KLANG NEW BALANCE 12KM RUN 4 IT 2010 RACE

31 October 2010. The Klang pacesetter club organised the New Balance 12km race that start at Padang Sultan Sulaiman , was flagged off at 6:50 for men category A, B & C and Women category D, E and F a few minutes later.

In a convoy of 2 cars, Daing Daniel Fitri, Rose Emini Pahamin, Nawal Aini Zulkifli, Ilyanna Aylin Ayob, Nyna Mohsen and Ody Nurfuadi Razalli arrived just-in time for the flag off. The weather was runners-friendly but there were less participants this year compared to previous years. We have been a regular at the Klang New Balance Race.

KASIH LEIA IXORA HALLOWEEN PARTY

29 OCTOBER 2010. Kasih Leia Ixora, the eldest daughter of my eldest sister Chempaka Emalin Pahamin (& Azhar Sulaiman) is also the eldest third generation of Pahamin clan celebrated her 11th Birthday yesterday although her actual birth date is on 30 October 2010.

Kasih's birthday celebration was held at the Scream Park at Sunway Lagoon at 7pm last night and was attended by 30 of Kasih's school mates and cousins.

Kasih's brother Andika Rees Pahamin came as a Pirate and Kasih Iris Leona was dressed as a Devil. Aaraf Eid Pahamin came as Count Dracula.

The kids gathered before being escorted into the Haunted house... Some kids were very excited, some 'eksyen' cool.. and some were hiding behind the table.. scared!

The dark ambiance, the sounds and the hantu-dress made it scary even for adult. It was obvious when Melor Edina Pahamin too was speechless and sat quietly stationary behind a desk trying to look brave infront of the children.

The twins, Andika Rees Pahamin and Kasih Iris Leona (picture on right). Those that attended the party were Myra Alissa, Dayang Aina Rashiqa, Azri Raziq, Thea Irena, Nik Reanna, Nik Nazran Harith Danial, Amir Aniq, Aishah Soraya, Ru Xiang, Nusra, Hana Li, Myra Zahidah, Arief Johari, Hazim, Deena Iman, Amirah Askandar, Dianndre Erica, Ildina Murni, Dania Kamilia, Tengku Sara Afiqah, Tengku Adeira Hazirah

There were many Hantus and Hantis at the party... and they were really frightening.

ITS PARTY TIME..

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It is that time of the month again... the same cycle every month for the ladies and men. Its the monthly Party.. Its PARTY TIME!!!!

When..?   
3 NOVEMBER 2010

Where..?
THE LIBRARY at the E-Curve (formerly known as Cineleisure), Ground Floor.

Time..?
7PM!!!

Theme..?

Err... scroll down.......

Thats it!!! Side Parting.. Big Glasses. Ponytail. Bowtie. yup yup.. thats RIGHT! our theme party for this month is for you to transform yourself into GEEKS or NERDS! be creative... u can be Betty.. or Harry Porter.. or a Professor.... or simply a high school bookworm for a night at the Curve's, LIBRARY!

There will be a prize for the Nerd King and Nerd Queen!!! 

Why NERD & GEEK.... who needs a reason.. who cares... lets party!!! and give nerds & geeks the real meaning of PARTY!!!!

HOOOOOOOYAAH!!

OBC-BU: NOV 3/12: RAIN HAIL OR SHINE...

(pictures taken of OBC-BU Bravo platoon. The paparazzi was training at Alpha and no one to take pictures)

"Very very heavy rain now... is OBC still on?" read Joannita Zaleha Yusof Facebook status that appeared on my news feed. The message was typed just before 5am this morning. "Of course there is bootcamp training this morning", I quickly replied. The ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP training session was NEVER cancelled nor postpone or delayed even on public holiday. Health is so important that we need to religiously exercise whether in rain, hail or shine.

Sarge Dann, Corporal Jasper & Corporal Nawal left for the field at 4:45am to prepare the field for today's circuit. With an exception of a few new comers whom may have comfortably slept through the alarm clock in the cold morning, everybody else came.. some were in rain-coat. 

We had the warming up session in the cold heavy downpour. The rain was so heavy that we were blinded and could not even open our eye though I noticed Rienna Choo warming up in rain coat.. Aiiiks... that is punishable with 10 grunts. After the warm-up, the platoon was divided into their respective section for a 3 muscle twitching circuits. The Ranger went to Corporal Nawal for a workout with Sandbag, Seal with Corporal Jasper for Mock Rifle Circuit and the Delta with Sarge Dann.

OBC-BU: NOV 2/12: WELCOME BACK RECRUITS & WELCOME TO OBC-BU NEWBIES

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It almost felt like the good old days seeing Amy Ho at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama. Last month, Rienna Choo joined us at OBC-BU and the 8 Week Challenge. Amy Ho, Rienna Choo, Natassya Lee, Yushida Yusoff were their clan when we were training together once upon a time. Rose Emini Pahamin was all smiley to greet Amy Ho and so was Dr Malek Aziz, Farhanah Bamadhaj and Nawal Aini Zulkifli. We were also pleased to see Kenix Lim and almost all previous recruits from October back in November session that began on Monday 26 October. Leesa Tan is happily in India?

