UP CLOSE & PERSONAL WITH JAMES FONG & CHAN MENG YAM, CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP PIONEER MEMBER & OTAI!!

Part 3 of many series as a countdown to 1 year CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP ANNIVERSARY!! Part 1: Lilian Lee, Part 2: John Chuah.

People joined the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP for various reasons. Some does it for health purpose, some does it to be fit, some does it to lose weight and some does it because they were forced to (err... not by me except for some few friends). Some joined the COBC to force themselves to workout because that is also what I did. Simply surrender myself to the program for one full hour, three times a week.

Delta, 3 times voted the Spirit of Bootcamp & 8 Weeks Challenge finalist James Fong and hot ass Chan Meng Yam joined the COBC 11 months ago to prepare themselves to conquer the Pinnacles at Mulu Caves. Recalling their first experience in June 2010 last year, James Fong and Chan Meng Yam were both an owl being quite wide awake and was out everywhere drinking, dining & partying at night but their lifestyle change when they forced themselves to sleep early in fear of what workout Sarge (COBC) Dann was going to prescribe the next day.

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL WITH JOHN CHUAH, CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP PIONEER MEMBER & OTAI!!

Writing about Chief's Otaiis will not be complete without writing about John Chuah.. yaaa.. he has that bragging right at the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP (COBC) solely because he is a living evidence that determination pays!! I first met John Chuah on FACEBOOK when he was deliberating to join the bootcamp or otherwise. When John Chuah first heard about the bootcamp, he took the courage to register and participate but had a storm of butterflies as it gets nearer to the actual start. He drove and park his car at one junction and 'spy' on what we do while training which is actually not a good idea. Having 'saw' what we do..... and calculating his age to the intensity algebra, he almost 'chicken out'.. almost backed-out but was convince when someone told him that the oldest participant was 57 years old.

Below was his video taken last year.. notice how lean he is compare to before.

5 DAYS COUNTDOWN TO SASUKE MALAYSIA

It is only another 5 days Countdown to SASUKE MALAYSA, an unprecedented obstacle challenge that is based on a Japanese TV Sports reality show that was first franchise to the United States of America as the Ninja Warrior and brought to Malaysia soil by Asian Biggest Loser producer Zai Johari that will take place in conjunction with Malaysia 1 million Belia gathering in Putrajaya on 27 May 2011.

Producer Zai Johari has been in search for the first Malaysian warrior since early January to be crown and witness by Malaysia Prime Minister YAB Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak and the honorable Minister of Sports and Youth YB Dato Seri Ahmad Shabery Chik. The response was overwhelming with almost 200 participants that had applied but unfortunately, a maximum of only 80 will be selected. With the overwhelming response, Zai Johari was willing to extend the deadline for application in April to ensure the first Malaysian Warrior is the best warrior to compete in Japan.

The CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP has been in support to all event produced by Zai Johari. We were also with Zai Johari training the Biggest Loser Asia finalist. Now the CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP are training the SASUKE PARTICIPANTS to prepare them for the mad-ness obstacle that only the legendary Japanese ninja or samurai are able to pass. The training for all SASUKE PARTICIPANTS is scheduled on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday at 5:45am. Interested Sasuke Participants should register online at www.BootCampMalaysia.com by clicking "ENROL NOW" and click the big green "H" button.

In search of Malaysia's first Warrior blog is available HERE. The first series "17 Days Countdown" that featured 5 OF Sasuke's participants training and preparation video is available HERE.
The second series "9 Days Countdown" that featured 11 of Sasuke's participant's training video is available HERE. Please find below, another 10 training videos of Sasuke participants. Base on all training videos, maybe we should open up a 'betting-centre' for who will be Malaysia's first WARRIOR!!!

Zai Johari, i know you are very stressed but trust me.... the participants are exponentially more stress than you.......

Fian Showreel (?) This participant was practically 'flying' from start to end..... Oh my god.... watch it!! I hope it is not a camera trick.... :-p

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL WITH LILIAN LEE LIN LIN, CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP PIONEER MEMBER & OTAI!!

One month into the CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP one year anniversary, we can't help but to ponder why and how did we get sucked into fitness and the CHIEF'S Healthy Lifestyle. Many people joined the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP for various reason. As a countdown to 1 year anniversary, let us go back into memory lane and see what the pioneer members say about the CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP or formerly known as the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP MALAYSIA. Take note on how they look before.... and if you know them, see how they look now. The first part of many series to come, is on pioneer OTAI Lilian Lee Lin Lin. See the Youtube video below.

