PuMpFeSt 2006

pardon the intrusion commentary from a friendly dino: Pumpfest came and went, a 3-day affair which i thought was less loud, less smashing and less exciting than Boulderactive. but then, i'm NUS-loyal so i'm biased. =p

can't comment on the guys' climbs cos in general i think they are just monsters. =D

don't know if i'll kena whacked for saying this, but after watching the TJC-ian and TPJC-ian female climbers, i think NUS female climbers need to train up their dynamic power! i think locking strength + dynamic strength will make all of NUS gals very strong climbers!

but i also saw lots of NUS spirit and support throughout the competition. =D hope the passion continues to burn and keep climbing!

the giant ones!

thanks to triple-tricep man mr. ong's photo-taking, the usually petite ones ended looking like towering giants. =D

Pumpfest Pics and Videos and more....

Hi ppl, I'm currently holding on to Kesheng's two CDs full of Boulderactive videos. So whoever wants it, pls tell me or I'll jus pass it back to him.
And i have some videos and pics of pumpfest, so tell me if u want them too.



Just Look at Those MUSCLES!!!

Pumpfest 2006

Welcome to the NUS_V_Climbers evening news on this last saturday of May (thank god June is coming)!

Our reporters were down to witness the intermediate and open qualifiers for Pumpfest 2006, organized by our friendly neighbours on the rolling hills in the west corner of SG, NTU. It was a pulsating atmosphere with climbers displaying sheer strength and performing death-defying feats. Alvin did a tremedous job in the open cat with Eli demonstrating the lock-off strength of NUS girls in the absence of Shumei; while Weimin showed off his ease with crimps!

Unfortunately the same could not be said for their team-mate, ningfeng, who failed to qualify for the finals even! Ahh.. yes.. such is his inability compared to others in the intermediate mens cat. In our post-com interview with him, we asked him why did he falter during the com, which he summed up as "no enough finger strength, no enough power". From sources, we learn that he is gonna start on an intensive finger-strengthing regime (when internship ends), which might result in him losing one or two of his digits. Yes im tired and feeling cranky.

P.S. open cat climbers are sooo... f-ing strong.

Hellos from Canada!

Hello everyone!
juz wanted to wish everyone goodluck for PUMPFEST!!

its damn bloody cold here in Canada(even tho'its summer)..i've only climbed ONCE in the past week..(in one of Toronto's rock gym..)quite fun, but the routes are all HEIGHT biased!!!! roar!!haha..

miss climbing with everyone back at home!!

all my muscles are turning into flabs..boohoo..

oh..i went into the coolest sport/outdoor shop ever..its huge..has one big section for one sport..sells everything u can think of..harness shoes tiles ropes magazines tents clothes(prana too!) etc etc etc they even sell canoes!! haha..

i'll snap some photos of the rock gym and the shop the next time i'm there..didnt have time the previous time as i was rushing for class..
you guys can view my pics at icecreamisgoodforhealth.blogspot.com (if u wan to..)

yeapyeap take care everyone!

five things i BET you don't know about me

hey friendly friends. here's my delayed response to chewchew's tag.
five things that i bet you never knew about me :)

1. i have a dog, his name is Scott and he was born on 4th of July 2002, independence day! he is the son of my first dog, her name was Pebbles. she died in sept 2002, the night before my o levels bio practical, cos she ran outta the house for the billionth time but this time, a car hit her on the main road and sped off. HIT AND RUN, understand. evil. this is the first and only time i've ever lost some-one/(-thing) to death.

2. i've been in odac for 6 years, from 1999 to 2004. the reason why i joined odac in the first place is cos, one fine saturday my mom decided to force me outta the house and made me go to sch to find a cca. originally, all hopes of joining odac had been crushed because by some twisted fate i'd been put into Waddle house, who's house practise clashed with one of the odac training days and the head of PE was evil and refused to let me change house. SO, anw, i was sitting in the canteen drinking coke (gross, i used to really like coke) when my classmate who was in odac came over and discovered that i was waiting for Red Cross training to start. horrified, she forced me to join them for odac initiation, which turned out to be games involving rolling in mud, playing with blue and red dyed liquid, jumping, hopping and falling in more mud. after that the seniors realised i needed to be interviewed, and the odac teacher i/c decided i should be let in since i was enthusiastic and participated despite having no change of clothes and no towel and no toiletries. odac people are nice. i then proceeded to ditch all further Waddle house practises and became a fullpledged odacian.

