Its a Rat Race again!

Footnote addition : The rate race has been postphoned to Sept 5th 2006. See you there! I promise you my team will bring to the race a surprise package!

In the midst of a very busy week, I received in my mail a couple of days ago, a request from my marketing manager to participate in the Edge Rat Race again this year.

The Edge, a leading business & investment weekly, hosts The Kuala Lumpur Rat Race on a yearly basis.

This year, the seventh year of the rat race will take place on Tuesday, 8 August 2006, after office hours. The race will cover 4.5 kilometers through the commercial heart of Kuala Lumpur. The CEO’s 1 km race will also be held simultaneosly.

I have the honor of becoming the team lead this year (due to my enthusiasm and early registration of interest to the new marketing manager :-)). In my "leadership" mission, I would greatly like to get the team to take pre-race publicity photos, dress up, and have more fun!!!

See you there, join if you have never participated before. This is the most fun race I look forward to every year, and last year, this was the catalyst for my interest back to running.

World Cup Fever

In midst of recuperating from Groundhog Day, the World Cup fever has taken over and I am relegated to being a couch potato.

David Beckham - incredible skills at free-kicks. However, I am not an England fan, and as proven, a league of superstars usually does not perform well. Nevertheless I have to admit, they got a very well rounded team and this is just their first match - got away with the 3 points.







Didier Drogba - this guy has style. Ivory Coast did well against Argentina, unfortunately losing the match hence having a slimmer chance of qualifying in the Group of Death. Definitely man of the tournament thus far for me, up to Day 3 currently of the World Cup.

Groundhog Day

Yes, I had disappeared from blogging for two weeks. There was a problem at work which required my full attention. We were almost 24x7 for a whole week of endless days, nights, SMS notifications three times a night on progress, weekends, and many levels of escalations. On the 3rd or 4th day (even I no longer recall), I would get in to work in the morning or at 9pm at night, glance at my fellow colleague in the same boat with me, and we knew it was another groundhog day. The same problem persisted and haunted us for almost 2 weeks. Luckily this was resolved last Wednesday and Groundhog Day ended.

What is Groundhog Day? It was a movie in the 90s starring Bill Murray. I saw it when I was much younger, but remembered the scenario - Bill Murray would wake up everyday and it was the same day again (he was a journalist covering a boring event called Groundhog Day). He would go through the same scenario, except that in some cases, he knew what would happen next. Eventually, he would woo the same lady again and again in different ways, until finally... Groundhog Day ends.

So, in the midst of our problems, I asked my colleague, how did Groundhog Day end in the movie? My colleague said - it ended when he (Bill Murray's role) found love. I moaned in disbelief when I heard that, but, well, improvisation was my speciality.

So, what I did was instead of finding love overnight, I proceeded to "spread the love". We shared the problem to our younger colleagues, got them involved even though it could not help much, but to just cut down on the burden on a few.

Eventually the problem did get resolved through our hard work in finding a solution. Though the love spreading did not directly solve the problem, it did in some magical way, help.

Loving is sharing, sharing is loving!