Grad Trip B (Report 3)

Its my last day at Vegas (2nd last in States), and after many rounds at the casino, we had to drag Alvin away. Climbed at Red Rocks today, but had to rush off for some show.

@ Red Rocks High Point Lookout:

Single climb of e day (5.10c)

Ended the night with a tub of 4USD Ben&Jerry ice-cream.

Grad Trip B (Report 2)

Visiting Yap:


Here's us at Yosemite:





Accomodation for 1st nite at Housekeeping camp






Half-Dome

Alv finished Sentinel Traverse (V6) - the highest grade of the trip so far; and he got the lightning hold of Midnight Lightning(V8), which was very impressive. Ks flashed a V4!!! And me, I got a sprained ankle while doing King Cobra. Haha. Take care guys and all the best for Rockmaster!

Rockmaster 2008

Yay! Congratulations to all semi finalists/finalists. Doris is 1st, Clara 1st, Leon 1st! Go NUS!
Novice qualifiers: Shaoting, Eileen, Kenneth, Khairul
Intermediate: Leon, Bertrand, Caleb, Clara

All the best next week :D

(the singlet is quite nice, though its a bit too short)

Goodbye and good luck!

Hi guys!

We're using the free internet in the airport to blog now! Just wanna say congrats to all who had done well and qualified for semis/finals. Those who never, well done too, we saw ur fighting spirit. Theres always the next com!! Good luck to those who have yet to compete!

Brisbane here we come!!!

P.S.: Stay tuned for updates

Char, Dan, YJ

MAGIC II!

After watching John's video, it revived memories of CYRIL, my fav magician from Asia!

these are my fav magic tricks! i wish i could do this! yum yum! slurp slurp!

YUM YUM!


SLURP SLURP!

DURIAN!

The best fruit ever!!! Worth exploding your throat and expanding the ulcers.. WOO!



Bargaining boys and choosing duriansss!



must match king of fruits with queen of fruits!!!


FRUIT CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


durian.. the nemesis of all ang mors....EXCEPT....


crazy singaporean and deviant romanian!


and a totally irrelevant picture of bob the builder!!

Adiós

Feels weird to be leaving(especially after looking at the new team list), but its time to move on. Thanks people for the memories(and Doris for this picture). Its only been a short 2 years but it's been great. To the remaining people in the team: Cherish these few years of your life in the team and enjoy ur climbing. Good luck to all in the remaining competitions and have fun in Krabi!

Ed: You've been a good Cap.
Jensen: Thanks for pulling me in. Win something before you ORD.
Juniors: Time for ull to start BEING seniors!
Aussie ple: Let's take more pics and vids!

Adiós
E.K.

April and May babies

Grad Trip B (Report 1)

Still in San Francisco, carshin Thomas's pad. Spent the past 2 days exploring the area, and eating great portions of food. Also climbed in Touchstone Mission Cliffs gym. Will be picking up the rental car, then visiting Yap JW before heading towards Yosemite.

Good luck for Rockmaster!

Christer Jansson tempts.....

If you bother to check up the guidebook 'Climb Malaysia', you'll be able to find Christer's name in it. He completed a route in Sarawak in March 2000, on first ascent, and named the route Jansson's Temptation (7a).

In other news, a familiar couple was spotted in Orchard hovering over a piece of fascinating hardware.

birth of another dino

If all goes well, I too will be graduating too, and leaving the team. Its been 4 great years, with people leaving and coming into the team. Jus wanna shout out a big thank you to past and present members of the team; dinos too. People who greatly shaped my climbing = Wilson, OJW, Alv, WM, KS, RH. Not forgetting people like Kelly QQ, Baoyen, CS, JS, Christer, NF who all continue to inspire and entertain me!

Without climbing, my NUS life would be terrible. A few days without the gym really felt weird.

In a few more hours, we'll be going onto a trip that we had been looking forward to for so long, and that helped keep our sanity during times in studies. Here's hoping that all of us are able to make more CLIMBING trips, and enjoy the sport more.

Personal Post: I haz improvements in finger strength

I was intending to have my next post about great (sexy) changes coming to the NUS team blog, rather than some whine post about why life sucks. If you did not know already, I now have the awesome powers of being a blog moderator, which means that besides deleting spammy comments, I can also edit Zheng Xin's blog posts, like how he always does that to me!

So it was a rainy Saturday, a damn great pity that we didn't manage to climb at ITE. It is rare that I will travel so far just to climb, which really underlines my interest in climbing at ITE. Alas alas.

And so I broke my gym key when I was trying to uh, lock up the gym door. The key just snapped la. Here I would like to dedicate a song to the warriors that assisted me along in the quest to remove the broken key from the door:

• The locksmith uncle who is quite pro
  
• Teck Chew, who was roused from his sleep multiple times, and who was also forced to turn back to his hall twice as I did not require his services anymore
• Alvin, who thankfully was in school and granted his key to me
• Sandra, who listened to my pathetic sms-es and gave me a clear and obvious course of action that I should take
• Shao Ting, who looked like a pretty girl from far with her hair flowing with the wind. Hope your final paper went well (you look prettier when you are closer to me)
• My pet lizard, for getting out of the way when I was exiting my room

Seriously I would recommend you all to open the gym door gently. The key is not that solid due to the amount of cold working done to it during the duplication process, thus introducing a fair amount of dislocations especially on the surface. This dislocations will build up and pile up, causing cracks within the key itself, making it susceptible to a sudden failure.

To all the seniors leaving NUS, sayonara. Do come back to the NUS gym to scrub some tilez and to break some keys :)

birth of dino

Being in the climbing team these 4 years has been a most enjoyable part of NUS life. Thanks guys for all the lovely memories.

Will see everyone in 2 mths time after grad trip! :)

Magical techniques

Teck Chew, share some of your secret black alien concoction with us man.

And some spectacular body tension:

The Things People Do To Cope With Stress...

Maybe it's more comfy than library level 5?

Guizhou Climbers

LL once mentioned about some climbers who solo climb, as a tourist attraction.

we've got a new door!

I saw them fix the new wooden door. Now people can look in like we're fishes in an aquarium.

Anyway, I have interesting photos to share. Guess what they were doing..