3. my dad refuses to let me dye my hair!

4. in 2003, i trekked a mountain range in Sikkim, Khangchendzonga while on a YEP SIF funded project. At the highest point of our trek (Dzongri), i was happy and having fun (since it was my first time seeing snow), until night hit, and i woke up in the middle of the night and puked in my friend's right shoe. (poor aiming). vigorously suffering from altitude mountain sickness, AMS, i started my descent down the range an hour earlier from my friends, with a Hot guide, and one of the adult project leaders. there was a point where the Hot guide hoisted me onto his back and carried me down a steep slope HEH (but of course i was half dead, and failed to enjoy the moment fully.) that night, after descending to perhaps 2/3 the height that we were at originally, i experienced extremely scary hallucinations and confusion whenever i fell asleep, suffered lack of appetite and seemed to think i was in malaysia. i scared the hell outta myself, and my friends. basically, experiencing AMS was horrific. as can be affirmed by friends, esp the one who's shoe i puked in, and my project-buddy jayce who possibly thought i was dying, and other randoms. but Sikkim is very nice and everyone should go there one day :)

5. i really really want to go overseas, to study! maybemaybe, hopefully, year 4.

okay, my stories are extremely longwinded. so, anyway, now i tag KUMARAN. i know you read this!

Nyamuk_Camp5 Vid

5 things about me...

My computer restarted by itself when i was at my last point...haiz...so i gotta type again...feeling a bit lazy now tho... :(

1) I'm not a sports person.Tho I played a lot of sports, i'm not particularly good in any of them. But among all the sports out there, basketball and climbing still set my heart on fire. But there is this incident which landed me in hospital. Was playing basketball during my O' lvl after one of the mind blowing papers. I made a jump shot but suey suey my foot landed on some else's and cause of that i had a really really really bad sprain on my left foot. Went to hospital after tt for x-ray and had my leg bandaged. As a result, in tt next few days i got free ride to exam hall when my assistant headmaster personally came and picked me up wit his old mercedes (dunno why he even bother to buy tt old car). Still need to rely on clutches tho...

2) I have 2elder bros. 1 is 1year older the other is 3years older. Many ppl say tt me and my second bro look alike to the point tt and uncle mistaken me as my bro and was really shocked to see me appearing in one corner when my bro just disappear in the other end. My eldest bro doesnt resemble any of us tho...

3) I was a really notorious little kiddo. I was involved in a lot of fights wit almost all my cousins, younger and older. Back then my aunties use to hate me a lot cause i usually cause their sons to cry. Well i hated them back then too :) .But now being older and wiser, my aunties respected me a tad more than last time and always wished that their sons will actually emulate me...hohohoho *irony of irony*

4) Tho i was a troublemaker wit my relatives around, i was still a head prefect and a model student in primary school ;)

5) I was hospitalized for a week during the SARS period but cause of denggi not SARS. The doc almost wanna quarantine me but luckily he didnt. Well the 1 week in hospital is a real torture, no appetite, no energy, blood is drawn everyday in wee hours when i was still sleeping and drowsy from the effect of medicine, and oh yes lotsa pills to consume and water really tasted like medicine cause my palate is really gone due to the overdosage of medicine. Thank goodness i recovered fully and i vowed never to get myself bitten by mosquitoes again! *Ouch* Something just bit me...

Tt's all folks...Next will be NEAT the Nit...or NIT the Neat...argh wateva...Nita i choose you!

Food & Beauty

Some Random Pics

5 things (Even Ruix) might not know about me

Dang ... how come us oldies all getting tagged! More young'uns please! Anyhow ... big arrow leh JW ... in the middle of stock-takes, wedding and an impending trip ... gotta crack my head to come up with funky stuff for all the blog-hungry people out there ...

Ok, here goes...

1. I sent Kiat to hospital when we were young. Suffice to say it was one of those stupid things you could only trust 2 little monkeys to get up to. Bolster fight. One wrong club a little too hard. Head + (corner of) Wall power socket = major hysteria from mom, major whallop from dad, and urgent trip to hospital for x-ray scan for Kiat.

