today was the first time I bought frozen yoghurt! haha. bought it from Tampines One's Frolick and ordered Koko Krunch as the topping. and it's nice :) no wonder Rongjun's addicted to it. lol the 5 dollars he just spam only! I think it's as nice as ice-cream, as in both would make a good dessert/snack. but frozen yoghurt gives you a refreshing feeling during and after eating it. It doesn't make you feel thirsty as compared to ice-cream, especially if the ice-cream flavour is really chocolatey and creamy. but I still feel it's kind of expensive. for 5 dollars I could probably get a bubble tea, one subway cookie and an Aunty Anne's pretzel! lol.

I nearly started a fire in the kitchen today!

here's what happened. I filled the kettle with water then put it on the stove to boil. I told myself that I would go and change the bulb for the toilet in my mum's room first then go do a quick vacuum of my room floor before coming down to turn off the fire again. the bulb didn't take very long, but I ended up vacuuming for quite a while because I ended vacuuming under the beds and behind the bedside table as well. there was also a ball of dust/hair stuck in the vacuum tube so I spent some time getting that out too. After I was done, it was some time later and I totally forgot about the boiling water.

I went to use the computer, then after quite a long time (like really long! at least one and a half hours) I started to smell a faint burning smell(because I was upstairs). I looked around upstairs curiously, having not the slightest memory that I had put the water to boil. Finally I went down to check out the kitchen and WHOA! the kettle was still on the stove, the water was all dried up, the base and some parts of the kettle was brown/burnt, and the lid cover which was made of plastic was half-melted and shrivelled like a raisin. I lifted up the lid and the knob literally just detached itself from the lid because it was kind of molten.

what a careless mistake! but thankfully, nothing else was burnt. It could have been much worse. Imagine what if I smelt the smell of the burning kitchen instead of the burnt kettle. That would have been really bad. thank goodness. :)

time for a new kettle. lol.

wow there were so many people at Climb Asia yesterday! I think its usually like this right after a competition, like everyone's so high on the adrenaline and stuff after watching the open climbers do their stuff that they just wanna go all out to climb. I think I remember Philip telling us this before.. like although you may be very motivated to climb hard right after a comp, it's always important to know the limit of your body and muscles.. no point over-straining them and risking an injury. :)










































there was this heel hook that I did on the green volume on the first route of the Inter Men qualifiers.. when I fell I kind of felt a little tension in my left hamstring coz it was probably too cramped. I did stretch a little, as well as over the next few days, but it still hurts a little. okay if I don't focus on the area and walk normally I don't feel anything, but when I concentrate on stretching that particular muscle then it feels a little pain. Not sure if I should continue to stretch it or just let it heal naturally. doesn't feel like the usual ache that I get from a day of climbing. lol.

things are a little complicated now. I can't really go ahead to look for a 3-month contract job kind of thing because if I leave in june then there won't be enough time. I also can't exactly go ahead and book the accomodation and flight because if I do I'm not sure if there's a refund or administrative fee for cancelling. but then what are the chances. lol. the best would be those short-term kind of jobs. should be enough to supplement my expenses for these few months. :) but most of the jobs are 3-month contracts. that's the tricky part. hmmm.

wow, nice feed at Boulderactive today! 5 routes in total, quite pumpy! what a waste on my first route... nearly could finish it.. touched the last tile but couldn't match and end. I should have "make it count!" like Chicken shouted when I was climbing. I heard ok! :) I always believe that the climber on the wall can hear every little cheer that people shout when they are climbing. Okay he or she may not appear to have any response, but I think can hear one, even if they are focused on the route.

2 bonuses, 5 attempts, no tops. disappointing? maybe. I felt the second and fourth routes was really wasted. 2nd route, I didn't dare to be more dynamic to jump to the two-tile bonus. Instead I tried to hook the starting tile and static up. what a move! then fourth route, after getting the bonus I couldn't reach back to the wall to step back the foothold, so I ended up hanging there for quite a while and wasting strength. dui or not? it's okay, I'll take it as a learning experience. Weicheng did quite well! wasted man he managed to get his third top, which would have qualified him for the finals, only two seconds after the whistle had gone. wasted! better luck at Pumpfest!

poor shuhui, she already qualified for the finals with her excellent performance of 4 out of 5 tops, in 5 attempts, but after finishing the last route, she fell quite badly and had to withdraw. feel kind of sorry for her, she really did well today. it's okay pumpfest will be your moment to shine shu! good luck siying for sunday!