Lilian Lee Lin Lin, a lawyer in Kuala Lumpur, the eldest of a sibling of two and a pioneer member at the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP once changed her FACEBOOK status from 'single to "In a Relationship with" the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP (COBC). Lilian Lee first joined the COBC to run for full marathon when she had never run nor did she ever exercise. A month later, Lilian Lee ran the BHP Orange 10km run in June at the Curve, Mutiara Damansara and traveled to Perth, Australia in August and attended a session at the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP in Perth. Being a hardcore bootcamper, she could not help but to compare the COBC at Bandar Utama to the OBC in Perth, Australia. Lilian Lee was our first recruit that went and tried COBC session in Australia. All recruits at the COBC can attend any session at COBC overseas being in the same global network.

9 DAYS COUNTDOWN TO BREAKING HISTORY WITH THE SASUKE MALAYSIA CHALLENGE 2011

SASUKE MALAYSIA is based on a 20 years old Japanese TV series that was also franchised in United State of America under the TV series The Ninja Warrior. For more details, click HERE.


This is the 2nd of a total 5 series of blog countdown to D-day displaying selected participant's video clip of their training. The first series is available at HERE. By the end of the countdown, the first MALAYSIAN WARRIOR will be crowned and witness by YAB Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, Malaysia Prime Minister and Dato Seri Ahmad Shari Cheek, Malaysia Sports & Youth Minister.

Please find below 10 Malaysian Warriors wannabes training video clips.

NAZRI NAZARUDIN from Kuala Lumpur joined the SASUKE MALAYSIA for the challenge and satisfaction and also as an accomplishment in life. For awhile, I thought he was doing YOGA in the video.

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL WITH CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP BU-DELTA NABIL JEFFRI

The CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP Malaysia will be 1 year old next month and after 11 months of Benchmark record being held by BU-Delta James Fong whom was also voted 3 times Spirit of Bootcamp (SOB) personality, his record was broken by Nabil Jeffri and Sunny Hussain from USJ1. It was ironic because the month that Nabil Jeffri broke the record, James Fong took an unprecedented 1 month off bootcamp to rest the injury from his maiden 21km running race.

If there is any consolation James Fong, Nabil Jeffri or his full name Muhammad Nabil Jan Al Jeffri is way younger than him and is currently Malaysia high achiever to be our F1 racer. Infact, that was the reason Nabil Jeffri is at the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP! ......to be fit for racing!!!

Nabil Jeffri an O+ blood type, a straight As students and is the youngest F1 test driver in the world at the age of 16 years in 2010. Nabil's racing achievement dated way back in 2003 when he won the Most Promising Motor Sports Award for the year 2003- Karting. In the same year, Nabil receive a Certificate of Appreciation for conducting Workshop for Jabatan Belia dan Sukan Selangor. Nabil Jeffri was a Talent for RTM 1 Malaysian Extreme Sports & Malaysian Motor Sports, a special guest for RTM1 LIVE coverage Italian F1 and Ambassador for Hot Wheels Racing.

He stepped up to Formula BMW Pacific in 2010, racing for Eurasia Motorsport. On 1 September 2010, Jeffri carried out an aerodynamic test for the Lotus Racing Formula One team, driving the Lotus T127 on the airfield at the Imperial War Museum Duxford,^[2] becoming the youngest ever test driver in Formula One history.^[3] He drove for the team as a member of the AirAsia ASEAN Driver Development Program run by Lotus principal Tony Fernandes. This year, Nabil Jeffri will be competing in the re-structured 2011 Formula Pacific (Formally known as Formula BMW Pacific) under the Petronas MOFAZ Racing Team

H.O.O.Y.A.H. CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP SUBANG JAYA USJ1

Hello Orang-Orang Yang Awesomely Hyper... or H.O.O.Y.A.H. as described by Desiree Jamie from BU-Bravo platoon!! H.O.O.Y.A.H. CHIEF's ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP (COBC) at SUBANG JAYA USJ1 is synonym with the increasing hyper-ness of COBC-USJ1 recruits with one recruit breaking COBC's best benchmark record that was earlier held by thrice-SOB at BU, Delta James Fong and another COBC-USJ1 recruit losing more than 13kg in weight!!!!

Sunny Hussain broke James Fong's record when he recorded 7:43 minutes for his circuit assessment (while James held the best record in 7:53mins). Lamsa Hussain first join CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP Subang Jaya USJ1 in February 2011 and now Lamsa weigh 13kg lighter. Lamsa is one of our most committed and disciplined recruit at COBC Subang Jaya USJ1.

