5 Things about Shu Chin

After a long long time, here is my post. Sorry its so late. So as not to bother you guys so much with this late late submission, I will keep it nice and short. So lets begin.

1. I like to travel. In JC, I was in ODAC (oh yeah) where we got to travel overseas for hikes and all that, so I have been to interesting places like Nepal to hike. (ok thats the only interesting place but it was VERY interesting. Most of the other trips we went to (relatively) boring places in Malaysia.). Incidentally, ODAC was where I got exposed to rock climbing.

The most beautiful sunset I have seen. Taken at the teahouse just before Gosaikund Lake.

Yours truly, while halfway up the trek

2. I prefer high walls. Bouldering just isnt as fun. No height, no ropes, so short (usually). But oh well, its still fun, and thats why I am still in the team :) If there are any high wall junkies, shout out! Jio me to go do high walls with you. Unfortunately I dont know how to do lead climbing properly yet, so be prepared to coach me a little if you do jio me.

And here is the customary photo, this one of me in Krabi. I went with my ODAC friends if you are wondering.

And this is a photo of me doing in dairy farm, with the club climbers. Do join us! The more the merrier, so long as you are willing to help carry all the heavy ropes and quickdraws.

As you might have guessed, I like natural rocks more than plastic. There is just a different and better feel to it. And its in nature, which makes everything 10x better.

3. I procrastinate. I should elaborate on this point (and the post too I think), but maybe later..... (and I have! The copy you are reading is the edited one. I procrastinate, but I get the job done eventually. Most of the time. Sometimes.) To make up for this rather lousy point, I shall give you all a bonus point later. As point 6.

4. I live in KE7 hall. Boring hall and all that, as everyone says, but really, how interesting hall is depends on you. If you take part in its activities, then its fun, if you dont, and choose to huddle up in your room mugging (or shooting areoplanes) all the time, then hall wont be fun. For me, I find it fun, more fun than staying at home anyway, so I choose to continue staying in hall, even though I live in Clementi. And the required photo of me doing stuff in hall is below. As you can see, birthday celebrations can be quite... interesting. For those of you thinking sick stuff, all I was doing was lowering the birthday girl's present into her room from the window upstairs. Nothing more interesting than that. 

And a more normal picture, this one of the handball team from my block, right after we won the Inter Block Games for handball.

5. I do weird sports. Here's a list. Climbing, handball, waterpolo (secondary school, sucked at it, always warming the bench (actually bench warming is quite important in waterpolo cos when you are all wet and there is a wind blowing you will want a warm chair) but still managed school team so wtv), swimming. The only mainstreamish one is swimming, which I dont really actually do, I dont even know how to plunge. Notice there isnt anything normalish like football, basketball. So yep.
When I am required to play a mainstream sport like football cos not enough people etc, I end up being keeper. Results are generally unpleasant, as seen below.

6. I have really lousy eyesight. My degree is around 1200. Note the number of digits there. That earns me disgustingly thick glasses and a place in PES C. PES C isnt all that wonderful as you all might think. I would rather have gone to PES A or B and gone to OCS than do that nonsense I did as a PES C serviceman. And heres the required photo.....

That was just after the commissioning? parade equivalent for sergeants. Notice that i am not wearing LBV or sweating, as my friend is. That is because I learnt the merits of chaokeng early, unlike the overly enthusiastic people holding rifles and parading around like getting that rank as a PES C is a big deal. We didnt have to do anything to earn that rank other than sleep in lectures. True story. Haha. Army bashing aside, back to my poor eyesight point. If you ever wave at me from far away, and I dont wave back, or give you a weird stare, its not cos I dont like you and dont want to recognize you (although that might be the case) its cos I cant see you. Even with glasses, its difficult to see very far. And my contacts are underpowered somewhat. So yes.

Ok done. Yay. Happy new year people. Hope you enjoyed the new post LOL

Sikhiu Climb Trip 2012!!!

  Some shots during Sikhiu Climb Trip 2012:

  

Star gazing expert and Michael Jackson

Y so serious Limzy?

 At the very amazing Dragon Cafe

While all the boys are busy looking at their toys:

 Catching the sunset

 Chris always ready for photos

 Great Korean superstar decided to pop by

 Another shot of great Korean superstar

 With the amazingly nice breakfast auntie & Michael Jackson

Staying cool while sleeping

 And the rest not staying so cool...

