Some climbing videos after a longg disappearance

A very interesting boulder comp with all the huge tiles and aretes.

Women's Finals

Men's Finals (5:46 quite sick)

uhhuh.. its my turn uhhuh uhhuh, i like it uhhuh uhhuh. 5 things u wanna know bout me.. in fact i can go on and on, but dont wan make u all mesmerised for me larh.. so i say 5 ok? *flutter eyes*

1) i really like music. haha. i like to create music. that includes. anything that can make noise. im good at beat boxing too, ask me show u. well although i kinda drop out of class when i went for piano lessons in kindergarden one..
( the start of the exam failuring trend in my life- btw, my favorite number is 44.. cuz i kinda always get 44/100 for exams and its my house number as well =D )
so then nontheless, with a never-give-up-bleks attitude, i picked up guitar, piano, drums and SINGING thru the ages.. involved in 3 bands below-attached a video for ur entertainment with one of my best band=) hmm.. im kinda 30% arty-farty. yup! i like plays and theatre shows.. jio me if u're interested too! the hidden side of arvin eh? see the video for more info... muaha.

2) my nickname is FROGGY. jud n juniors calls me uncle frog. well it came one day when i was in JC, when i hit an Arvin-high and started jumping and running and huggin everything i see. anything. i can hug any pillars. hidden talent no.2 muaha.
well there was this incident.. in BMT, when i was kinda injuried seriously (e origin of my butt injury) i was slacking while the rest of the platooon guys did their run and obstacle race. well i was kinda bored so i just hug on the pillar. then kena caught by my Sir, and forced to shout " im a koala bear, im a koala bear!!" 50 times in front of the whole bloody company... just at that moment, my SSM ( bmt's discipline master) came by and tot i was being funny, so gave me 1 weekend extra duties =.= my helpful Sir didnt defend me, of cuz. if i ever see that Sir again.. i will sing into his ear at the top of my voice.

3) i eat a lot. i love food. omigosh. recently into eatin 6 full meals a day. haha yup.. nv used to be above 53kg, but now im like 59-ish kg already. totally loving it. lets start food hunt soon eh? hmm speakin of food... my worse experience of the classic story of eatin an apple and found a maggot.. just that the difference was that it was somehow too short to be a maggot................. yeah i vormit everything out aft i saw that. eew.

4) i love kids! have my own outdoor adventure consultancy since a yr and half back, and our aim is to provide the chance for needy kids who dont hav e means to go to such camps to learn more bout themselves and develop more personal skills. we do high elements, water expedition etc. if u share the common interest feel free join me for my next few projects during next yr's mega holiday!=) it all started with my lil god bro and sis. they're damn cute! it was in that period when kids started callin me instructor froggy too hahha.

5) my favourite game is **oo*, **aG, m***y in climbin club, and have the updated list of candidates now. HAHA. ok kidding.
i used to be in track before climbin.. did ok, finished my career in running during J2 where i hit 50.8 secs for 400m. satisfied, injuried and worn out, i wanted to try something new in when im in university.. then i was thinking, " basket.. i have been to almost all climbin competition in the last 4 yrs to support you-know-who... must as well go and try try lah eh?" and so im here, proudly in the climbin club with my fellow freshies and pinkboi.=) TATA thats it. =)

ps. pinkboi got caught standing only in his underwear in my room by a girl in my block who happens to be his tutorial mate=) SEE YA. next up... still got who nv write sia. i shoot senior bochap, next up HENG HONG, to talk about the STUNS DONE IN GYM. eh sherman upload the videos!

Hello guys! I’m sorry I took so long to post something about myself! I was caught in the writing of a term paper. lol

Okay, let me talk about myself :)

Firstly, I used to have very short hair in J1! Short meaning that I had side burn and my hair couldn’t even touch my collar at the back and a lot of people thought that something happened to me that caused me to make such a harsh decision. BUT, I didn’t cut short hair voluntarily! I went to the salon with no particular hairstyle in mind so I let the hairdresser decide for me. In the end, I came out of the salon with the super short hair. LOL. During the period when I had short hair, I was called “ah boy” several times. Some of them realized that I was a girl when I spoke but there was this stall vendor that called me “ah boy” without realizing anything!