A LEGAL 'CHEAT'

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38 of us from the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA @ Bandar Utama participated in an 8 Week Challenge since 27 September 2010. The chronological of event since then was as follows:

1) 21 September 2010- the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP AUSTRALIA announced the 8 Week Challenge open to all ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP recruits in the HOOYAH network.

2) 26 September 2010- the deadline for photo-shoot & measurement.

3) 27 September 2010- Recruit's Day-1 challenge commenced (ignition phase) together with the first session for October. Recruits given access to the Gladiator Diet and Inferno metabolic accelerator program to be strictly followed together with the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP session.

4) 29 September 2010- Submission of Photos & measurement via the pre-prepared link on HOOYAH.net.

5) 10 October 2010- First Cheat meal.. as in we can eat anything we like and anything we want but it must be only for 1 meal. We all gathered for an orgy cheat-meal.. as in we ate everybody's meal in a pot luck dinner (Scroll down for pictures).

6) 11 October 2010- BURN-Phase part 1. Three full day on ignition diet meal and 1 meal on third day from Burn phase ingredients.

7) 17 October 2010- Sunday Treat. One dessert of our choice.. just one!

8) 24 October 2010- End of Week-4!!! Cheat meal again!!! Half way through the challenge...

9) 25 October 2010- Burn phase part 2. Meaning, 1 full day of Ignition diet followed by 1 full day of burn-phase (any food from the Ignition & burn ingredients) and so forth until further notice....

So guys.. four more weeks to go... but wait.. what did we have on the first Cheat-Day? Trust recruits at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama with food...

ACE HALL OF FAME: ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA @ BANDAR UTAMA

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100% Attendance, 100% Commitment & 110% Effort or ACE CERTIFICATE is awarded as an acknowledgment to a consistent and discipline effort portrayed by recruits when they attended all the twelve sessions in a month.

At the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama,  we recognized the recruits effort in waking up in an ungodly hour, driving in the rain, training in the mud, spending extra hours scrubbing dirty shoes and cloth from a training session, being late at work and even re-scheduling their work/business travelling/appointment to avoid missing OBC session in the name of health and vanity.

Exercising should be a way of life and those through sheer commitment and effort, attended all the 12 session in hail, rain or shine deserved more than a certificate but the certificate and this HALL OF ACE are the least that we can offer.

The ACE HALL OF FAME is dedicated especially for these recruit.

Click HERE for the ACE HALL OF FAME.

There are twelve recruits that made it to October ACE Hall of Fame and the list will be updated after our graduation day.

Stay tune for October ACE Hall of Fame list and for the SPIRIT OF BOOTCAMP HALL OF FAME.

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Friday October 22, 2010

Peda: Car repossession up due to changes in Act

By DALJIT DHESI
daljit@thestar.com.my

But the rate will be slower once amendments gazetted

PETALING JAYA: The move to approve the amendments to the Hire Purchase Act may have contributed to the recent surge in repossession of cars, according to Proton Edar Dealers Association Malaysia (Peda) President Armin Baniaz Pahamin.

He said although Peda was not privy to the statistics of repossessed vehicles, it believed the rate of car repossession had increased after the amendments to the Act was passed in the second quarter of this year.

“Once the amendments have been gazetted, the percentage of repossessed vehicles should deteriorate again as it will be more tedious for banks to repossess the affected cars. Our concern is in the bank’s approval rate. “Conventionally, the approval for new car loan will also become more difficult when the banks’ exposure and risk is higher. When a bank cannot secure their asset via repossession, they too will revised their credit risk scoring,” he told StarBiz.

BUNG MOKTAR WAS NAIVE, INSENSITIVE AND LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY: PEDA

PRESS RELEASE

Kuala Lumpur, “The dealers fraternity are disappointed with the remark made by BackBencher’s Club Deputy Chairman Datuk Bung Moktar Radin calling for Proton to be wound up for embarrassing the nation by producing a rebadged Mitsubishi Lanser as Proton Inspira”, said Armin Baniaz Pahamin, President PROTON EDAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION MALAYSIA.

The remark made by Bung Moktar was naïve and insensitive without a clear understanding on the automotive industry especially Proton. The introduction of Proton Inspira  is an addition into the current Proton stable of cars. The Proton Inspira created a new market for Proton to penetrate, a market that is currently being dominated by the Korean and other Japanese makes.

TERRY FOX RUN

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30 years ago, Terry Fox at the age of 18 was diagnosed with bone cancer and was told that he had to amputate his right leg above the knee. During his ordeal, he saw the intense pain and despair of many other cancer patient as well as the need for cancer research. To help others suffering from cancer, Terry Fox decided to run across Canada in an effort to raise funds.This became the marathon of hope and although Terry Fox died before his crusade, the legacy continued and every year since then, those that supported and donated for the cancer research would run the Terry Fox race around the world.

