Mr Miri 2011 (Part 1)

Well, this year's Mr Miri is yet held at Boulevard Shopping mall. It's my 1st bodybuilding experience which I managed to grab the 3rd placing in bantam weight category. I've only decided to join earlier this year so all together it was estimately 6 months of preparation for this competition.. I can tell you so much have gone through and so many barriers arises which cause me to almost give up. But I told myself, since I started it, might as well finish it. And furthermore I've suffered so much on the diet and pretty much it would have been a waste to just give up. So regardless of sunshine or rain, by hook or by crook, I pump my hearts out (which I love to do) change my diet from 85% Vegan to 85% carnivorous (which I don't really fancy) lol.. well, my diet is mostly organic and what my friend refer to as "hamster or bird" food.. heck, the 1st thing I craved for when I cut off my Carbs was Oatmeal.

Since I was working in brunei, so i don't get a lot of tips from colleagues who have not competed before. So it was all the way instinct and memories of tips from great bodybuilder friends such as Cheyenne, Helmi, Saiful, iswandi and many more from Miri.

I've to admit one thing, I concentrate too much on my workout and getting my muscles ready that I've actually neglected a very important aspect... which is the posing stance. I've youtube, googled and researched but never really actually got down to practicing it though. So that's the biggest mistake and I admit that my lost is due to lack of preparations.

And so I arrived early on the 9th June so I can prepare myself. Since there were some complication with my food preparation tools at the hostel, I decide to make an early trip so I can better control my nutrition. And I am glad that i made the right choice. Imagine the only tool used to prepare my competition meal was stripped away 4 days away from the competition and I've to come up with something new which can be prepared without the steamer. So I had raw tuna and egg stirred together. LOL. I know, its disgusting but lucky for the peanuts which filled up as my snacks.

Well, I was only taking sips of R.O. water the whole day making sure it doesn't exceed 22 ounce per day. bt i was still on protein. Another thing I didn't know I shouldn't do. so after being told, i tried taking dried protein powder.. hahaha..... chocking feeling I can say. anyways, by the time it hits 9am on the 11th June (competition day) I was as weak as hell, dehydrated.

Well, the worst bit was the weight in time was postpone an hour later and we only had a couple of hours to load in.. I prepared mine.. 2 medium potatoes and 250gms of oven baked lean beef. bt the whole day i was pretty much undernutrition. Anyways, I was pretty happy bout the number i got that day.. my favourite athlete, Michael Jordan's number 23 for my 1st bodybuilding competition.

It's so good to be back in town meeting lots of good friends and catching up in the pump room was good. I know, I know... so much difference in size eh :P hehehe...

Chyenne is a very good and supportive friend as well as a good advisor.

Well, I weighted in around 5:30pm and weighted at 64.5kg. which is just 1kg below the max weight set for bantam category. It's good enough cause when i arrived on thursday I still weight at 67kg and Friday at 66kg. I had 2kgs of water in me. haha... So I loaded up my beef and potatoes right after the weight in and hope the carbs depletion works as planned.

1st to go was the masters category and there were only one participant and he is very well built and ripped. Same surname as I do, Bong Lee Fui has his color on and I can see that he came well prepared for war. After the masters category, the junior went up for their show while the Feather weight had their colors on and got into the pump room to pump up the muscles. So that means it's time for me to have my colors on.

Initially I got Jo'ana to help me with the colors but time was running out so Cheyenne and Bong came over to get me all tanned up with Pro Tan. Believe me, it takes a little while to get used to being touched by men all over. lol.. Well, I realized that pro Tan's very wet and its very hard to dry it off and the color on my body was as if there were texture. Oh well, there is always a 1st to know which brand suites.

Special Thanks to Jo'ana, Cheyenne, Bong Lee Fui to help me with the colors.

After the coloring, I have to stand it off to get it as dry as possible. Suddenly the air-conditioned room didn't seem cold at all and the direct wind from the air-con was a bit warm. They told me to only pump just before going up on stage so I have to wait till it was bantam weight category before I hit my elastic band and dumbbells. I only did the smaller muscle groups and then... more waiting.

To be honest, I weren't nervous going about going on stage. Probably all the trainings with the lingerie shows I did before and acting in front of the camera helps. I used to have stage fright previously and I was a bit worry on that part. Well, seems like that night it didn't give me any problem on that part.

Well, I didn't finish the whole tub of color.. probably cause im too small.. hahaha

Final touch up.. lots of tapping to get the color even.. :P I was on my underwear though.. cause it was pretty expensive to buy a posing suit and i was on a budget.... so i got my skimpiest "skins" underwear

Bong Lee Fui on his most muscular pose. He's a great entertainer and the crowd were cheering for him the whole way.

The Champion for the Master's Category, Bong Lee Fui

Side-step for a modeling shoot.

ANNY SOO Photography

I was invited to the Miri Photography Society's Annual Dinner on the 16 Jan 2011. And so I got my friends from Brunei to join in the fun. Bol and Wan. I've worked with Bol as a personal trainer previously in Bandar and Wan is Bol's student in bodybuilding. Well, Wan is awesomely conditioned cause he's competing in less than a month from the shoot so he has already started his cutting phase.

ANNY SOO Photography

Standing next to Wan during the shoot. Look at his ripped abs and a 26 inch waist with 55kg weight. hahaha....

