First training after Batu....
yesterday had the first climbing training after batu caves trip.. it started early and ended early, which was a very rare thing.. hope it does continue to happen..haha.. anyway.. the training started off with keeping of equipment.. were drying the harnesses and ropes in stores.. couldnt have them dried during the washing day.. for the keeping... BIG THANKS TO TERRENCE with his help of keeping of the ropes! also.. BIG THANKS TO THE GIRLS AND GUYS WHO HELPED WITH THE KEEEPING OF HARNESSES! oh ya.. one more thing to add.. to darren(if you are reading this): please go and polish up your harness-keeping skills! you are still the QM..
anyway.. let's start with the training part.. started off not bad.. doing some bouldering.. felt that my skills did improve ba after the trip.. can do the blue route at the roof quite comfortably le.. havent really tried out the rest yet though..
then the system training starts...omg.. that was quite a nightmare for me.. finished the first set.. think i strained my right biceps le.. wah sian diao la.. my physical strength and fitness need a lot more work la.. the other set was with weights.. not that good..hai..
then it came to the hanging part.. not that bad i suppose, even with weights.. cos not really using my biceps but rather the forearms to hang for 10 seconds.. so that was fine..
last but not least.. our MODERATE PT..haha..3 sets of pushups, leg lifts and superman.. quite xiong sia..haha.. then during cool down.. i felt horrible.. felt like vomitting and giddy.. then it occured to me that my fitness needs a lot a lot a lot more work!!! hai.. got better after cool down, but still my biceps hurts like hell.. but with bel's advice of massaging it.. it got a lot better today after a good night's sleep... hope it will recover fast enough for fri's boulder circuit.. want to do well in it! haha...
oh one last thing! i managed to finish my first chinese martial arts novel entitled 'Lian2 Cheng2 Jue2'.. haha.. quite happy and the story not bad too..haha.. that's about it.. =)
waiting for you to come back @ 10:54 AM
Batu Caves Once again...
yay! finally back in s'pore after spending one week at KL..quite cool.. cos we get to climb at natural rocks for 3 days and got to live in a service apartment which is very comfy.. got bath tub, air con.. 2 tv.. nice toilet.. very nice accomodaton... haha..
hmm.. shall give a brief description on what we did there ba..supposed to climb at batu caves for 4 days de.. then ended up only 3.. on monday, the night before had a storm.. ended up on monday morning.. damai's walls were totally wet.. cant climb them.. ended up we proceeded to camp 5, a climbing centre in KL.. very huge place.. cool routes and cool boulder walls..overall at natural rocks.. din manage to redpoint any of my projects though... but i felt that my mental strength and confidence have definitely improved after managing to finish the last move for 'Because I got high'.. that was very inspiring and confidence boosting..which was something much more valuable than redpointing any route.. as for at camp 5.. only managed to flash 1 6a+ route.. got 2 6a+ route and 6b.. almost.. a bit sad though... but nevertheless.. overall.. i felt that i did improve ba.. haha.. then there's a secret buddy thing.. and i picked weicheng... din bother to hide it as a secret.. kinda hard too..since we all live in the same room.. then Bel picked me.. he got me a handphone accessory soft toy pig.. quite interesting ba.. and i got weicheng a figurine.. haha...
last but not least.. we had an evaluation session with the teachers and coaches ba.. it's conducted in groups of 3.. my group is me, jingwen and ernest.. din realise that we all in the exco until we entered room.. my evaluation isnt that bad ba.. for climbing... main problem is that my negative thinking.. my biggest mental barrier that is preventing me from doing what i can.. anyway.. there is still much more i can do to improve my physical strength..
then as a person.. quite ok ba.. nothing surprising come out from it.. got good points like responsible, helpful, serious etc.. but accompanied by seriousness is inflexible.. like not a fun person cos i keep talking to them about equipment stuff only.. then mr lim say maybe can learn a bit from Bel when i communicate with the rest of the group.. should be easy from now on.. since he's going to be in my class next year... dunno what's going to happen la.. haha...
what was surprising from the session is the evaluation from Mr Tan.. for the first time he actually praised me.. it was quite surprising but it felt good.. cos like for the first time i felt that my efforts are recognised.. as a leader and a QM for the club... kinda needed that cos of my negative thinking trait.. he said that i'm doing a good job as a Qm.. the standard is above his expectations, which was really uplifiting for me.. seriously i din know he felt that way.. always thought i was doing a pretty bad job compared to the seniors.. then he also mentioned about me having distinct leadership qualities and being serious, giving clear and pointed instructions that the club members will listen to.. that was really what i needed to carry on ba.. maybe i just needed recognition from others.. dont really get that much often.. haha..
one more thing was that he mentioned the reason why he doesnt really joke with me a lot cos his personality is very similar with me.. negative thinking and quite serious.. then he also said that being pessimistic can be conquered.. it's up to oneself to conquer it.. he conquered it and he wants me to conquer it ba..that's about it ba... really hope i can conquer it and be a good climber..
waiting for you to come back @ 10:06 PM
Low.. Sian... Whatever you call it la...
today is a horrible day.. started off bad, again.. lecture from teachers again.. dunno why.. this second lecture.. seriously i feel that all the screw up are really our faults... kinda pity the teachers now.. cos like they have to deal with all this crap..