Amongst the characters that made USJ1 a hyper place to workout are Sophie Israa Mokhtar, Jasmine Lily Ho, Dofu Shin, Mohd Badrul Ezan, Andrew Pang, Yasmin, Jake Wong, Mathew, Mohd Amri and Eda Yaacob amongst many others. If the picture below is blur and not so clear, it must be the CANON EOSD50 camera.. I was told the 'paparazzi' was already the best of the best!!!! (bluwek). The morning darkness made it quite impossible to capture a good photos but the best that was available was as follows.

PROTON GETS A TOUCH OF CLASS

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Armin Baniaz at the back taking pics with HP for this blog

The final touch has finally enshrined PROTON cars with a touch of CLASS (CENTER FOR LOGISTIC, ALLOCATION, STORAGE AND SERVICE) that was launched on 10 May 2011 by YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

1.    5 years ago, when Dato Seri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Tahir first took office as the Managing Director of PROTON, Malaysian were screaming at PROTON's inferior quality. Cars were delivered to customer with sub-standard quality, there were millions of backlog in warranty claims for defected parts and dealers working time were pre-occupied with customers complain.

Mohamad Syukor Ibrahim, PROTON Edar Chief Executive

SNAPSHOTS AT DH-ZULU PLATOON CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP

Everytime before a session began, the REDS.. which are the trainers will arrived at site at least 45 minutes before roll-call to set-up the circuit.

Sarge (COBC) Dann, Corp (COBC) Nawal & Lance Corp (COBC) Wan  arrived at the Damansara Height C0mmunity Centre at 6pm for the schedulise 6:45pm Zulu session. They set-up the circuit and had a trainers briefing.

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SNAPSHOTS OF BRAVO PLATOON AT THE CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP

Our recruits brought along their friends, siblings and even family to share their passion to be fit & healthy at the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP (COBC) BRING-A-FRIEND (BAF) Day yesterday. Bring A Friend day is held at the end of every third week of the COBC session. It is a snek-preview... a try-out sort of speak of what we do at the Bootcamp workout.

To welcome those friends and have some fun, we prepared some toys and record them 'playing' with it while burning some serious calories & fat. Special star in the videos were Raja Affandi Raja Jamaludin, Norliza Mohd Khaled, Shaz Sabri (Shazu), Pooi Ching Khiew, Viki Lim, Rose Emini Pahamin, Nyna Mohsen, Lim Shu Shin, Letchumi Sinadurai, Elaine and those section in Bravo Platoon. My apology to Alpha platoon, the paparazzi-stallion was being tortured and could not take any videos of those 40 recruits at alpha platoon. Similar apology to DH Zulu Platoon & USJ1 Alpha platoon but i did camwhore some serious photo at one of the session... Stay Tuned.

Half way through, a lawyer Belinda.. 'friend' brought by Elaine stepped out from the circuit soaked in sweat and exhausted. When approached, Belinda was still in shocked and just could not believe there is hell at 7am??!!!

CELCOM VERSUS MAXIS CUSTOMER SERVICE

If for some reason you forgot to update your CELCOM handphone payment and your hp is barred, and you made the payment online via CIMBCLICKS, DO NOT expect your handphone to be instantly re-connected!!!

I logged on www.celcom.com.my to check the outstanding amount to make the necessary payment to the mobile number that has been barred and the following screen appeared:










Having received the amount to pay, I clicked on the "Pay Now" symbol to make the necessary payment.

The next screen then displayed the option to either pay full or to pay "Other amount". I click on "pay full", select "Saving/Current Account (FPX)" and then I click "Continue" on next screen to confirm the payment amount and to proceed to the next step.

At the next screen, I select CIMBCLICKS as the Internet Banking Account preference and proceeded by clicking "Agree and Continue". A CIMBCLICKS pop up window appeared and I requested for TAC, select 'banking account' to make payment and all transaction is done and completed. A payment receipt was then displayed which detailed out the payment date & time at 12/05/2011 22:00:37, the Account Holder's name, Account Number, Mobile Number, Amount Due, Total Amount paid, Approval Code, Transaction Type, Reference Number and Mode of Payment.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE 2012 BUDGET CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL MEETING

Before an annual budget is passed in Parliament, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) went through various cycles to meet and debate with the grass root, private sectors, government agencies and  Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) to construct the budget. There is no exception for next year budget too and part of the process flow was the Budget Consultative Council meeting that was chaired by the Prime Minister YAB Dato Seri Haji Mohd  Najib Tun Haji Abdul Razak himself. Click HERE for the full MOF budget formulation process.