2. He got one back on me a few years later. Another mock combat (see what we used to do at home? absolute pain up each other's ass... heh) A timely and well-placed kick to the groin sent me to hospital, this time for my own check-up to ensure no major equipment damages to the family jewels.

3. Another hospital story, haha ... I was born with a slight hernia condition ... Had to do an op when I was slightly older than 1 ... to get it surgically 'fixed'. Still got the scar sitting there just above the where your swimming trunks would end. That, coupled with asthma (no more!), low blood pressure (no more too!) and my mom's diabetic condition (while pregnant with me) ... mad me quite a sickly kid :( ... Thank goodness for Sports AND CLIMBING!

4. Got sent to the principal's office in primary school (P3 i think) ... for playing with chalk in class (I knew I was destined for greater things :P) ... was grinding blackboard chalk into powder and doing all sorta monkey business with it ... so ... got black marked, and canned together with 2 other fellow accomplices. 2 years later, they made me a prefect ... LOL

5. Suddenly my mind's a blank ... and I can't seem to dig out number five ... Can I get off with one less? Else after my trip la ... brain's too crowded to to sieve through memory's warehouse for fun and useful snippet ... I owe y'all one ok?

Have a great week ahead peeps, and see y'all @ pumpfest!

5 things u dunno abt moi:

1. At the age of 3, while on a flight to Disneyland, Florida, my nose started bleeding profusely. it was pretty bad cos once we touched down at the airport, an ambulance was awaiting to rush me to hospital. sadly, i missed out on Disneyland but my sister went! boohoo!!

2. When i was staying in England at the age of 4, i loved to go to school cos it was soo fun. so on this particular day when the wind was howling and there would be an imminent storm, i begged my mum to take me to school. she was very hesitant but eventually agreed. a few metres out on the main street, a strong gust of wind, which lasted a few seconds, nearly swept me and my baby brother, who was in a pram, away. it was literally so, cos i could barely keep my feet on the ground. if not for my amazing mummy, who knows what would have happened. in the end we scurried back into the safety of our home.

3. I lurrve japanese comics! not only because of the storyline but more so cos of the pictures. (no adrian, i'm not talking abt porn so dont get excited =p) absolutely love drawing those pictures, not v good if i dont look at some references but improving nonetheless, i hope!

4. I was a never a fan of movies, cos i thot it was a waste of money since sooner or later it'll premiere on tv, until recently when i'm starting to watch more. as San would say "what else is there to do in S'pore but movies movies and movies?" well, tt's partly true since she doesnt like shopping?! haha, but on the other hand, some movies aint worth $9.50, rite juniors? like say, "Daisy"? wahhaha, thx to adrian and teckie...

5. Climbing has become a huge part of my life ever since i took up this sport, thx to being single and not a hostelite anymore. nonono, pls dont get me wrong by thinking tt i came to widen my options, but just tt there was sooo much spare time on hand tt if i didnt do anything then, uni would just be sooo boring, aint it? well, i'm just super duper happy to be climbing and hanging out w sooo many great and fun and crazy ppl, and loving every moment of it! u guys are superb!

there's so much abt me for now.. next one up will be San! i tag you! faster post! no excuses!

Posterboys of the week!

The meaning of dino

I need to do a good deed today as I am sensing hell's call. Hur.

So for all the chummies out there that do not know the meaning of dino that is used in this blog, it means dinosaur. Roar stomp stomp kind.

When humans graduate from NUS climbing team, they are deemed as a dino. The ancient kind, simply because they are much older than us.

That's all for Adrian's chipping in of info! Do enjoy reading this wonderful blog hur.

*5 things u may not know abt me*

wah dinos like us oso kena tagged! i wish i were a 50-pullup person... still got 5 more to go. siong... ok being an army person, i am always trying to structure everything. here goes...

Sports: Tho' people often think I'm a sports buff, actually i'm quite a sports bum. I dunno how to cycle, and I cannot swim more than 100m. Bleah. But besides climbing, I really like soccer, bowling and ice-skating. Just that climbing is still my fav, so I'll climb whenever there's time.

Family: I have two sisters, one elder and one younger. My indirect family is huge. On my dad's side, I've got 6 aunties and 5 uncles. On my mum's side, I've got 6 aunties and 4 uncles. Plus an average of 2 kids per uncle/auntie. So it doesn't translate to more angpow money in the end!

