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Temubual Bersama Akhbar Kosmo (un-edited version)



Wawancara bersama Hisham Idris Wartawan Meja Am Kosmo bertempat di kediaman Armin Baniaz di Sungai Penchala.

Pendahuluan Wartawan.
Secara mudah wawancara ini bakal dimuatkan di dalam kolum Kosmo! edisi harian yang disiarkan di dalam kolum wawancara berbentuk Q&A pada setiap Rabu. Sehubungan itu tujuan saya ingin mewawancara tuan ialah bagi mengupas isu berkaitan pemberian skim baucar RM5,000 ke atas kenderaan berusia 10 tahun ke atas.

Beberapa hari lepas Timbalan Menteri Kewangan, Datuk Chor Chee Heung berkata, kerajaan bersedia mengkaji semula pemberian baucar tersebut sekiranya terdapat alasan kukuh mengenainya.

Sehubungan itu, saya memerlukan pihak tuan dalam memastikan tuntutan oleh timbalan menteri tersebut di samping ingin memaklumkan pendirian Persatuan Pengedar Proton Edar Malaysia yang diwakili pihak tuan sebagai Presiden. 

Di bawah saya sediakan beberapa soalan yang diharap dapat membantu pihak tuan. sekian.

(Armin Baniaz: Maafkan saya jika jawapan saya dicampur dalam kedua-dua bahasa iaitu bahasa malaysia dan juga bahasa Ingeris.)


1. Wajarkah pemberian skim baucar RM5,000 ke atas kenderaan berusia 10 tahun  diteruskan?

Untuk menjawab soalan ini, kita barus menilik kembali objektif asal Skim Pelupusan kereta yang menawarkan baucer RM5,000 untuk kenderaan berusia 10 tahun keatas. Objektif asalnya ialah untuk merangsangkan jualan kereta nasional pada kegawatan ekonomi sekarang yang perkenalkan dibawah bajet Rangsangan Kewangan 2 (“2nd financial stimulus”). 

Objektif ini sedikit sebanyak telah dapat dicapai dengan sokongan yang padu dari pihak Bank yang meluluskan pinjaman sewa-beli pelanggan untuk membeli kereta baru Proton dengan cara menebus baucer tersebut.  

Skim ini telah dapat mengurangkan kesan akibat dari kegawatan ekonomi dan juga dapat mempertahankan jumlah jualan kereta dari terus jatuh. (The scheme was able to minimise the effect from the economic downturn and was able to sustain if not improve the national car sales).

Jika  objektif tersebut telah dicapai dan kerajaan juga yakin keadaan ekonomi Malaysia telah kembali pulih, skim tersebut boleh lah ditamatkan. Terutamanya jika kita berpandukan pada OBJEKTIF ASAL skim tersebut di perkenalkan. 

Walau bagaimanapun, objektif skim pelupusan ini tidak seharusnya terhad bagi  jangka masa pendek sebagai rangsangan ekonomi (semasa kegawatan ekonomi) sahaja tetapi harus dijadikan satu objektif jangka masa panjang bagi mengatasi :


1)       Masa depan pasaran kereta dan industri automotif yang tepu di Malaysia

2)      “Road-worthiness’ bagi kenderaan di Malaysia yang berumur 10 tahun keatas dan keselematan pengguna jalanraya yang lain  

Polisi pelupusan ini haruslah di perkenalkan sebagai satu polisi jangka masa panjang. 

Jadi, skim boucer ini patut diteruskan jika keadaan ekonomi kita masih belum pulih untuk mengelak dari kemelosotan jualan kereta.

2. Apa signifikan sekiranya ia diteruskan dan bagaimana ia membantu merangsang jualan kereta terutama membabitkan kereta buatan nasional?   

Jumlah kenderaan yang berusia lebih dari 10 tahun dianggarkan melebihi 2 juta kenderaan. Jika skim ini di teruskan, ianya akan menolong pemilik pemilik kenderaan untuk menukar ganti kereta mereka dan seterusnya mempertingkatkan jualan kereta nasional.

3. Jika perkara itu diteruskan kerajaan mungkin mengalami kecairan wang kerana membantu pemilik kenderaan lama, apa cadangan program atau kaedah lain untuk tidak membebankan mana-mana pihak tetapi tetap menguntungkan pengguna? 

Ianya bergantung kepada objektif Skim…. Objektif pertama dan utama baucer dan juga Skim Pelupusan kenderaan ini diperkenalkan ialah untuk merangsangkan jualan kereta nasional yang mendokong lebih dari 70% jumlah jualan kereta kesuluruhan (Total passenger car sales)  di Malaysia dan secara tidak langsung, ia membantu juga pemilik kenderaan lama (untuk memiliki kereta baru). 

Secara majority, pemilik kereta kereta yang berusia lebih dari 10 tahun sudah tidak mempunyai sebarang pinjaman. Pinjaman sewa beli kereta itu telah habis dibayar. Pada hakikatnya, penebusan baucer untuk membeli kereta baru akan lebih membebankan pembeli kereta yang kini terpaksa menanggung kos hidup tambahan untuk membayar pinjaman setiap bulan untuk kereta baru mereka. 

Jadi, sebenarnya, jika baucer ini diteruskan, bukan sahaja kerajaan akan kecairan wang, tetapi juga pembeli kereta yang menebus baucer tersebut akan kecairan ‘disposable income’ mereka kerana kini terpaksa menanggung pembayaran pinjaman bulanan sewa beli kereta baru itu (berbandigkan sebelum ini, tiada apa apa pinjaman). 

Tetapi jika Objektif skim dan baucer tersebut ialah untuk jangka-masa panjang demi keselamatan pengguna-pengguna jalan raya dan juga untuk mengatasi masa depan pasaran kereta yang tepu, program yang diperkenalkan (dan kemudiannya ditarik balik) di bawah Dasar Automotif Nasional untuk Pemeriksaan Mandatori Tahunan (untuk kereta berusia melebihi 15 tahun) akan memberi lebih kesan yang lebih berfaedah kepada pengguna secara keseluruhan. 