Having survived Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia, survived cancer and believed in Terry Fox Cure-For Cancer Research fund raising campaign, I am running the Terry Fox run with more than 40 others from the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama, in Kuala Lumpur on 7 November 2010. Join us and run for charity.. you dont need a reason to support. Runners from TEAM OBC-BU are Daing Daniel Fitri, Suriana Saiful, Jun King, Lilian Lee, Rienna Choo, Dr Malek Aziz, Adibah Mohamad, Farhanah Bamadhaj, John Chuah, Bahariah Bahadom, Nyna Mohsen, Ili Liyana baharon, Adibah Syazni Jaafar, Liza Abdul Rahim, Freda Liu, Yvonne Chen, LC, Farisya Syukor, Pooi Ching Khiew, Raja Affandi Jamaludin, James Fong, Yam Chan Siu Cheh, Shear Ling Toh, Tyng Yng, Norliza Affandi, Hani Hussin Azmir, Afiza Abdul Halin, Nurfuadi Ody, Ilyanna Aylin Ayob, Syed Mahadzir Syed Manshor, Danial Ismail, John Ong, Tricia Frederick, Joe Liew, Yum Kin Kok, Aaraf Eid Pahamin, Nawal AIni Zulkifli, Rose Emini Pahamin and Armin Baniaz Pahamin.

There is no registration required to run the Terry Fox. Just turn up at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa on 7 November 2010 before 8:45am. To contribute to Terry Fox Cure-For-Cancer fund raising campaign, order a T'shirt for only RM25 or RM30 with team ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama printed on the sleeve. For information, call 0173795988.

Terry Fox Run KL 2010 Brochure

RUNNING FOR LIFE

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It is a catastrophe for the runners fraternity with so many deaths in various running event in Malaysia as well as other part of the world. On 28 July 2010, a 10km runner Lim Ji Wei 25 years old died at the Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur International Marathon, the Malay Mail has the story HERE. Last weekend on 17 October 2010, another runner died attempting the Mizuno 10km wave run, Harian Metro has the story HERE. Abroad, on the same date 17 October 2010, a 47 year old Oregon man died during a cross-country race at the Elijah Brostow State park, in Dexter. Washington post has the story HERE. Remus Fuentes died at the 34th MILO race in Manila on 4 July 2010.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: WORKOUT FORMS & TECHNIQUES PART 3

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: WORKOUT FORMS- PART 3
For reference to those performing the Inferno & to assist on understanding workout forms at the OBC-BU. Click on picture to enlarge.

Picture 1: Tiger Squat

TIGER SQUAT is performed starting on the knees (Picture 1: See big left picture), Roll back on to the heels (see top right picture) then stand up (bottom right picture). On the way back down lower yourself down on to your knees gently to complete one repetition.

OBC-BU: OCT9/12: BAF & SANDY ROBERT LAST DAY

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If there is ONE-THING and only ONE thing that makes OBC-BU so special... it must be the excessive energy from every members of the platoon. Every members with a different characteristic and a different level of enthusiasm became the core spirit of the bootcamp.

There are the rugged type like Raja Affandi Jamaluddin & Norliza Affandi, the motherly type like Sandy Roberts that never stop worrying about everybody, the all smiley type like Lizza Abdul Rahim that smiles through any bone-breaking workout, the nenek-that-like-to pot-pet type like the hot ass Yam Chan SiuCheh, the SSJ (Sot sot jor) Queen like Lilian Lee... The Kiasu type like John Chuah whom doubled-up his workout-homework believing that he only burn 3 calories when he actually forgot to start the Polar HRM. The adorable couple Daddy-kin Yuen and Mummy-kin Elsie, the clown- Syed Mahadzir Syed Manshor whom can cracked anyone with his natural born body language, the Fashionaly Late cum FFK-Queen Vivien Luyen Ow whom change his platoon from Alpha to bravo to avoid being late but ended up being late in Zulu.. The Mother-Theresa Pooi Ching whom would cook, bake and bring food to recruits to err.. carbo load them or sabotage them, I dont know. The animal-fetish like Farnahah Bamadhaj whom would go out of her way to shop and feed the beruks.. I mean real beruk/baboons. The nanny Viki Lim . The single-most-available babes Jo-Anna Henley, Carolina Vidigal, Shearling Toh, Rose Emini Pahamin, the hunks like Jun King, James Fong, Scott, Mohd Aref Mokhsein, Joe Liew....... just to name a few but everybody at the OBC-BU are so important that whenever anyone went AWOL or missing from any session, it felt so incomplete.

PROTON INSPIRA UNVEILED

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14 October 2010. Dato' Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Tahir today unveiled the new Waja replacement model code-named P3-90A. The soft-launching of the P3-90A was held at the Crystal Showroom, Proton Edar Centre of Excellent, USJ Subang Jaya. I arrived late having had to attend a dialogue with the Ministry of Domestic Trace Co-operatives and Consumerism pertaining to the HP-Act amendments. The meeting was chaired by Dato' Daud Tahir, The Deputy Secretary General (Domestic Trade) and attended by the members of the Malaysia Automotive Association headed by Dato Aishah Ahmad. The dialogue had cleared many confusions in the interpretation of the amendments but this is a story for another occasion.

After a short speech, Dato Syed Zainal revealed the name of the new Proton as PROTON INSPIRA and awarded the 'name-the-new-proton' contest winner with a big huge cheque.. size. The winner brought back RM10,000.

PROTON INSPIRA, a collaborative effort between Proton and Mitsubishi will be retailing from RM79,880 for a 1.8 manual, will penetrate a new market segment that is currently being dominated by Toyota and Honda.

