I found out about two weeks ago or so that Boulderactive is somewhere near the end of March. When I found out I felt two things---one was "yay it's more than a month away still got a long time to train for it so most probably I can join". and two was "oh shoot as if I'm gonna have a lot of time to climb within the next few weeks my climbing fitness would probably have dropped to its lowest ever level." GG. LOL. see la. for now, I can't climb for nuts either! :)

I realised that 80% of the time, I can only fall asleep when I am curled up and facing the left. Whenever I try to sleep and if I am lying curled up facing right I'll feel kind of uneasy and will turn turn turn until I finally sleep and most likely, I'll be facing left when that happens. I always wonder why, and whether it has anything to do with the heart being on the left side or something. ok kind of no link really. But I finally concluded that I feel comfortable sleeping facing left because right beside my bed on the left, is a wall. Whenever I sleep facing the wall I'll feel a huge sense of security and comfort lol. I wonder how many people out there feel the same way.. LOL talk about being random. =)

I really want to climb! Probably no chance to just cycle to school and climb-- firstly the security guard probably won't let me in or say need teacher's permission and secondly to get permission, I probably need to be off on their training day which is either wed, fri or sat. like that how to climb? lol Boulderactive I take pom-pom go there cheer. =D Boulderactive is quite sentimental to me.. I still can recall last year at Boulderactive, Rongjun was behind me. Then I got to watch him do every one of his climbs coz I was right in front of him, and he did them really well, honestly. I really could see him performing much better than during normal training then was quite happy for him coz Philip praised him too. :) After we had completed 3 of our routes there was a really heavy downpour, until the competition had to be put on hold while the organisers dried up the place and pulled in the mats. We were quite lucky actually, had quite a bit of time to rest our aching arms haha. then our shoes got wet too that we had to actually chalk the base of them. I was still using my Pearl Slipper then, one of my favourite designs out of all the climbing shoes. Firstly I like the colour, red and white/beige, and secondly I like the curvature of the shoe and thirdly I like the tip of the shoe where it is pointed so actually only can step with your toe so less chance that your foot will slip off the tile. When I was buying the shoe Philip was there and he told me that if I wanted to buy that shoe I have to learn to step carefully because cannot anyhow kick against the wall---the front will open up very fast. ok well after several months it eventually opened up too but I still love the shoe haha. ok back to Boulderactive. I remember I finished the second, third and last route then thought I had a pretty good chance of making it through the finals but I was wrong haha turned out that the routes were supposedly "easy" that to qualify you needed 4 flashes. haha sad my first route on my first attempt at the second last time I leaned across to my left in a sort of cross-hand with my right hand for the end tile then my left foot slipped and instinctively I just grabbed on to anything I could and I happened to be the TOP OF THE WALL-- OUT OF BOUNDS! so I just had to come down and try again. then on my second attempt I really dunno what I was thinking probably I was too nervous or something I couldn't see one tile on the wall as it sort of camouflaged with the banner though I saw it the first time. so stupid me went to do a sort of throw for the last tile without using that tile, not intentionally of course. lol try to do a dynamic on an overhang. Ok that time we really were damn noob. I learnt my lesson that in a climbing comp you can't really afford to be nervous.

At Rockmaster, I still remember Terence's words of encouragement to me before the comp started. He said, "eh, you today go out there is to own one la." He also told me to treat it like a performance, as if we were there to perform our very best after training so hard for it. During the comp I finished the second route but when I got to the third route I made a silly mistake of keep jumping backwards out for that disk-shaped tile under the roof, then keep falling then still keep doing the same thing and everytime falling the same way lol I must have looked quite like an idiot haha. anyway it was a good learning experience for me. =)

haha ok I don't really have any head or tail with this post just blabbering whatever is in my head lol. I think soon, this blog is going to die hahaha coz when someone enlists, firstly, people will visit less often because they will think "ok he's in camp so he won't get to blog at all" so they'll probably tag less. then it's sort of a cycle actually. lol. when the person comes back from camp and he looks at his tagboard he'll think "ok no one visits this blog nowadays" and so he probably won't bother to post anything new and the cycle repeats itself! haha. me and my wonderful theory lol. =D

see you all real, REAL soon. haha. :)

I'm sick! It started about two days ago. came down with a fever and sore throat (the sore throat wasn't that bad though). I didn't go to work so I took a bus to the polyclinic to see the doctor for the MC. The bus I was in passed by TJC and it kind of brought back a few memories of the times spent in TJ over the last two years. At the TJ stop, a few students boarded the bus. They were talking rather loudly so kind of can hear their conversation quite clearly. I wasn't irritated or anything la, kind of understand also coz I think last time we were even louder. LOL. so one of the girls was like saying, "huh... later got PE leh.. if I pon PE I might as well pon chem, coz after PE is chem." then her friend asked her, "so are you going to pon PE or not?" oh my when I overheard this I was like kind of lost in nostalgia lol. It seemed only a while ago when we were the ones who were saying the same kind of stuff. then I thought of climbing, then school, then the teachers. I think the teachers are really amazing people. students like us go through two years in college and at the end of the two years people get all emotional and stuff coz of all the feelings and the memories. but the teachers, the teachers, they don't allow any of this to affect them whether or not they may have grown emotionally attached to their class. I noticed that they don't really get emotionally very attached to their classes too. maybe it's so they can feel fresh when the new year begins to kick off their new teaching year with a new batch of Year Ones lol. ok that didn't really make much sense after I read it again.

