Just Keep TRI-ing

I finally received my masters certificate and transcript after almost 6 years. I enrolled in this programme on 9 July 2006 at UTM KL and was only conferred the degree on 6 July 2011. What was supposed to be a 2 year programme was delayed following my relocation from Kuala Lumpur to Lumut, Miri and then to Qatar. The total costs escalated from RM 20k to more than RM 50K. Imagine I had to drive 4 hours from Lumut, fly 2 hours from Miri then 8 hours from Doha to attend classes, seminars and presentations in Kuala Lumpur. It was hard to focus and excel on the studies when you live thousand miles from school. Your chance of success is very slim, much like when you are in a long distance relationship. Call it third time lucky,  I failed my final year thesis twice before I got lucky just to pass the third time. Sometimes I was thinking, was it even worth it? I had contemplated to quit not once, but 6 times. I exhaled the longest ...

I started my training programme for Asics Half Marathon, Gold Coast 2012 with 74 days to go yesterday. My target is to finish this race under 2 hours. It may sound impossible now as my personal best is a meagre 2:33:30. But I will give everything in me to do this. I have to. I regard this as my personal qualifying time to enter Dubai Marathon in January 2013. I will train hard and stick to my training programme even though it will be very difficult to train in the sizzling Doha summer leading up to the race.  (Terus lagu Justin Bieber Never Say Never bermain dalam kepala, p/s im not the Bieb's fan ok).  I guess I am lucky to have full support from my wife and constant encouragement and motivation from the members of Doha Bay Running Club. I have won half of the battle there I believe. Now I only have myself to beat. Registration slip

My All Time Top 5 Personal Records: 5 KM 1.   20:22   4:04/km  22/11/13   Doha College 5K, Qatar 2.   20:58   4:11/km  06/12/13   Al-Khor Open Triathlon 3.   21:42   4:20/km  29/11/13   GMC Triseries Doha Race 2 4.   21.49   4:21/km  14/12/13   Standard Chartered Doha 10K 5.   23:03   4:36/km  21/03/13   Doha College Night Run, Qatar 10 KM 1.   44:17   4:25/km   11/04/14  The Pearl Triathlon (Team), Doha, Qatar 2.   44:45   4:28/km   14/12/13  Standard Chartered Doha 10K Half Marathon 1.  1:39:38    4:39/km    13/02/15   RAK Half Marathon, Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE 1.  1:39:38    4:40/km    14/02/14   RAK Half Marathon, Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE 3.  1:43:13    4:53/km    25/05/14   Edinburgh Marathon, Sco...

This small watch repair shop is located at the exit of Tibah Petrol station and  Kharatiyat Shopping Complex at Al-Kharatiyat, Doha. It's existence seems to be out of place with that makeshift shack, but there it is like a loose thread in otherwise a fine fabric. Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.4

Last Saturday, we joined a dhow cruise organised by our friends from Doha Bay Running Club. It was a nice relaxing day on the bay. Both Zach and Cinta were at their best behaviour. Zachary in particular was really enjoying himself and cannot stop runing and was very excited pointing and counting all the boats, yahts and jet skis   "Look boat, one, two, three.. three boats". He also very sociable and was not shy at all. That does not sound like him. He usually very shy and reserve when he meets strangers, but yesterday he was friendly with everybody. He even shook hands and talked to them.     Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.4

Zachary speaks really good english at his age with clear pronunciation. He is now able to create a sentence with two words like, 'Adik (Cinta) cry', 'Give mama', 'I dont want', 'I dont know', '...... up' etc. But some of his words are very hard to understand and sounds very much extra terrestial. Some of Zachary's really funny words: Musing Kinko (later evolved to Motosingkoler) = Motorcycle Eskotetete = Helicopter Dididi Bus (Then Duckly bus) = Double decker bus Potatoes Car = Police Car Wandindindi = Watermelon Findindindi = Fire Engine Zidaf = Giraffe Aventi = Elephant nonon = Lion Onos = Orange Ghin = Green Avelu = I love you Avelutu = I love you too Apapa (Then Apapin, then Ipin) = Aeroplane Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.4

I was in Malaysia for a short 7 days break recently. While planning for the trip I found out that there will be a half marathon race going to take place on 11 March. The thing is, I have to attend my good friend's wedding in the afternoon. But the temptation was too strong for me to resist. I am now addicted to running thanks to Da'a and Zaiton (The bride and groom for wedding I'm attending) who made me run my first half marathon last November in Penang. so I registered for the race and believe I will be okay and well enough to also attend the wedding. I have been training remember? Race kit collection on 10 March 2012 at the Brooks' store at The Curve Loving my bib no. I woke up at 4 am, had two slices of bread and went straight to the National Stadium. It was still dark and pretty quiet when I reached the stadium at 4.30 am. I was lucky to reach the stadium earlier, because the entrance to the car parks were congested soon after that thanks to the car park operator ...