BONG CK Photography

3 of us with me on the left, Wan in the middle and Bol on the right. Bol is massive compared to Wan and I. Well, the whole choreography was done very last minute as both of them only arrived in the afternoon on the day of the shoot.

Top 10 winning shot on the night, even top 4 :P not cause of my muscles but cause of the photography skills by Tan Sheih Yen

PETER YONG Photography

I love this shot, in fact I used it as my Facebook Profile Picture. Only now I realized I've grown in size and bulk up since 7 weeks ago when I started my Mass routine. But I've to stop for 11 days due to this photoshoot.

I've to get my shoulder pumped up and probably thicker back.

Another artistic shot. This one is awesome as well as I can see my abs' definition.

Another great shot of me with awesome composition. and I love the veins and definitions of my delts.

DENNIS TAN Photography

A great photo from Dennis Tan who is also a friend of mine when I was working in IBS College. As a bodybuilder, we rarely see our back unless some1 decides to take a shot and give us the pic.. hahaha....

Another nice shot of me in a pose bt seems like i've forgotten to contract my abs.. lol bt the colors and lightings is awesome making my muscles stand out.

BONG CK Photography

From a photographer who's Initials is just 1 alphabet different from my own. I love this photo too as the composition is both creative and story telling.

ALAN Photography

An Artistic shot by Alan who's our handler for the event. Nice shot of my side chest pose.

ANNY SOO Photography

Posing with one of the Photographer Anny Soo after the show.

Road to Bodybuilding

Here's a couple of more pictures after 6 days without gym. LOL, i actually took these pictures after work.. well, after setting up all the cables and projectors for an upcoming event. As usual, I hate wearing shirt during these kinda work because of the local hot and humid weather and I sweat a lot lately. The stickiness is really irritating.

As from comments, I've managed to build mass on my chest. Probably that's where all the 3.2 kgs I added went.. lol.. but i improved the mass on my triceps and biceps. Now all I need is to add more mass until my ideal size and then shred down..

Dedication = Satisfaction

Well, a lot of people would wanna know how I look like with all the talks bout healthy food and lifestyle. And then there are some who knows me and wana know how I am doing all this while with the lack of a complete gym, supplements and definitely time for gym.. most would think that i'm out of shape by now. But here I am with "just out of the oven" picture taken late afternoon today while at work shirtless due to the hot and humid weather. I got a little naughty and asked my colleague to snap a few shot of me posing under the scorching sun with his camera phone.

Initially I had planned for it yesterday while hanging cables on a 3 story high mobile scaffolding but the pictures turned out a little blur.

Well, I've not been very active in the gym lately due to my new job. But with whatever I can get, I managed to gain 2.5kg mass of my 20kg mass plan in just a week without any supplements. So another 17.5kg to go.

Posing under the scorching sun

To the other side of Pasar Malam...

When you talk bout Borneo... its always bout wonders... the Trees r green, The rivers are ... emm... long.... wanted to say clean but.. not all of em are... and the caves are a marvel for sight... and when I was in Europe... when you talk bout Borneo... to all advertisers.. we Borneon are Orang Utans... lol.. just visit all the travel agencies and you will know what I mean... and to all the Europeans.. we are Head Hunters... lol... and sadly too... to every European.. they thought that Malaysian are all Malays... I had a hard time trying to explain the differences of the race.. anyways... they know we r chinese but not china chinese...

so talking bout the marvel of Borneo... here is one for an eye opener...

Maybe to all Borneon, this is a way to capture bugs.. but definitely its my 1st time experience... its found hanging in one of the tent...

Here is a nice picture of how trading is made at the Pasar Malam

Here is a nice picture... a curious young indian girl... wonder whether her mom is buying anything for her...

The all famous Malaysian food.. the satay... the very 1st step... how to get the fire up...

Lots of faning action... not an easy job... these things need skills... :)

Almost there...

Taken after I made a round at the back... But sadly, the satay here is not the best.. sometimes, its not properly cook due to the crowd demand.. like.. too many customer and they started rushing it.. giving out raw meat...

A normal habit of Malaysians too... loitering almost every where...

Here I've capture a sequence of how the trade is made by the side of the road.. while sitted down.

Stuffing the vege into the plastic...

Exchanging of selling item with money

And Caught in the act of trading... but they seemed all right with a guy who is squating down while taking a picture of em...

They practically live here on Friday up till sunday... here is one of em having his takeaway meal.

And having a small baby is not a problem... doesn't stop them from working in the open..

The vegies here are quite reasonable and very fresh if u come at the right time of the day..

Posing for me... i had to take the lit' cute devil... she is so adorable... or he... emm... i totally forgotten to ask the gender of the baby... ugh..

Im not too sure what they are doing with all the stuffing.. but b careful when you buy em.. they may look packed.. but sometimes, its empty inside... very cunningly plan to con Customers.. these ppl are experts...

A long stretch of bananas... all sort of banana can be found here and

The father in action.... not too bad... not every man test it b4 giving it to their babies... :P

its a good run... but i receive a call from home asking me to come home to eat... well, told them im on my way.. but in actual.. since I have to pass by all the stalls.. why not snap while I walk... so I did.... and Its a good harvest.... one more log and the its the end of the Pasar Malam invasion... :P