The theme for next year's budget is "Transformasi Bersama Rakyat" or "Together Driving Transformation". Prior to the council meeting, 124 companies from the Private sectors & NGOs, and 75 government agencies were asked to submit our memorandum on our perspectives, views and 'wish-list'. The companies from the private sector were as follows:

SASUKE MALAYSIA.. 17 DAYS COUNTDOWN

17 Days countdown for the first SASUKE MALAYSIA obstacle challenge. Click HERE to know more about Sasuke Malaysia. In less than 3 weeks, one of the contestant will be crowned the FIRST MALAYSIAN WARRIOR and to be witnessed by our YAB Prime Minister YAB Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak and Youth and Sports Minister of Malaysia Dato Seri Ahmad Shaberi Chik.


The event that is scheduled to take place on 27 & 28 May 2011 at Putrajaya will be contested on Hari Belia Negara 2011. Contestant will compete in conjunction with the gathering of 1million Belia and will be broadcasted by TV NHK to hunt for Malaysian Warrior to represent our Country in Japan.

There are approximately 80 contestants but the closing date for entry is on 15 May 2011, so there is still time to register for those that is interested.

To register, click HERE. To prepare all contestant for Malaysia's unprecedented event and as a show of support for HARI BELIA NEGARA 2011 and to Zai Johari, the producer of SASUKE MALAYSIA, the CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP, Malaysia had offered 2 weeks of training sessions at the Chief's training field in SUBANG USJ1 from the 15 May 2011. For further details get updates by always clicking on SASUKE FACEBOOK.


While we are counting down the days, the contestants are burning every seconds, every minutes training hard and harder.... Check out their training videos below. More videos will be uploaded later.

BOMBA RUN 2011, LARIAN BERSAMA BOMBA 2011

LARIAN BERSAMA BOMBA 2011 or RUN WITH FIRE FIGHTERS 2011 was held at the Dataran Merdeka yesterday 8 May 2011 and was flagged off at 7:30am sharp. This year marked the 9th Bomba run and we never missed these 10km runs except for last year when a bunch of us typically Rose Emini Pahamin, Nawal Aini Zulkifli, Ili Liyana Baharon, Nyna Mohsen & Faizal Ariff Abdullah registered and went for the run but did a 'Raju' instead!!! (click RAJU for that bomba'licious run).

This year there were almost 40 runners from the CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP, Malaysia and there is no way we could do another Raju!! We had 3 first time Virgin runner!!!! .....namely Shaz Sabri (aka Shazu), Raja Affandi Raja Jamaluddin and Rafikah Malek. The not a Virgin-runners were Corporal (COBC) Chun Chia Kai, LC (COBC) Wan Hazriq, LC (COBC) Letch, Joannita Zaleha Yusoff, Noor A. Othman, Farhanah Bamadhaj, Joe Liew, Lilian Lee, Shaz, Norliza Mohd Khaled, Debbie Burgess, Lizza Abdul Rahim, Viki Lim, Daing Daniel Fitri, Ody Nurfuadi Ruzalli, Siti Balqis Mohd Saldi, Ilyanna Aylin Ayob, Malek Aziz, Syed Mahadzir Syed Manshor, Bahariah Bahadom, Fareem, Ryan Wong, Suriana Saiful Yazan, Afiza Abdul Halin, Amir Hisyam, John Chuah, Jun King, Pooi Ching Khiew, Farah Fazu, Lizi Lim, Atie, Firah and Jorge.

Rose Emini Pahamin, Irwan Anuar, Nyna Mohsen, Armin Baniaz Pahamin, Chun Chia Kai

HIS EXCELLENCY OKHNA MONG RETHTHY VISIT TO MALAYSIA

We had the pleasure having H.E. Okhna Dr Mong Reththy at our house for breakfast this morning. We befriended H.E. Okhna Dr Mong in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia which I blogged in March 2011 at HERE. I have nothing but admiration for the self made man whom first visited Malaysia by driving a truck from Phnom Pehn to Kuala Lumpur in more than 2 weeksjourney. Dr Mong wrote a book of his life journey but unfortunately, its written in Khmer. However, his brief history is available at HERE, achievement at HERE and his company background at HERE.

I brought Dr Mong Reththy whom was in Malaysia for a 4 days working trip to meet and introduced to our Group Chairman cum my father at our residence.