Studies: I failed 6 subjects out of 8 for my Sec 3 prelims (excluding Normal Chinese). Only passed English and E-Maths. Spent all my time at the games arcade, street soccer court and Orchard. I copied during tests and stole test papers from teachers' drawers. Luckily I rebounded in Sec 4 to enter RJC.

Friends: Used to have a bunch of close friends in JC 1st 3 months. We'd even meet in JC everyday at 6.30am just to play bridge and talk cock. Separated after that, I realized that "friends forever" is only fantasy. Ok lah, maybe not for some people. But when it crashes, it sure hurts like hell.

Gf: We were "good friends" in JC for one whole year before getting together in July 2000. And even then, I wasn't the one who initiated it coz I'm the kind who's hardly confident with gals (unlike Adrian, lah). So I really owe it all to my gf for this relationship to exist.

That's all... Now my turn to tag! I tag super dino, Coach JUPS.

5 things you may not know about ME

1. i love japanese manga. and i mostly prefer comics to anime, except for maybe sakura cardcaptor. spent a large portion of savings on manga, i'm currently following 5 comic series. my favourite genre of comics is the samurai/ ninja kind i.e. naruto, bleach, one piece etc.

2. i have a small scar on my hand. i got it in my first week of university. was getting up a bus and accidently kicked the step. and while attempting to stabilise myself, i kicked the step again, thus falling flat in my face.

3. i lost 7 kg in year 3, which was also the year i took up climbing. before & after photos below. can you spot the difference?


4. i cry easily at movies. i cry at all kinds of movies, chinese ones, english ones, teeny bopper ones, romantic ones, war epics and even cartoons. my friends used to joke about how i cried while watching lion king. hey! that scene when the father lion fell to his death was touching k?

5. my parents are highly superstitious. they were so superstitious that they actually changed my chinese name. although the change is not legal (i.e. its not on my IC), but they now call by my changed name. and no, i'm not telling what's my changed name.

okies. so i'm supposed to tag someone else? i tag: mr 50-pull-ups Ong Junwei! =D

Work and Climb

Work and Climb
Lately I've been pondering about balancing work and climbing. Once work starts, it will be difficult to climb often. The degree of shackness from work will suck the remaining energy left too, thus training will be futile as the body is shack-out liao. All my friends already like so tired from work until they no energy to come back and do some gaming.

Outbreak
Also aside from that, I got a suspicion that staying in the gym increases the pimple growth. When I climb, I sweat thus face pores will be wider, making it easier for dust and chalk to get clog up in there. Even after washing my face, the pimple growth is increasing in an exponential rate. Sien. Does anyone know how to counter this outbreak?

The more the pimples grow, the less 'seh' a climber becomes. After scrutinizing Sharma and Graham, I realised that they do not have pimples too. Living an entire life alone, just because you have lotsa pimples, sounds sad siah.

5 things u may not know abt me~

1. im actually an extremely clumsy person. mayb my hse is small or wat.. i keep bumping myself to edges of tables.. chairs.. n even der wall when im slping [bed by der wall mah... not my fault!]. i once even slipped n fell as i wuz bouncing my way to my rm after my shower [urm.. dun ask me y i wuz hopping]~

2. i've 1 elder brother. thankfully, i dun ressemble him much. n in spite of many criticisms i make abt him [some of u may know], i do love my kor kor~! keke


3. i've gained 4kg eva since i started climbing in jc n it nv went down eva since then!

4. i used to hate der colour green a lot... prob coz both my tkgs n den tj uniforms r in green [my mom used to say der colour of tj uniform looks like duck shit.. shrugZ* nv c duck shit b4~]. probably i'm feeling nostalgic abt sec n jc daes... recently beginning to go for greeny stuff.

5. i'm allergic to grass! boooooooO =(

alrite... since ningfeng tagging junior... den i tag dino... jess, ya turn! hiak*

KL trip

Hi guys, the KL trip was fantastic!

Some things didnt go according to plan but otherwise, we enjoyed ourselves a lot with the gd routes and the superb food (Crab, stingray, satay, chicken wings, ramley, bak kut teh, mango, durians, cheng tng, oyster egg, chendol, prawn mee, everything also we ate)

Best thing is, I only spent $160 in total -food, food, food, transport, accoms, movies and shopping!