Apabila pemilik kenderaan (yang berusia melebihi 10 tahun atau 15 tahun) terpaksa melalui Pemeriksaan Mandatori Tahunan, kos kos membaik-pulih untuk mencapai tahap ‘road worthiness’ bagi mendapat kelulusan pembaharuan cukai jalan kereta akan mempastikan keselamatan (akibat dari keadaan kereta yang tidak terjaga) pengguna jalan raya lain terjaga. 

(Senarai atau semakan untuk "Road-Worthiness" ini tidak pernah diumumkan. Senarai dan semakan inilah yang patut dikaji sepenuhnya atau dibahaskan oleh pihak-pihak yang membangkang akan pemeriksaan mandatori ini) 

Pada satu tahap, kos untuk membaik-pulih kereta ini akan membebankan pemilik kereta (tetapi penting untuk keselamatan mereka & pengguna jalan raya) dan dengan adanya pilihan untuk melupuskan kenderaan (melalui skim berasingan dari pembuat kereta nasional), beban pemilik kereta akan dapat dikurangkan. 

Terdapat pelbagai cara yang boleh diperkenalkan supaya tidak membebankan pemilik kereta untuk menjalani Pemeriksaan Mandatori Tahunan. Contohnya, kos ataupun yuran Pemeriksaan itu boleh dibiayai oleh syarikat-syarikat insurans am kerana, syarikat insuran juga akan mendapat faedah dari kekurangan kadar kemalangan (akibat dari kereta yang tidak terjaga). Lagipun, pembaharuan insuran juga adalah mandatori dan perlu sebelum pembaharuan cukai jalan. 

Syarikat yang melupuskan kenderaan tersebut juga boleh membayar pampasan kepada pemilik kereta lama (sebagai boucer) untuk pelupuskan kereta mengikut harga pasaran besi buruk atau pendapatan dari ‘recycle’.  
Di negara-negara maju, pemilik kereta terpaksa membayar syarikat swasta untuk melupuskan kereta mereka. Pemilik kereta dengan relanya menyerahkan kereta mereka untuk dilupuskan kerana kos penyelengaraan kereta yang tinggi.(Car owners voluntarily surrender and pay for their car to be scrapped due to higher cost of maintenance).

Jadi kaedah yang lebih berkesan ialah melalui Pemeriksaan Mandatori Tahunan (yuran yang ditanggung oleh samada syarikat insuran atau sebaliknya) yang juga akan menjaga keselamatan pengguna-pengguna jalan raya lain. Pemilik pemilik kereta boleh membuat pilihan untuk melupuskan kereta lama mereka dan mendapat bayaran yang setimpal dari Syarikat yang di iktirafkan oleh kerajaan untuk melupuskan kereta atau membeli kereta baru yang ditawarkan oleh pembuat kereta seperti Proton dan kerajaan tidak perlu menanggung kos baucer. Dengan cara ini, tiada pihak yang dibebankan. 

5. Jika sebelum ini Persatuan Automobil Malaysia pernah mencadangkan skim tersebut turut diberikan kepada kenderaan impot, apa pandangan tuan mengenai perkara tersebut? 

Saya tidak bersetuju. Kenapa kerajaan kita patut membelanjakan wang rakyat untuk dengan menawarkan baucer kepada syarikat asing yang tidak pernah melaburkan keuntungan mereka dalam melahirkan kereta mereka melalui infrastruktur tempatan seperti dalam teknologi tempatan, R&D tempatan dan tidak juga manjadikan Malaysia sebagai HUB untuk mengimpot kereta mereka? 

Ya, saya tidak menafikan masih terdapat banyak kekurangan dalam proton.. tetapi perubahan telah dapat kita rasai dan nikmati.. ini terbukti dengan pengurangan komplen dari 5 komplen setiap kereta kepada sekarang hanya 0.6 komplen setiap kereta. Ini bermakna tidak semua kereta yang mempunyai masalah kerana  kualiti kereta proton telah banyak diperbaik pulih. 

6. Sampai bila kerajaan perlu memberikan skim baucar ini dan sejauh mana sambutan para pemilik kenderaan pada perlaksaan skim tersebut yang telah berakhir pada 1 November lalu? 

Baucer ini harus diteruskan sehingga keadaan ekonomi kita terutamanya industri automotif telah pulih. Rakyat kita hanya baru memahami sepenuhnya polisi ini semenjak ianya di perkenalkan dahulu. Semasa polisi ini diperkenalkan, ramai yang tidak berapa faham, jadi sambutannya kurang memberangsangkan. Tetapi semenjak kebelakangan ini, sambutan polisi ini menjadi amat menggalakkan. Jika kerajaan yakin, keadaan ekonomi kita telah pulih, baucer ini boleh ditamatkan.  

Tetapi jika skim ini ditamatkan semasa keadaan ekonomi belum stabil, kita akan rugi dari segi momentum yang telah ada dan akibatnya, jualan kereta mungkin akan kembali merosot. 

7. Timbalan Menteri Kewangan, Datuk Chor Chee Heung berkata, jika ada sebab yang kukuh, baru kajian akan dibuat oleh  pihaknya, apa alasan pihak tuan jika mahu ia diteruskan jika tidak kenapa? 

Kenyataan terbuka beginilah yang akan lebih membebankan para pengedar dan juga rakyat. Setiap polisi baru Proton atau kerajaan yang diperkenalkan akan membabitkan para pengedar sebagai pihak pertama yang akan diserbu oleh pembeli yang tidak puas hati atau marah. 

Sebelum program ini ditamatkan, sepatutnya kajian yang mendalam telah dibuat terlebih dahulu. Berdasarkan kajian yang mendalam itu, kerajaan sepatutnya membuat pengumuman kepada rakyat dengan penjelasan terperinci kenapa polisi ini ditamatkan dan juga pencapaian yang telah dicapai.

Bukan hanya dengan cara membuat kenyataan: jika ada alasan yang kukuh baru kerajaan akan buat kajian dan memberi Harapan Palsu kepada rakyat. Ramai pembeli berpendapat dengan cara mengamuk di Pusat jualan pengedar, pihak pengedar dan juga Proton akan lebih cepat bertindak dan memaklumkan kepada kerajaan. Apabila kerajaan tidak mengambil apa-apa tindakan, pengedarlah yang akan menjadi mangsa dan akan mengalami kerugian.