 Signing off,
Wall-E & Kermit ;-)

Things about syafiq

Finally found out how to work the blogger. And sorry for the late post but hi! I'm Syafiq and if you have not  seen me before. Then. Look no further!

Yup. I love sleep that much. If only there were such a thing as a pillow bag to bring to school, or everywhere for that matter...

1) I'm into contact sports!

In primary school and secondary school, I did the usual boring CCA stuff that neighborhood school's usually had. So in Jurong JC, I decided to go for something a bit... more sporty. And the above is what you get! Rugby!

Team photo in KL! Bonding cum training trip.

The Cougars(My team's name) are an assortment of crazy people. We trained hard and played hard and really did a lot of nonsense(which I am pretty proficient in as you will read later), which I hope to be able to do with this team as we get closer with each other. I originally joined rugby just because I could hit people without getting punished. Lol. I played as the scrumhalf of the team(jersey 9) and basically had a lot of fun. And that was when I discovered that I am into contact sports!

Here are another few photos of the 'A' div tournament in 2009. Sadly in our year, we lost. By one point. The whole team cried our hearts out after the game, and it will always be a great moment of regret in my life that we did not win that match against PJC.

I also delved into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for a bit during my navy days but, it was too expensive to continue so I stopped after a month. It was a great experience though. Got to spar with a French and Cambodian guy. Too fast too furious(them not me). :(

2) ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

So Ferran piloted the spy plane, Heng Tiong was a Rider and I, am a Coxswain!

This is a picture of the actual boat that I commanded in Navy.

I was enlisted and finally posted into Navy as a sea soldier. Weirdly enough, I thought they didn't accept Malays. Awkward. The time spent there was really, really dull. Stay in for 8 days and go out for 3. Then come back in. But getting to drive that baby in the picture made it all worthwhile!

What we had to do was guard the base waters and intercept intruding vessels so it was really quite cool. When any unauthorised commercial vessel intrudes and we are activated, we zoom out of the base and scare the shit out of them. Muahahahaha! But yeah, it was pretty great. We got to see submarines and ships all the time. We also interact with navies from around the world. And they were huge! See the building in the first picture? A U.S nuclear submarine(yea nuclear) that surfaced was the same height as that building. I don't have a firsthand photos due to the 'no camera' policy of the SAF so had to rip some off the Net. So you people are pretty well covered in the event of a zombie apocalypse! :)

3) I am....

a pretty shy person, despite my open personality(stupid point number 1). A bit weird init? I myself have no idea why. I've been told that I look pretty fierce or shag(?) when I'm quiet but I'm really not. Just socially handicapped.

Would a fierce person look this cute?(or gay depending on how you see it)

If I have not talked to whoever is reading this post yet, its probably because I have no idea what to say or how to start the conversation, so help me out ya? But beware, what you might be doing is unleashing Pandora's box upon yourself. I talk a lot of shit and do a lot of random things. Hahahahaha.( But please do talk to me or not I have no friends lonelyboi1991)

4)Wheeeeee~!

I bungee jumped in Phuket!

Obviously after the jump. That is my scared-out-of-my-wits-but-put-on-a-cool-face-for-the-camera face. A bit fail though.

There is also an accompanying video but might a bit flavorful in language(people tend to throw out a lot of random words when they decide to throw themselves of a platform with only a rope between their legs. It just happened to be those words for me :/) so I decided not to put it up. Also, its on my friend's Facebook not mine so I can't rip it off. You can ask me though if you wanna see it. The jump was absolutely exhilarating/liberating/adrenaline-pumping thing that I have ever done in my life! Once you step of that platform, you just have no other thought except 'crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap I'm gonna die'. But after the first two rebounds, you feel goddamn awesome(as awesome as you can upside down) and empowered, like you can face anything in the world. 

I recommend EVERYONE to try it at least once in their lifetime. It is absolutely amazing! For me, the next leap would be free falling/parachuting in Dubai because there is a video on it, and the place looks incredibly beautiful. Soooooon. Ok, not that soon. After uni. Get degree then attempt to get self killed to congratulate said self for obtaining said degree. Win.

5) I have a shattered soul(?)

According to Jinxian. And to be accurate, it was both. To be even more accurate, it's soles. I did promise you something stupid and there are people who agree that this story is equivalent to 2.5 parts(content-wise) of the stupid things that I was supposed to write. So here goes.

Don't judge me. I was young.