OBC-BU OCT8/12: OCTOBER GRINDERS

While running the Melbourne Marathon, I was convinced to undergo the knee operation as advised by Dr Saw from the Kuala Lumpur Sports & Medical Centre earlier this year. The pain was quite unbearable and I immediately contacted my physiotherapist Dr Aston for an immediate physio and made an appointment with Dr Ng Wee Meng at the UMSC at 5pm on Thursday, 14 October 2010 for a second opinion.

I went limping to see Dr Aston and after an hour, I was back on my feet. "If you allow me to work on your knee, and you do the leg stretching daily, you can run all the marathons that you want BUT I DO AM NOT IN FAVOUR of surgery", adviced Dr Aston. Woww... Hows that for a change? Earlier this year, I would replaced any doctor that advised against bootcamp or running and now vice-versa. Dr Aston was very comforting and his touch was magical... I can now walk without limping within just 1 hour of physio.

10.10.10. WE GOT OUR PB!!!! CONGRATULATION

Everybody at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama ran their Personal Best on 10.10.10 ... 10 October 2010. Amongst those in my record were:

1) Yum Kin Kok whom ran his second 42.2km marathon at St George Melbourne Marathon in 3:46 minutes. Yum Kin Kok completed his first marathon in Hong Kong in 5 hours.

2) Corporal (OBC) Sandy Roberts completed the same St George's Melbourne Marathon in 3:53. Sandy is an instructor with the rank Corporal at the Original Bootcamp Bandar Utama. Sandy's previous Personal Best (PB) was 4:15 and the Melbourne Marathon was her 6th marathon.  

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: WORKOUT FORMS & TECHNIQUES PART 2

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ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA @ BANDAR UTAMA WORKOUT FORMS & TECHNIQUES PART 2  (For Workout Form Part 1, click here)

*All pictures must be read from LEFT to RIGHT, TOP then BOTTOM (also from left to right). The first picture on the left is the Start-position.

SQUAT JUMPS

ST GEORGE MELBOURNE MARATHON 2010

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Its 10.10.10.... 10 October 2010. To celebrate the historic date as well as 2,500 years of marathon anniversary, LC (OBC) Nawal Aini Zulkifli, Rose Emini Pahamin, Ilyanna Aylin Ayob, Corporal (OBC) Sandy Roberts, Yum Kin Kok and me from the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama departed and arrived in Melbourne on 7 October 2010 to run the St George Melbourne 42.2km Marathon.

nawal Aini Zulkifli, Armin Baniaz Pahamin, Ilyanna Aylin Ayob, 

Rose Emini Pahamin, Yum Kin Kok

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

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Here I am at the Capri apartment, Melbourne acclimatizing to the Spring weather and resisting Melbourne's best food by starting the day with Chief's Inferno metabolic accelerator training. We... Nawal Aini Zulkifli, Rose Emini Pahamin & me did the Bravo 05 program with a total 104 Grunts, 48 Jackknives, 96 Frogs, 48 Dirty Dog Push-ups in 18 minutes and almost drown in sweat. The Inferno program was specially designed for the 8-Week Challenge (8WC) contestants including those are/will be travelling during this 8 weeks. Recruits at OBC-BU that have not registered and became a member the INFERNO program, please do so now by clicking HERE. Most except for 4 recruits are not yet a member of the INFERNO. Make the best out of the program folks.

 

OBC-BU: OCT5/12- AN INTERNATIONAL VISITOR

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"Armin, a friend of mine, a recruit is coming over to Kuala Lumpur. Can he attend your program at Bandar Utama?", asked Gunny Emily. "Of course he may Gunny", I quickly responded on Skype. Gunny Emily, Original Bootcamp Director of Operation and Global Master Trainer is always ever so polite and humble. She knew OBC-BU welcome any recruits from the OBC network to our training session but she would still ask for permission. Every recruit worldwide is welcome at ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama. That was my pledge to all ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP recruits worldwide. Any recruit from the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP network can come to OBC-BU anytime for training as long as they are an active recruit in the OBC network. Similarly, all active recruits at OBC-BU too are able to attend training at any OBC sites worldwide if they are traveling overseas. Exercise is a necessity and the momentum must be maintain wherever you are.

Today, we had the pleasure of training with a HELL-WEEK graduate Allen O'Connell, a recruit at the Coogee Beach, Sydney Australia. Emily did not mention he was a Hell Week-er... a super delta sort of speak! Allen O'Connell is also part of the 8 Week Challenge contestant. I was standing beside Allen throughout the training today trying to keep up with his pace.

Sarge Dann, OBC-BU platoon commander greeted Allen O'Connell whom was Sarge Dann's comrade at the recent Hell-Week and introduce Allen to other recruits. The platoon was then separated into two sections, the Delta & Seal with Sarge Dann and the rangers with Corporal Chun & LC Nawal. The Delta and Seal began with a killer-chest-and-arm grinder with twelve repetitions of 8-point push-up, dirty-dog push-ups, Hindu push-ups, Scorpion Push-ups and the Diamond push ups. There are a total 14 types of push-ups at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP and we did 5 for the Grinder today. Thank god we did not have to do all 14 killer push-ups in one grinder.

