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Welcome, baby Mia!

October 20, 2008November 11, 2010 dixonthum

This is baby Mia. Isn’t she cute?

This is Scott, baby Mia’s daddy.

This is Talei, baby Mia’s mummy.

This is baby Mia’s happy family.

Welcome to this beautiful world, baby Mia! I know you’ll do great in the future. Congratulations to Scott & Talei!

Looking at baby Mia reminds me of her parents and eventually brought me to think about my parents and all other parents in the world. I feel that parents are great people. Besides giving their children the best of what they have, they can always come up with lots of “the bests” for their children. For instance, they will always try to feed them with the best food, look for the best school in town, buy them the best looking clothes, find them the best environment to live in etc etc…

They are really courageous people. They are the only 2 person who will never remember what you’ve done wrong and will never forget what you’ve done them proud.

So, love your parents like how you love yourselves.

Health & Wellness

Running “Amok” around Bukit Tunku

October 19, 2008October 19, 2008 dixonthum

Wow! It seemed like forever running the Mizuno Wave Run 2008 around Bukit Tunku. The fact that there are slopes and hills from the start to the end put the run to another level of toughness. I like the cool surroundings there especially in the morning.

I took this run as another challenge for me as I wanted to finish it within an hour (compared to last run’s 65 mins). The best thing in this run is that they loan a timing chip to participants so that the actually time used for running can be recorded. And they will print it out together in the certificate. Therefore, our certs are not ready for collection yet.

Coming back to the run, it was for sure tougher than last week’s because of the hill-y area. I am not sure how much time I took to complete the race. My wife told me it was over 60 mins but I don’t take that as an official record. I am looking forward for the timing in the cert which they are going to send to us soon.

Anyhow, I managed to get a M-E-D-A-L!!! It’s limited to the first 500 runners of Category A (Men’s Open). And the best thing was, guess what? I got 497 placing in the whole race which includes all other 5 categories!!! Impressive eh? Ya, I know! 🙂 I’m surprised too. I really need to train harder to achieve better placing in future runs (If I am still in the business then).

There were a huge number of participants – 3100 participants in total. Can you imagine the huge turnout? BTW, I met a few friends here… Let’s keep ourselves healthy together! 😛

The early birds…

Here’s the timing chip which is to be tied on the shoe.

Warming up before the race…

At the starting point…

Can you catch the "Super Runner"? Hahaha!!!

The medalists… Don’t know when can get my Datukship? Muahahaha!!!

Thanks to my lovely wife for all the support…

I think Amazing Race need not look further for participants for the next season…

Mizuno’s spokeperson

A nice snap!

Health & Wellness

Conquering Klang in 1 hour

October 12, 2008October 13, 2008 dixonthum

I have accomplished something new today. I have completed the New Balance/Klang Pacers 12km Run 2008 in 1 hour (and 5 mins)!!! Something I am proud of. It’s my second race of such and I managed to get the medal (which is the main target of the whole run). BTW the fastest runner in this run completed in 44 mins and 18 secs – what an impressive figure!

There wasn’t much freebies this round but the experience was extremely worth it! Now when I am old, I can tell my grandchildren that I was a runner when I was young… Haha!

Our next run will be on next week. Continue training!!!

Just reached.

My number on my bib. But no luck at all in the lucky draw. 😦

Warm up!1,2! 1,2!

Yes babe! It’s me arriving the finishing line…

Proudly showing off my medal and cert.

Our great achievement after all those hard work and training.

My wife came to support.

It’s us again! 🙂

Our Wedding

29 September 2008 – A Very Special Day for Me…

September 30, 2008October 2, 2008 dixonthum

I have been celebrating my birthday on 29 September every year since 1982. But on 29 September 2008, the day marks another special and meaningful event in my life. It’s the day I’ve entered another stage of my life. Mein & I got married on this very special day.

We went to get registered in Putrajaya. Family members from both parties attended the very special event. My best friends, CF, Ip & Feli came to celebrate the joyous day together with us. CF was given the honour to become one of our witnesses to sign on our wedding registration certificate.

After signing, we had a very long photo session, which was very much enjoyable! 🙂 And the pictures we took around Putrajaya were extremely beautiful.

We then went for lunch together in Janbo Restaurant which was a bad choice. But anyway, that didn’t affect our mood. Celebrated my birthday with the cake Popo bought. Actually it was also meant for Ma & Yin’s belated birthday celebration. So it’s something like a 4-in-1 cake.

In the evening, Mein’s family and I went to Sunway Suites Resort to stay over night before they go back Penang. We had a very enjoyable experience there. I would like to specially highlight that my stay there very much made me felt welcomed. Although there was a small problem upon my check-in, but the reception counter staff, Thomas, solved my problem quickly and promptly. Impressive~!

The hand bouquet I got for Mein.