Update 1

Took some pictures of the gym being stripped of tiles yesterday, but laptop hanged and they flew away with the wind. Gym's totally bare now, less for some wooden blocks and screw-in crimps.

After a 2hour climb with Jen, Ed, PY, we headed back to sch to start moved ,the mattresses, tables, chairs and people. Managed to finish it by 6pm. Think they should be moving the SP mattress by now. Both day's stuff were done quite quickly as we had enough people and Kesheng was his usual self, thus hastening the speed and efficiency.

The lorry this year is better than the last. Dun think it'll break down. But it has a faulty speedometer, an out-of-date handbrake, and lousy engine. The aircon is acceptable, but the engine noise just drown out the radio. Wonder who will do an Initial L this time round. We have a couple of good careful and safe drivers around - Ed, YJ, etc.

Wall's painted in a nice red and brown color (pictures soon to be here). But the wall's this year is large, or feels large and intimidating, at least to me. Hope my guts wouldn't shrink when i get to it. The spot's the same as last year's, which is good for transportation of logistic stuff.

Thanks to Cherlyn and Claudia and whoever's there who's stayin overnight to look after the precious walls and tiles. Novice routesetting had been brought forward to tonight as the wall's completed earlier than expected. This year's work seems to move smoothly, hope the smooth-ness continues all the way!

One More Week!!!

Good luck people. Show all you have and most importantly, enjoy the event.

Suddenly

Suddenly!

I got this great spasm *shake shake shake shake* and I have the urge to warn everyone that Jiasheng is a nipple pincher!

When I innocently and cutely and unassumingly walk into the tsunami area with my orange flavored ribena (does the ribena jump now hooo~~~), Jiasheng came and pinch my nipple! It was no ordinary pinch, he grabbed it and twisted it argh. As you all know, nipples have lotsa nerves in it, so the pain is so painful.

Remember those times when you are bouldering, you reach for a tile, and your neh-neh scrubs against a tile? Super painful right? The friction treatens to tear off your sanity. Same lah.

All those guys..beware! People with great chests and always going about naked will only further tempt that neh-neh twister (hoo~~~) to act on thee..Edwin, Yixiang, Liuli, Caleb, Kesheng, Rong Hui, Peng Yang, Jensen, You Jie, Ning Feng, John, Matthew, Charles; please do guard yourself.

Jiasheng, I dare you to pinch the most elusive nehneh in NUS climb team..the Jups neh! Muahaha.

Haha.

B(ie)active and Work

Boulderactive is just round the corner. (exactly 9 more days) And I'm bloody excited for so many reasons: its my 1st open comp; you get to see so many gd climbers attempting so many gd routes at one time; you get to see pretty gals who can climb well; you see huge crowds comin over to wonder wat the heck you're doing on four walls; you get to see helpers scurrying like little cute mice to chalk/scrub the tiles; your mouth gets sore after blowing the whistle for the 101th time, you feel so gd when the event ends and everyone gathers for photos......

The committee's confirm havin a hard time organising it. Its the case every year, no matter how zai the comm is, cos b-active is such a chore to organize. So if possible, the team members should try to give your utmost support physically. (Dat's wat the past few wks of PT is for -- to carry mattresses like how KS does.)

Drink loads of H2O, stay safe, injury-free. And remember to finish all your essays, assignments, studyin for test before B-active, cos after it, you'll be stoning for a week, before you recover from all the post boulderactive withdrawal symptoms!

throbbing

I am getting this wierd throbbing in my left upperarm. It's not painful at all but it' like when I am idle and sitting down doing nothing, I can see my muscles twitching uncontrollably. It almost feels like a seperate heartbeat.

Has anyone experienced this before? Anyone knows what it is? I am a bit freaked out. It is happening quite often

Motivation

Let me make you palms and fingers sweat a bit.Chris Sharma on the Arch Es Pontas, his deep-water solo arch project in Mallorca
Edu Marin on La Rambla 9a+
Sharma on La Rambla
Sharma on Forbidden Fruit, featured in Dosage 3 "The Ozarks"

Sharma on dunnowhatchacallit

MOUSE WET ALREADY?

in the gym....

hello HAC, BRAIN and not forgetting our favourite potato.

i am in the gym surfing the TSUNAMI with "jenjeng" right now. and we are quite bored.. or rather i am quite bored.

i noticed something in common among the three of you guys... you guys are slopey... and alittle loaded with chalk... I have been friendly to you guys... so be friendly to me during boulder ok? =)

oh... i almost forgot about mr crimp. are you going to be present for boulderactive? i certainly hope you do! cos BRAIN has been quite hostile to me these few months during training!

ok. r we going to hang small chilli padi around the competition area this time round? and who's our DJ? DJ KIAT or DJ Kelly ClARKKKKson?

the gym is actually quite conducive for sleeping. ok. tts all... bye...

oh.. JenJeng says hello.... bye...

boulder is coming!

Hello all, my first entry to this blog in 2007 hehe... i hope everyone is looking forward to "BOULDERACTIVE" like i always do. I won't be joining this year but still, will play a part by being a helper & cheer team for you guys. (*if my shoulder can recover, i will be a route setter too keke....)

Competitions, i'm always looking forward to it. I enjoy the 3 or 4 minutes that i have, to plan & complete my route if possible. For that 4 minutes, that wall is only mine.. hehe.... Too stress, too much expectations, sometimes too slack can led to under performance.

While it's a competition, treat it like a normal climb. What's your own standard you should know very well, don't get too stress that will cause you to fumble at your route. And don't be too slack! haha...coz still, it's afterall a competition. What's more, it's boulderactive - proudly organised by NUS.

