Wednesday's Anchovies

The 2016 edition of Great Eastern Genting King of the Mountain was held on 20 th August 2016. Horses crossing ahead. Registration entrance in the morning. NKY and I signed this up for the first time, at Genting Highlands. With first-tier ticket at RM 99 per person, each participant is guaranteed of 10 km distance running with 15 obstacles, a finisher medal, t-shirt and wonderful story to brag of about taking on the mountain. The organizers also offered a number of hotel packages to all participants, bundled with two (2) Viper Challenge entry tickets. This proved a boost to the hotel businesses and shoppers’ sales during the low season. Preparing for the start of wave. Our given starting wave is at 8 am and the check-in process was quick with a flash of registration voucher and ID at the entrance gate. Different starting times helped to control the number of participants on area. Everyone seemed to enjoy the atmosphere in that morning, accompanied by t...

The number of races in Malaysia continue showing an upward trend in 2016. This year, we observe more theme-based running events are introduced and most received good responses in the areas of Penang, KL, Selangor and Johor. On the contrary, the tight running schedule for some of the major races in Malaysia definitely would leave the runners ponder before taking on. In this post, we are presenting our top most-anticipated running events, with categories ranging from ultramarathon, 42km, city relay and obstacle based race.  1. Route 68 Challenge (ENDED) Description: The second edition of Route 68 Challenge promised a remarkable challenge for the ultra-runners with its 50 km and 70 km race routes. The road runners will be running along the Federal Route 68 (Jalan Gombak - Bentong), greeted by the most enthusiastic volunteers and photographers. For runners ended the race within the cut-off time, cool medal and finisher tee presented by 2ndSkin await at the finishing line. ...

This post marked the 100th post for Kanghuekia! Congrats to us LOL :) Standard Charactered KL Marathon (SCKLM) 2015 had to be cancelled due to the weather conditions. Pollutant index kept increasing during last 2 days and the haze condition is not safe for us to run. Hazy KL.. The event organizer had to cancel the run one day before the race day and participants can still go to Dataran Merdeka to collect their entitlements from 6am to 12pm, Sunday (4 th October 2015). We are there too, to collect our finisher tee and medal. The crowd at Dataran Merdeka is more than expected. People are busy taking photos at the finishing line after collecting their entitlements. Queuing to collect our entitlements. Everything is ready...but the weather is not ready yet... Pose at the finishing line :) Our goodies bags :) with some bananas, apples, pears, 100plus and power gel! Race vest and full marathon finishing tee!  Love design of fi...

Year 2015, it is an exciting year for runners in Malaysia with the introduction of some new running events and obstacles based races. Going into the third and final quarter of year, the real competition’s just begun. Be prepared for physical and mental endurance challenge test. Here, I am presenting you the four interesting runs happening in Malaysia in 2015 and one in Thailand. 1. Men’s Health Women’s Health Night Run 2015 (ENDED) Description: The first night race event put up by Men’s Health Women’s Health Malaysia. Running in Putrajaya has never fail to amaze the participants, including me. Offered with cool running tee, finisher medal and post-rain running experience, this is surely another event worth looking forward in 2016.    Date: 21st March 2015 Venue: Palace of Justice, Putrajaya *Race report: please click http://kanghuekia.blogspot.com/2015/03/mens-health-womens-health-night-run-2015.html 2. Taiping Cross Country Run 2015 (ENDED) D...

If you drive from Kuala Selangor to Klang, you would pass through a small town named Sasaran. Sasaran is a small fishing village where there is only one main big road in the town, which is the way leads you to Klang. You would sure notice that there is an empty space beside the main road’s traffic light with some unique installation art pieces displayed there. Interesting fact is the art pieces are made of used material or recyclable stuff from the fishing village! Few years ago, Sasaran being known by most Malaysian because of an art festival held in this fishing village. On year 2014, they organized an international art festival at Sasaran! Don’t worry if you missed the chance to pay a visit during the art festival because some of the installation art pieces are still standing there, as well as the wall art :) We dropped by Sasaran last few weeks when we were on the way to Klang and decided to spent some time explore around under hot sun!  Giant chair...

Happy Chinese New Year! Eat too much during this CNY? Or lazy at home throughout the whole CNY? It is time to move! Let’s join KL Car-Free Morning together! Interested in cycling, rollerblading, skateboarding or handcycling? Want to experience doing all these on major streets of Kuala Lumpur Golden Triangle safely? Join KL Car-Free Morning together with thousands of people and have a blast in your Sunday morning! Don’t worry if you not interested with cycling or skateboarding, you can also jogging or even walking with others! Few major streets are closed from 7.00am until 9.00am where cars are prohibited from entering the road. Total route is around 7km. Source: KL Car-free Morning Source: KL Car-free Morning Started from year 2015, KL car-free morning increased to twice a month, which is first and third SUNDAY of each month.  We were there on third Sunday of January 2015, it was so happening! We were greeted by horses from DBKL as well as school o...

Updat e of this post . 1600 Pandas Tour in Malaysia is finally back to KL and would be at Publika, Solaris Dutamas from 13 th until 25 th January 2015 (from 10am to 10pm). We went to Publika last Saturday to join the fun! There are so many pandas (and people as well) even though it was a Saturday morning! Everyone is queuing patiently in order to have a nice shoot with those cute paper pandas! Pandasssss and humanssss :P Cute pandas lining up nicely waiting for photo shoot too :) For 1600 Pandas Malaysia Tour, there are some “special made” pandas which included Malaysia’s culture like trishaw, congkak and hibiscus! Super cute and priceless, only in Malaysia LOL. Beca edition! Badminton edition! Which is the most famous and successful sports game in Malaysia. Congkak edition! Childhood’s game, haha! Besides, some posters of the Panda tour in Hong Kong were exhibited there too! 1600 Pandas last pit stop before Malaysia was Hong ...

Yoohoo! 1600 Pandas is coming to Malaysia!!!! Throw back to March 2014, we are so lucky to able to visit 1600 Pandas at TaiPei, Taiwan during our visit there!  Awesome view of 1600 paper mache pandas in front of TaiPei 101 Tower! This December, 1600 Pandas finally arrived in Malaysia! Selamat datang! Definitely would be an awesome view as well! Photo source:  1600 Pandas Malaysia Tour official Facebook account Information from  1600 Pandas Malaysia Tour official Facebook account : They have a mission in Malaysia, to convey WWF – Malaysia’s message around the country which is   about environmental preservation and to raise public awareness! Based on information given on the official Facebook account for 1600 Pandas Malaysia tour, the event would be kicked start at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur on 21 st December 2014, Sunday! Cutest map ever! Photo Source:  1600 Pandas Malaysia Tour official Facebook account The...