A FRIEND THAT IS HARD TO FIND

If there was one moment when I cannot describe what I wanted to say, it must be that moment when I first saw the video clip that was created by Raja Rahman Mansor below. See it for yourself (Switch on the volume)...

Although Raja Rahman Mansor the creator of the video had requested not to be mentioned on blog or facebook and the video was created only for the consumption within the closest circle but I just had to share it with my blog reader and openly say thank you Raja Rahman Mansor, for being there at the weirdest moment when the support is needed. You have been nothing but the best of what a true friend can offer. I am proud to have you as a friend and may ALLAH swt bless you & your family with eternal happiness and health.

Since that day when I quit smoking, almost a dozen others had hopped on the smoke-free bandwagon. Congratulation and well done.. We can do this!!

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: WORKOUT FORMS & TECHNIQUES

Original Bootcamp Malaysia @ Bandar Utama
Workout Forms & Techniques

Workout forms: Airborne Lunges, Lateral Lunges, Curtsy Lunges, Switch Lunges, Mountain Climbers, Shoulder push-ups, Dirty-Dog push-ups, Table-Tops, King Kong Push-ups, Seal jacks, Jackknives, Monk Crunches, Get-up Sit-ups, Flutter Kicks, Grunts, Squat Thrust (thrsuter), Frogs, Frog-Pushups, Ground-up Pushups.

*All pictures must be read from LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM (bottom pictures must also be read from left to right)

Airborne Lunges

Airborne lunges is similar to the back lunges but with the back leg raised without touching the ground.

Squat down slowly with the other leg moved backward without touching the ground. Then squat back up to complete one repetition. Repeat with the same leg for a required number of repetitions or for a fix period of time.

Beginners are allowed to hold a wall to balance themselve but one of the leg must be off the ground at all time.

OBC-BU: OCT1/12- NEWTON RACE, SESSION 1, DAY 1-8WC

Congratulation to the following former and existing recruits at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama for registering (but DNS with Honour), attempting (but DNF with pride) and completing (with orgasm) the NEWTON 25KM RACE...

1) Sandy Roberts 25km (2:21:25)
2) Chun Chia Kai 25km
3) Yum Kin Kok YKK 25km
4) Nyna Mohsen 25km
5) Rose Emini Pahamin 25km
6) Nawal Aini Zulkifli 25km
7) Vivien Luyen Ow 25km
8) Ilyanna Aylin Ayob 25km
9) Nawal Aini Zulkifli 25km
10) Viki Lim
11) Syed Mahadzir Syed Manshor 25km 
12) Armin Baniaz Pahamin 25km
13) Daing Daniel Fitri 12km
14) Nurfuadi Ruzalli 12km
15) John Chuah 12km
16) Freda Liu 12km
17) Yvonne 12km
18) Norliza Mohd Khalid 12km
19) Dayang Norrafida 12km
20) Tricia Frederick 12km
21) Viki Lim 12km
22) Suriana Saiful Yazan 12km
23) Lilian Lee
24) RJ Rahman Mansor
25) Mathilda Abbie
26) Ryan Wong
(I hope I didnt miss anyone else from OBC-BU)

OBC-BU GRADUATION & EID MUBARAK CELEBRATION.

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The ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama hosted its August & September Graduation and Eid Mubarak celebration at Bustanu Pahamin, Sungai Penchala. The Graduation & Eid celebration was also held as a carbo loading session for OBC-BU recruit to run the Newton 25km race tomorrow cum fat-loading for the PRE-8 WEEK CHALLENGE photo shoot cum fostering camaraderie & friendship cum camwhoring cum laughing session... Waaa.. multiple cum!!!!

The function started at 3pm but the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama team were ready to receive guests as early as 2pm.

The OBC-BU team. Left: Admin Nurfuadi Ruzalli, Admin Farhanah Bamadhaj, 

Chief Admin Rose Emini Pahamin, Dr Malek Aziz, Armin Baniaz Pahamin, Sarge Dann, Corporal Chun, Corporal Sandy, LC Nawal Aini Zulkifli (not in picture: Corporal Erni & Corporal Jasper).

8-WEEKS ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP CHALLENGE-PART 2

SAMPLE PICTURES FOR PRE-8- WEEK CHALLENGE

NOTE: PICTURE MUST BE TAKEN HOLDING THE SUNDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2010 NEWSPAPER.

Here are two examples of what you need to provide as your Pre-Challenge photos. Special Thank you to Gunny Emily for being OBC model (note: she is married!!).

Three shots we need are:
1) Close up of you with the day's paper.
2) A full body front shot
3) A full body side shot

You can expose as much or as little skin for the Pre-Challenge body you wish to show, but try to wear clothing that gives a clear representation of your current shape, and tone. Remember, OBC will compare the pre & post 8-Week.

For men, you can either go topless, bottomless... but the pose must be holding the same SUNDAY NEWSPAPER dated 26 September 2010.

Stay tune for other criterias.....

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8-WEEKS ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP CHALLENGE-PART 1

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Those that have already registered for the 8-WEEK CHALLENGE, should have received via EMAIL the first part of the IGNITION stage of your Gladiator Diet and shopping list !!!

