Wreck-Bertrand's-House-Day&Night, more of such days to come?

Cycling/blading at ECP

Instructional video on how to jaywalk

Totally immersed in the world of Worm Armageddon

Sumptious feast prepared by Felicia (spaghetti) and Zhaoxiu (potato salad)

The two main chefs

Having fun tangling up with each other. My cam only had these 2 pics... shaoting's wonderful balance and fel's mighty ass totally owned everyone at this game. Hor?? :P

Weak attempt at Train Doors Are Closing

Mango sticky rice which gerry and me decorated and shaped to be Mickey Mouse.... or not. Cher made the sticky rice!

Sleeping beauties after watching Chocolate

The Sleeping Beauty

Sunrise at bedok jetty. Pity we didn't get to see the egg-yolk sunrise. First pic is taken under a 30-second exposure. The streak in the sky is a passing airplane, and the orange part at the bottom of the pic is the pavement which I had set my camera upon.

Who's up for another Wreck-My-House-Day?

TAIWAN

Heya all!

Another (climbing) travel sharing post!

But first! For oyster fans! Once you have tried Taiwan's oyster omelet and mee-sua, you wont want to have Singapore's anymore. Grin...









This, my friends, is where we went to climb =] The place is called 龙洞 (Dragon Cave) and it's really beautiful; it's along the coast with the vast ocean right beside you. Just the breath-taking scenery alone makes it worth the trip; besides, it's only an hour's drive from Taipei city.

Bonus: NO mozzies. Just need sunblock for the morning


Was lucky enough to join one of the local climbing teams on their weekend climb there; very friendly and fantastic people (even gave us their team's t-shirts! haha) Real pro too, all doing trad climb with so much equipment racked up on them; you all should have seen the distance between their protection points, really got balls man...




This is the wall in one of the coves where they did their trad multi-pitch training. They even took their lunch up at the anchor point.









And this is me. At one of the walls with bolted routes... sad... no experience or ability to join them on trad climbs. End up still got thrashed by the route.








Of course not forgetting dear liying =]
(the rock formation in the backdrop is an iconic feature of the area)











And not forgetting the nice ice-cold beer at the end of every climbing day! Good stuff.










Alrighty, just some photos here, can post up the link to the rest of the photos when I've uploaded them and if anyone is interested. Taiwan has really nice food, scenery, people and climbing; it's really a place worth visiting. While you are over there, try going for some activities, besides climbing, like river tracing, mountaineering, canoeing, etc with the locals; will definitely be worth it =] It's another way to experience the beauty of Taiwan.

On a serious note, especially with many people going on climbing trips this holiday, please please be mindful of safety; check your equipment, ensure safety checks/procedures/precautions are followed and do not treat lightly any signs of danger, human, nature or otherwise. Make sure you are aware of your actions at all times and of their consequences.

I sound naggy... but I want to remind this because... one of the climbers I got to know in Taiwan, fell during a climb and has passed away. I climbed with her just the day before. She was only 27 years old. Details are sketchy on the reason/cause but nevertheless, please always be careful, regardless of your level of climbing experience/prowess. No doubt we all want to have fun climbing and want to take up challenges, but remember, the dangers of this sport are very real, and very severe.

Please always keep safe for yourself and look out for your friends.

Alright, with that said, hope everyone have fun and have lots of ascents for the upcoming climbing trips =]

Sorry to steal alvin's thunder

High Plains Difter (V7)

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..