Room Raiders: Jansen Ko

Our resident climber at PGP was lurking around so we decided to tail him.

He entered his room and forgot to close the door properly.

When we opened his door, he got a shock as he was lying down on his bed pretending to climb the air.

As we snapped a photo, he hid his face behind the bolster which he was clinging on to so tightly like a stalagtite.



Just joking...

Presenting Room Raiders!!! Climbers beware!!!

REGINA'S GOT TALENT

Our long awaited OVEN ROASTED CHICKEN from Sheares :D




Story telling by Hh and Fel

"ABC game?"











Piano session @ TH




PS: I CAN SWIM AND PLAY THE PIANO NOW!

5 Things you might already know about Brian!

Probably something you don’t know. I used to be absolutely pimple free before ORD! Other people’s complexion normally gets better but mines totally the opposite! Sob ... Isn’t it the weirdest thing? Oh everyone says that I’m fierce but I feel that I’m totally not! Haha... Maybe because of my jaw and my look of concentration when I read routes. =\ plus I’m shy ... hahahaha oh and i used to wear glasses too ...

Yes everyone knows I’m an adventure junky (thanks to my suicide move in Angel&Mortal) ... but before that I was actually from choir in sec sch! It’s a family thing; everyone has been in Choir. My desire for adventure started from my first OBS course in sec3, it also started my hunt for a sport to call my favourite! Since then I tried out numerous adventure sports, when to Outward Bound New Zealand for a month, trakking, expedition kayaking, canoe polo, diving, adventure race Eg. Action Asia Challenge... and finally I landed up falling in love with climbing!! =)

My sweet heart is also my adventure buddy! We travel together, trekking, marathon, kayak ...aiya all sort of adventure sports la... she’s one that’s not afraid to pursue what she loves, so that’s why she’s now working at RP’s Adventure Learning Centre as an Instructor and technical officer. ( and boy she got crazy colleagues! Like the first Singaporean to reach South Pole! Female Everest team captain... oh and Jups brother Michael... small world) Oh and her younger sis is Jin Li... may ring a bell in the climbing competition realm... Very small world!!! Our dream is to travel the world! And go climbing and trek where ever we go!

I love to spend some of my free time drawing. I love to fool around with Photoshop too... unfortunatelly lost all my work after my old laptop crashed! =( Perhaps if not for my brother’s influence I may have gone a different route in life... perhaps designing ...

My brother is the main influence in my studies. He’s currently doing his chemistry masters in Sweden. I took on his interest in science since young and pursued bio since sec sch. I always wanted to be a researcher all my life until yr3 of Poly Biotech. After working as a research fellow in NTU, alliance with University of Washington, I realized that research really isn’t my cup of tea! Which since shattered my ambition and my vision of my future. I realized that you must have a very specific interest in a particular area of research and you must be really passionate in it, else you’ll not like research work one bit! So since then I’ve been searching for an alternative future... feel like a lost soul ...

5 THINGS u got to know abt HUA ZAI. muahhahshaha

This is the first time i'm blogging so pardon mi for being a noob.

(Note: all pics shown are pics from my NZ trip)

1) First of all, I'm able to emit a super high pitch sound from my mouth. I've been doin tt since i'm in jc and tt hav become a trademark of mi. Juz from the sound, they will know it's mi walking toward them. This is also a tool to get attention from everyone coz everytime after the ultrasound is emitted, everyone will stun. U can try lending mi ur ear while i let off a 2000GHz high pitch sound directly into ur ear.... u will heard bells after tt.

2) Second, I was in my sec sch cheerleading before. Perform in national cheer leading competition before. I join tt not because i like it. It's coz every 'house' will hav to compete each other during sports day. (my sec sch has a house system. Mars, jupiter, saturn, mercury and pluto). As i was a good friend of my head prefect (I was a exco member in to prefectorial board in my sec sch), we hav to set a good example. It was a fun experience though.