Seperti yang saya maklum, buat masa ini momentum terhadap Baucer & skim pelupusan berada ditahap yang sungguh menggalakkan. Tetapi samada objektif skim tersebut telah dicapai dan jualan kereta nasional tidak lagi memerlukan skim ini, maka skim ini boleh ditamatkan. 

Tetapi pada pendapat PEDA, keadaan jualan kereta kita masih belum pulih dan belum stabil. Dengan menamatkan baucer ini, kita akan kerugian momentum yang telah ada dan seterusnya akan mengakibatkan kerugian jualan.

8. Kenapa di negara kita kenderaan lama seperti dimanjakan dengan pemberian skim baucar bagi menggalakkan pemilik untuk menukar kenderaan baru? 

Pemilik kenderaan lama tidak dimanjakan tetapi keadaan kereta lama yang bernilai kurang dari RM5,000 ini bukan sahaja membahayakan pengguna jalan raya lain tetapi juga membebankan pemilik dengan perbelanjaan penyelenggaraan (repair & maintenance) yang tinggi.

Inilah sebenarnya sasaran pasaran skim baucer ini.

9. Ada suara-suara kecil menyatakan, pemilik kenderaan enggan terlibat dengan skim tukaran baucar kerana memikirkan nilai kenderaan mereka di pasaran lebih tinggi dari jumlah wang yang ditukar ganti, kenapa ada pandangan sedemikian?
 
Ini pendapat peribadi setiap pemilik kereta. Skim tukaran baucer atau skim pelupusan adalah sebagai pilihan yang ditawarkan oleh kerajaan. Jika pemilik kereta berpendapat kereta mereka bernilai lebih dari nilai baucer, mereka tidak perlu memohon untuk melupuskan kereta mereka. Skim ini bukanlah skim mandatori.

Kebiasaannya, pemilik kereta yang yang menilai harga kereta mereka dengan harga yang lebih tinggi (dari harga baucer) itu menjaga kereta mereka dengan lebih baik dan kereta tersebut juga berkeadaan lebih baik. Ini bukan lah sasaran pasaran bagi skim ini.

Skim ini juga sepatutnya melupuskan kenderaan yang tidak dijaga yang membahayakan pengguna jalan raya yang lain dan mengurangkan beban pemilik yang terpaksa berbelanja tinggi untuk membayar kos penyelenggaraan kereta lama mereka

10. Jika diteruskan, berapa banyak kenderaan yang masih belum ditukar ganti yang berusia 10 tahun ke atas dan jangkaan berapa jumlah dana bakal dikeluarkan selepas ini?

Kerajaan kita lebih mengetahui keadaan sebenar ekonomi di negara kita. Jumlah dana yang patut dibekalkan terpulang kepada keadaan ekonomi kita sekarang. Jika industri automotif masih berada dalam tahap kritikal, mungkin lebih banyak dana diperlukan, tetapi jika industri automotif kita telah lebih stabil, dana yang diperlukan mungkin hanya sebahagan dari dana yang dibajetkan dibawah Ransangan Kewangan 2 (2nd Financial Stimulus).

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KLAS10- the Mock Exam

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The benchmark test or the fitness assessment is due on Monday next week. Before the beginning of a new session (for new recruits) and after completing 12 sessions at the Bootcamp, all recruits will be assessed and re-assessed to determine their fitness improvement. The assessment too will enable the trainers to park each recruit into either the Delta, Seal or the Rangers depending on the fitness level.

In anticipation of the forthcoming 'test', the platoon had a Mock exam sort of speak today....

My shoe sole came off and buried so deep in the mud on the first running cycle but I continued running without the sole. Running in mud without any sole was like running on ice, it was so slippery. One shoe down, luckily there are a few more shoes.

Having almost completed 1 month at the Bootcamp with only 2 sessions left for November, this is my brief observation:

1) The trainers... During the 10 sessions in November, we had the pleasure of having Sergeant Simran Latiff as the Chief, Corporal Faizal Ariff, Corporal Jason, Lans Corporal Daniel, Lans Corporal Elin and Corporal Dharmendra Mahalingam throughout the 1 month. One day, I will blog about each one of the trainers....

I have been a Gym member since 1997 at the Fitness Network, Centrepoint, Bandar Utama, then at the Fitness First gym and now the Truefitness Gym (see: GYM). Only at the Fitness Network that the Personal Trainer in particular BEDRI, was so accommodative and is always assisting and guiding the gym members. The majority of other Personal Trainer at Fitness First and Fitness Network sucks. There will only be accommodative if you engaged and pay them for personal training. Otherwise, they would rather stand and chat amongst themselves, or talk on the phone and 'cuci mata' looking and checking out the female gym members than to freely & voluntarily support and guide other gym members.

From my observation at the gym, majority of the Personal Trainers that cost at least RM120 - RM150 per 1 hour session, talked on the phone, day dream & look around and greet other gym members during a training session with their client; disrespecting their client whom had paid so much for that 1 hour session.

At the Bootcamp, all the trainers are yours 100% for that 1 hour session!! Try to cheat and the whole platoon will end up being penalise!!! None of the trainers at the Bootcamp had the opportunity to even breath.. let alone day dream or answer any phone call!

THE BOOTCAMP TRAINER TRAINED WITH YOU!!!

Today, whilst running, Corporal Faizal ran together with me and kept motivating for me to give my 110% effort. During the last resistance training session, Sergeant Sim went down into the mud challenging me with endless push up! In one of the session, Corporal Jason sprinted with me pushing my heart rate all the way to 182bpm, my maximum heart rate level.

Bootcamp trainers are fit, pro-active and attentive to details. Okay enough about the trainers... can't give them too much compliment, a taliban will still be a taliban...

2) The Recruits..... Over and above the motivating support from the trainers for recruits to give their 110% effort in every session, the support from fellow recruits is simply priceless and invaluable. Every recruit are stranger to each other on the first day at the Bootcamp but they immediately became brudder and sista almost instantly...We never had the chance to become friends but became good friends instead.