Oh and before I joined climbing in J1, I was in dance. I was asked by my mum to join dance in primary school so as to grow taller. Haha. I didn’t know why I believed that dancing would really allow me to grow taller. Anyway, I continued dancing in secondary school but I did a different genre. After I moved on to JC, I decided that I had to try something different, so here I am doing something completely different, CLIMBING! :D

I love to eat a lot, especially snacks and I will get hungry every 2 hours. That’s why I need to stock up a substantial amount of food at home and I spend most of my allowance on food. :)

A lot of people always ask me why I look so tired all the time. Yes I know I have a pair of panda eyes but I sleep a lot too! haha. I have no idea why the dark circles never want to go away despite all the sleep so I will probably look tired for my entire life. Lol. Speaking about my eyes, my right eye is a lazy eye and thus when it comes to night time, the difference in the size of my eyes becomes very great. Also, because of my lazy eye, I had to go for an eye surgery when I was 5. Back then, I was very excited about the surgery because the doctors told me there would be biscuits for me after the surgery! Lol.

Lastly, I think I am accident prone. I always get a lot of bruises on my legs and arms and even cuts on my face. The weird thing is I don’t know where I got those most of the time. Lol

Next up, Arvin!

Awesome cool video

Hey people just a random post. I came across this awesome video online which reminded me of the Dosage videos. Dunno if this beats free solo-ing up a 400ft rock face in terms of crazy. It's Wingsuit BASE jumping, in my opinion the biggest adrenaline rush you can ever get. Skip to 1:30 and 3:00 onwards for the really amazing stuff (flying <3m>

The Near Future (If things do work out according to plan)

Blog is so quiet this year..sad.. oh well

Some sneak previews of the new roof plans, hope to get everyone psyched up and looking forward.

Im definately looking forward to it myself. PSYCHED!! ;)

Anyway we are also looking at a repaint of our current walls, looking for new designs, anyone can submit any designs , no prizes for best design except for it being on the walls.. yups

images courtesy of jups

The Cork and the Bottle.

ok.i know this is even more random than the pineapple post. but this really got me going "wow!cool!"=)

study hard and all the best for the upcoming climbaprix!=)

Just a shy guy

Hey yo! Took a while to write this entry because I had no idea wad to write. Still doesnt but I shall still try.

1.) I'm a left hander. But it only applies to writing and nothing else. I do every other thing with my right but recently this year i realised if i try to start learning something new ( squash, table tennis etc) with my left hand then it all works fine. Being a left hander supposedly means im stronger with the left side of my body but it doesnt work that way for me at all. One good example, my left eye has a much much higher myopia level than my right. I have a left master eye but i doubt it does any work at all.

2.) I have extremely sweaty palms which means i m always sweating on my palms even when im doing nothing. The only time i dont suffer that is when im in an air-conditioned room. This is the reason why pink boi aka daniel refuses to do ARC after me since the holds will be all wet. But i suspect that the truth is he just cant concentrate with me climbing in front of him... Anyway sweaty palms has gotten me nth but trouble. I rmb I was punished by my teacher for smearing the words written in pencil. I didnt tell her the truth cus i was too innocent then. Still am now though if u are wondering.

3.) I am a very shy boy. Most who know me see me as an introvert sometimes. I hope to open up more in the future though. lol

4.) I love to eat especially Japanese cuisine. I love going for buffet because it gives me the biggest bang for my buck. I used to go frequently during the period of time when I was trying to gain weight. I gave it up because I wasnt making much progress and only my health deteriorated. Talking about weight, I lost 4 kgs after sch started for 3 weeks because I couldnt and still cant find the time to eat the amount I used to. Got me depressed for a while but o well.

5.) I have been harassed by gays more than a normal guy should experience. Sounds wrong but this is one of the reasons why. Most of the time when I am at a public toilet and if a gay happens to be in it, he will walk to the urinal beside me and keep staring at me while im doing my stuff. That's damn gross. I had one especially bad experience when this guy came out of his cubicle and decided to pee again next to me when the entire row of urinals was empty. He was staring at me throughout the time I was there. This happened at the toilet at the end of City Link. My ratio of toilet visits to gay harassment there is currently 1:1. Thus I haven used that toilet whenever im there for quite some time alr. How I wish I was attracting girls instead of guys. wth.

hm this is it. Next in line to write is... Yu Xin!

