URGENT ... A Call For Assistance

A young boy who's the son of an acquaintance of a KK Pacers member has been diagnosed with leukemia yesterday. He is only 14 years old and is in need of blood constantly and urgently.

His family is seeking help from friends, relatives and the public to donate blood. It does not matter which blood type you belong to as it will go towards replacing the blood that the young boy will need from the blood bank.

For those who are keen to help, kindly proceed to SJMC, 5th Floor for the blood donation procedure, please mention that you are donating for CHOK ZHI YONG.

Blood donation operation hour in SJMC :-
Mon – Fri : 8.30am – 6pm Saturday : 8.30am – 12.30pm

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

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Lantern Festival Cum Hari Raya Potluck!

Calling all Kota Kemuning Pacers!!!


In conjunction with the Lantern Festival and also Hari Raya Aidil Fitri, we will be organising another potluck get-together at our favorite haunt ... Kota Kemuning Lakeside. It's time for all to have some fun with lanterns and sparklers ... it's either you join your kids or be the kids yourselves!!!


Date: 15 September 2010

Time: 7.00 pm

Venue: Meet @ Pondok [all KK Pacers know this haunt, right?]


Being a potluck, bring whatever food you deem fit as "No Free Food Shall Be Rejected!" If you are up to it, you can come in your usual running attire for our usual Wednesday night run too.


Come, bring your family along and let's enjoy the eve of Malaysia Day together!

Check our photo album for the night over here.

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Light-trekking Up Apek Hill

KK Pacers member, Agnes Chew, an avid 'trekking-kaki' has graciously agreed to guide us up Apek Hill in Cheras on Saturday, 28 Aug 2010. Anyone interested, please meet at Kota Kemuning McDonalds at 7.00am.

This is what to expect up at Apek Hill!

Check out our album at Apek Hill here.

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Kuala Lumpur Rat Race 2010

Kota Kemuning Pacers participating in the Kuala Lumpur Rat Race 2010 on Tuesday, 3rd August? Not exactly. It's an annual race for charity organised by The Edge and Bursa Malaysia, a platform for the Malaysian corporate world to come together to help the needy. The minimal contribution to sent a team would have been about RM15,000 and this is definitely out of our league even if we can qualify for entry.



Anyhow we are still so proud to be associated with the event as one of our member, Mr. CG Lim won 'The Best Dressed CEO' category when he represented his company, Top Glove Corporation Bhd for the race.

The rat race covers 4.5km through the commercial heart of Kuala Lumpur, starting and finishing at the grounds of Bursa Malaysia with one of the sub-category race for CEOs at 1km. Participants are to run in their office attire and are allowed to carry other ‘executive’ paraphernalia such as mobile phones, PDAs, briefcases and laptops to vie for the ‘Best Dressed’ award. CG Lim and his team came in a costume that uniquely displayed their company's product ... rubber gloves.

CONGRATULATIONS CG LIM

& CONGRATULATIONS TO TOP GLOVE!!

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Seremban Half-Marathon 2010

It was certainly an enjoyable trip down to Seremban for the half-marathon last Sunday. While some KK Pacers had only departed at 4.30am on race day itself, some other KK Pacers had already enjoyed a night stay in Port Dickson at the Marina Bay Condominium, courtesy of our members, Mr & Mrs Chew Thong Hin. A huge thanks to them for their warm hospitality.

It also turned out to be surprised run for Cheou Wan Kwai who only knew he was running the half-marathon at the eleventh hour. He had actually planned to attempt his first half-marathon at the Penang Bridge International Marathon in November 2010 but since KK Pacers had mistakenly registered him in this run, he bravely proceeded with an astounding time of 1hr 49mins. Besides, this would definitely go down as a memorable first half-marathon since it is attempted right in his hometown of Seremban. CONGRATULATIONS CHEOU!!! Looks like the half-marathon at PBIM will be a breeze now.

It was also a good run for two of our young runners, Nick and Keith who finished their half-marathon at a personal best of 2hrs 05mins and 2hrs 18mins respectively. Tawfiq who was attempting his second half-marathon, managed an improved timing of 2hrs 24mins. Our Sunshine Lady, Cheryl was so delighted to regain her personal best of 1hr 05mins for the10km despite missing the flag-off by 3mins while hubby, Capt Steven zoomed in at 1hr 45mins for the 21km … just a slight 6mins short of his personal best. Doris completed her 10km at 1hr 10mins with a slight miss of 3mins from her personal best too.

Alt. Capt Ray was lucky to receive a lucky draw coupon with his certificate and medal. However, he only managed to draw a pack of 4 Guinness Malta ... which we have absent-mindedly left in the freezer at the Marina Bay Condominium.

After the run, the KK Pacers convoy proceeded to the Seremban wet market (a glutton square too) for the famous Seremban Hakka Mee, Beef Noodle and Cuttlefish Noodle. Subsequently, everyone left Seremban with at least a pack of the famous Seremban Siew Pow.

HAKKA MEE

BEEF NOODLE
CUTTLEFISH NOODLE
SEREMBAN SIEW POW

To check out your photos at the run, please click here.

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SCKLIM 2010 ~ So Many Firsts!

This year there were many firsts for KK Pacers at the marathon of the year, Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur International Marathon 2010.


Cheryl, Keith, Nick, Sean and Vivien participated in the SCKLIM Half-Marathon for the first time while Doris, Jen, Steven and Tawfiq attempted their very first half-marathon. Congratulations to Doris, Jen, Steven and Tawfiq who completed their first 21km in 3hrs 3mins, 2hrs 35mins, 2hrs 38mins and 2hrs 35mins respectively. Just as this lady marathoner said "I CAN DO IT!" and so have you all!! Bravo!!!


Eddie, Joanne, May, Nor Azizan and Sandy also participated for the first time at the marathon of year and finished their respective 10km run in 1hr, 1hr 18mins, 1hr 15mins, 1hr 15mins and 1 hr 26mins. Well done, well done!



Although a number of our KK Pacers had signed up for the full marathon, only a few managed to make it to the event yesterday due to work and personal commitments. There was yet another first as Emily finished her very first full marathon in 6 hours 45mins. What a determined spirit despite that bad stomach and a 15mins' pit-stop at the loo!


Chantelle who rushed back all the way from Singapore just to finished her 5th full marathon completed in 4 hours 17 mins, paced by our Captain Steven. She had aimed to repeat her achievement of sub-4hour in the Gold Coast but nonetheless, it was still a great achievement. Try again Girl! You've done it before and you'll definitely be able to do it again!


To our Captain Steven who is so passionate in helping our members, you had sacrificed your own goal to achieve a personal best of sub-4hr as to honour a promise is so much more important. Thank you!



To all the other participants at the marathon, it's truly a fantastic accomplishment when you finished your respective races. Just as one of the placards said "PAIN IS TEMPORARY!"

To the organisers and all concern, it was an event well planned and coordinated although the race kit collections could do with a little bit more improvement. All in all, it was a successful event. Well done and we look forward to another great run next year!

Check out the event at our photo album here.

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MPSJ Carnival & 10km Run

Looks like running season's picking up for KK Pacers again. Another day another run in the bag ... MPSJ 10km Run.




Catch today's photo shots at our photo album here.

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Setia ECO Half-Marathon 2010

The photos are out for the half-marathon held on Saturday, 5 June 2010 at Setia Alam, Shah Alam. Check out our photo album here.

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