Dr Mong Reththy came with his second son Mong Chantan whom is expected to be a father in less than a month. His son Mong Chantan is incharge of his father's port and rubber plantation. Dr Mong Reththy has 3 sons and 2 daughter. All of them except for the youngest son are all married. Dr Mong children has given him 8 grandchildren. Dr Mong Reththy is not only successful as a businessman but also as a father.

CHIEF'S BU-ALPHA & DH-ZULU SESSION 6: RACING WITH A1 RACER!!

Equipped with 3 hours of sleep, a cup of coffee,  15 ounces  of HEMORAGE Black Ultra concentrated pre-workout drink and HALLS mint sweet, I arrived for the CHIEF ORIGINAL BOOTACMP 6th May 2011 session very early at 5:40am... okaay not so very early but still early.

I quickly noticed Adriano Abila was absent together with Aisham Amir Hisyam, Anuar, Arif Zikir Azizi, Audrey Fong, Azlin, Cindy Yeo, Danial Nassurudin, Danny (Vinod), Dhiya Hazwani Samsudin, Effie, Evonne Yap, Fazli, FREDA LIU, Gareth Yeoh, Hafiz, Hana, Jasjeet, Jazreen JOHN CHUAH, Mabel Cheong, Mohd Fazli Mohd Sarujee, Mohd Noor Al-Hafiz Mohd Nordin, Prabu Premilia Rajanatman, Rajen Dorairaj, Raven Siew Keong Fong, Suraya, TOH SHEAR LING, Tom and Vinothan Danny Ebinesan. ALmost a quarter of those registered for May went AWOL...

I think they think we do not noticed them but we spot every recruit that attended the session with us. Also spotted LIZZA ABDUL RAHIM enthusiastically came but forgotten to bring her training shoe and had to workout barefooted!!! ....and I finally met the much-talked-about (by the ladies) Nabil Jeffri... The person who broke JAMES FONG's best kept record in Benchmark Assessment and also the person whom girls ladies were drooling over the 8 pack abs?? Anyway, our session began with Corporal (COBC) Chun taking command of the platoon's warming up session and immediately after the warming up session, Sarge (COBC) Dann divided the platoon into their respective section namely Delta, Seal and Ranger.

ALLIANZ CONVENTION 2011 PART II: ROYALE CASINO

After a few days of seminars and talk, the ALLIANZ CONVENTION 2011 ended with a GALA dinner. The theme for the Gala Dinner that was held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom was Casino Royale. Allianz had 5 models to entertained us and 3 Gambling tables with a given 500 chips for every participant to try out their luck.

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All the delegates that came for the convention were all present at the Grand Ball room for the finale dinner!! There were 53 staff selected from Allianz offices nationwide.

Every participant was given a gambling chip.

CHIEF'S DAMANSARA HEIGHTS MAY 5TH SESSION:

4 May 2011. Chief's session at Damansara Heights was rocking high on its 5th session although the weather has recently been less friendly. 80% of more than 40 recruits that register for COBC-DH was present and a few from COBC-Bandar Utama was seen doing 'double' session a day!!! Kiasu..? You bet! It all started with the trainers themselves.

Some trainers did 3 sessions on labour day 1 May 2011.... Today, Sarge (COBC) Dann and Corporal (COBC) Nawal and Corporal (COBC) Chun did 3 sessions again. Mind you, instructors at COBC workout with recruit and do not just stood still bossing the recruits around. With instructors like them, no wonder there are so many Kunta Kinte Kiasus and kiasis at the Chief's Original Bootcamp.

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CHIEF BOOTCAMP MAY '11 SESSION 4.

Waking up at 5am to workout at the CHIEF's ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP (COBC) 3 times a week should get easier after err....  23 months/256 sessions/256 hours since we first started almost two years ago but it did not. This morning, waking up at 5am was short of a disaster. Somehow that extra one hour sleep before sunrise felt so luxurious... heaven!! Being under the duvet in an 18 degree aircond cold breeze was so ... Oh gawd.... indescribable BUT the bootcamp call was even more powerful! Nothing feels better than to start the day with at least 500 calories burn, the motivating scream of Otai recruits and the inspiring drive of Sarge Dann was too irresistable! I quickly jumped out of bed at 5:10am after 'snoozing' the alarm clock 5 times.

I arrived punctual at 5:45am after ramming the Maserati pedal and was in a great relief thinking I had 'deprived' other recruits from a sexier legs being the 'reward' for late-comers but I was sabotaged!!! Everybody ended up with a sexier toner legs when there were 4 'late-comers'!!!! (highlighted in bold- NOT because of ME ya! *wink bluwek).