In 2004, my friend and I and basically my whole clique in secondary school just watched this movie called 'Yamakazi'. Good movie, you guys should watch it. For those who have not, it basically tells a story about this group of people who do parkour. In those days, I considered myself as a daredevil. So what my friend and I did was that we jumped off 2.5 stories from a HDB flat. The top of those huge dumpsters they have installed to collect the entire building's waste products. To be precise, only I did it. And you may ask this crucial question,why?

Because. I was dared. So I did it. From the third floor to the roof of that dumpster thingy. Then down. On the concrete ground. Wearing sandals. During secondary one. When I went down, I was surprised that I couldn't stand up after jumping because I felt perfectly fine(I jumped off things before this one and nothing really happened). Andddd the rest is history. Weird thing was, I didn't cry when I couldn't stand up or realised that something was wrong. I cried when they casted my leg. The cast was soooo hot! But yeah. X-ray shows that it was shattered soles and a broken right fibula if I'm not mistaken.(sorry joel I can't find the film!)

Sometimes, I do regret jumping off that day. But when I think about it, maybe it was a blessing in disguise because I toned down a lot after that. That's probably the reason why I made it all the way to uni(barely). I'll never know.

But my class reaped the benefits well though. We stayed on the first floor when all the other classes of our level went to the second floor so we always reached the canteen first! My classmates and friends also used me as an excuse to use the school's lift which were only meant for teachers. So all in all, it was pretty fun. Also learnt how to do a wheelie in a wheelchair during the time that I was using it so no time wasted!

But since I promised Dr. Joel a photo, here is one of my wrist during the time I thought I fractured my thumb.

6) Why I keep long hair

sweeee la!

Excluding the bikini, this was always my dream since young(no childhood haha)! I've always wanted to be able to do this but due to lame primary/secondary/jc school rules and whatnot, it has been postponed up till now. That is why I am keeping long hair, and will continue to do so till the day I am able to do the legendary hair flip!

seen above: current level of hair flip ability. Actually worse. At least the dog has straight fur.

7) I'm a pretty random person

When you see me stoning, it usually means that I'm thinking about something that has caught my mind. And usually its all the weird stuff like,'Why is a bubble spherical?' or ,'What is the origin of the saying "hangout"?'. Something like that. You can just ask me the topic of the day if you're bored. It will be interesting to have a debate or a 'one-point interpolation' of the topic at hand. Just saying.

8) Joy, you're not alone

Up to date, I have been mistaken for 5 races and counting. Eurasian, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean. I'm actually Na'vi. Okay obviously not. I'm Malay. People just don't seem to get that. I get mistaken so often for being Chinese that I have taken the liberty to memorize in mandarin, the phrase "I don't speak mandarin, I'm Malay". Along with picking a tiny little bit of conversational Chinese along the way so I can take the shortcut instead of having to tell them I'm Malay and restarting the whole conversation again.

To wrap up, there are a lot more stories which are still untold. So please get to know me! If I reveal my hand now, then there wouldn't be anything else interesting to share next time right?

The reason why I joined climbing is simple. I enjoy it. Whether it be training, free-climbing or just being in the rock gym. The frustration, the psyche, the effort, the pleasure. All of it. I hope you people feel the same way too!

That's the end of my post. Sue me but next up, Ng Su Chin!

5 things bout me

Hello everyone, this is Joel Tan :D
not to be confused with the smexier Joel Han. This is an shot of me :)

Anyways, these are 5 things about me !
1) I've been climbing since like forever, haha i picked it up in sec 1. I was suppose to be in the badminton, but i got distracted during cca exhibition and saw the school's rock wall and just decided to go with my urge to climb and Join ODAC :) That makes it roughly 7 years of climbing for me :D its probably the only sport i have vaguely excelled in so im glad i found it ! Oh Oh coincidentally the first comp i joined was BA ! cant remember which year but it was the "Get A Grip" year, i tried my very best but i didnt even got a bonus for a single route :( Anyways, im glad i had so long to explore climbing ! Not just the physical part of it but the introspection, exploration of personal attributes and character and sort of the mental side to it and perhaps it has allowed me to gain a greater understanding of a literal higher state of self elevation (bad puns intended)


2) I hearts my family !   

I have two brothers, one older, one younger, no sister though. So its like a boys club in my house with only my mum as the counterpoint to the overload of mischief and manliness. My parents made sure me and my bros grew up real tight so we did alot of things together as a kid. We use to race each other by setting fastest laps around the estate on our bikes and all the usual shenanigans like fighting and furniture breaking ! Im glad it turned out this way cos being in such a busy period of life in uni, such opportunities are far and few so yes family is important :D



 My bros and my dad in Yellowstone :) OH  and i love the national parks in America ! Been to Yosemite 3 times, met a mother bear and it's cubs once, and hiked countless kilometres in pure bliss on earth :)

 3) Im in love with Food !!!!

