After waiting for almost a month since the day I register. After joining the pre-marathon at Bukit Jalil, the big day has finally came.

It was the Standard Charted KL Marathon 2009.

The day before the event (Saturday), Sophea and I went to Dataran Merdeka to collect our race pack.

The race pack comes with a Reebok singlet (good quality 1), the bib number with sensor on it and some sponsor’s vouchers.

0259 is my number and red colour is for 10km. Faster go buy this number, after you won just remember to give me half.

After the race pack collection, we went to Mid Valley for shopping, dinner and watched the movie Fighting.

Reached home around 11 PM. Tried to sleep earlier but it was just too early. I thought I fall asleep around 1 AM.

The next day, we woke up at 4 o’clock in the morning. Got ourself prepared, had our breakfast and then head off to Bukit Jalil to the take the shuttle bus.

We reached Dataran Merdeka around 6.30 AM. By the time we reached there, the full- and the half-marathon runners have already started.

We started with some warm-ups before the run (and of course pose a bit).

The crowd was crazy. There were total of 12,500 participants and 5100 of them were running the 10km.

10 minutes before the race, everyone started to gather at the start line.

We were very excited and nervous.

Once the clock reaches 7 AM, the race started with a gun shot.

All of us got separated very early in the race.

I started the race with a slow pace. The hardest thing at the beginning of the race is to avoid stepping on people’s foot and overtaking the others.

Everything was fine until the first drinks station, 3km from the starting point not far away from the National Museum. I had a drink and continued running. But too bad it followed by a sloop.

Running on sloops has never been part of my training before this. And most of my trainings never go pass 4km. I had to slow down but still maintained at a running speed.

But then again, it was another sloop after the second drinks station at 5.5km. I was kind of exhausted at that point. I had to walk.

After the sloop, I started to run again. This time I didn’t stop all the way until I reached National Bank.

From a distance, I saw the big Malaysia flag high in the sky, I thought “Yes! Almost there!”.

I sped up a bit and try to reach the finish line sooner. But as I got nearer to the Dataran Merdeka, I almost pengsan because instead of turning right to the finish line, we had to turn left to Sogo to run another freaking 2km.

“WTF???!!! Was that a prank or something???!!!” I was completely sien diao. Wasted my energy to speed up just now.

The last kilometre was nightmare. I was tired, exhausted, drained, expelled and all other conditions used to describe depletion of physical and mental resources.

I didn’t think of anything else but to ask myself keep running and hopefully I can reach the finish line before the time limit.

I kept running until I saw the big Malaysia flag once again. I wanted to speed up again but my body just couldn’t do that.

As I slowly ran towards the finish line, I wondered if I have made it in time. To my surprise, it was 1 hour 20 mins and 20 seconds!

I’ve made it!

It was such a relief. I felt great and satisfied.

Ted was already there long before me.

Sophea reached the finish line approximately 4 minutes after me.

And Jenn Ting went missing.

We couldn’t find him and he didn’t bring his handphone.

We have no choice but to leave him behind and thought that he is old enough to make his own way home.

So we headed to the bus stop to take a bus back to Bukit Jalil. And out of a sudden, Jenn Ting appeared from no where.

“Why you never bring your handphone?” Sophea was pissed.

“Because I know… faith… will lead me to find you all once again…” Jenn Ting replied.

We were speechless.

However, there we were, at the finish line holding our finisher medals and with a big smile on our faces.

It was really a good run and wished I was more fit and well trained.

If I have the chance to run again, I will. But next time, I will have to train harder.

Update Result:
Net Start — 06:59:17
Net Time — 01:19:17
Finish Timing — 01:20:29.14
Position — 1271

P/S: More photos on my Facebook.

1. Once you have it, you can’t live without it.
2. You have illusions that you are in the heaven.
3. It makes you feel very sleepy all the time.
4. You will become more and more lazy day by day.
5. You don’t feel like getting up in the morning to go to work.
6. You will sleep until noon during weekends because you do not feel the sun light.
7. You can’t stay any longer outside of your room.
8. You always wanted to go home when you are outside.
9. It drills a hole in your wallet.
10. It will keep all your house mates distant because everyone will just shut their doors once they got home.

Behold, meet the devil.

By reading the title “Sexual harassment” you might be wondering what am I going to write.

No, I did not paid to be molested this time, but I had been molested by an uncle in the sauna room today.

Don’t laugh, it’s not funny okay. Do you laugh at your friend is she got raped by some guy? Okay maybe that’s different case. But this, is my case.

I went to the gym as usual but it was slightly late because I had to settle something for my boss. I reach the gym around 8.30 pm and I finish my workout around 10 pm.

So I went into the sauna room after I took a quick and hot shower. The room was empty and it was darker than usual due to one of the light sources were not functioning.

As usual, I like to take off the bath towel and cover my private part with only the hand towel. But of course I always do it in a way that no one can see the important part.

Just as I was enjoying the heat and my sweat started dropping like running water, one uncle seemed to be in his 40’s came in.

The seats in the sauna room forms an L shape. It has two levels, the upper deck and the lower deck. I was sitting at the upper deck at the middle of the L shape. This uncle came in and sit at the opposite of the lower deck at my right hand side.

At his position, his eye sight is at the same level of my… ehem… you know what. I tried to look at him in his face, but he didn’t care and he kept staring at my… you know what.

“Oh no… not again,” I told myself because this is not the first time people stalk at me in the sauna.

He broke the ice by asking “do you want to pour more water?”

I looked at him and said, “It’s ok if you want to, I don’t mind.”

“Oh I was just asking.”

“Okay.”

“So how long you’ve been working out at the gym?”

“Around one year.”

“Wah not bad. You can have such a nice body in one year.”

“No lah. There are still a lot to improve.”

“You stay somewhere nearby? Why so late still come to the gym?”

“Yeah, stay somewhere in Puchong. I had something to do that’s why I was late.”

“Oh… you come here alone ar?”

“Yeah, I’m alone. Used to join together with a few friends but now left only me.”

“Hahaha… it’s like that one lah. But if you see your own results you will feel good.”

While he was saying that, he stood up and walk to my left side.

“You have very nice arms,” he said that while squeezing my left arm.

“No lah,” I said.

“No really, you have nice chest too,” he then pressed around my chest. I started to feel weird and uncomfortable.

While I was thinking what should I say or do to stop him, his hand already moved further down to my abdominal, “nice six-pack also, but if you can workout your lower abs, your six-pack would be more obvious.”

Okay this is way too over. It had to stop. But it seemed like he still want to go further down, I quickly use my hand to block my, ehem… you know what, then only he let his hand off me.

“Oh you feel itchy huh.”

I look at him and didn’t say anything.

“I ar… I’m going out to have a drink,” he went out leaving me alone in the sauna.

Without any further hesitation, I quickly grabbed my bath towel and left the sauna room as soon as possible.

Never thought that something like this would happen. My spontaneous reaction database do not have the record for countering this situation.

Now I know. I would know what to do next time.