im back with happy news!
once again, managed to get a podium finish in this last boulder comp that completes the league.
woohoo! :)
grinning like this again: :D

it was awesome possum! hahaha.
qualifiers on saturday din start of solid.
taken aback by the sudden incline on wall 2, in which the hardest route was on, and i din finish!! argh.
so i had to be serious and managed to flash the remaining routes. yep.
but all was good as i managed to qualify 3rd for finals.
but with this, i knew theres gonna be more pressure on myself than other comps coz i had to wait long for my turn on the wall.

finals was 4 routes for once.
luckily for the current format, we got to rest.. if not im sure my power endurance sure deplete damn fast. :p hahaha.
hearing people start cheering upon doris onwards for the topping of routes, i knew it was a flash, and yep, send train coming.
told myself that the route is flashable. and so i flash.
up until the last route... muahahaha.
until my turn, ive heard screams from dor and suz, yet no cheers for a finish.
happy me stepped up to this challenge and knew i was gonna be the one to send it! muahaha. (ego. lol)
i love these kinda challenges. eager beaver.

i must admit that having flash the first 3 routes along with 5 other girls, this last route would be THE ONE.
(how come the guys one all so fun? :p)

so i took 3 tries to finish the last route.. inexperienced me took 3.
when imaginary experienced jud would have flashed it.
distractions of the decoy tile. argh.
but still, it was a happy finish. cos i knew it secured me a podium.
woohoo!
and nus is champion! la la la.

today my pastor was telling us about how acheivements are nothing, but its the discoveries in our lives that count.
so today, i discovered that doris gets high on redbull,
i prefer to close my eyes to focus and can get really serious during comps.
but seriously, i discovered that i can actually climb quite well. wow. Amen to that! haha.
and that by trusting God whole heartedly, he answers my many prayers of calmness and strength.

im telling myself that this is probably the last comp i might join.
other than boulderactive next year (if it happens..). haha.
we'll see.

Jesus you're my great adventure, You're my everything

opps. i think its time for some updates. haha.

let see, in no random order other than the order in which i happened to upload the photos:

jups wedding
attending jups & ruix wedding dinner at sentosa cove at ONEdegree15.
it was a pretty cool place with all the yatcht and atas looking interior.
and the hotel rooms did look really fancy and posh.
it was nice to see a bunch of climbers coming together for this happy celebration. :)

real happy for the 2 of them! haha.
ruix looks exceptionally pretty.
but shu got more blown away by the grooms brother. hahaha.
and doris ended up abit cuckoo after awhile.
and we had jam as souveniers!

some of us exco members with the groom.


kite flying
went on a random fly kite date with some of the girls. haha.
quite shiok to just nua in the sun and not do anything.
daffy and siying most busy with untying the knot in yuxin's kite reel though. :p
but we had ham and cheese sandwiches made by doris!
and usual unglam moments of ost.
and im proud of my easy-to-fly big kite! haha.
and it was nice to catch up with siying again esp after she got back from her trip.



ok, this photo was random.
but dor was commenting once about finishing a route and then ending with 2 hands and looking down or up to smile at the camera with a "binbin smile".
so i had to put it up to remind myself to smile like binbin as such:

HAHA


pumpfest
as seen from my shameless exclamation in my previous post about pumpfest, i did win 2nd!
and im very much proud of my first podium finish in the open category. :)
for a few days after that, i felt pretty awesome and felt like telling the whole world. haha.
the routes were very different, not so strength based..
but one thing that really got to me was the distracting cheers for ponti who was climbing along with me during the finals.
man, it made me abit frustrated and hopeless at one point in time.
although i managed to finish all 3 routes, it was a real struggle on that one attempt to get it right and good.
i guess playing various semis and finals in loud cheering rjc/vjc infested enclosed stadiums really trained me for this little moment. haha.
(and of course who can forget the never ending screams from coaches on court)

i hope to see more from myself in the next few comps..
but makes me wonder if im gonna keep competing man.
i guess im still "young" in this sport, so i wont be retiring so soon.
but after playing competitive netball for 10 years, i wonder if i'ld still be climbing after 10 years.
maybe this time it'll be different...
coz no more 2.4km runs every training, early in the morning, struggling to best our previous timings.
now theres even free water breaks, can go buy 100plus or kitkat even.



arvins farewell lunch
met up with some peeps for lunch at the garden slug with arvin.
sort of a farewell before he goes to india. haha.