Check out jiasheng's blog for the full trip report


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What do four guys do when they go together on trips? they take
Abercrombie boy fotos:

5 Things

Hey peepz, sorrie for the time lag u making this post. BUT today i shall fulfill my obligation to continue with this 5 Thing thing. Where to begin...

1. Like most others, i like music. Can't really say which genre i listen to most coz anything that sounds good, no matter what genre, is good music; from lounge music to kings of convenience to moby, lifehouse, erasure, wu yue tian and utada hikaru. Not that i'm a guru though, just listen to the radio, watch a bit of mtv or brother recommendations

2. On movies. Used to be a big fan, watch much less since. Like the movie "Beach". Though not the most outstanding movie ever produced, the story quite appealed to me. Lot to say abt it but the line that caught my attention most: Paradise is not abt where you go or what you do, but abt how you feel or a moment in your life. Even got the soundtrack. (Anyone got "pulp fiction"? Lend me!)

3. I want to go on a one month backpack trip! Anyone wanna join me next yr? May/June period. Destination unknown but hey, like Confucius (or some other wiseman) once said: it's not abt the destination, but the travel to the destination (or something like that)

4. Bit on family now. 2 brothers. one 28, other 15. age gap is pretty big; think it was a last ditch attempt at a girl. Failed miserably haha! im suppose to be the initial 'girl' of course. Stayed at Bishan since... prmary 1 i think. quite love the estate. quiet but not far from ammenities.

5. Climbing has been a strange phenomenon. Somehow it has really become (like Mr Jups said) a 'lifestyle'. Last time hols was abt relaxing, seeing places, beaches or shopping. Now there's the added element of 'climbing'. Well.. hope that there would still be time for it in the future!

Alright! Hope i've written enough (shld be more than enough). Next up is Ruix right? My tag! A junior girl for a change ya? MEIFEN lah. At least i know she got read this blog!

5 things you don't know abt me

ok.. so i carry on with the tag... not sure if these are the 5 things that you don't know... but.. i shall just share.. hehehe...

1) Despite the fact that i really hate running, i was the top 20 girls who finished my jc road race. so either all jjc girls cant run, or they were too happily chatting along the way. for me, i just wanted to finish the run asap... so i keep running together with my touch rugby girls!....

2) i totally sucks at any ball games... except touch rugby... simply coz the ball is not round.

3) i never went clubbing before. so i am quite "sua ku". the only bash i went to was the kr bash and it was quite lousy.

4) i accidentally punched my friend in the eyes during primary school. and i threw a chair at a guy during secondary school. hahaha...

5) i have a messy room and i keep almost everything. i think i still have my secondary schools text books and worksheets... hahaha....

so while STILL waiting for ningfeng...
i shall tag another person ..... -Kelly Khiew- ...

..... =p

5 things i tot you dunno abt me

hello hello..
since dear mr ningfeng did not continue with the tag..
i shall take up e tag..since i got a lot time to spare..
done with exams..and done with NUS...haha

1. i got my driving license on the first try. hard to believe..but it is e truth. those who had taken a ride in my car know tat my driving ..erm..sucks.. always kanna flashed or horned by cab drivers.. or.. the car rowed back when the engine died when trying to move up a slope....haha.. but i m used to all e screams in e car..but i hope i improve abit alr!

2. i have another ' father', who is my OBS instructor e first time i went to OBS. one of the days during my 9-days course.. was father's day. and he became our father. it had been 5 yrs since i knew him...and he jus gotten a baby boy on the 28th of april. tat darling is so adorable..cant wait to see him on his full moon party!

3. i was an avid manchester united fan before climbing came into my life. never missed any of their matches. loved paul scholes. watched them captured e treble in 1998. from schmikes, to barthez, to howard to carroll and now van der sar... but now.. nt so much as before..cuz sat and sun nites are occupied by climbing..no more time to watch any matches

4. i have 12 stiches on my face..7 on forehead when i was 2 years old, attempting to sleep when walking, and knocked into the TV. and 5 on the underside of my lip..which was from a softball. my fren batted a softball.. and it hit my face, causing my teeth to bite on the lip..was sent to NUH for stiching

5. my fav drink is milo. muz have at least 1 cup a day to keep me happily energized.

haha.
tat is it..
next,i will tag rUiXuaN..

ruix..write ok?

cheers
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