The first person that greeted me on my arrival at the Bootcamp was Dr Malek.. aka Dr M and his wife Farhanah Bhamadaj. A Delta at 57 years old, his perseverance put me to shame. Dr M is also a cancer survivor and a keen diver. I have never met anybody whom is as obsessed with stray animals as his wife Farhanah Bhamadaj. Farhanah enjoyed feeding stray monkeys and cats. She even kept an apartment to house all the stray cats. Fortunately, she did not take another apartment to house any stray monkeys in her neighbourhood although she gave each one of the monkey a name!!!!

Other inspiring married couple that is at the Bootcamp is Kenny & Michelle Smith and both are in Delta!!! Kenny is a Scottish and Michelle an Australian. Kenny was a Rugby player in his youth but stopped exercising for 4 years due to a knee injury... Kenny ballooned up to 104kg and was told off by his dad whom is also a keen athlete. That was his trigger point being a daddy's boy. Kenny started exercising and lost 5kg before he joined the Bootcamp 5 months ago and lost another 15kg!!!! A total of 20kg weight lost!!!! His wife, Michelle, is going back to Australia in December and is joining the Original Bootcamp in Australia for 2 weeks!!! Cool.........? More like madness!!! but it is inspiring to see that determination to AVOID missing any training!!!

There are 50 others in KL Alpha that I cant mention all here but the most inspiring and supportive are Chia Kai Chun, Shobha Bala, Peggy, Tricia Especkermen, Vivien Luyen Ow, Wai yee Chan, Suriana Saiful, Lilian Lim.......... All others team mate are also very supportive but if there is one birth defect that I have, it must be the memory for faces and names, my apology if i did not mention you here but really... (See: Birth Defect). Maybe the brain needed some upgrading.

However, I have to salute Shobha for that determination to quit smoking. Me and cigarette...? I have blogged this many months ago (See: Ciggie).  The Bootcamp had inspired her to quit smoking and she celebrated her 1 month without cigarette last week. If she is as determine to get 100% attendance in December next month, I will be in trouble if I missed any session (from now) and will have to wear the chosen attire by she & other winners! That was the pact and bet made amongst us at KL Alpha for a perfect attendance.

Coming to the end of the November session, I am sure many recruits are deliberating to continue in December or otherwise; including my sister Rose Emini & cousin Nyna Mohsein. I trust all will continue with the Bootcamp so we can all continue to motivate each other.

The spirit of Bootcamp is a form of recharge when we are sort of 'Low Battery'  with the never ending stressed at work and the endless deadlines to meet.

To KL ALPHA, thanks for all the support and for being a great team mate....... (unlike the never-ending Grunts at PJ :-p )

HOOOOYAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
p/s- Today, the blog is abit serious.. so cant have funny pictures... nonetheless, its typed with the handphone and continued in between meetings at work.

Other Bootcamp articles, see: Bootcamp 12, Bootcamp 11, Bootcamp 10, Bootcamp 9, Bootcamp 8, Bootcamp 7, Bootcamp 6, Bootcamp 5, Bootcamp 4, Bootcamp3, Bootcamp2, Bootcamp 1.

Dukethon 5km @ Duke Highway...

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Perfect weather this morning, perfect route with only slight gradient going up and downhill, perfect number of participants and perfect timing........That is the summary of the first Dukethon 1Malaysia 5km race! The race was flagged off by Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor, Works Minister at 8am. I completed the 5km race in 31 minutes, maximum 171bpm heart rate while running and burnt only 480 calories.




For a registration fee of RM5.00 that is cheaper than a pack of cigarette, we were given an orange baseball cap, a T'shirt, certificate and pewter medal (while stock last) that would probably cost more than RM100.


If there is anything that can be improved for next year's Dukethon race, perhaps is a longer distance.. maybe a 10km and 21km race. If the Penang Bridge, the only land transportation access into Penang Island can be close for the annual Penang Bridge International marathon and half marathon, I am sure the Duke highway too can be close for the same reason.

It would also be good if the 'Duke of Highway', Datuk Haris Onn Tun Hussein accompany Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor, Works Minister and lead all other VIPs to run on the Duta Ulu-Klang Expressway (DUKE)  too rather than stood handsome-ly in all white uniform unpertubed by the thousands of runners on the highway.





Well done Duke.. Congratulation on the first race.

Earlier DUKE blog Post see: DUKE 



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KLAS9- The Spirit of Bootcamp...

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The VOTE for the spirit of Bootcamp was open a few days ago.......... Every month, recruits are required to nominate & vote another recruit that has been very supportive of other members. This is similar to the high school prom King & Queen except that it is unisex... any man or women can vote for any man or women.. there can only be one vote for only 1 champion..... so those that has not voted, please do so here: VOTE.

ANYBODY that wants to be Bootcamp PROM KING/QUEEN, my vote is open for sale for only 10 Grunts...!!  Dont worry, UNDI ITU RAHSIA....

Today is the KL Alpha Session 9... Every 3rd Friday of the month, is BRING A FRIEND DAY..

So today, many recruits brought along their friends and with the new friends, the session was less 'strenuous'...  We were divided into a team of 8 without any regard to Deltas, Seals or Rangers... everybody was mixed in a group of 8 pax.

Our trainers today are Sergeant Sim, Corporal Faisal Ariff, Lans Corporal Elin, Ms Tee Sr (Fat Tali), Ms Tee Jr (Slim Tali) and Ms TY Jr (Slim Tayar)......

The 8 per team with a total of 8 teams were asked to perform 8 types of different exercises.. and NO.. I will now provide PJ with a sneak preview of what to expect.... actually i am rushing to work :-p


Today's bring a friend day is part of the 'Intelligence' training portion of the military inspired Bootcamp... first identify the enemy, Second befriend them akin of being undercover with the enemy, then infiltrate & destroy!!!!

Hence, those so called 'friend' that tag along the recruits today... should and would have realized by now that you've been 'checked mate'! ...destroyed ....buried in mud!! sort of 'padan muka' and gotcha!!

So now we know why LUYEN brought along her husband DAVID.... why Rose & Nyna brought along ZAKI & SABRINA...!!





HOOOOYAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 more days counting down to 100% ATTENDANCE.... SHOBHA & SOO PEY watch out!!! Having re-scheduled all appointments to attend without fail the Bootcamp, its time for me to leave to Negri Sembilan now for Proton Southern Dealers Region Gathering... but I will be back for tonight's function organised by PEGGY for Shobha 1 month without cigarette celebration!!!!! I shall bring along a pack of Salem light to celebrate that...


ALL BOOTCAMP'ERS SHOULD AND MUST ENSURE A PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORD AT ALL TIME TO GAIN THE BEST BENEFIT FROM THE BOOTCAMP!!  WORKLOAD AND SCHEDULES WILL NEVER END... BUT YOUR LIFE WILL....... IF YOU DO NOT TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH NOW......

Until Next week on Monday..... STAY TUNE & have a good weekend!!


Other Bootcamp articles, see: Bootcamp 11, Bootcamp 10, Bootcamp 9, Bootcamp 8, Bootcamp 7, Bootcamp 6, Bootcamp 5, Bootcamp 4, Bootcamp3, Bootcamp2, Bootcamp 1.


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KLAS8- Bootcamp; Running for 100% Attendance

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I went back to the Truefitness Gym on Tuesday, after being away from the gym for more than 3 months. I need a quick fix and tomorrow's Bootcamp felt so far away. ....such an adrenaline junkie I have become. I tried to kill myself at the gym doing endless leg press, leg extension, bench press, shoulder press but could not get similar dose of Adrenaline as at the Bootcamp.

Today, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 is KL Alpha Session 8 and also the date I am scheduled to address all Proton Edar Northern Region Dealers in Penang. I would have left to Penang last night and missed this morning's Bootcamp session but I did not want to give SHOBHA & SOO PEY the LUXURY to broadcast my LESS THAN 100% attendance!! (tough luck!)

With only 4 hours of sleep preparing the speech and presentation, I arrived at Padang Merbuk at 5:35pm and although I thought it was a full quorum, Sergeant Sim still gave us 10 complimentary grunts... so kind of him!

Today's Bootcamp was all about RUNNING... or was it SPRINTING.......... or a better word RACING!!!!

I was breathless, running & racing with the Delta was like ............ breathing under water or in a plastic bag tied over the head.



            Gasping for air                                                                                          HELP... HELP...!!

 and the heart rate was dancing at 182bpm...maximum heart rate!!!

I would have given up, stopped running and simply just walked to catch a breath disregarding everybody else but the encouraging voices of Sergeant Sim and fellow Deltas Chia Kai Chun, Doc Malek, Kenny and other Deltas aspired me to continue and run...!!! The 10 V12-speedy Delta members bounced back and ran with us a few times to support us through.... Such was the Spirit of Bootcamp Teamwork........!!!

I burn 910 calories today with an average heart rate of 172bpm.

After the Bootcamp session, I rushed home, showered and quickly attended Fasfik meeting at head office before driving up to Penang.

It was a short 3 hours and 30 minutes drive and we arrived at Proton Edar Northern Region office to be greeted with almost 100% attendance from Proton dealers in Perlis, Penang, Kedah and Ipoh... the Northern region. I was fortunate to chair and spoke non-stop throughout the whole meeting... Otherwise, I may just fall asleep.

After the meeting, we head back to KL and I received an email (via Blackberry) of a Corporate figure and a marathoner Ranjan Das, the President and Chief Executive officer of India Subcontinent.

" Ranjan, 42 years of age, was the youngest CEO of an MNC in India. He was very active in sports, was a fitness freak and a marathon runner. Just after Diwali, on 21st October 2009, he returned home from his gym after a workout, collapsed with a massive heart attack and died.(see: Media)

 

It was a wake-up call for various corporate personalities and was even more disastrous for runners since Ranjan was an avid marathoner. The question came as to why an exceptionally active, athletic person succumb to heart attack at 42 years of age. "


The Real Reason was the fact that Ranjan used to make do with only 4-5 hours of sleep. (Click Here for more details)

I had a non-stop intensive workout with the Bootcamp on Monday, GYM @ Tueday, Bootcamp again on Wednesday.. and now in Penang with barely 4 hours of sleep......  


.........and although I arrived home from Penang at 11pm and was ready to post this KLAS 8 blog... but I was disturbed by the story of Rajan... and went



 to bed instead of blogging......

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


*Errr.. thats not me! ...but quite close

Phew... save by that Rajan-email from an otherwise a 'no good reason' for the delayed blog and might even have to do 40 grunts from SGT SHOBHA & SGT SOO PEY!!! ... ...


On a more serious note, whilst we are all a junkie to Bootcamp, we MUST ALWAYS ensure that we have (at all time) sufficient rest and sleep whilst undergoing intensive training... a minimum of at least 6 hours of sleep is a MUST but it is better if we can get at least 8 hours of sleep.

So SHOBHA, SOO PEY & PUVANTHRA,  if you ever feel tired due to lack of sleep or lack of rest... Please take a day-off and do not attend the Bootcamp. I promise and will guarantee that I will BROADCAST your absent at OBC FB page, twitter and all accessible media whilst I happily keep my 100% attendance... alone!!!

HOOOOYAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Other Bootcamp articles, see: Bootcamp 10, Bootcamp 9, Bootcamp 8, Bootcamp 7, Bootcamp 6, Bootcamp 5, Bootcamp 4, Bootcamp3, Bootcamp2, Bootcamp 1.

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Proton Edar Dealers Nationwide Tour- Northern Region

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Proton Edar Dealers Association Malaysia (PEDA) began our nationwide tour on 18 November 2009 as part of the newly elected committee's resolution  to foster and strengthened the bridge between the dealers and Proton Edar as well to strongly unite the Dealer's network. The new committee was elected on 3 October 2009 during PEDA's 10th Annual General Meeting (see: AGM).

The nationwide tour that began with the Northern region Dealers was driven by PEDA President, Armin Baniaz and was accompanied by PEDA Vice-President 1, Mr Lee Lick Sai, PEDA Vice President 2, Abu Lais Walli Mohamed, Secretary General Jeff Lim Si Heong, Assistant Secretary-General Fadzil Bakar, PEDA East Cost Region Head Jasmin Ismail, PEDA East Coast assistant Region Head Mohd Zainuri Abdul Halim. 