LESSONS LEARNT FROM BOULDERACTIVE:

1. Be more dynamic if the move requires it, especially to compensate for lack of height!
2. It's not always necessary to rush to end the route when you are on the second-last tile. Instead, if you are not pump yet, take your time to think and end properly. It won't rank you any higher than someone who only got the bonus even if you fall at the last tile!
3. Don't hop at the starting tile! wow I don't know how many attempts the route judge counted because I hopped. Not that I'd wanted to! the tile was quite a steamy one.
4. It's time to up the level and start climbing out of our comfort zone. If not we are nowhere near Intermediate standard. A lot of the tiles today were hardly any nice to hold. a lot of them gave me the 'want to fall but yet maybe can stick' kind of feeling. DICEY! yes that is the word. time to start climbing with shitty tiles. haha.

more climbing to watch tomorrow. exciting! PONTI. OH MYYY. :D

WOW it was really packed at the IT Fair! and to think that it's a thursday today. don't people need to work? lol. :) saw many brands of laptops there and I'm currently pretty attracted to 2 models:

1. ASUS A42Jr -which costs $1528
Intel Core i5-430M Processor (2.26GHZ Turbo up to 2.53 GHz)
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 with 1GB dedicated DDR3 VRAM
Built-in WLAN 802.11b/g/n & Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
14.0 " HD (1366 x 768) Colorshine and Crystalshine LCD, 16:9 aspect ratio
4GB DDR3 RAM & 500 GB SATA HDD
DVD SuperMulti Double Layer Drive
Built-in web camera & card reader

2. ASUS N61Jq- which costs $2098
Intel Core i7-720QM processor (1.6GHz Turbo up to 2.8GHz)
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 with 1GB dedicated DDR3 VRAM
Built-in WLAN 802.11b/g/n & Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
16.0 " HD (1366 x 768) Colorshine & Crystalshine LCD with LED Backlit, 16:9 aspect ratio
4GB DDR3 RAM (After free upgrade)
640 GB SATA HDD
Blu-Ray DVD Combo Drive
Built-in 2.0 Mega Pixels web-camera & card reader

by the way, ASUS comes with a two-year international warranty, but you may choose to upgrade to a three-year warranty by paying $99 more. haha. okay basically I don't really understand most of the computer language like GHz and the DDR3 and stuff but I know that the i7 processor is supposedly better than the i5. it also comes with a bigger hard drive and a larger screen. is it worth it? :) considering I already decided not to go to Taiwan and I originally planned to set aside 2k to buy a laptop. should I? it seems like a good buy. Although the $1528 one is cheaper, I felt that I should get a better one so that at least it may last longer, coz I notice most computers gradually slow down over time, or maybe because there's too much photos/files inside? (lol does this affect the computer's speed? I am not sure. haha.) so well, yup. decision making. oh yes by the way the $2098 one comes with a free Fujifilm FinePix A220 12.2 mega-pixel camera. not that I'm really interested in getting the camera though coz I already have one, but yup it's free. so hmmmm...

I came across some display picture of some random guy that is really funny! maths fanatics this is for you. :D

wow Gravical 2010 was great. haha. congratulations to all our winners like gary siying and audrey! and to those that were just that little bit unlucky, we're still proud of you. :D better luck next week! don't despair. haha.

the Open Men's finals, as usual, was just simply breathtaking. that indonesian climber Ponti was just.. what can I say... OH MYYY. lol. me and rongjun become his fans already! haha. his control on the route is just sick. he easily made a controlled move to the bonus tile without any bun-door swing.. something that not many of the climbers managed to achieve tonight. and his second route.. sick! hanging almost horizontal already, on one hand, still got energy to search for the last tile and end! we were speechless. hahaha. the route judge was a little too picky I felt. On ponti's last route, he accidentally crossed over the boundary to the next wall. okay maybe he did touch by accident- which means his leg may have got some help- which is a valid reason to make his come down and re-climb. but in the dying seconds, he wanted to go again for one final attempt but the whistle just nice went.. aiya, the judge should have just let him try, since he spent quite some time telling him about his foul. I'm pretty sure the crowd would have wanted that la. it will be like finishing the comp with a big bang. haha. it's ok i'm pretty sure we'll see him next week in the finals again!

and another beauty about the open climbers is that sometimes all they care about is finishing the route instead of thinking of stuff like 'oh okay i need to go for the bonus first so that in case I fall I'll at least have the bonus', which is what we normal climbers usually will think. I really salute some of them for their bravery, like sometimes daring to try out some alternative style, which either means they will complete the route without getting the bonus at all or it means that they may end up with absolutely nothing on their score for that route if they don't complete the route, like not even the bonus. I think once they climb at their sort of level, all these little details don't matter anymore. you can really feel their passion for the sport. it's that amazing. :)

wow these three days been spending a lot man. subway dinner then pool then cartel lunch the next day then pool again then JustAcia dinner then foodcourt (okay this one still ok lol) lunch the next day then Ajisen dinner! not to mention the amount of drinks that we bought, like bubble tea here and there or bottled drinks from the supermarket or canned drinks from the pool place. haha. SMU should have opened a little drinks stall there or something! sure make money one. lol. the weather was just crazy also. but at least it's better than rain!

this friday. I'll need all the luck I can get! where is eleanor I need her imba luck. hahaha. :D

get psyched...! to climb... at your absolute limit. OOOHH!

lol need graham to act out that one man. Gravical and Boulderactive is here... climbing fever in the air! :) haha.

today i went into a lift then I was standing somewhere near the back. then there was lady in front of me standing near the buttons. then just as the door was closing there was a lady that stood outside but her hands were full. so she was like indicating she wanted to come in but the door was already closing. then the lady in front of the buttons just act blur! like she obviously saw her already but then she just act blur, didn't even try to press. I was like, LOL!? it seemed really funny at the time, although it was quite bad of the lady also to not press the button to open. Have you ever seen such people who act blur when you are trying to enter lifts?? or are we subconsciously one of those people. haha. hmmm.