In just 8 weeks, with some perseverance and training at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama (and at any other ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP Licensee at Bukit Jelutong, Subang Jaya & Cyberjaya) you could have the BODY (phewiit) that you have always wanted!

Please make sure that you registered on our HOOYAH NETWORK to ensure that you stay up to date with all recipes, training sessions, INFERNO TRAINING (Supplied by Chief!), ideas and online forums to keep you motivated and push you through the rough patches.

On Saturday, we will upload a sample image onto the HOOYAH NETWORK of "before" photo so that you know how to shoot it and upload. For those contestant that requires us to facilitate with the photo-shoot, the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama has available paparazzi and will be shooting contestant's photo on Sunday. For details, please call our sexy & single call-center at 017-3795988.

The GLADIATOR DIET was initially created by Chief when he was hired to turn 13 fit, yet undefined individuals into lycra clad, god like warriors... in only 6 weeks for the latest incarnation of the hit television series GLADIATORS (as seen on NTV7 & ASTRO in Malaysia).

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 12/12: RUN FOREST RUN

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Thats it..... the end of September OBC-BU session. Today was the 12th, the last session of the month and my 4th day being ciggie-free. Noticeable differences on Day-4...? It feels good to be lunch-ing in an air-condition restaurant instead of the no-aircond smoking section and my comrade John Chuah suddenly disappeared from training!??? I mean.. since I stop smoking, John Chuah stop exercising??? Maybe he freak out and felt pressure to divorce his faithful affair with Ms Ciggie. Maybe John Chuah is accumulating FAT and stop exercising to gain as much fat for the Sunday pre-challenge PHOTO-SHOOT... So many maybe's...

So far the bandwagon still maintain 6 smoke-free passengers without any dropout. Not many dare to take the challenge to stop smoking but we have more passengers who took up the OBC 8-Week challenge to win RM15,000!!

In preparation for the NEWTON 25KM race this coming Sunday, Sarge Dann prepared a cardio workout as a closure for the month.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: 8 WEEK-CHALLENGE QUESTIONS & ANSWER

(this blog will be updated as and when there are more questions raised)

OBC- 8 WEEK CHALLENGE

QUESTION & ANSWER

Question 1: How much in total does the whole 8-Week Challenge program cost?

Answer: The fee for the challenge is only RM70.00 but it is compulsory for all participants to enroll for both October & November 2010 session which is only RM299 per month of 12 sessions. So the total cost will be RM70 + RM299 + RM299 which must be pay on or before the 27 September 2010.

Question 2: What if I will be travelling during the 8-Week challenge and could not attend the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP SESSION?

Answer: They can still sign up, and they can implement the INFERNO training program while they are travelling. INFERNO training programme is a new home based Metabolic Acceleration program that soon to be release. Challenge participants will receive an 8 week excerpt from the program to boost their results.

DAY 3: SMOKE-FREE BANDWAGON

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Picture on left is my cousin Eddie Putera Noordin.. he is the President of SMOKERS CLUB and I 'was' a lifetime honorary deputy!! Although his Smokers Club membership is still growing... the Smokers Club is now deprived of 6 members.

The infant smoke-free bandwagon now comprised of 6 passengers..... Azhar Sulaiman, Kamsani Ahmad, Joe Liew Law Yoong, Zaiem Razak and Shear Ling Toh (and me). Day 3 feels abit agitated with surroundings but Munch-the-Kuaci-advice worked and soon Kuaci (sunflower seed) will be scarce in Kuala Lumpur... Joe Liew had already clean sweep the Kuaci supplies in Cheras.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 11/12: *FAINT*

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Its the 2nd day without cigarette and everything stink!! The car... home-office... workplace.... all smell of smelly ashtray. Eww.... The smell and scent is the most obvious differences on second day without smoking. Even 'people' smells good.....  Yesterday was my first 24 hours without any cigarette in.... 10 years?

Those that had joined the stop-smoking-bandwagon are Azhar Sulaiman, Joe Liew Yaw Loong, Kamsani Ahmad, Zaiem Razak and Shear Ling Toh. Azhar Sulaiman, an actor, architect and businessman had been smoking for 20 years since he was 19 years old. Kamsani Ahmad, Proton Edar General Manager has been smoking for more than 30 years, Zaiem Razak, a cup cake czar for more than 20 years, Joe Liew Yaw Loong, a fellow comrade at the OBC-BU was married to cigarette for 14 years and Shear Ling Toh whom hopped on the bandwagon today!!! Shear Ling Toh ended her short 5 years affair with Sampoerna. Anyone else joining the bandwagon? Lets do this together!! I hope the social-chimney James Fong & John Chuah too will jump into the bandwagon.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA 8 WEEK CHALLENGE!!!

JOIN THE CHALLENGE...... HOW?

A) REGISTER ONLINE as a recruit for both October & November at HERE then register for the 8-Week Challenge by clicking HERE.

B) Take a full length front & side picture of yourself holding a Sunday, 26 September 2010 NEWSPAPER.

C) Get ONLINE (a link will be provided once registered) before 11:59pm on Wednesday, 29 September 2010, complete the pre-challenge form,  upload your photos and record your first month benchmark assessment time. You have to attend the Benchmark assessment as a prove of attendance.