Climbing & Life

Was randomly searching for reasons why some climbers put superglue on their fingers..

and I stumbled upon this video..

crystal's 5 things i.e. RANTING.

alrights. i'm finally getting down to doing this, despite having been slacking the past few days..
there's this very nostalgic feeling because the last time i've typed in this blogger window was way back in secondary school.

#1
i love to sleep. now before you all go "so do i and everyone else out there.." my case would probaably be towards the slightly more severe side. as a typical slp lover, classes are built to fall alsp to - the drone of the teacher/lecturer and having to sit in the same spot for the entire time. it just puts me to slp. regardless of the number of hours i slpt the night before. its not that i'm doing it on purpose to look like some bo chap kid; i just can't help it. the effort spent in trying to keep awake, admittably, its more to try and salvage my self image. because 3 out of 5 times i fall alsp in class, its not unnoticeable.





and i shall elaborate. haaah. its actually surprising me how much i'm writing about this first point. this is one of the many embarassing incidents. during one of my bio lectures in TJ, the lecturer was instructing us to amend the enzyme structure in the diagram - one of the catalytic domains, where there's suppose to be another domain or sth. so i was drawing in the domain, and as i was trying to listen to the lecturer, i was falling aslp. and my classmate commented that my enzyme structure had an extra newly invented domain. and actually i think i laughed the hardest cause it really was quite funny. another thing is that i found out not too long ago when my classmate went back to TJ to visit, he asked our econs teacher Mrs Beetsma if she remembered me, and she said something to the extent of "of course. how could i forget that swaying tree.." HAHHA. she was always so nice and i dunno why she doesnt wake me up when im sitting in front during her tutorial class. incident no. 3: i once fell alsp on the bus. standing. it was 969 which took the expressway all the way to yishun. one continuous long ride. plus it was late. hmm. the worse part of it was even having jolted awake, i couldn help falling alsp again. someone should have just given this poor girl a seat right? HAHHA. incident no. 4: i fell alsp at the nus bus stop waiting for 95. 'nough said. my friend coincidentally alighted from one of the shuttles and saw me, and wouldnt stop going on about it for at least a month aft tt. it used to be about how i'm always thinking about food, then it got replaced by how i fell alsp at the busstop.

unglam is my middle name.

oh btw ANDY. i really wasnt slping tt day ya! haah

#2:
hmm. not sure what to write here but thought i'd just share incidents of how i had lost and found my wallet. since the last incident was so recent. last sunday morning i left my wallet on the bus seat after alighting. i assumed my wallet HAD to be somewhere in my bag even tho i couldn find it to tap. plus i had just woken up. *ahem. Then I panicked and with that panic stricken face I considered running after the bus, which I did till the next busstop, before I realised the futility. so I flagged for a cab and caught up with the bus about 6 stops down.

It made me conclude that being deprived of sleep makes me lose things. I hadn slpt that night before the morning incident. And during that week my thumbdrive vapourised when I was walking from the science co-op to the science canteen after having printed a lab report I stayed up the entire night for. I still have no idea where it went even after backtracking that stretch of distance a gazillion times.

The other incident I lost and found my wallet was during a family get-together at my relative’s place. Apparently my aunt’s maid had taken it. the best part is that I would never have found out if I hadn’t been at the right place at the right time. one or two weeks aft losing my wallet, I went to my aunt’s place to visit her. She was sending the maid back to the agency because the maid had a personality that didn seem normal. So she was packing up the maid’s belongings because the maid wasn there. Being several months pregnant, she couldn’t bend down to put the maid’s clothes into the bag so she called me into the room to help her do so. And that’s when I saw that familiar looking wallet in the bag. I had even dreamt of finding my wallet in the car boot after I had lost it. it was so close to being sent to Indonesia.

Any of yall had weird lost-wallet experiences too?

#3:
CRYSTAL is actually not printed in my birthcert. But I didn’t name myself either. My parents didn include it in. I like my surname. I’m always at the back on class registers.

