credit goes to edwin and (and kai xuan) for the successful creation of my first post. its chloe here guys! and here goes the first thing about me... i have never blogged before, thats why i must acknowledge edwin's efforts, for he was the one who taught me how to blog. im really lousy with technology. you can say im afraid of high tech stuff, like iphones, blackberries and macbooks. i think i might just hang the system with a touch. this explains two things. one - it explains why im using an old school sony ericsson w310i and refuse to upgrade. two - it explains why firos (my bf) had to girlfriend-proof his digi cam.

the second thing about me. ive been climbing since 2006. that makes me three years old in this business. i joined climbing because i wanted to try a sport which was different from the rest, a sport which didnt involve running! i hated running, and i still do (so i understand why jia wei whines on mondays). let me tell you how it went at the climbing booth during the cca fair at tp back in 2006 (lala's probably heard this story before).

"er excuse me, can i ask you a question?"

"yes?"

"do you guys have to run alot during trainings?"

"oh, no la, abit only."

"okay :)"

and i signed up. and here i am now, stuck on this path of no return.

third. the funny thing was, i was in track and field back in primary school. i ran alot. but mostly i was into sprints. i liked running then. i guess i grew to old to run. before joining the track team, i was into gynastics. zhao xiu was a senior, and the coach made her impart her skills to me because she won in the previous year. i came back the next year with a trophy too:) i used to be able to walk around on a handstand, just like crystal now. and i used to be able to do splits >180 deg. oh well, i USED TO.

fourth. i had a great headstart when i was a novice climber, simply because i had muscle cells that hypertrophied faster than they should in a women's body. now ive got arms the size of yi xiong's - according to him (and eyes the size of clara's plus fingers the size of hotdogs). so i won a few comps here and there, and i even got myself the sportswoman of the year and all-rounder award when i graduated from tp. and then came my industrial attachment, which, suay-ly enough, took up most of my time and energy. so i stopped training. that was like a u-turn from the headstart i got, and it didnt stop there. i started working full time not long after, and things did not get better. but now im back in school. and im gona get back on my feet, or rather, on the wall.

last things about me in a nutshell. i was from dunman high school, graduated with 7 points, went to poly anw cus bio is cool(: ive got a memory retention period like that of a dory's in finding nemo. im super sensitive to the F-word, so dont use it no matter how sick a boulder route may be and im a lacto-ovo vegetarian (egg mayo sandwich at subway rocks!).

and im done with my list of five. now its your turn -RANDALL!