The Northern region comprised of Proton Edar Dealers from Perak, Perlis, Penang and Kedah. There are 36 Dealers in the Northern Region and we had almost 100% attendance with the majority attended by the business owners.

KEDAH & PERLIS
No
DEALERS
REPRESENTATIVE
DESIGNATION
1
Aspirasi Utara Sdn.Bhd
En.Abu Lais Waili Mohamed
Director
2
Dinasti Agresif (M) Sdn.Bhd
En. Mohammad Nizam Nadzir
Managing Director
3
Edaran  Idaman Suri S Bhd
En.Annuar bin Ahmad
Managing Director
4
Idaman Suri Sdn.Bhd
En Annuar bin Ahmad
MD cum Manager
5
Mazra Edar Sdn.Bhd
En Zuri bin Abd Rahman
Sales Manager
6
Pengangkutan Sedar Sdn.Bhd
Mr.Khiu Phong Kiat
Sales Manager
7
Shubila Automobil Sdn.Bhd
En. Mohamad Zamri b Khalid
Sales Manager
8
Lee Motors (Alor Star) S.Bhd
En Dzivani Ismanu b Ismail
General Manager
9
Mercu Usaha Mersra Corp
Mr. Allan Wong Keng Seng
Managing Director
10
Medan Sepakat Sdn.Bhd
Mr. Wong Khai Loon
Director cum Manager



PENANG

No
DEALERS
REPRESENTATIVE
DESIGNATION
1
Alio Automobile Sdn.Bhd


2
Didi Resources Sdn.Bhd
Mr. Goh Kian Chuan
Director
3
Autobinee Oriental (M) S.Bhd
Mr. Yeap Teow Teong
Managing Director
4
Roadstar Automobile S.Bhd
En. Mohamad Hazree Abdul Hamid
Director
5
Aktiviti Mutiara Sdn.Bhd
Mr Tan Boon  Ping
Director/Manager
6
Erakami Edaran Sdn.Bhd


7
Hasfas Auto Sdn.Bhd
En.Romzi b Hassan
Sales Manager
8
Jelita Menawan Sdn.Bhd
Ms. Sheryn Wong
Sales Manager
9
Julang Auto Sdn.Bhd
Mr Loh Aik Hwa
Sales Manager
10
Million Zone Sdn.Bhd
En. Mohd Taupik b Hj Mohd Nor
Director cum Manager
11
Zoomteknik Automobile S.Bhd
En. Abdul Latif b Abdullah
Director cum GM
12
Autofin Ass (PG) SDn.Bhd
Ms Teresa Yeo
Managing Director
13
Edaran Saga (PP) Sdn.Bhd


14
JECG SDN.BHD
Ms June Lim
Sales Manager
15
S.M NUSANTARA SDN.BHD
Mad Awi
Sales Manager
16
SABER MOTOR SDN.BHD
Mr. Tan Kean Hoe
Director cum SM



PERAK

No
DEALERS
REPRESENTATIVE
DESIGNATION
1
GERAK RODA SDN.BHD
MR JEFF LIM SI HEONG
Director cum Manager
2
JKS MOTORS SDN.BHD
Mr. Kannasen a/l Govindaraju
Managing Director
3
MERCURY DELUXE SDN.BHD
MR OOI KEAN HUAT
Sales Manager
4
MULIA PERSONA SDN.BHD
Mr Lee Mun Hong
Manager
5
WARNA BESTARI SDN.BHD
Mr. Aw  Chiew Soon
Managing Director
6
ZAMAN MOTORS SDN.BHD
DATO HAJI KHADRI BIN KHALID
Director
7
BUDIRAYA SDN.BHD
Mr.Cheong Tat Seng
Sales Manager
8
GAGAH MURNI SDN.BHD
En Mohamed Ramli Mohd Alias
Director
9
C.S AUTO SDN.BHD


10
BUMITAGE SDN.BHD



We drove from Kuala Lumpur at 10am and arrived at the Proton Edar Northern Region office located at Sungai Pinang, Pulau Penang in time for lunch before the commencement of the meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 6pm and we drove back to Kuala Lumpur the same day.

Amongst the important issues discussed durint the tour was Proton Exchange programme or the scrapping policy. The details of other discussions are quite sensitive, confidential and cannot be disclosed in this blog.

PEDA is pleased with the topic of discussions although there are some hot issues debated. A nationwide tour will be made a quarterly agenda.

Our next stop will be Negri Sembilan and Melaka.

Stay Tune

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KLAS7-Bootcamp; Its time for pure indulgence...........

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Yes...!!!! We had a 3 pax orgy with Ms Tee in the mud today!!!! Directed by Corporal Elin!

Okay okay.. lets not get excited (...yet) and bypass the introduction. We arrived abit late at 5:35am and began our session sharp at 05:45:15 with a total of 39 cars parked!! I did not do any head count today but there was no AWOL from the recruit and we did not get any grunts. There were 4 trainers with Sergeant Sim being the Chief (as always), Corporal Faisal Ariff, Corporal Dharmendra and a new trainer to KL Alpha, Corporal Elin (spell?) from Norway (??).

After the routine warm up session KL Alpha was divided into 3 teams namely Alpha, Bravo & Charlie with a mixture of Deltas, Seals and Rangers in each team.

I was in Charlie and we began with Corporal Dharmendra. Charlie was further divided according to their respective ranking; the Delta, Seal and Rangers. There were only 4 Deltas in my team, Me, Chun, Jim and Bing. The Delta began with sprinting, the Seal had to jog with a fat rope and the Rangers carrying a slim petite rope and jog. I had PE and was breathless the moment we start sprinting. All the muscles felt heavy and was probably burn out from only 2 weeks at the Bootcamp. After many rounds of sprinting, we stopped and whilst stationary, we were asked to lift the fat rope with arm fully stretched up and had to simultaneously performed a deep squat... that was a climax!

Then we were passed to Sergeant Sim & Corporal Elin... for the in-mud orgy with Ms Tee (tyre)!!