3) Thirdly, I staple my finger nails b4. It was in my pri sch days where i thought my finger nails is rock solid. Thinking it was so stiff and robust, i thought a staple bullet will not enter my nails. So, i went to hav my thumbnail stapled. And of course, it went into my thumbnail. Not really painful (maybe u guys can try too). I tried using my hands to take tt out but i'mso afraid it will break and the whole metal piece will camp inside my thumb. So I took it vertically out using a plugger. scary.

4) Fourth, I hook my ear with a fishing hook during fishing before. I went a kelong in malaysia for a kelong tour and relax there. My father's friend daughter was asking mi how do i cast out the fishing line. So being more experienced, I show her how. I swing back my rod and off i throw. I totally forgot tt i'm in a kelong and behind mi are all the huts and bedrooms. So the weight and the hook knock onto the huts, swung pass my ear and landed on my floor in front of mi. I immediately feel smth is not right so i went to feel my ear. GOSH... a fish hook is there. I tried to force it out but to no avail. So i went to my dad and ask him to force it out also to no avail. So we went to the kelong owner and he said "dun worry, here alot of cases liddat also". He put dettol on my ear and took out a plugger. And off he went. The hook came out with minor bleeding of my ear.. scary.

5) I went for a 3 mth working holiday trip in New Zealand. My brother went there b4 so my dad ask mi to go there too as aft ord i got a hiatus of 9 mths. My friend and I went there in feb and back in may 08. The jobs i did there were pruning kiwi fruit, pick apples, pick grapes (for winery), pick peaches, apple packhouse and pumpkin packhouse. We wanted to work at domino's pizza as a delivery man but we only had 1 car so can't work together. Yes, my friend and i bought a car for NZ$950 after 2 weeks there. It's 1987 honda accord manuel transmission. We slept in tt car for 2 mths as we wanted to save money. Working is shag.. our main job is to pick grapes.. we had to wake up at 7.30am.. then work till ard 4.30.. then rush to apple packhouse which starts at 5.30 till midnight. We had to go shopping everyweek to buy stuff for the week. We had to be chef ourselves. So during our 1 mth of travelling in the whole NZ, we had to drive in those narrow and steep roads were cars juz scrape pass each other. The scenery in NZ is awesome.. all in all a gd trip (If u wanna know more, do ask mi when u c me.) In addition, I went backpacking in europe from july to aug 08 with my family. went sweden, norway and denmark. (interested do ask mi also)

6) Lastly, I know chris sharma actually. I met him when i went europe. I belayed him during one of his climbs as his friend wasn;t with him. He too pro. So since then, I got his msn and sometimes do c him online. cool ar.

7) Final things u dunno abt mi. The chris sharma thing is NOT true. hahaa... at least it's some surprise mah.. if not blogging abt urself is juz too dull.. cheers!!

Nothing gets left out, including the Tables..

This is what guys do when they find something, anything to lay their finger muscles on.
Failed attempt...



Success!

And then there comes Brian..

hahaha im so fated with yee(siying, cos she calls me keok). same birthdate, now we're tagged together! hehe

ok so,
5 facts about keok

1) hur i lead a boring life before picking up rockclimbing in jc1.
was formerly in computer club in sec school(painful 4years) and am still embarrassed about it now! hahah. so when i switched from a slack cca to climbing, i almost died during the trainings and expeditions. aiya, very embarrassing can always lag behind only.

thats us at the summit of Gunung Stong, after i finally made it there like probably 30mins after they reach. (small photo so u cant really see how haggard i look heh)

2) i dont really like life science that much. wanted medicine since young! but uh, not smart enough leh.

3) i got night-mode?
they call it night-mode cos my face seems to turn red at night, i dont know why! but i blush very easily x( cannot hide emotions of embarrassment one.

uh there red like that. (at tioman after drinking at their beach bar. look at yee! hahaha tipsy babe~)

i must stop degrading myself. aahhaha ok here

4) i can play the drums!
performed at a christmas celebration once. but the performers were mostly kids leh ahaha.
no drumset at home, very sad.

5) i was chosen for the school's atheletic team in primary school? hahahah oklah thats like almost a decade ago. but point is, i used to be able to sprint la, now am too lazy to run :D

so there u have it.


