I had a really good time at Climb On! this year. Managed to complete much more routes than last year! and with less pump too. :) guess the PT trainings have been rather useful! Our team, comprising Boon, Yijie, Darren and me, came in 5th for Open Enduro Team. No prize though, but nonetheless, I felt we did well! Got really psyched near the end when they were about to close the system for the collecting of points. Went around chionging all the crazy routes. lol. Didn't stay for the campus finals though. It sure looked fun from the photos, with neon tiles and paints and all. :)

Went back early the next morning to guide our very own Acrobatics kids on their routes! Alina and Cameron were put under my care. :) Alina was really strong. When I had to leave around 130pm, Alina was 1st in the lead in the Under-12 category with the 2nd placed girl just 300 points behind her. So exciting! Wished I could have stayed to guide her through the comp but I couldn't. :( really proud of them though! just saw the results:

from Acrobatics,
for Under-12 girls: 1st-Alina, 3rd-Anika, 4th- Ava
Team 1st place: Team Acrobabies- comprising Cameron, Leo, Alina and Ava
(their team managed to win with Cameron going off halfway to fly kites with his dad. haha imagine how strong they were! )

felt a sense of satisfaction after their climbs that day. I see a lot of potential for development in these young kids! :)

Been checking up some of the various exchange universities that I can consider applying for. Kind of feel like going for GIP in year 3 sem 1! anyone interested in going to the States? :) that would mean one sem without climbing, without the acrobatics kids, and without my mum's cooking. lol.

the story of two lovebirds

My pet yellow lovebird just died yesterday, without me getting to see it for the last time. :( It had been a good bird. It flew into our house one day, and my dad took it in and we went to buy a cage and another green lovebird as a companion. They were a loving pair, and we kept them for I think almost or slightly more than 2 years already. It was tame too. Every time the green bird tried to bite our fingers when we stuck them into the side of their cage, the yellow bird would lightly peck at its feet to stop it from biting. Last month, on September 24th, the green bird died. We went to buy another white bird to keep the yellow bird company. but it didn't welcome the white bird into its cage very much; it often tried to peck at the white bird and didn't let it go into its house (a wooden shelter in the cage). I guess it felt lonely, pining for its partner every day for the past 23 days. Maybe it wasn't eating well too, we couldn't have known. Perhaps we were a bit mean to it in its final days because it started to get a bit rebellious with a new bird being put into its cage; it sometimes bit us when we tried taking it out to play. We may have neglected it more since the white bird was bought, coz the white bird was more tame and easier to take out to play with. I hope it didn't feel that way.




















Anyway, I'd like to think that it felt lonely pining for its partner and so it decided to go join it in its faraway land. My mum placed it in a tupperware with some sunflower seeds, as a farewell for the bird. What a love story of two lovebirds.

take good care of your pets guys. they have feelings too.

rest in peace, birdie. :)