compared to last year. most of the trail are ride able and technical difficulties are on par with my skill (tak malu!). i'm not complaining! and for the pcc members they did a marvelous job handling this wonderful event of the year! thanks guys!

beer time!

yeap its 3pm n im drinkin beer now.. ;-)

After raya

Jam pack at jln raja chulan. miss those holidayz season.