OK I TAG JIAHUA :)

h i g h f i v e l o w f i v e w i f i FIVE! (:
yay five days more and he'll be back from brunei! i love five today.

minna-san, ohayo!! watashi wa SIYING desu :D

a brief self intro. i laugh at everything! hmm that is when i have the energy to laugh. so just get used to it Ok, sometimes it's bewildering i know. haha! and I am actually quite chitty chatty and naggy under the quiet surface. there's 2 sides of me, but i'm no gemini (:

here's ichi! i've a mini petshop in my house once! 10 odd hammies due to RAPID reproduction, a tank of chubby goldfishes, another tank of colourful clear water fishes, 2 beautiful large coy fishes, tadpoles and a cute yellow furry chick! but the hammies eventually got old or they fought :( the chick grew to a chicken and became a dish on our table. :// *frown* the latest furry is jojo, a shitsu and maotese mixed breed! :D i gave him my first kiss on the day i got him, a peck on his cute black lips!(: but as he grew up,we started 'torturing' him with love! he is afraid of heights, fire and LOVES food. heh heh. he can fetch! :D

and strangers get special treatment from him! x/ come and you'll know! (hint: he's horny! x) )

ni! like jr jansen and my dearest angel bertrand (: i would like to bagpack around with my dearest love. climb, explore all wonders of the world, take on part time jobs to earn enough before going on to the next destination! That's life, really (:

san! I am really interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine. But i didnt qualify for the double deg in NTU. So when i had to decide between NUS and the Singapore TCM Association, It was really tearing me apart. I eventually succumbed to NUS. I once took on a job in a chinese medicinal hall as a counter girl where we 抓the 药材 when the uncles and aunties come out from the 大夫. they would look at us with an expression of slight distrust tho! x/ hoho it was fun getting to know the 药材。very fragrant x) and i got to use the ancient weighing device! haha imagine me doing that (: luckily there's this gem on complementary health and medicine! TCM TCM! (: too little hands on tho.. :( maybe next time, i'll go to the Singapore TCM Association to get my degree there. OH ya, and i ever dreamt of a situation where i had to climb in china to get this very rarely-only-found-high-up-in-the-mountains 药材! xD

shi! Well, I like doing sketches when i'm bored. But i'll throw it away after drawing cos one piece of paper is hard to keep. Sketching has this therapeutic feeling, connecting you with the environment, especially nature.. haha! just last year, right after my A's, I went with crystal, the guys, tgt with coaches and the juniors to chiang mai to climb. but i was too nua. so i tried very few routes. most of the time, i would just sit ard, ensuring jrs' safety, admire the pro and just look far out to the mountains and trees. haha i kept a few sketches tho. just a tree la. hahaha!

angmoh sleeping in the plane; day 1!

bamboo shoots! (:

i like taking photos too(: but not as pro as daryl! x)

yay! go! last one alr! that's very fast! I've always thought that i can drink! but not really the case at chiang mai? (since everyone knows alr..) So please don't tempt me i warn u! (x Our coaches philip and kelly brought us to a cool bar on the last day. haha! heard that the drinks were freaking cheap! so it's chillin night before we return to singapore the next day. so all of us got a cup of alcoholic sth! my first was 'sex on the beach'! haha i went around trying all the different mixtures! yummy! haha then kelvin even treated me to another .. hmm i forgot the name of it, but there was salt around the rim of the cup. In the end when we were going back, their story was that they asked me not to cross the road cos there was a car coming, BUT I SAW NO CAR AT ALL and even went: "i'm crossing~~" then happily sashayed across the road. yep and the incident spreaded within the club! (It rarely happens)

ohh yay! i'm done with FIVE. Here's SIX. I am afraid of the cold. So i don't (usually) sleep in aircon rooms. hate it! brrr..
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NEXT UP!

neighbour! hehe BRIAN! TAG U'RE IT! xD

dozo yorushiku onegaishimasu!

< 5 five wu lima cinq > things about elysa!

rofl...i heart baby blues!
alright thanks to shuhui & yixiang for reminding (and reminding... and reminding... ;P jk!) me to post(:
oh dear i had one of the longest grace periods to come up with this entry and im still 0_o
ok go!

