Friday, April 29, 2011

Congratulation William & Kate

Congratulation to the newly wed couple

Prince William and Kate Middleton....


Thursday, April 28, 2011

Bali - Day 1 (The city life)

As normal, our trip always start from gathering in KL Sentral and departure to Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) by SkyBus.

I give AirAsia another round of thumb up as the check in via express line for online check in is fast and the boarding time have been carry forward leaving us no time for shopping. Good thing we landed in Bali earlier by 10 minutes too.

Upon arrival, Mr Bagus (One of the best services I ever engage for this trip - gelo82181@yahoo.com) our driver greet us with a good smile. Weather in Bali is super hot with sun shining brightly and temperature was at 37 degree Celsius. We are melting on the way from Airport to Tune Hotel, our first day accommodation.

Tune hotel famous for its cheap and no frill hotel offer the best choice for this trip as the location is good and price is so much cheaper. Moreover we are not going to sleep in the room for more. We pay RM 423 for 3 double room and one single room and 12 hours of air-condition.

Feeling hungry, we ask Mr Bagus to bring us to local warung for food and he bring us to some isolated place for nice food. Thumb up.....The nasi campur was one of the best. Yummy

Our second destination is Kuta Beach. We scroll along the beach without applying our sun block and we can feel the instance burn on our skin. Weather is so unbearable. After half hour under the hot sun, we hop back to our van and we ask Mr Bagus to drive slowly from Kuta to Seminyak passing by Legian. We didn't stop by as we are not really into shopping by passing by nice hotel and shops let us have a eye opener on the life of Bali.

We went to airport next to wait for Shyan Hui and Oi Mei. We take some time exploring the place and get a phone card.

Upon arrival we make our way back to Kuta for a good dinner. This round is Warung Made in Kuta. Frankly this warung have been over-rated by lot of blogger. For food posting on Bali, please refer to http://harkausiewmai.blogspot.com

Seeing time is quite late, I ask Mr Bagus to send us back to hotel and let him to go off for rest as we have long journey to go the next day. As night is still young for us, we headed to Kuta town by foot for shopping and see the night view of Kuta Beach.


That ended our first day in Bali, with the theme of 'Balinese City Life'

The tale begin here....

Just a starter for Bali Trip...

I might take sometime to consolidate all photo and writing so as for now, let me present you some opening clue of what it will be...

Eddie Lim presenting to u....

The tale of visionary monkey with a touch of wisdom glasses and beautiful slipper in the paddy field


Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Bali posting coming soon

Be ready for the much awaited Bali posting full of great photos, food and story...

Monday, April 18, 2011

The Art of Organizing

I get the idea of blogging this after so many dramatic story happen in Energizer Night Run 2011. I was there personally to experience this event and I come back with a heavy heart. It was such a visionary and wonderful event but it end up in chaos and bring so much unhappiness to every party.

I would not say the whole problem come from one side but many parties have to be responsible in this event and take corrective action to make sure things is in order.

I do have experience in organizing event in university and we take things seriously. No doubt not all event turn up superbly well but we just make sure it never turn out sour like what had happen in last saturday night run.

Like most people say, never wear a big hat if you don't have a big head......It take experience and learning before you can take things right....Thus, runner make a good running event, marketer make a good marketing event...As simple as that...

Lets see what happen that night and you judge whether is it main title sponsor, event management or runner fault.

1. Date of collection of running pack changed and was only notified via their website. Some runner do not received confirmation nor collection postcard.
2. Headlight not given on the running pack collection but was given during running day.
3. Parking fees is RM 10 and collected by unknown RELA staff.
4. One way in and one way out via a narrow tunnel without proper air vendilation. 10,000 runner storm into the tunnel....
5. Headlight collection turn chaos after not enough headlight to be distributed to runners.
6. Queue for baggage area is about 30 metre long and not moving. Runner have to storm in because race is starting soon and get scolded by baggage area marshal.
7. No proper signage. Basically people don't know where to start and when to start. 11km and 21km runner mixed up together and some runner run to wrong course.
8. Water station turn out dry and some water station end up with ice only. But whats the point of giving out 1.5 litre water and canned drinks 1km before the ending of the race.
9. Not enough wrist band as marker for runner who need to run few loops. How to ensure runner have run the exact distance?
10. Shortcut in the course is everywhere and no marshal around to prohibits runner from taking short cut.
11. Worst nightmare is goodies bag collection. Queue as long as 300 metre can be seen even before the ending point. Goodies bag been thrown around and police have to take control to disburse the runner. How can they put 10,000 runner in 4 different narrow collection area....
12. Rude MC scolding runners
13. Medal, certificate and finishing T-shirt not properly pack inside goodies bag leading to delay in passing the goodies bag.
14. Banana is place on the floor. After the chaostic goodies bag area I accidentally step on hundred of banana....Anyway, those banana are green!!!


There are many more complaint which I cant verified whether it was true or not like the T-shirt we get is fake and some car broke into during the race...

What ever it is, now the main sponsor and event management company had both issue notification and apology to runners and will take corrective action. I am not sure how much will that help in building back the reputation and how much step they need to rectify the damages. But just hope everything gone well.

The funnies thing ever, they never register the event with regulatories bodies....what a biggest mistake...

If my memorise never fail me, everytime I do an event in my university that involve more than 20 person or more, I have to make a police report to notified the event so it will never been label as 'illegal gathering' and I will have to issue notification to all parties involve so I wont get into trouble.....But how come an event management company can even overlook on this matter...

I am so thankful that so many event I have organise, none turn out like a nightmare like this.....For me I will have nightmare a day before the event and cant sleep properly but after the event I can sleep for more than 15 hours....Happen to me during my University event....hahaha...

Sunday, April 3, 2011

A perfect day

What is perfect day for you???????

Well, I hope I can start my day with a smooth drive to office and have a good subway sandwish as my breakfast.

A day of work can be tiring thus a conducive working environment is very important. Good collueague and friendly working approach is also important to me.

I prefer to have early work and early work release. OT should be minimal if possible. Travel is a must! I cant stand a work that sit in office 365 days.....Tea time with Starbucks Coffee sound great....

After work, I prefer to hit the gym for healthy lifestyle and go back home for a good meal.

Well, that is like fairytale story.....which might not really happen except I work as Sales Personel that I have flexibility in working time....

For now, I still have to go through all the pain of traffic jam, nasi lemak or economy beehoon as breakfast and office pantry Milo as tea break....

Well, I believe life can be better ans while I am still young, I must work hard...earn as much as possible....and have a perfect day in the future

3 parts of my body that I hate

Well, gals always say guys can't get their eye off on beautiful gals....Well, that is true... But guys also like to see handsome guy just to benchmark ourselves with them....hehe...Kiasuness...

Well, who don't like fair and good skin complexion....Who don't like muscular bicepts.....Who don't like smooth back???

As for me, I have 3 parts of my boyd that I hate about myself.....

First of all being my teeth....Gosh, senyum saja, harga saham jatuh....My teeth is so uneven that it look like Ugly Betty...

Second is my back....Sadly, my back is not smooth...There is some acne behind my back...Regret that i ignore hygience when I am young...super regret!!!!

Third is my tapak kaki lo......I won't say I am tall, but my leg is just small....Imagine I can fit into shoe size 7 or 8 le....haiz