aakiang.info: KL RatRace 2005 6 Sept 2005

The Kuala Lumpur Rat Race 2005, the charity run co organised by Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Malaysia Stock Exhange) has raised RM821,000, the largest amount collected since the inaugural race in year 2000.

The annual race for charity constitutes the CEO's race which covers a distance of 1km and the participants race comprising executives and management from amongst Malaysia's corporations which covers a distance of 4.5km around Kuala Lumpur's Financial District. Both races were flagged off after 5.00pm at the Exchange Square (Bursa Malaysia Square), Bukit Kewangan. 490 participants - CEOs, Executives and Management from the 98 teams, from the 56 participating organizations including 9 CEOs participated in the race this year.

The Singapore Stock Exchange had sent two teams as well for the second time. For the team event, RHB Berhad who had sent in 12 teams came in first, with CIMB Berhad in second and Southern Bank Berhad in third place.

The ratrace

In fact, I found out the race isn't really a race of getting the triumph of 1st, 2nd or 3rd place. It is because some are obliged to race, but most of them were really came to promote their spirit of the respective companies. As for me, I totally had no idea why the hell I was there for. However later of the day, I found my own joy in the event anyway.

What so special I figured out about this race was that the participants were wearing business attire to run and even some had made their own creative versions of costumes, not to mention 3 guys holding a made-of-boardpaper train which had a muffler attached at the back of it, running for 4 KMs (GE team). Some had cheese around their body, some had brought along matress, pillow and bolsters (IKEA team), some also grabbing big light bulb and an aeroplane engine while running. Fascinating!