Estee Lauder Pink Campaign Awareness Walk

You can call me what you want, but I am a person who always feel happy to be doing something for a good cause. And happier when I am doing something for a good cause and getting some freebies out of it.

So when I heard that my workplace was going to subsidise the participation fee for joining the Estee Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness Walk, the gang and I jumped up to register.Hearing there were Free Clinique or Estee products, and we were practically running to the registration booth.

Organised by Estee Lauder Companies Malaysia, this annual Breast Cancer Awareness campaign aims to educate Malaysian women about the importance of early detection and treatment. A

campaign running since 1996, this is a global initiative involving over 40 countries

2,000 participants were expected for this 3½ km charity walk which took place at the National Science Museum in Kuala Lumpur. The event started at 4pm and went all the way through to 6pm on Saturday, 29th September 2012.

Unfortunately the little diplodocus contracted some sort of eye infection and couldn’t join us for the walk. It was sad to leave the one eyed dino behind, as the Pekster and I drove away.

As we arrived at the Landmark, all we saw was the sea of pink. Estee Lauder had their own booth there and being one who does not miss a good oppurtunity to donate(have I already mentioned this? Are you sure?) I got myself an Estee pack for RM100. The entire proceeds go to charity,and upon hearing that, the Pekster and I proceeded to purchase a couple more tees and ribbon pins, and get our pretty faces painted. Ok, the goodies weren’t all for ourselves, after all the Pekster WAS walking for Diplodocus.

The stage and the booth

Evelyn Lauder and Elizabeth Hurley Dream Lip Collection

 

Goodies for the day

Before the walk, Jazzercise got everyone doing the macarena(ok, it wasn’t exactly the macarena) for warm up. The Y decided to go look for the toilets, which were situated a block away from milo truck and the macarena dancers. Perhaps this was the way the walk was going? Pekster and I thought so, and wanting to be the first in line for the walk (for once) we decided to wait till the whistle blew and would join the firstwalkers.

The Y was skeptical of our assumption and upon hearing the whistle blow and not seeing anyone walk by us, she decided to go check on the crowd. Maybe they all stopped at the Milo trucks?

After a couple of minutes, and I do believe she did stop for a milo before making her way back to us, The Y came huffing to tell us the walk was going the other way around. We were actually not even within the path! So much for being the first to start. But as I always say, if you can be the first, be the last! Wait, that doesn’t make sense….

Anyway, the path of 3.5 km wound around bukit damansara. On one bend a 75 year old over took all the walkers, and I wished I could have saluted him. But he was like the wind and was gone in the blink of 20 eyes.

Couple of kids couldn’t walk after the 1.5 km mark. Could probably be due to the fact that their smart parents made them were flipflops instead of proper sneakers. Cmon folks, dress your own kids and have some common sense. Don’t blame it on the maid.

The sea of pink collected their goodie bags after the walk and most hung around for the Landmark Illumination took place at around 7.45pm.