Unlike her gorilla mother (aka Big Bertha), Ms Tee Junior was lighter & sexier. We were then sub-divided into a small group of 3 pax where we had to individually flipped her for only 3 times. We were conned into thinking it was an orgy but really.. only one team member with Tee at a time. The other two had to stood aside pumping the grass ala syiok sendiri! to avoid getting bored, we change our positions from pumping, plank'ing, sit up to squat. Yaa.. another heart throbbing climaxed after so many rounds with Tee and the syiok sendiri positions.






Needless to say, the mud was deeper than our ankle!!

We were then passed on to Corporal Faisal Ariff....whom gathered us ala the movie 300.




The bootcamp version is called 100!!! Everything that we do from the squat, push-up must be for a repetition of 100!!!! Exhilarating burst of power!!!

With all the multiple orgasm today, I burn a good 780 calories with a constant heart beat at 165bpm.

After surviving a total of 11 Bootcamp sessions and 2 weeks (or 7 sessions) of training this month, I have lost all the extra fat and weight gained during the Eid Mubarak celebration. Prior to joining the Bootcamp last month, my weight was 71.6kg and now my weight is 70.1kg.......... The weight lost was not my goal and I actually wanted to gain muscle & weight.

With all the unnecessary weight lost, I should go to Delicious @ One Utama and order my favourite chocolate cake and....................................

.................EAT!!!!!!!!!!

HOOOOYAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or maybe should say...
YAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!


Other Bootcamp articles, see: Bootcamp 9, Bootcamp 8, Bootcamp 7, Bootcamp 6, Bootcamp 5, Bootcamp 4, Bootcamp3, Bootcamp2, Bootcamp 1.

Comedy Court - 1Kind Show Starring Allan Perera & Indi Nadarajah

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1 KIND SHOW 
starring Allan Perera & Indi Nadarajah




The Kings of Comedy, Allan Perera and Indi Nadarajah is a veteran comedian having being in business for the past 12 years.. although this was the first time I heard of them. We went to watch the show yesterday at the Palace of the Golden Horses after a light dinner.

We were invited and introduced to the show by Dr Malek Aziz, who first brought his ex-girlfriend (now his wife) Farhanah Bamadhaj to the show on their first date 10 years ago. There, we met a fellow Bootcamp'er Shobha and was introduced to her friendly husband Vinod Kumar.

We were seated and pre-warned before the show start, to either swtich off our handphones and mouth or we will be charge under the ISA (Internal Sound Act).





The 1 Kind show was so......... 1 of a kind. The 1 Kind show recounted the many aspect of 1Malaysia that is still a hot topic during the daily teh tarik session at the local mamak store. Their impeccable impersonation of various Malaysian accents was hilarious. My favourite was the scene at the 'Executive Spa' which really showcased the two performer's ability to imitate and spoof various kinds of Malaysian.




During the scene, Allan and Indi pulled off perfectly the accents and mannerism of Chinese businessmen pretending to be busy working but was actually relaxing at a spa. Whist at the spa, Allan and Indi discussed plans to have their children obtained online university degree for less than US$100 to cut cost instead of the actual university degree that would otherwise cost RM500,000.00. A fake university degree, or even a PhD can be easily obtained from the internet for less than RM1,000.00. Although it was a good laugh, unfortunately the sketch depicted a true picture of Malaysians.

I had previously blogged a few issues on Malaysian politician so called 'graduates' in various Youth exco members (including the oppositions) and a 'Work in Progress' to list all educational background of our Members of Parliements, Cabinet Ministers and the respective Supreme Council members (See: Academic 1, Academic 2).

Other current issues played by them was so fresh and current including the 'cow head' incident , a promised to be “mindful of offending Indonesians and Singaporeans” and congratulated Chef Wan Ismail on his recent award as the world’s top celebrity chef.  Another excerpt from the play that almost left me crying in laughter was the 'Ministry of Edutainment' where both of them played a two Makciks being the Ministry's officers.




Both the tudung-clad Makciks constantly argued over the topic of having Science and Mathematics taught in English. The audience including me, laughed so loud when they translated a simple English instruction on how to instal a joystick onto their computers. Their atrocious attempts at creating a Bahasa Malaysia version of the instruction saw joystick translated as 'Batang gembira'.

Kudos to the King of Comedy.. The audience were screaming in laughter and cheering throughout the skits. We were rolling and could not stop laughing. They are both gifted especially in mockering and making us laugh at.............. ourselves!!


My only regret was to have missed Allan & Indi for already twelve years. Thumbs up to Dr Malek for the introduction. Thank you

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kLAS6-Bootcamp. The day i was overdosed with Adrenaline!!!!

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We arrived 5:30am SHARP at Padang Merbuk!! but there were only a handful of recruits. Maybe KL Alpha-ians wanted the extra grunts being jealous of PJ recruits whom were always given 50 grunts the moment their session began. Chai Soo Pey from PJ Alpha even offered her portion of grunts to me but we could not accept her well deserved kindness. At 5:40am... There were a total of 31 cars with 53 recruits. By 5:45am, all recruits were properly aligned ready to start.

There goes our grunts..... Now PJ recruits will definitely be sexier than us!!! They had 60grunts yesterday!!!



After the regular warm up, recruits were divided into their respective team.. the Delta, Seal and Rangers. Today, there were Sergeant Simran, Corporal Faisal Ariff, and Corporal Dharmendra Mahalingam (i think thats him),. Lans Corporal Daniel is still awol... Maybe we worked him out too much!!

The Delta began running with both hand holding a rifle-look heavy bar on the shoulder. Then we had to raise the bar up with a straight arm and continue running with it. After the heavy running with the mock rifle, we were allowed to leave the rifle behind and sprint to the foot of a hilly route.

There, the deltas continue running in one line and the last person was instructed to sprint and overtook everybody else to be the first in line, the cycle continues until everybody had overtook everybody.

Of course, I pretended the run was easy and sprinted to overtake everybody but actually.........







I was half dead (actually more than half.. almost dead)..... I wanted to ask Sergeant Sim permission to walk instead when my polar reads 182 beats per minute (bpm); almost 100% my maximum heart rate of 185bpm.

