Safety First, Not Convenience

I must share with you this important lesson but often being ignored due to convenience.

My wife's car was broken into last Thursday night when she parked at Jalan Song. Before going for her dinner (alone as I was on travelling to Sibu), she had transfered her office bag to her car booth (Waja), then she locked up and armed the car's alarm. Within 10 minutes as far she could recall, she return to her car and shocked to find out that the right rear car window was smashed and the back seat was unbuckled and her office bag was missing. She was in total shock and called me to inform. A few important documents and office keys were in the bag. In our mind then, we were very unhappy to face such bad situation. However, a police report were need to be made to report the lost in view of the important document. I quickly called Heroes to help out as he has experience (he had also met with similar incident a month ago...his losses was heavier (thanks buddy) :-)...

The agony of losing or suffering from the breakage was not enough as along her way to police station, she was stopped for two offences. Guess what ?

OML, she was first caught not switching on the head light and second, she was on the phone with me. It was really a bad day (as I listened to the conversation of her with the police, it was heartache indeed but I could not do anything but listen...). But thank God, the police only summoned her on the headlight but not the handphone incident as the police was aware that the car was broken into a few minutes earlier and she was still in shocking condition (thanks for the understanding).

At the police station, it was revealed that there were few cases of breakins and robberies on the same day. Ours is considered minor. We felt that we are lucky to have suffered this minor loss and we could have avoided the loss if we have been more alert and responsible.

This incident is purely due to convenience...lessons learnt are as follow;

a) If we wish to put our bags/belongings into the car booth, do it before our journey to destination (best is do not put in the car booth) as if we do it at the destination, we do not know who are watching us from the vicinity.
b) Use handfree :-) no matter how short or how important is the call..

Mount Kinabalu 2nd Expedition

I am pleased to present you a photo edited by Mr. Tee showing the view of the mighty mountain from Laban Rata.

After slightly more than a month coming down from Mount Kinabalu, the urge of conquering the top has never faded and in fact I have been enquiring for the earliest expedition again to conquer this mountain. I have received request from few friends (not BMs) to organise the trip soonest possible such as in Nov 2009 and of course many had written down in their diary for the May/June 2010 challenge.

What is important here is the fitness and mental level, especially for myself. Of course there is always an exception like our living example of BM5, who is not fit (no training) but has the super mental to back him to the top. So, I would only referring this to my current condition and to achieve this feat, I must conquer my following challenges first;

a) Twice weekly 5km run/10km walk, increasingly to 15km walk
b) Weekly mountain climbing activities, increasing to conquer Mount Santubong before D-day
c) Twice weekly 1 hourly squashing
d) Weekly weight training
e) Learning rope/rock climbing

Above all, I must have my weight reduced by 25% (naturally diet observance and alll the above exercise regime, I will definitely achieve that...:) ).

The greatest challenge is the discipline to start and maintaining this programme. I believe I will end victorious.

(Those who are determined (not only interested but determined) to participate in the next expedition to Mount Kinabalu - please register your name in this reply column...)