1. I gave a speech on free trade at the NYC United Nations headquarters' General Assembly room in july this year. What an experience.. man was it a thrill! :D The pic above's of me (middle haha) and 2 of my groupmates there; one's from Japan, one's from the States. Guess who's from where! Now switch it around and you have the correct answer XP

2. I briefly stayed on a farm! Complete with farmhouse, fields of crops, horses, cows, kittens.. Pic of it above; tt's my little sis.. Love the beautiful horses.. I drove a tractor there, but fooled around abit and ended up wrecking the hood by swerving into a fence! It was quite traumatic. Advance warning to Daryl: Keep me away from your future 4-wheelers! Though noone was bodily injured, I can't bring mself to get behind the wheel to continue my driving lessons here lest i ram into smtg more alive than a fence. sigh. sad.

3. I'm a total sucker for mushy things. My friends get embarrassed when we go out for movies cos no matter the genre, i end up a sadcase of tears . Everything also cry! John Tucker Must Die cry, Spiderman cry... Really CMI. The worst was this Love Actually-like Malay movie we watched in KL when i cried throughout the thing; made so much noise blowing my nose too :P My face was a mess by the end, so i walked back to the hotel with huge shades on though it was past midnight... I was ely-crybaby for some time after this incident *yeuchh.

4. Ok a quick CCAs re-cap maybe... I was in Angklung Orchestra in sec sch; that's the ultimate limit of my musical talent haha: just smile and shake all performance long! Cant find a pic here unfortunately. Was in ODAC in RJ lovvve(: Good times, great friends. Malay drama all 6 years (acted in 3 of our annual productions. funnn) though my Malay's not tt fab and getting worse due to lack of prac.pity.

5. Something bout climbing here(: Best for last yea? Well my 1st experience with a wall was in Rg we had a rockclimbing PE module and i fell head over heels for the sport... No climbing or wall/gym in JC though, so i joined ODAC and had a pretty fab whale of a time anw.. Climbed randomly with friends outside; not using techniques or anytg, just for kicks and laughs really... So glad to be in NUSClimb (: Quite nervous and everything, but been learning loads, will learn loads more! yay(:

Randomly,

: I drank 1litre of Strawberry Dutch Lady during the camp ><

: Sentosa Day was the toughest fasting day for me this year. But i made it yea man!

: I've been ely since sec1.. so it feels funny being elysa again.. can we stick to ely pls?(:

Now i double tag the only girls left; KEOK and SIYING!

frozen in time

hello one and all
wanna say thanks to the organisers for the splendid camp and everyone else for allowing me to have their picture taken! be it a nice smiley one or one being caught in a weird pose. yes yes thanks! =) here are just afew of the many photos i've taken throughout the camp, and for those who would like a copy of the album, please pass me a blank dvd or an external hard drive (with no incriminating data please). =)



-the emperor and his concubines-

The Shu Size 5 (hehe eh i know not funny)

SHUHUI :D

I like colours!

"Old men and women". Is it old men, and women; or both the men and women are old?! Haha this is what you get to learn in English Language and still trying to figure out adverbs & adjectives at this hour. Which leads up to the first thing about me is that I don't know why did I choose Arts and subject myself to such mind torturing debate with my Brain and I. I was a science student from primary school all the waaaaaaay till JC and all I did was memorize and regurgitate during exams and that's why I think education is a funny thing in Singapore. Haha! Not a political speech over here, it's just that I really don't know what I want to study and do/work in the future I'm still living in my own paradise. :S So this is the one thing I still have to find out about myself! So maybe you guys can help guide me along heh.

Secondly, I am proud to say I'm a crazy fan of hairstyles and am never satisfied with existing ones. The length of my hair can never grow beyond my shoulders 'cos I always hear the call of the scissors. Haha! There are many other more weird styles but I shan't post it here 'cos I've got to keep my reputation. :D See the M fringe? I trimmed it myself! Heh.