I have confidence in all of you to win as much glory as we did last year & the many years before. Most important, enjoy the event, enjoy your climbs. enjoy just hanging around PS... enjoy shifting the heavy mattress that we have in the gym.. JUST enjoy BOULDERACTIVE!... =)

For non-nus climbing team blog visitors. Presenting the team of 06/07!

Unfortunately Van and Kum couldnt join us for the photo (sorrie dude, couldnt photoshop in). Our dear team ladies are featured next (note the worrying number wearing FBT).

Next up the "hansom" men of Team NUS Climbing.

And... the finale... the "spirits" that haunt our gym... gotta ward them off... maybe they are the cause of the injury spats...

hey friendly friends. happy saturday. look!
cuteness. (i want one.)

It pays to drive safely

Since blog's dead, I shall just recount about my happening Friday. After testing out my software for my project, I headed over to Vivo to meet person B and coy. Spent a grand total of $7 cab fare and 10mins in Vivo. We then headed for supper. On the way home, on ecp, we met with an accident.

This is what happens a pile up occurs.



This is not person B's car. (Her driving confirm way better, if not, i'll be long dead) This was the fourth car in the collision. A Mercedes C200 Kompressor. Sianzzz. Wonder how high his premiums will go. The lucky thing is that no one was seriously injured, except some bumps on the head. So drive carefully ppl, esp at night, and the boulderactive lorry drivers!

Here's my all-time favourite artist. I think this is his best MTV ever. Totally love it.

Pig + Dice = Pice

(About the size of a optical mouse)

Selling this ornamental cute little pig at $5, negotiable. Interested parties, pls contact me at wsczx83@yahoo.com.sg





Thanks!

tradition?

Because we have taken so much from the NUS Gym, and what we take we must return, here's Eli and mine(early) graduation gift!

Arriving in July when i get back..haha

Hoping to see more cheap tiles in Font.

random

everyone is getting stronger. i can see marked improvement on nearly everyone, except maybe the sick and the injured. so inspiring. it must be the power of Boulderactive. Defend the turf, team!

and lately, the climbing videos are leaving everyone in awe. fingernail crimps, mad slopers and soaring dynos. jiasheng says "be realistic, don't just watch, must climb at your level". i think emulating some of the interesting moves is a good method to expose yourself to different climbing skills. from there, maybe you can discover what your body is capable and incapable of. but of course, be realistic...fingernail crimps? wtf.

gong xi fa cai everyone. fa cai, not fa fu2(grow fat).

Some Geeky Chill Out

While everybody is blogging about training and climbing harder, your favorite slacker is here to provide some geeky comic relief:

 
hello all! here are two photos of my brother tt i finally got from him. yup hes doing fine and having fun, and i asked him to set up a photo blog or blog here but he says hes been too busy(read:lazy). my mum says his looks fatter lol.anw the place looks so pretty i love the semi snow covered trees..i'm jealous.... 

It's been a long time :)

Hurlo,

Haha...it's been ages since i last visited this blog n as usual there were many interesting blogs n comments especially from our PENANG climber :) Lols...penang sure ROX man!!! Anyway comp is comin! Yeah...n cheers...but do keep urself safe n dun get urself into any shit...Erm, i mean injuries... Like the o'man always say, "Prevention is better than cure".

Before signing off, there's 1 thing to note...everyone is getting STRONGER!!! so so STRONG!!! i need to be STRONGER too!!! Man, it's really inspiring to watch everyone climbing so hard all of the time...so must really get myself into the mood n plz motivate me if u see me slacking in one corner...

~CHEERIOS~

flash-pump.
i experienced the worst of it during yesterday's training. an over-zealous warmup can actually lead to this climber's enemy. so people, warmup is warmup, not burnup. don't have to warmup till you're all hot and bothered, then jump onto the wall. you'll just end up falling like flies. like me.
and come to think of it, from yesterday's session, the conditioning and physical training has helped a lot in my bouldering. i feel stronger, and doing crimps more open-handed-ly. maybe it's the 2-week abstinence from bad crimps which led to the finger joints being less painful. so i cannot emphasise more, all you people out there with existing injuries, don't whack like a madman. control your urges. we rest so that we can travel a longer distance (direct translation from "xiu1 xi2 shi4 wei4 le4 zhou3 gen4 chang2 de4 lu1").
more routes more routes.
less injuries less injuries.

anyway apart from training more endurance and power-endurance, what other ways are there to reduce chances of flash-pump (apart from a good warmup)?

Wa Lau Eh! Support Sing or Thai?

Of Balls and Heads

Mondays come and go. Usually i'm totally tired after training. But today was different due to Dosage Vol. 1 (courtesy of PengYang). Other Vols are comin along, jus pray that these won't give me sleepless nights.
The vidz came at a right time, when i feel numbing pain in my fingers and laziness in my mind. Its inspiring though i have watched part of it before.
Today's training was ok (with surprise guest trainee), but can sense a little weariness in the team and coach too. Hope i'm wrong. Its definitely boring to see people training week after week, I rather climb (personal opinion). But I can also sense a build-up of urgency as comp season approaches.
Reached the gym to see Mr. Subway already tough on the wall. Really impressed with how some of the guys are doing - John is strong, Liu Li is setting some insane yet creative routes, Edwin's flashing most of the routes, PengYang tryin to whack the routes and Caleb settin his conditional route out of nowhere. Thanks ppl. Think Mr Subway also tryin his best, so i feel we should't keep harping on him. So is everyone. C'mon.....