Bring The A-Game

 BRING THE A-GAME

Chasing a successful career and maintaining peak levels of fitness arena inherently incompatible with one another. Both require diligence, discipline and the unyielding drive to overcome immense obstacles. The Peak...

Thursday, March 24, 2016 By Editors

BEATING THE ODDS

Armin Baniaz Pahamin: President of Proton Edar Dealers Association Malaysia and Co-Founder of Chief's Original Bootcamp Malaysia (right); and Dr Malek Aziz: Co-Founder of Chief's Original Bootcamp Malaysia.

Having being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia at the age of 15 and given only three years to live, Armin Baniaz Pahamin future prospects were not the brightest. Similarly, Dr Malek Aziz was also diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. After defying all expectations at the end of their successful cancer treatments, Pahamin and Dr Aziz decided never to take their health for granted and went on to found Malaysia very first military-inspired bootcamp, Chief's Original Bootcamp.

Armin: Original Bootcamp (COBC) was first brought to Malaysia by Master-Sergeant Rob Coad of Original Bootcamp Australia in 2009. When he decided to leave and focus on his business back home in Adelaide, Dr Malek and I, who were recruits at the time, decided we could not afford to let such a unique military-inspired training programme go to waste and took over the franchise. We wrote to Chief Gunny Brabon, the founder of Original Bootcamp Australia and a former service member of the Royal Australian Army, and, shortly after, he visited Malaysia to train our first batch of instructors to be certified Military Fitness specialists.

As Dr Malek and I are both cancer survivors, we both strive to take the best care of our health as you never know when you might robbed of your quality of life. Furthermore, being active and fit means that we are able to perform better in the workplace. The law of diminishing returns states that after a few hours, our performance at a given task will naturally suffer but, by being healthy, we can now work longer hours before burning out.

Bootcamp instils teamwork and discipline in its participants. It does't matter who you are or what your race or religion is; if someone commits an infraction, everyone is penalised with push ups! There is no preferential treatment given. This translates to the workplace and we also find that we are more objective oriented as a result.

While I have run nine full marathons, scaled Mt Kinabalu on three occasions and even attempted the Langkawi Ironman Triathlon, my proudest achievement, as well as Dr Malek (who is 61 years old), is that we can still find the motivation to wake up for COBC™ 5:45am sessions three times every week. We owe this to the exemplary camaraderie with our fellow recruits and instructors, who hold us accountable if we miss sessions.

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MAI-CARBENGKEL INTRODUCE YOUR FAVOURITE WORKSHOP CAMPAIGN

CYBERJAYA, 18 JANUARY 2016. “The campaign was launched to recognize trusted workshops in Malaysia as part of MAI’s effort to modernize and improve the services in the automotive aftermarket sector”, said Dato Mohamad Madani Sahari, Malaysia Automotive Institute Chief Executive Officer.  “There are RM5,000 prizes to be won by the public and as well as the car workhops.

1)            The Grand cash prize RM1,000 will be awarded to the public that successfully introduced the most workshops. The first runner-up will win Cash Prize RM500 and 2^nd Runner up cash prize RM300.

2)            The public that shared his/her selfie infront of the referred workshops on either Facebook or Instagram with a hashtag: #carbengkelworkshop and have the most like will win cash prize RM300 each (Facebook and Instagram), RM200 for 1^st runner-up and RM100 for 2^nd Runner up.

3)            Workshop that is referred the most on facebook and Instagram will win RM1,000 advertising credit on CarBengkel.

4)            There are many drivers in Malaysia with their own trusted mechanics and workshops and there are more drivers, mostly ladies whom are completely ignorant on where to bring their car for service or repair. With this campaign, we can enroll more trusted workshops in addition to the the 2,800 workshops that had already registered with CarBengkel mobile application for the benefits of other drivers.

5)            There are 15,000 car workshops registered with local authorities nationwide servicing more than 23 million vehicles on the road.

6)            Public can introduce any car workshop, tyre outlets, accessories shop as well as tow truck.

7)            All workshops introduced will received a sponsored CarBengkel training on how to increase traffic & profit and a credit worth RM1,000 for advertisement on CarBengkel.

8)            Public can also refer any OEM authorized workshop such as Proton, Perodua, Toyota, Honda, Nissan or any other OEM authorised workshops to cater to more than 2million cars on the road that is still under the manufacturer’s warranty.

9)            This campaign is launched in conjunction with the forthcoming Chinese New Year festive season as we expect many will visit the workshop for their car maintenance and repair before going on holiday. This is the best time for the public to refer the respective workshops.

10)         CarBengkel mobile application provides a more convenient way to service, repair and/or obtained a cost estimate for any repair or spare parts. This will enable the public to save time, reduce expenses for car maintenance and have a better experience dealing with mechanics and workshops.

11)         In 2015, CarBengkel won the prestigious VISA Retail Innovation Award in December, selected as Top 7 best startup at the SME Innovation Challenge and won Top 5 best at the Echelon Thailand.

12)         Expenses for car maintenance are never budgeted by any household unlike housing and car loan and can be a big burden to the public.

13)       Public only need to download CarBengkel App which is available in three languages (Bahasa Malaysia, English and Mandarin) and is compatible on both Andriod and iOS handphones and introduce their favourite workshop by tapping on referral button in the app.

14)         The workshop will then receive an SMS with a link to download. The workshop needs to tap on the download link and follow a simple step by step guide to register. Once the workshop had registered, the referral will get a point.

15)         Those with the most points for successfully referring the most car workshop, tyre outlets, accessories shop or tow truck combined, will win RM1,000 cash reward.