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Sunday, 23 April 2017

Jogathon Warisan (Kwong Tung Cemetery Run 2017)

23 April 2017
Kwong Tung Cemetery
Flagged off at 5.30am for 21km, 6.50am for 5km and 7a.m for 10km runners.
My category – 10 km open
Price – RM35 per runner for early bird and RM95 for normal rate
Race Pack – Blue t-shirt and registration bib
Goodies – Medal and buns

We arrived at the car park around 6.30am as it was so jammed heading to the Kwong Tung cemetery parking. Also, the roads were already closed as the 21km runners already flagged off at 5.30am. Luckily, we were asked to park at the funeral parlour.

Funeral parlour open for parking

The organiser conducted everything in Mandarin so there was no way for us to know what was going on. I had to ask someone to tell me what to do, i.e. where is the check-in and is it time for the 10km runners to be on standby. We were flagged off at 7am.

So, we ran towards the road and then head towards the Kwong Tung cemetery. I didn’t know that the cemetery was so big and is still expanding. It was not an easy run as it had a lot of uphill and when it comes to downhills, there was no way to run down quickly as the paths were uneven. Also, we are running with lots of inexperienced secondary school runners, who tended to walk, talk and form a horizontal line, which made it difficult to overtake them.

There were 3 water stations for 10 km runners, serving mineral water and 100+ isotonic drinks. No portable toilets were prepared along our cemetery run.

Upon arrival at the finishing line, we were given our medals and we took our buns. We helped ourselves to more 100+ isotonic drinks. There was also Milo, Indocafe coffee and Nestle breakfast cereal but the cereal had already finished when I arrived.

Check out the pictures below:-

At the starting line

Are they suppose to be ghosts?

Check out the old graves

The mission to find Yap Ah Loy's tomb

Graveyards facing the skyline buildings in KL

This should be the Hokkien funeral parlour

How do you get down there to clean the graves and pray?

The most prestigious British primary school in KL

All finished when we arrived

Friday, 31 March 2017

Ishin Japanese Dining – 31 March 2017

We came here for our corporate conveyancing department’s dinner. This restaurant serves genuine Japanese and Kaiseki style cuisines that are cooked to order and their ingredients are imported from Japan. This restaurant is operated in an old bungalow house along the busy Jalan Kelang Lama. We booked way in advance for a table of 14 and we were informed that we would have to come for dinner between 6.30-8.00pm (1^st seating) and thereafter our table will be given to guests of the 2^nd seating. The restaurant is small and they do not have many tables.

Ground Floor

1st Floor

Dining at the balcony

Chef at work

We ordered the following set dinner course:-

Sushi Tempura Zen RM61.00. We were given a bento set and were served with a few types of sushi, tempura prawns, potato and vegetable, soup, chawanmushi and fruits. I personally like the tempura, dipped with light sweet soya sauce. However, the sushi rice was a bit hard.

Seafood Teppanyaki RM55.00. There was salmon, prawns and scallops and it was served with salad, soup, fried rice and fruits. The seafood was quite fresh.

Beef Teppanyaki RM61.00.

Chicken Teppanyaki RM42.00

Curry Rice RM37.00. Tasted more of curry powder.....

Macha Ogura RM17.00. I do recommend the green tea ice-cream with red bean.

Goma Ice cream RM20.00. The black sesame ice-cream also tasted very nice.

Chocolate Parfait RM19.00. If you like cream and mousse, this will be the dessert for you.

Mix Mochi RM33.00. Beautifully shaped as little fruits and pumpkins and tasted good.

The extensive menu (from the tablet) offers something for everyone. They have soba, teppanyaki, tempura, don, different kind of fishes and seafood, salads, ice-creams and mochi. So even if you do not like Japanese food, you will still be able to find something to suit your taste buds.

The price for the food and desserts is not cheap. In my view you can get better Japanese food elsewhere for the price.

The service is quite fast and there is a free valet parking service. Your car will be parked by the jockey nearby the bungalow house and will not be in front of the house.

The details of the restaurant:

Ishin Japanese Dining

202, Persiaran Kelang

Off 3 ¾ Jalan Kelang Lama

58000 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-7980 8228

Opens daily from 12pm -3pm & 6pm to 1am

https://www.ishin.my

Sunday, 26 March 2017

SpongeBob Run 2017

26 March 2017
Setia City Park
Supposed to flag off at 7a.m. but all runners were flagged off at 8.10a.m.
My category – 3 km (accompanying my little girl)
Price – RM85.00 per runner for early bird and RM95 for normal rate
Race Pack – Fluorescent yellow t-shirt, drawstring bag, SpongeBob pillow, registration bib and Sunway Lagoon vouchers
Goodies – Medal and a bottle of mineral water

We were asked by the organiser (on their facebook page) to arrive at Setia City Park at 6.30a.m. We arrived at 6.10a.m., parked our car at the open car park (which was not free and we had to pay RM4.00) and walked towards the stage. The organisers and sponsors were setting up their booth.

All the runners waited and waited and waited. An emcee came to stage at about 7a.m. and there were so many runners already queuing behind the starting point and the emcee told those runners to come to the front of the stage for warm-ups and safety briefing.

We were getting tired of waiting and the emcee kept on saying, we will start soon. But when? No time was mentioned at all. What was the organiser waiting for? Nobody knew what happened that day.

The emcee did the warm-up with us at 7.30a.m. He was hilarious and trying his best to entertain us, which he did. After the warm-up and safety briefing, we were asked to walk towards the starting line. Again, we had to wait for radio deejays to give speeches and they brought out SpongeBob to the starting line. They flagged us off in 2 waves, ignoring whether you are running 3 km or 5 km. We were at the side of the starting point and ran in the first wave.

1st wave to run

I was impressed that my little girl was running. There was one water station only for both 3km and 5km runners, serving mineral water and Revive isotonic drinks. We took both of the drinks. After a brief stop, we continued to run. There were times my little girl walked as she was tired already. She said she wanted to walk back to the starting point. I kept on encouraging her to run on…..

Run Baby Run

When she saw the finishing line, she decided to speed up to get her medal. She finished the run in 30 minutes. It was a very smooth run, on the road with no slopes at all.

There she goes......

Since daddy is one of the top 5 runners for the day, he decided to play games at the carnival and won stickers for Salaree and got himself a big bottle of Pokka Peach tea for us. All of us queued up later for the Astro spin and win game. We won an Astro sticker and fan and ice-cream potong. Salaree managed to get the ice-cream potong with her spinning wheel.