#4:
Life science is not my first choice; it was my fourth. NTU gave me my first choice. which was also what I had placed as first choice for NUS. After the whole lot of effort (discussing with family, my brother going to the extent of getting his ngee ann poly life science course mate to convince me not to choose life science etc. ) in deciding to NOT put science as my first choice for NUS, I was back to the same dilemma upon receiving the acceptance letters. Choosing between what I’m interested in, and what’s practical for me in the future. Funny how things work out.

#5:
I play the oboe. Which is a woodwind instrument. I was from the symphonic band in secondary school. And still am part of the alumni band, which explains my absence from Saturday trainings :X

That’s it. oh plus i really wanna sky dive someday. Or paraglide. Either seems safer than bungee jumping. And I think swimming in the sea without all the gear can sometimes be more enjoyable than with all the diving gear. But maybe only because I’ve only been in tioman waters.

Desmond you’re next. Wahha.

midautumn night's dream...

guess why are they so happy? 0_o


ohh... so fast tying the knot already! no wonder so happy =P

NUS Jacket

hey guys, sorry to interrupt the flow of introduction by the juniors.haha.dont worry, this aint a post on more benefits of pineapples!btw, has anyone of u gone to eat more pineapples than usual after reading my post?haha=)

anw, im here regarding the printing of the word ROCKCLIMBING behind the NUS sports jacket!this applies to those who have the jackets already!

pls tell me if you are interested in making it, and if any of the seniors out there have the template for the previous CLIMBING embroidery, pls send it to me!i need to pass it to the person, otherwise either myself or someone MORE ARTISTIC can volunteer to design it. its pretty simple. just need to make a good font type with the word ROCKCLIMBING, i will email it to the person and viola, we have personalised team jackets that call ourselves ROCKCLIMBERS!=)

i think i will make it easier to poll here, those who do not want the word on the jacket, can personally sms me!=)otherwise, i will take it that everyone wants it!!!

i will pass the form for all those interested to write their names and contact number during trg 2ml!(monday 5 oct 2009)if you cannot come for trg, tell a friend to write the name for u!

if you are wondering about the cost, i think the previous batch paid $8.50 for the embroidery. i will try to get it cheaper if i can. and EXCO!will there be any subsidy?hahaha=)

hey all! sorry for the delay. the last entry was really damn traumatising for me. had a tough time coping with those graphic images. only manage to pick up the courage to come back here today. and it didn't help that waynetta picked me when it was suppose to be a girl. freaky. anyway, here's 5 things about me:

1. i am colour-deficient. yes, that means i only see things in black, white and grey. ok maybe not la but who knows, some people out there may be like that. i'm only level 1 colour-deficient, meaning i can't differentiate red and green that well. and yes, in case you're wondering, i can drive. the funny thing is everytime i'm up on the wall struggling to figure out which tile to go for, and people shout to me "THE GREEN ONE!" or "THAT RED ONE!", haha...that doesn't quite help man. i'll be like "@#$% WHICH ONE?!" and next thing you know i'm too tired to hang on.

2. i love food and i enjoy steamboat the most. better if it's buffet steamboat. oh ya, and i'm a very soup person. think's it probably cos i'm canto. canto people love soup, especially those double-boiled ones. gotta have soup during meals man. i can speak cantonese too!

3. There was a point in my life when my dream ambition was to be president. yeah, no kidding. somehow the idea of having my portrait hung in the hall of every primary, secondary school and JC seemed very thrilling. i went to the extent of checking out the requirements to apply for presidency. something to work towards to. but well that was a few years back. now i'm more more realistic, i wanna be prime minister.

4. i did mostly feet related sports like soccer and track for the past many many years. thought it'd be fun to try out rockclimbing. turns out its not so much about arms but fingers too. and i realise i'm not very good at heel hook/toe hook/meat hook. i dont make as good a hooker as the confused boy below.

5. i had dengue fever when i was 14. pretty bad. was hospitalised for a week, perpetually puking, couldn't eat, was on drip, and i lost about 5kg. not a very desirable thing for a guy. but for girls, if you ever wanna lose weight you know what to do. go sleep in a drain or beside potted plants or something. it may just be your lucky day.

alrite, so that's all about me for now. next up - CRYSTAL YICK!