then after lecture.. training begins.. first day with my new pair of shoes.. pain sia... for some reason.. couldnt finish the boulder traverse in one shot..that was the start of everything bad.. for some reason, again.. which i dunno why la.. couldnt exert strength.. arms just cant seem to listen... no pain.. just cant use strength.. ended up i was struggling even with simple moves.. only achievement today was that i finally managed to finish a blue route, which was the one at the roof.. but couldnt feel any happiness or whatsoever.. suddenly i felt all sucky.. felt damn low and damn disappointed.. felt like i'm not even suited to be a climber. ok. i've improved.. but the improvement is so darn slow.. i felt like i dont even belong to the club now.. then the words of Mr T echoed,"If you dont want to stay in the club, dont!' then the thought of quitting the club din just crossed my mind this time.. kinda stayed for quite long..
then it gotta screwed up again.. hai.. we went for a 5km run.. and apparently the store isnt locked..weicheng was the last one using the store.. so i told him to switch off the light and lock the store behind him.. it was my mistake that i din check again when we went for the run.. no point blaming anyone.. it happened, it screwed up.. my fault.. i really dunno la.. is it my fault? i'm really trying my best to be a good quarter master.. but it feels like it's never gonna be enough.. haha.. with screwing up my duties and as a climber.. really damn sian le.. suddenly it occured to me whether will it make a difference if i were to leave the club.. haha.. the club will only lose a serious person who doesnt really hang out with the rest of the club.. a person who will open the store and close it .. check for equipment.. that's all ba.. i think someone can replace me and do a better job.. haha.. i even thought of a person whom i think can succeed this job much better than me le.. we will see if that will come into use some day..
sometimes i just had enough.. dunno whether is my stress endurance or whatsoever la.. i'm a person who can lead and follow.. but sometimes leading seems to be a hard job to do.. especially when the people dont cooperate well and i dunno how to make them cooperate.. well.. quoted from Mr Tan, "That is leadership'.. oh well.. if that's the case.. maybe i'm just not meant to lead then.. sigh...
waiting for you to come back @ 9:46 PM
hectic day...
yesterday was one hell of a day.. started off the day early... and BAD! reached school at 8am.. was having a expedition meeting with the teachers... horrible meeting la.. apparently Mr T wasnt very happy with us.. was scolding si ying and xiangwei for the things they did.. i mean seriously wasnt really their fault... they are new to such organising of things.. of course they would make mistakes de ma.. he asked for specific details.. the si ying got him details... he said wasnt necessary.. come on.. how we know is too much or too little at times? you need to at least tell us right... hai.. forget about the meeting la... conclusion was that we cancelled the trek due to several reasons la..
then came a talk by Mr T to the whole club.. apparently he was still unhappy.. PMS har? i also dunno la.. maybe he got too fed up with us le la.. bad things always come in several waves at one time... first was the expedition.. then was a parent who kept calling the school.. whoever's parent was that sure got us into quite a lot of lecturing.. then was our attitude problem again.. personally i wasnt that used to such lecturing ba.. so this lecture came and felt damn sian.. luckily philip talked to us after that.. that one was much better la... he managed to bring us back and feel motivated for training again.. haha...
forget about all the demotivating stuff la..yesterday was quite hectic.. first time i had programmes stacked one after the other for the entire day la.. right after training.. i rushed my lunch and headed for chun kai's house for PW... haha.. quite slack.. it was the last meeting before the actual rehearsal.. ended up i was playing PS2 with chun kai.. oops.. haiya.. i think my group is ready to go le.. they are very prepared le.. so no worries.. only thing that bothers me will be the Q and A session... but cant do much.. we drafted out possible questions and answers.. hope it helps ba..
oh ya.. right after PW meeting... i rushed home to bathe.. was meeting my 'family'..so need to bathe.. was still wearing the climb on t-shirt for training.. hell no am i going to meet them in that..haha.. very happy to meet them... been so long since we met la.. cos the family was split up to MJ and TJ.. very hard to meet up.. then yesterday we met for dinner! went to esplanade there and had Thai express.. first time eating there.. had the green curry.. quite cool... first taste.. sweet and spicy.. quite nice.. then after a few more tastes.. wah.. started to get real spicy.. drank 4 glasses of plain water straight.. felt very bloated! dunno was the rice or the water who caused it though..haha..
after dinner.. was walking around and looking at the seaview.. then walked on and then a guy approached us to ask if we wanted a boat ride.. well.. never been on a boat ride in singapore.. should be nice.. then was supposed to be $5 pax.. but then we bargained and got $3.75 pax.. haha.. but suay nai niang couldnt join us cos he needed to reach home by 10.. hai.. oh well.. maybe next time ba.. then we sent him to the station.. din manage to go to the station with him cos we were running late for the boat ride.. haha.. so sorry sia..
when we returned for the boat ride.. guess who we met... MR MARK CHAN! oh my god.. totally unexpected.. thought we saw the wrong person.. he slimed down le.. looked very fit sia.. dunno if it is more work out for him or too much stress as a VP that made him slim down.. quite cool to see him la.. haha
for the boat ride... was ok ba... but sadly we couldnt fool around la.. cos got someone else on the boat.. tourists lor.. a family.. then sadly.. din make much noise or fool around.. but overall was quite good for me.. taking pics with my phone throughout the ride.. enjoying the breeze.. haha...
after the ride.. went home le lor...was getting late and i promised my mom to reach home by 10 plus.. ended up i reached home at 11..sharp i think.. dunno la.. cos my mom was supposed to help me dye my hair! yay! finally got my black hair le.. so christine.. happy ma? finally you are having a white-hair-free leader for OP tomorrow.. haha.. that's about it ba..
oh ya.. this morning.. went to climb asia to get my second pair of climbing shoes.. hai.. heart ache sia.. 100 bucks gone.. just like that.. but got a PEARL Slipper... much smaller and tighter than my current one though.. haha.. hope can climb better with this pair ba.. =)
waiting for you to come back @ 6:12 PM