But Sergeant Sim's voices... "Come on Armin... You can do it Armin... little bit more Armin..."  the repeated loud voices was so INSPIRING and rapping in tune with my bassy heart beat. We stopped at a juncture and everybody was asked to do lunges and squat while every Delta individually took turn to sprint for about 100 metres uphill. A slow sprint will torture other Deltas whom had to performed unlimited lunges and squat until he arrived back from sprinting.

After the sprinting and crazy leg workout, we were introduced to 3 new exercises and we were asked to get a partner.... The first exercise was 'The Jumping High Five Deep Squat'.......... where the Sergeant kept screamed Deeper.. Deeper... Deeper....  which sounded abit kinky but considering the partner was a man, I felt abit disgusted.

The second new exercise was a tug of war where we had to cross our arms with the partner and moved each arm individually forward towards the partner akin of stabbing him.. I must have had the concept wrong or maybe I was too high on adrenaline when the Sergeant prompt "Armin, why are you dancing!!!"..






The third exercise that was newly introduced was the clapping push up for a repetition of 20!!! This was easy.. we had to clapped with one hand, the partner's other hand as we rise up from the push up...

By the end of the session, I was overdosed with adrenaline... I could not have completed the session without Sergeant Sim's encouragement!!  YOU ARE THE BEST SARGE..!!  I took back the "TALIBAN" label.... Our Sergeant Sim was really very motivating and inspiring and indeed he should be  .........................





Our Cheer leader!!

HOOOYAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Other Bootcamp articles, see: Bootcamp 8, Bootcamp 7, Bootcamp 6, Bootcamp 5, Bootcamp 4, Bootcamp3, Bootcamp2, Bootcamp 1.


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KLAS5-Nov Bootcamp



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Today, Wednesday 11 November 2009 is the Fifth session of this month's Bootcamp. Sleeping by 9pm and waking up at 4:30am is now a routine... a forced discipline of the OBC but last night, I had a long winded meeting and was only able to sleep at 11pm. Without sufficient sleep and rest, the session today will be a sheer torture.

It was pouring the whole of last night and needless to say, the field is expected to be an ocean full of mud.


oh... the heavenly mud......


In anticipation of the mud swim, my morning dilemma began with choosing a shoe to sacrifice!!! so I gathered all the shoe.........


After much deliberation, I decided to sacrifice one of the New Balance shoe for today's mud....



We arrived at Padang Merbuk at 5:35am... and after a 'quickie' behind the bushes, I gathered together with other recruits... Somehow, I always arrived with a full bladder but fortunately, never with a full bowel!

We began our warming up session with a slow jog, jogging with knee high, jog with heels high, side running without crossing the feet, forward lunges, backward lunges, both hands swing, both hand up and side by side (ala seal jump except without the jumping), alternating one hand up and one hand down etc etc....

After the warm-up, recruits were gathered at the field and were given 10 Grunts for late comers. Sergeant Sim must be in a 'bad' mood this morning having given us only 10 Grunts from the normal complimentary 20-30 grunts. Sergeant Sim has always been kinder to PJ recruits and once gave them a complimentary 50 grunts.. unfair..!!...???

The group was then divided into two.. the Delta & Seals combined and taken by Sergeant Sim, and the Rangers in another group led by Corporal Faisal... yes, Corporal Faisal is back after the Monday AWOL but today, Lans Corporal Daniel Chong is now AWOL...

Somehow we need to discipline these officers!! Thusfar, only the Taliban bearded Sergeant Sim that has never gone AWOL! Maybe Corporal Faisal and Lans Corporal Daniel Chong needs to grow a beard and follow the leader Sergeant Sim ala Taliban...



(From Right: Corporal 'Mc Bootie' Faisal & LC 'Mc Sweetie' Daniel Chong ala Sergeant Sim?)


The Delta & Seal session began with a 20 Star Jump repetitions, 20 repetition of truster (or thruster?), 20 repetition of Seal Jump, 20 repetition of Cross Country Jump and 20 repetition of Grunts... and the cycle was repeated non-stop for 12 minutes before we gave the Sergeant a 90 seconds break and repeated the cycle again non-stop for another 10 whopping minutes... and of course after that 10 minutes, we had to waste another 90 seconds on a luxurious break for Sergeant Sim.

We were promised a complimentary 1 additional minute for every unauthorised break but we were not that greedy.

The first session was already a killer. My heart beat was screaming louder than Shobha's loud counting and movements...... my heart rate was going berserk like this.....


But I have no complain since the heart is still beating although berserk.






The second part of the session was more gruelling.  It began with butt and leg exercises... We had to squat so low until the ass almost touches the muddy grass for 20 times and on the 20th rep, we had to squat down and hold it for 20 seconds.


After the ass and leg exercise, we performed a 20 repetition of jack knife... my favourite!! To burn the abs further, we were ask to raise the leg 90 degree and tilting the ass upward with the toe pointing up... also for a repetition of 20!!

With all the 20 repetitions and 20 seconds etc........ Today;s Bootcamp theme must have been: Be young @ TWENTY/ 20... like Dr Malek! those that cant do 20.. should also realize that they are not so young anymore..err except for me!

Soon its all about the breast and the chest !!! For those gorilla chest dreamer or those wanting to reduce to size A?.... "The Push-up" aka pumping... also for a few sets of 20 repetitions.. and to burn the chest further, we were introduced to a new set of exercise called the ballistic push-up!! Performed similar to doing a push up but instead of the toe, its done on the knee. The body was slowly lowered by gravity and bounced back up at the bottom.... but for some funny reason, my ballistic push up did not bounced up.. it stayed down!!! this was also performed for a few sets of non-stop of 20 repetitions.

The session finally ended with a warming down.. I burn a dissappointing 705 calories today and the maximum heart rate was only 160 or 86%. Lesson to learn... SLEEP WELL the night before any Bootcamp session... otherwise you wont just suffer during the training but throughout the day you will........................




hence, the late posting of the blog............

HOOOYAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Other Bootcamp articles, see: Bootcamp 7, Bootcamp 6, Bootcamp 5, Bootcamp 4, Bootcamp3, Bootcamp2, Bootcamp 1.
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