Thirdly, I don't know why but I just like smiling. :D Until my friend and I sent in this photo to this Sunkist Smile competition and we won the consolation prize! Haha they promised us a basket of Sunkist oranges but no! we ended up with a whole stack of Sunkist post-its. But anyway, a smile goes a mile, it's contagious and I believe in that! :D

Fourthly, I like being random. Things that I do things that I say, photos that I take, they sometime speak no sense! Haha that's why I was nicknamed as a no-linker back then in JC. I like to be out of the ordinary!

Like this which I found along the sidewalks one day and I think that nature is cool yo. :)

Last but not least, I bruise easily. And that's a very very very significant thing about me 'cos I'm really afraid I'll bleed too much internally. Even just by kneeling down I may burst a capillary. That explains my very black knees which the color won't fade away. Haha okay doesn't sound that bad but the doc says it's just thin capillaries. BUT! That doesn't stop me from doing many sports from blading to swimming to running to squashing to tennising blah blah! I'd prefer them leisure at least it gives me a sense of adrenaline rush and yet I don't feel the stress of the need to perform. BUT.. Rock climbing's a different thing. I'd do it both leisurely and competitively. :D

Haha I think I talk too much hopefully you guys know me better already! Next I tag ELYSA the pinkie girl!

Cassandra's 5 things!

Hello! I was 'forced' by Tammy to add in the blog because she tagged me. Yes, so here I am. Your tactic worked!! :) I told them that I would do this.

1. I love the outdoors -- kayaking, mountaineering, trekking, cycling blah blah. Actually, rockclimbing is part of my journey to my lifelong dream. It is to climb the 7 summits, the seven highest mountains in each continent and to finally try k2 (second highest mountain and more dangerous than Mount Everest). To go up the mountain, you need some technical skills and all so while picking them up, I met rockclimbing and enjoyed it since then. I used to climb at Emmanuel House at Singapore Youth For Christ, under maintanance now. Will invite you guys one day. Pictures of it...

Ok. You just have to read my first point 5 times and it will become 5 things that you know about me. HUR HUR! Ok, I think the girls will kill me for being so lame.

2. Because I love the outdoors, I do adventure racing. The longest I did was 40km in slightly less than 5 hours, which have you to cycle, run from punggol to tampines and everywhere and more. So yeah. I have a lot of stories on it, ask me if you want to know! Since I love the outdoors, I am working as a part time instructor to do camps. Why I came into outdoors is because I did track and field from pri 4 till JC but didnt take care so my body is in quite a bad shape! No worries! I am RECOVERING. oh by the way, I love all type of sporty games. Like Jud, I cant play that kind of blow a piece of tissue across the string games to win. HAHA.

3. I love to read. I read all sorts of books because they take me away from reality and let my imagination run wild. I am sure I dont look like that kind of person to you but I am. :)

4. I have many CCA's and hobbies but in from pri. 3 to JC, I have been in GIRLS' BRIGADE, 2nd company in Geylang Methodist Pri/Sec.!! Its the best, Regina can vouch for it too! I took it as my external CCA in JC under uniformed group to go back and help in my primary school. By the way, I am from Innova JC. The newest more sports based one, beside Singapore Sports School.

5. I stay in GEYLANG! I always have late night suppers and I know the place pretty well. Yes, if you are thinking, its the geylang lorongs. I know where has what and which place has good food. SO! If you ever want to come here for supper, jio me out!

I think some of the girls have not been tagged, SHU HUI I CHOOSE YOU!

"everyone is number 1"

Hi everyone, Paralympic Games has just ended 2 days ago, i happen to watch the news and came across this video.
I find it very inspiring. =D
leon~

5 things you don't have to know about tammy

my entry has come in so late.. paisae. i had no idea what was gg on.. ok, so now that i was told t blog, here's 5 things about me.



1] i am proud of being a skyrunner!!! i think most of you don't know what that is

here a pic of a few of us (hard to take everyone tgh, quite unstable). guess which one is me? it's considered an extreme sport and not as lame as the 'kangaroo'. definately needs training to play on these.. the few of us, which is about a hundred, participated in ndp this year wearing the power risers. we're going to be part of chingay next yr! so for those who missed ndp 08, look out for us next yr. about 20 of us love out power riser sets so much we meet every sunday t bounce around at ecp. so if u cant make it t chingay next yr look out for us at ecp!