My mom is a great cook which is probably why i like food so much !!! She always cook the dinners (sometime lunches) at home without fail for the pass 18 years of my life. I cannot attest to being able to cook it though but i love eating food, talking about food, smelling food, looking at great food and understanding food :D When it came down to doing chores in the house, i would always choose helping mum in the kitchen hahaha :)

oh and my mum makes a mean apple pie tooooo ;D

This was a sea feast with had in Seattle at a place called the Crab Pot. juicy clams, luxurious king crab, succulent snow crab and loads of other molluscs and shellfish ! definitely worth checking out if you happen to be in Seattle

4) Im obsessed with cars !!! Yessss.
Well they say, the toys boys play with never disappear, they just get larger. Yup yup , so yes im defo into automobiles :) Its just really amazing how much emotion and imagination one can capture in pieces of metal and how a single developmental process can bring in so much character and beauty. I like marquess that put attention to detail so right now the current car im digging is the Koeniggsegg Agera R.



Probably have to sell of my liver and my children to be able to afford one ( im kidding please dont future call child services or something on me)

5) And lastly... I love reading !

Cant say i am such a voracious reader like Novia but i love a great read and the escapism that couples with it !!! But i havent had the time these few months to read cos ive got plenty of textbooks to read :(

Isnt it kind of intriguing how something so physical and quantifiable like words and pages can generate so much resonating emotions and impressions ?????? Anyways, I currently picked up C.S Lewis so i hope i can find the time to read more often :D

Sooooo thats me. Next Up...... the closest girl i know in the team SYAFIQ

12345 things about denise!

HELLOOOOO! I'm DENISE! this is how i look like if you haven't seen me before:)

So, here are 5 things about me:)

ONE. I love the great outdoors and nature and all sorts of outdoor activities - kayaking, snorkelling, trekking, horseback riding, swimming at waterfalls etc etc etc, even fishing! hehe. I like places with great scenery - mountains, fields, beaches... just not buildings. Hmm the more recent activities I did... earlier this year in April I went trekking in hongkong with a couple of friends!

and in July I went river tracing with a friend in Taiwan. Basically we walked upstream against some strong currents, got onto a couple of rocks about 5-7m high and dived into the river, then lay on our backs and floated down the river. Sounds silly, but it was really fun:)

See the two retards there in the bottom right? That's my friend and I. HAHA.
TWO. I love sports! My parents encouraged my sister and I to be involved in different sports, so when we were young, we went running almost every weekend morning, swimming sometimes, night cycling occasionally, weekly soccer or badminton for a while. In P2, I joined table tennis, quit after a few months because i found it boring and then i joined gymnastics! I went on to trampolining in secondary school till j2:) and I joined ultimate frisbee in jc as well, just to try something new!

Here's my frisbee team:) i had loads of fun playing frisbee with them with mud splashing all over us...great times!:) Oh I like to participate in track events for those inter-house games or sports day kind of thing too:) sports are a very very important part of my life:)

THREE. I just mentioned it, but I have a sister! She's a year older, 14 months to be exact:)

 

Some people think we look alike somehow? No right, we don't think so. Maybe more so when we were younger...many thought we were twins. you may see her around in school but be careful not to mistake her for me:) i had a whole bunch of people shouting my sister's name and staring at me just a while back in school, so frightening.

FOUR. I learn french, or learnt. Started in secondary school when i took it as a third lang, then dropped it because i didn't have the time, and after i completed As last year, i started going for lessons again at Alliance Francaise. it's a nice language to learn and i think it sounds really nice:) but my spoken french is terrible, my sis says it doesn't even sound like french... and I've stopped taking french lessons again because it's so expensive!! I'm hoping I can continue to learn it again soon, maybe in uni:)

FIVE. I'm 1.51m TALL! Yeah i tend to get the question quite frequently haha and yes, the years of jumping on a trampoline didn't help in any way. In jc my frisbee teammates and I joked that i'd be the last to get stuck by lightning whenever we train in the heavy rain out in the open field:) In any case, the world still looks great from here and I'm still a happy person:D

yep yep yep, so hopefully you know a little more about me now!:):):)

NEXT UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP..................JOEL!:)