Threesome...

standing (l-r) Bach, Meself, Shahrul,
squatting (l-r) Ayol, Syah, Shaq




Me (right) as the Bendahara of Malacca in MSSCF's Festival of Diversity 2005



Left; Lenoq (he has no trouble running long distance as he is super light)
Right; Ms Izrin Irina ("Lenoq! i nak u habiskan donut-donut ni..")


I have always enjoyed playing contact sports like football, rugby and hockey. I have been playing these sports since schooling days. Although I was never good enough to represent my school let alone district or state in football, I had my lucky share in rugby and hockey. Hence, I played more hockey and rugby in school.

When I was in Cardiff, I enrolled myself under the Athletic Union of University of Cardiff to play cricket only to realize after 2 sessions that I sucked big time. I can't bowl properly and even if I managed to bowl it in a straight line, the speed of the traveling ball will make the batsmen have enough time to adjust their helmet. I shall not even say about my batting skills. I thought that having the base of field hockey will make it easy for me to try new sports ie cricket. But it turn out not to be the case. Being a BOY myself, we all have a big self respect which most of the girls in town label it EGO. I followed my ego and left the cricket club.

Wednesdays have always been half day for school. We are normally done by 1300. The rest of the day are normally for University League for games like football, netball, rugby, hockey etc. I normally play football with my flat mates in parks. We just play for fun since we are not that good to be playing in the Uni League. I enjoyed playing football probably because of the weather and the condition of the pitch and parks. And football boots and balls are relatively cheap in UK. So, it was always easy to start kicking a ball.

I continued playing football even after i left the Halls of Residence. We would gather together mostly on Saturdays to play together among the Malaysian students nearby. Wednesdays were occupied with the Malaysian Students Society of Cardiff University (MSSCF) Festival of Diversity, an annual cultural, musical, theatrical performance by MSSCF members in which in 2005 was directed by Ms Izrin Irina.

I enjoyed football very much and sometimes would go and participate in Games organised by Malaysian Students Society of other Uni such as Nottingham, Warwick, Bristol etc. However, one fine Saturday I twisted my right knee badly and ruptured my anterior cruciate ligament. I was told by a Doctor that I will not be able to compete in contact sports until the knee is fixed. He proposed that I sign up under the NHS to go for ACL reconstruction. Until the date is set, I was told that I would have to go for physiotherapy sessions and advised not to gain weight. Haha..what an advise. After about 7 weeks of therapy, it was already in the middle of spring. It was an almost perfect weather to run. And guess what, that was how I started running. The first 2 weeks I was running with my tennis shoe. It was not nice running in those. I got a running shoe through the internet and continued running. My house mates (Fairul,Farhan and Syah) and few friends (Shahrul,Shaq and Lenoq)would also join me running. Izrin did join us a couple of times but she did not enjoy it to much not because she could not run but she was more concerned with dogs roaming freely in the park.