anyway, after the doctor that day, my fever was like on off on off but my sore throat was healing. until last night. My voice suddenly became quite hoarse, can sense that it was going to go soon. maybe I talk too much at work yesterday. today morning, I lost my voice! can't really complete a proper sentence without it cutting itself off like as if someone turned down the volume LOL. and it's very tiring to try and talk too. I had a hell day trying to speak to my colleagues today, but luckily didn't need to serve customers. used quite a bit of hand signs too felt rather helpless. sad. talking has never been more difficult. :(

Oh I recently bought a bike too haha I've always been wanting to buy one since I threw my last one away and especially since night cycling to Punggol Jalan Kayu and all. that night cycling trip kind of like rekindled my passion for cycling, haha even though I think the passion for climbing is still greater. When I bought the bike that time I also bought a bottle of oil to lubricate/demoisturize the joints of the bicycle. the bicycle was supposed to be delivered to my house while the oil I carry home on the spot, which is what I did. When the bike actually came a few days later, guess what. It came with another bottle of oil! haha so lucky. Of course I not so honest as to return him the oil lol. some more is not those WD-40 kind of common oil leh it's those like 5-in-1 type like those multi-purpose one haha. yay. =D

I'm thinking of all the stuff here and there so like kind of broken up lol no real chronological order haha. when I was coming back from the doctor I just thought of buying a 4D number--the doctor's queue number lol. so I walked to the nearest shop then started shading shading when I turned to QUEUE, there was at least 50 plus people in the queue can you believe it. It's funny how people can queue to buy 4D and no one complains. if there is a queue that long at the service centre I think not just people will complain, the phones also will fly. lol. the few days after we came back from New Year was rather horrible the customers in queue for servicing of phones easily went more than 40 I think longest was 58 customers waiting with 1 hour 50 mins waiting time. CRAZY ONE. now it's much better. also, we have more staff! at least got 6 new staff. haha. life is much better nowadays. I really love my job. really. =D

yesterday I cycled out to 85 to get some food. what a small world coz I bumped into Zhaoxiang Sinkiat and Malcolm lol. we ended up exploring the boardgames cafe there. quite fun really, we took up the two hour package. not enough actually! time really flies when you try playing the games. came with some snacks too fries nuggets chips etc all I couldn't eat lol. never mind next time I eat more hahaha. We played a game called Ticket to Ride and another gangster game which I forgot the name. lol. can't wait to go there again if can find the time. :)

And here is the burning question we've all been wondering--- WHEN WILL THE A LEVEL RESULTS BE OUT??? I haven't really sat down and think really hard about what I want to do coz I'm really afraid I can't qualify. all along in class tests and all I know where I stand in class at least and sometimes it's quite worrying when everyone else easily does better than you. lol anw, we'll find out really soon won't we? good luck everyone! =)

there was a day when a lady walked in and she looked so much like a guy that I started with "good afternoon sir, how may I help you?" and after asking for his/her I/C then I realised He was actually a SHE and omg I was so embarrassed haha she must have felt quite insulted also. oops. LOL.

that day Bel told me Fiona Xie went to the Nokia service centre at Wheelock to get her phone serviced. I was like "wa why she never come Suntec!?" lol. I can't imagine someone like her actually bothering to get her phone serviced instead of just getting a new one. and it's not like she brought a premium model in so she had to queue like the rest of them as well. haha so if celebrities can save their money like that, so can we! =D

I'm slowly gaining more and more confidence in typing without looking at the keyboard!! there's a great sense of achievement for me I guess. haha. I know most of you may be going like 'cheyy I sec 1 learn how to type without looking already' lol but all along I have been typing and looking at the keyboard. Only after I took up this job then everyday type type type that after some time I just somehow got used to the positions of all the keys haha and also judge how far my fingers should move etc to get the next letter lol. I must be sounding so noob here..!

there was a day when I was off where I went to dinner with my uncle at 85 market. Quite shiok actually had stingray laa-laa etc. haven't eaten such food in such a long time. As we were making our way out of the market, there was a girl standing in front of a group of people I think they look like J1s or J2s probably from MJ. the girl was like holding a camera and aiming at them getting ready to take while the rest of them are posing for the camera. Me, trying to be helpful, went beside her and asked, "Erm excuse me you want me to help you all take the picture?" At the same time, she just finished taking the photo and suddenly the whole group of them starting saying 'thank you!' 'thank you!' to her. At first I thought they saying 'thank you' to me because I help the girl take then she can go into the photo as well but then turn out they were all saying thanks to that girl for helping them take. ONLY THEN I REALISED SHE'S NOT PART OF THE GROUP AND HOW STUPID I MUST HAVE LOOKED. lol. I don't even remember what happened after that I just left as fast as I could hahaha. what a joke!

I realise how unfit I am! lol just now I saw my dad go out for a short run and I realised how long I haven't ran so I just went for a short run around the neighbourhood as well and halfway I realised how much stamina I have lost. Nearer the end I started sprinting a bit and when I reached home I started wheezing like having some asthma attack like that omg! also been so long since I last climbed! one day one day my off day lands on wednesday or friday I will try to go haha chicken you must go with me hor. To chicken: I also dunno when you off lehh chicken you wednesdays and fridays not working one mehh haha how come you say we can go climb lol.

anyway this is quite a rushed post my sis is chasing me out she needs to sleep so GTG!

new year is coming! yayyyyyy. =D