everyones off on their little adventure.
the SEA gang had a fun time.
the US gang just got back. aww..
but the krabi gang is going off!
ms coasta rica flew off too.
so did mr mexico and porter ng.
wonder when will it be my turn.
even edwin is going to US in august. haha.

i won 2nd!! and $300 cashprize!! woohoo
(although almost 1st lah. lol. must hao lian here, never do this before)

really Praise God indeed. :)
good qualifiers, awesome finals. Thank you!!

i was grinning ear to ear! like this-> :D

alright~ time for some more updates!

right now, its no work for me at the moment.. waiting the time out till august.
at the same time, climbing quite often most of the time. :p
competitions are coming, must cease the moment and climb everyday. lol.

anyways, met up with my dearest nat for lunch today. :)
its been a few months since we last met... (and probably a few years since us both saw jaz too. :p)
had lunch at this nice angel cafe beside spotlight.
(remember we went there for tea once? shu melly rae)
good catch up session! haha.
and brainstorming abt wedding ideas too.

polaroid! and the hugs & kisses trinklet we bought..




ta-dah! had to take this. haha. ;) the woman with the ring. awww.


so well, im taking a break from climbing until this weekend, whereby Pumpfest is gonna be at Milennia Walk and i'll be climbing on saturday morning.
ytd was an intense uncontrollable whacking of gorgeous routes at Onsight Climbing.
haha. the tiles are pretty rough this time, walls smoother.
i like the super open space other there. :)
me and liting was like saying that they shd hold those boulder comps there.
got grandstand and everything. pretty awesome!
just like those overseas comps! :)

photo take from chew! yep. vast open space to watch and fall? haha. there are more walls behind even.



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SEACF circuit update:

took a bus on friday night up to Nilai where we stayed in Allson Hotel.
reached at around 2am. :p me and fel just concussed on the bed. haha.

first day was lead qualifiers first.
din do too badly.. first time i went quite high up in the route. feeling good about it.
alas the indonesians really kicked our ass and owned us like nobodys business.
haha. anyways, it was rules to have 26 semi-finalist.. since there were only 20 girls, we all went thru! hahaha.

semi-finals was abit more inclined, got abit of fright on my first few clips,
but it was smooth throughout until near the second mini roof when i pumped out. :p pfft.
once again, feeling pretty good coz i went quite high up again.
and once again, the indons are really making their mark and topping the routes one after the other.
given some special rule system, maximum of 3 from each country can go into the finals.
so yep, i wasnt in the finals. haha.

oh oh! before my lead semis, was my speed qualifiers (tiring day huh).
it was nerve wrecking just trying not to get my palms too sweaty thinking abt the adrenaline and stuff. :p
the indonesians are really whipping us man.
the wall sequence was very different, less laddering.
so i really din know how to "read" the sequence and imagine my body to follow (having been speeding only at CA).
gan cheong spider sia.
but well.. when the time came, my qualifiers for speed came and went quickly.
everyone tells me i din do too badly. that i got 10th overall (out of 18? :p hmm)
but i dont know.. i did wish i had more trng to learn this technique properly.
anyways, because of the special ruling, the 3 of us (binbin chloe and me) got into the finals.
yep, was pretty psyched at given a second chance. plus feeling happy to about my lead climbs. haha.

second day, had 2 bowls of kokokrunch, toast and 3 samosas for breakfast. woohoo.
PLUS, i had a bottle of vanilla coke. :)

my speed finals was abit draggy.. coz the panel of judges were kinda new? yea.
was up against salfarina who just finished her lead finals climb.
scary. :p
looking back at my videos, she and i were quite tight one the first climb, but my lousy sequence made me lag behind. :p
second climb was tiring and my foot kept slipping. really horrible footwork. yucks.
sadly the 3 of us were knocked out without a doubt. :p

overall, i think this comp was a good experience. :)
glad yixiong was there too, friendly face to have around. aww.
suz and adriel got 3rd for lead and speed respectively.
but most imba would be jay who beat the indons and got 1st!
yeps. shows that singapore still has it in her somewhere.
but maybe only after pushing the standards for 10 years? :p heh.)
now, i have 2 friends who are no.1! haha. (jay & fel)

pretty cool huh.

congrats all!

team singapore


me and lynette during observation for qualifiers


going through the competition together


binbin and me! who lent me her book to read on the bus back from putra to sg, in which i finished reading within that 4 hour journey. and who also had her chinese exam the next day. :p


yay. picture of me on the wall. i hope to post my speed video up somehow. but its embarassingly slow. :p