Completely Incompetent & Bungling fools

Arrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Service with a smile they say! Service beyond expectations! Service that should have left your equipment as good as before or even better! Bah! Humbug!

This is the feeling that I had today. My HRM battery has died on me last week. Hence it was hard for me to keep up with my workout session and I was feeling a bit under the weather plus extra workload(plus giving me the excuse of not doing any). So yesterday as I was out doing some shopping with the family, I decided to get it fixed. Once the deed is done, the watch was as good as new. Or so I thought!

A few laps in the pool today proved otherwise. I was about to time myself ans as I was looking at the watch, all I could see was a pool of water in the display. I was like WADAFAK! It was fine when I took it for swimming before the battery change. Took it off and start to examine the backplate, 3 out of 4 screws are MISSING!!!!! How could it happened? Didn't they checked all the fixing screw should have been in place before returning it to your paying customer after a battery change or else the watch wouldn't be waterproof anymore?

A trip back to shop was called for. The salesgirl recognised me and with the look on my face she knew that it wasn't good news. She explained that her completely incompetent and moron of a colleague didn't screw all the fixing screws yesterday, She only knew about if after he asked what to do with the extra screws? She said she tried to find me after I left the shop but couldn't find me. Call yourself and establishment that deals with fine timepieces and you find extra screws during a basic routine battery change?

I wouldn't know whether they could repair the watch or not as from what I could see it had extra electronics part for the HRM. If they couldn't than I would like to request a new one, equivalent or better replacement. Till then I have to wait till they have a look at it more closely.

Ulterior Motives

I received a phone call today that makes me wonder whats the motive behind the call. You see, I had investigated an incident a few months back, and since I couldn't find anything conclusive I have issued a report with possible causes and not pinpointing into one. The reason being is that I can't say with full conviction that I have found the root cause of the incident. So when the call came in, the caller was basically saying that my report was akin to "paralysis by too much analysis" and wanted me to at least identify one root cause that would indemnify a vendor.

What happened was that the caller is the head of another department who have slapped a vendor on the wrist and would like to use my report as means of further punishment. Hence he kept pushing me to select at least a reason so that my report could have been used against the vendor. I felt that they had an ulterior motive as dishing out punitive reports wasn't in my scope of work. They wanted to impose a sort of punishment but wanted to be seen as it was not by them.

Macam mana ni? Baling batu sembunyi tangan? I personally won't do up a report that I have no strong conviction in it. I have to talk it out with my immediate supervisor about this and see what he's going to say. I really hate the feeling that I'm being a pawn in someone else's chess game.

Timely updates

Been held with a lot of work for the past week, not including unplanned site inspection due to equipment failure. The week has been hectic to me but I have to wrap everything up by Saturday to attend The Boy's School Concert & Graduation.

It's amazing when I asked him where are the concert is going to be held, he just said "Zon Kunci" is where the bus had stopped when they had the rehersal. Bless him for being observant but how in the world could anyone find out where "Zon Kunci' is... ( It's actually a street sign telling that the area is a vehicle clamping zone for indescriminate parking")

The concert was actually held in a Kelana Jaya, but the strange thing is that we we met up with a massive jam trying to enter the concert venue due to the fact that the guards wanted everyone's particular upon entering the place. I was like" WTF? 4-6 y.o. can run amok and steal stuff from ther? C'mon, we're going there for a kindy concert people!" In the end, they relented and let everyone in without taking down my grandmother's middle maiden name, or they could have ran out of visitors passes.

We enjoyed the concert very much, seeing kids conquering their fear and let themself loose on the stage in front of a big audience. Granted some did had stage fright and a few were reduced to tears on stage, but on overall their good spirit to perform prevails.

Rock & Roll Baybeh!

Look Ma! I've Graduated

Everybody knows me bcoz I'm the famous rock & roll star!

Kudos to the teacher for their patience in teaching the kids all the moves and dances. You could hear most of them counting "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8" when doing their moves or eyes on the floor searching for their markers, but the event hadf me bursting at the stitches, laughing my head off seeing the kids in their element.

Well, the next one we will be attending this sort of do would be in another 4 years time!

If you think you could, you would

After last week's run, I decided to push the envelope a bit more. I haven't done any distance longer running than 5km, so today I've decided, WTF, I'll might just run 10km to gauge how fit I am. It turned out to be a rather long run, wait, make it run/walk/run/walk. I finished the course in 1:17, which is miserable by any standards even for a first try. But as long as I am still standing after it, I guess I could just improve upon it.

Also had another go at the pool today, just to build up the endurance and guess what, still a lot more improvement can be done there. So hopefully with these baby steps, I could see more substantial improvement in the future.

ps. also hope that the 10km run would atone my sins of having satay 4 days in a row due to open houses, not forgetting nasi beriyani, nasi mandie, nasi minyak, char kuey teow and the list goes on...

Terry Fox Run 2007

Wohoo! We did it. I mean The Boy & Me did it. We ran the course and crossed the finishing line. We were there by 7.45 am but couldn't find parking near the drop off area, so we had to park at the Bird park and made our way to the start line.

At home before leaving

Cheeky pose - full moon?

Before the run - still can smile

Belly dancing warm-up - shake it, shake it ....

There were two sessions of warm-up, one by Fitness First, the other by these ladies doing belly dancing. You can guess which one received the most participation, hehe ...

Terry Fox Run Route

During the run

The guy in the orange cap took a short cut - loads of people behind us

The route started off with a hill ascend, which most of the participants was walking calmly as the starting horn has sounded. We walked for a bit until it was clear to run, and I asked the boy to set the pace. In case if he was tired, then he can walk albeit at a fast pace. I was surprised that he can clear the hilly bits of the course until we came to the Bird park area. Then the route was mostly downhill, so it didn't pose much problem to us.

He managed to run for about another km or so before we started to walk. And then the inevitable happened... he asked for a dukung (carry), which I obliged for about 500 m. Imagine me with a backpack on my front and a kid on my back... endurance training galore..

When we saw the finishing line, and the boy decided to run and finish the race, which is about 800m away. Congratulations son, you made it. Next year it will be the four of us (hopefully).

I'm a finisher !!!!!


Penat! Penat! Aiman lapar ni ...

After race treat - free cotton candy !!

ps. went to the donut place as the mrs. is having craving for it - We were there by 11 am, and there's about a 30 mins wait line already formed. By the time we got to order, the favs are all gone, but there are other just as good...total time spent in line & waiting for order 1 hour 10 mins, which reminded me, never again on weekends...