D) Once you have registered for BOTH October & November and had registered for the 8-Week challenge online, you will be directed to make RM70 only as a payment entry which include 8 WEEKS of DIET PLAN, INFERNO FAT BURNING SYSTEM, daily blogs, motivation and recipes!

Thereafter.... just surrender yourself to the program!!! Its all about discipline..

(Note: The deadlines above is ONLY applicable to ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama, the dates may differ for other locations)

THE END OF 20 YEARS RELATIONSHIP

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It was during the third semester break in 1988 when we first befriended her.  We were fourteen years old and was in Form 2 at Bukit Bintang (Boys) Secondary School. We tasted her together... Zarir Salleh, Syamreen Azam Shafei and me at Zarir's house in Taman Tun Dr Ismail 22 years ago. That was how it started... that was how we all became Smokers. The habit worsen with almost 3 packs a day now. Two years ago, I even blog about my inseparable relationship with Cigarette at HERE.

Exactly a year ago, my brother Mohammed Rhiza Ghazi too had divorced his Red Malborough. My driver, Sanwan had quit smoking. Cousin Noor Ervin Shahriz Noordin, friends Suanie T, Cynthia Gan, Shobha Bala to name a few had ended their relationship with Ciggie.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 10/12: HUNDRED MADNESS

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The weekend was very fruitfull foodfull. I know.. I know... need to control the diet but I lost control at Dato Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Tahir, PROTON Managing Director's house when the main menu was Kambing Golek (Grill Lamb)!!! I mean.. its Kambing Golek!!!! as in Kambing Golek!!! yaa. the diet went tergolek...



We also had the chance to celebrate the raya with YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad whom at 85 years old is still standing very strong!!

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 9/12 BRING-A-FRIEND DAY

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We all have friends.. I mean who doesn't, but how much do we care about the friends to actually get them involved in a healthy socio-fitness activity? Yes.. we care alot and hence the monthly Bring-A-Friend day every 3rd Friday of the month. Bring-A-Friend Day or BAF Day is the first step or rather a sneak preview of a better healthier lifestyle and... of course healthier circle of friends. Being in a circle of people that share a similar passion for sexier lifestyle will assure an improved consistency in training.

Of course, one of the first few to arrived is non other than our 'mascot'.. the famous torn pants Yam Chan Siucheh...

Although waking up in an ungodly hour needed a little extra effort, there were more than a dozen friend that arrived as early as 5:30am. Amongst them was Aisan Lim, whom trained with me for almost 10 months at KLA but went MIA due to work pressure that forced her to run and cycle at the Gym instead. We also welcome Tan Lay Cheng (LC) from the circle of parent at the Garden International School.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 8/12 GRUNTS 110

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Food, food, food.... guilty as charge!! especially during the Hari Raya but fortunate for us, we have Sarge Dann to make sure those food did not turn to fat. Sarge Dann woke us up this morning with 100 Grunts!!! No it was not for punishment but he knew someOne ate a little too much last night.... and No we could not cheat because it was prescribed in 10 installments with barely 5 seconds rest in between. If only the installment could be extended to a few days (wishful thinking!)...

Since it is Hari Raya, Sarge Dann gave a discount angpaw....  Ranger was given 40% discount and did 6 repetitions of 10 sets, Seal had 20% discount with 8 repetitions @ 10 sets but Delta.. no discount 10 repetitions for 10 sets!

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 7/12 THE SPARTAN

We fought our way through to better health and fitness the Spartacus way today!! or thats how it felt like being high on adrenaline.

There were no late comers and although we had a few dozen recruits at Alpha but there were no sign of Otai Joe Liew, Kenix Lim and leesa Tan. Maybe they were still busy celebrating Hari Raya. Our session began with a partner base Fire and Movement circuit that require Partner-A to run 5 step forward, dropped chest down while Partner-B run towards partner A and dropped chest down too and so forth. The Fire and Movement circuit is a mock military section assault where one soldier move forward while the other partner on standby to shoot. We did four laps of Fire & Movement from one football goal post to the other goal post. The intensity was increased on the third lap where we had to dropped chest down at every three steps instead of five.

SKETSA AT FIRST DAY RAYA

There were only thrice in my 36 years that the Hari Raya was celebrated without the parent. Twice during the undergraduate years and today. This year Hari Raya was different when father had to be in California, United State of America and mother in London with Dr Teratai Edithy Pahamin, Shazrul Azwa Asaari & Rose Emini Pahamin.

In their absent, Chempaka Emalin Pahamin & Azhar Sulaiman played host on Hari Raya morning to the leftover of the Pahamins at Bustanu. Mum would be proud to know that Chempaka Emalin Pahamin did a good job. After the Hari Raya prayer, we all gathered at Chempaka's house for FOOD!! and there were varieties for everybody...

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 6/12 SELAMAT HARI RAYA

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Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri... there is no better way than to start the EID MUBARAK morning with a jolly good fat burning, ass tightening, stomach crunching, heart throbbing exercise.. and that's exactly how ours started!!

Yes.. ONLY at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP @ Bandar Utama!!! No.. exercise knows no holiday and knew no break even on Hari Raya or Chinese New Year.... RAIN, HAIL OR SHINE!!!..

