BIM 2012: Back to Where It All Started

Posted on May 8, 2012 by jipp

So, I joined the Borneo International Marathon 2012 last weekend, a run that I registered for at the very last minute, in fact the very last day before the registration was closed. The run was so dear to me probably because I did my very first marathon (or half marathon to be exact) at the BIM 2009 which was then the beginning of it all.

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I would have been amazed by the big turn-up if not for the fact that I had already joined quite a number of (other) major marathons so the number of participants didn’t really impress me as much as it did back in 2009. But still, it was still a big crowd of runners at the starting line so the atmosphere was just as exhilarating.

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Job Trip-cum-Vacation?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by jipp

 

So, my job requires me to fly all the way to Labuan and later road-trip-ing all over Sabah in the next 2 weeks. 2 damn weeks! I already foresee myself falling into the net of acute exhaustion and turning into a walking zombie just to get whatever it was that I had been assigned to do done and dusted as they say. But then, things don’t necessarily end up like how we expect them to be and true enough,

I found myself on what appears to be more of a vacation here in Labuan. Oh please, everybody needs a break at times right..? RIGHT??? 😀

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Brunei

Posted on April 14, 2012 by jipp

So, I jotted down another country in the list of my travel trips by visiting Brunei last week. Of course the idea of coming to Brunei had first come when I heard about the upcoming Standard Chartered Brunei Half Marathon so I just decided it was probably the right time for me to come to Brunei and leave my marks there. Besides, it was one of only four more countries in South East Asia that I had yet to go apart from Laos, Myanmar and Dili.

Language

My first worry about traveling to Brunei had been the probability of a language barrier. Although it is located very much in the vicinity of Sabah, I was quite worried that they’d be a little bit of problem talking to Bruneian people who I knew had their own language. Continue reading →

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