-ending my first point which sounds like an advertisment-

2] hmmm.. unlike judith who's so sporty, i'm a super slacker. i play games for fun. competitions get me all stressed up and kinda takes away the fun... climbing is fun but sometimes quite stressful ah. haha. oh yes, i'm a slacker in school too. can anyhow pon lecture and tutorials, esp in jc.

3] my last 2 CCAs, which were held consecutively in sec sch and jc, are Red Cross and taekwondo. quite slack, not much physical activities... (link to 2nd point) haha. ehhh.. i did salsa too but now my partner in army so i never continue

4] i never wore braces and have perfect eyesight!

5] i'm seriously out of ideas. so this last point is yixiang's idea. an answer to the questions: is tammy malay? why is tammy so dark? tammy is half-peranakan, tks to her dad. but the funny thing is tammy looks malay, and tammy looks like her mum who is chinese. therefore, my malay looks come from my mum, and i have no answer to why she looks so malay.. i am so dark cos... cos... cos... i'm naturally like that. this, i take after my dad.

TAG! go cass...

5 things to know about........print cartridges?

Hi guys, just here to advertise. I bought this black print cartridge meant for HP Deskjet 3910, 3930, 3940 and PSC 1410. It is the kind that's compatible with the HP printers, but not manufactured by HP. The brand is Orink. But pity, it didn't work for my PSC 1402. So now I'm trying to sell it at a dirt-cheap price of 15 bucks (I bought it at the Arts Forum bazaar, 2 for $38). Anyone who has the above-listed printers and don't mind giving it a shot, you can contact me. If the cartridge doesnt work for you either, I'll take it back and return you your moolah.
Please help! Thanks.

5 things you might forget about Jansen

my sekret ambition is to be a wanderer. i've always wanted to get lost in the world with nought but a backpack on my back, to travel; to see; to learn and unlearn. I’ll have some books and my climbing gear in that backpack and shant bring my handphone so nobody can contact me. So maybe one day, just one day in the not-too-distant future, i might find myself wandering onto daryl’s high tech farm. This actually explains the rat race i so despise but always find myself inexplicably drawn to run it.

I wear the blue fisherman cap not because i want to act cool or worse, look stupid, but because it reminds me of a friend who loved climbing as much as me(if not more) and tried to give me a leg up in the climbing circle. That friend succumbed in the fight against brain cancer. The cap always reminds me that i’m so lucky to be able to pursue what i love most and that each time i climb, i must give my best, otherwise i would have let myself down – and my friend.

I used to be quite an intense person in the past. I remember an incident when i screwed my peers for not training hard enough(and i really regretted it because i’m quite a mild person actually). I would train really hard till when i go home after training, my toothbrush becomes an automatic one. I cant explain why, but i want to climb really hard and do well in it. I guess in terms of intensity towards my peers i’ve mellowed over the years, but i’m still as hard on myself as ever. I always feel weak, feel that i’m not strong enough, feel that i’m not there yet. Hai.. nevertheless, I enjoy getting spanked by the pros - it lets me know that the journey aint coming to an end anytime soon.

Jups is eager to erm.. attach me(grammatically incorrect but it doesn’t sound so wrong this way), but he doesn’t know one thing! I’ve already found the girl of my dreams! GASP!

Nissan 350Z Fair Lady

She’s fast, sleek and has all the curves. Most of all she wouldn’t run away from me. What more can a guy ask for?

Ok besides sounding all philosophical, i’m actually quite a dorky person and i do all the usual guy stuff like bio za bor and being the clown. I also like ktv(i always go for all the crooning and emo and sad guy songs). I play snooker/pool. I do bowling(had a turkey before!)and used to be able to do quite a few basketball tricks. I also am fiercely agnostic and am highly allergic to any attempts to evangelise to/convert me. I have my reasons of course but that is a story for another time..

Ok more than 5 things definitely. So many things to say, so little time. So many things to learn, so little time. Something that we all have to contend with our lives i guess. Next i tag tommy. OPPS i meant TAMMY sorry i couldn’t really tell the difference after the haircut. Lol.