That is the commitment at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP and that is the commitment of our super kiasu, hyper & energetic Sarge Dann. Sarge Dann sacrificed his first day of Hari Raya commanding Alpha, Bravo and Zulu. He prepared the training field all by himself with the tyres & ropes as part of the training equipments for the well-prepared circuit picked from Chief Brabon's mentoring program.

BRING A FRIEND DAY

17 SEPTEMBER 2010 is.... that special time of the month again for you to cherish your friend by getting them involved in your 'other' life...the ORIGINAL life.. I mean the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP way of life.

The ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP is not only a fat/weight lose, body toning, strength/stamina building program but it is also a platform that gather a circle of people with similar interest in fitness and health. As how Lilian Lee, our recruit relate it to the Pringles slogan 'once you pop, you cant stop', at bootcamp, once you gain that exercise momentum via the program, you really cant stop.. in fact, you dont want to stop.

To register for the free 'Bring A Friend' Day.. Click 'friend' or 'past-recruit'.. Choose BRING A FRIEND DAY - Bandar Utama (Select the preferred time) and you are one step forward to either be his/her bff (best friend forever) or ... completely lose them.

To know how to get to our training field.. click here..

Bring A Friend Day at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA @ BANDAR UTAMA is on Friday, 17 September 2010.  See Ya...

WHEN LIFE TURNS 'SWEETER'..

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Life turn sweeter as we get older and mine turned sweet'est with a 25mmol/l glucose count over the weekend and it was not a pleasant experience.

It has been almost 10 years since I had Diabetic type 2 and has been on 850mg metformin (glucophage) twice a day and 30mg Diamicron MR (Gliclazide). When I changed my lifestyle into a super active outdoor person and adopted the Blood type diet, I self-revised the dosage of my medication to 850mg metmorfin once a day and stopped the Diamicron MR. When I went on mega-active activities with recent half marathon and Mt Kinabalu climb, I did not replenished my supplies of medication thinking the mega active lifestyle would self-regulate the sugar level.... very clever of self-proclaimed doctorate Dr Armin Baniaz.

The diabetic has been quite friendly since diagnosis except for a few hypoglycemic moments which over the years, I had learn to recognize the symptoms. The symptoms of hypoglycemic or low blood sugar that I found very pronounced in me was the sudden shiver, excessive sweating (even in an air-condition room), jelly legs, disoriented and slurred speech. I had never experienced high blood sugar or Hyperglycemia until recently (with 25mmol/l).

DO NOT BUY TAG HEUER SPECTACLES

I bought my first Tag Heuer eye-wear model TRACK FTH 7201-004 when my eye was infected with bad infection, at the OPTICAL 88 located at the Curve Mutiara Damansara on 22 December 2008 (Invoice No: RSML 09-6862. Since then, I brought and bought the same brand for Nawal Aini Zulkifli and Rose Emini Pahamin as well as recommended a few other friends to the same shop, OPTICAL 88.

What was never made known at the point of purchase was the damn expensive TAG HEUER spec was easily broken and it takes too long to claim warranty. If this were to be PROTON, it would have been on the front page of every newspaper.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 3/12

3 SEPTEMBER 2010. If there was a moment when Sarge Dann was hyper and mega active.. it must be today!! The Australian must have brainwashed him during the Hell Week and he came back... ever increasingly super duper hyper active...

..and if there was a day that is the hottest day while training, it must be today too. The heat from the sun at 6:15pm was unprecedented, we felt as if we were training in the hot afternoon.

The combination of a super mad hyper Sergeant and a boiling hot day.... was gila babi crazy letih nak mampus (hard to translate) very fun and exciting.

ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA: OBC-BU SEPT 2/12

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1 September 2010. What can you expect to get from a Sarge that had just graduated from Hell Week? ...HELL!! plain and simple. How else to burn the extra calories if not through sheer hell?

As I arrived at ZULU, everybody were doing Grunts... I learned a shortwhile later that the Grunts was compliment from the King.. Jun King for being late. He figured, we could all do with extra workout.

PROTON LATEST PROMOTION... ONLY IN SEPTEMBER

1 SEPTEMBER 2010... PROTON EDAR had announced its latest promotion for September!!! The promotion was announced in-conjunction with the Independence Day and the Aidil Fitri promotion... up to RM3,500 on certain selected model.

Err I mean... over and above the earlier announced 20 years Anni, Aidil Fitri and Independance day promotion.

For full detail.. browse here; to book click here.

COUNTDOWN TO HARI RAYA...

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Its 9 days to go before the Aidil Fitri festival.. and there are more than 60 cars to be delivered at Proton Edar Putrajaya alone.. Throughout Malaysia.. I would expect nothing less than at least 5,000 vehicles. Can we deliver those cars?

Last month in August, Selangor had a shorter month to register customer's vehicles with the Nuzul Quran and the Merdeka day celebration. The last day in August itself, there were data transfer issues between the Road Transport Department (JPJ) and Custom online that prohibited the registration of chassis. Despite that, PROTON was able to achieve its monthly target.

PROTON ICT Service Desk are on standby to mitigate any affected chassis from registration. PROTON finance department are also working and open even on weekend to expedite any payment for CBU & excise and the central hub are on a 24 hours shift to deliver customer's vehicles to promptly deliver customers' car before the festive season.