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just got back from my 3rd krabi trip! :)
im thinking i gotta pen down some thoughts before i forget. heh.
hmm.. how shd i go about this, retrospective or prospective day-by-day?
haha.

BUT FIRST OF ALL:
on day 1 of krabi, i received news that my posting has been out.
so i searched for free wifi, made a few smses and paid for expensive internet to find out where (with much anticipation) i would be posted too.
received an email from MOE that i got psoted to VJC!
rejoice!! :)
from the comments and likes on my fb status, i guess this is a good thing afterall!
Praise God!

back to updates on the krabi trip.....

first time going on a non-NUS climbing trip. almost couldnt have my macs breakfast before i checked in. haha. tsktsk.
set down on tonsai sand on day 1, feeling a smile creep up on my face when i imagine seeing saleebanoon again. haha.
managed to persuade the gang to stay in the great big aircon place thats walking distance to freedom bar. :)
din get to climb on the first day although i was itching to climb. haha.
but lynnette and i went swimming instead. the weather was good and sunny. :)

this trip, i think i climbed mainly around Dum's Kitchen and Tyrolean Wall. haha.
my kinda styled routes. till now, ive yet to send anything on Tonsai Roof. heh. :p
(come on jud, gotta break out of that comfort zone)

i redpointed lars&lars on my first climbing day. made me really happy especially putting up the clips on the way up. haha. woohoo. :) on of my fav routes. heh.
beginning to start on some 7bs then, soft ones first. i would say its a big step from my last trip when i only aimed at 7as.
i guess this time, i feel stronger and ready to push myself more.
slowly i tried more and more hard stuff. i think i like doing the hard climbs now. haha
with the clips up and seeing the guys try it, i took a turn at Wake & Bake at Dum's Kitchen, some bridgey kinda route.
real scary with the smearing and all, giving myself more hip problems as if i just ran 42km again. haha.
the next few climbs were at Tyrolean, with bad weather getting on my nerves. :p

with much pride and happiness and saying this with a smile, i sent K1 and Tyrolean Air.
woohoo!
these 2 routes are what ive pulled out retrospectively from my unevenly consolidated memory of the guys doing on the last trip.
din think much of projecting it, but decided to give it a try.
even daring to a point of putting up the clips on my own! (a first! heh.)
alas the first few moves of K1 were too daunting without beta.
thankfully marcus was there to put up the clips for me before the rain came down upon us and we had to scoot off miserably to Tonsai Roof.
the next day, gloomy me went for breakfast harping on my wet runners and lousy weather.
luckily those msians had a stronger will than i and they went off after breakfast in the slight drizzle, tempting me to dawn my harness and trek through the wet sand over to Tyrolean.
no regrets really. :) for the black mamba came along with nic, eager and full of psyche, to work on the problem with me.
for sure i was all smiles the moment i clipped in the last runner on K1.
it felt awesome! haha. and great deal of accomplishment. heh.

tyrolean air was the first route Master lwee and winfred did on their day 1 of krabi.
haha.
after watching their beta, decided to give it a try the next day.
warmed up on No Have, 7b+ before giving a go on that route, i was pretty exhausted mentally..
especially after pushing myself to climb the traverse and risk a dangerous fall.
No Have had a little roof thingy like tidal wave. urgh.
when it was my turn on tyrolean air, i hang-dogged like crazy, to find that despite the similar grade to k1, this route really IS harder in more ways than one.
(speaking of hang-dogging, i realise on this trip how i HATE to hang-dog. although sometimes its really inevitable, it gets on my nerves and makes me even more irritated. haha. i would just shake out and keeping pushing on, making myself climb through the pump. although at times, i guess im too tired to go beyond the clip above me and the whole cycle continues.)
anyways, it seems my beta for T.A is different from the guys, having smaller fingers to stuff them into pocket underclings. haha. same went for Baby Gorilla.
on my last day at tonsai, with a whoop of delight: "send liao!" before i even clip in my second last runner, i sent Tyrolean Air! haha.
LOL. it was smth i had to do lah.. we were talking abt it the other day. very winfred kinda style by saying this.

a pity i didnt have time to do ASP, i dont like to leave things unfinished.
but this time, it gives me more reason to go back to krabi with a project in mind. ;)
and of course, try to put up clips on my own too. haha.

climbing aside, spending some time with a new bunch of ppl is quite cool i guess.
haha.
apart from hazlee who keeps disturbing us girls, and the endless second-hand smoke (more than ive ever inhaled in my past 22 years), i guess all went well. haha.
everynight, eat dinner at the back alley, drink thai iced tea w/o milk.
watch movies until late at night or even play pool at freedom bar.
lynnette and me cooked our own dinner on the last night. haha.
quite fun. and we made more friends there....
new baby girl addition of nongda from the minimart, who always quarrels with salee. haha.
played vball once this time only. :p the tide was unfavourable this season. haha.
despite the wet days, i think we managed to get abit of tanning done. haha.

during the time i was in krabi, i missed the singapore SEACF circuit that went on during the weekend.
im happy to know that the singapore team managed to pull out more names to ssc.
like, liting got 2nd! and janice got 1st for her speed. yea. damn cool!
yet at the same time, makes me sigh on the oppurtunity that ive missed. :p
dont know when another will come by again.
but then again, if i didnt go for this krabi trip, i may not have done those awesome routes. :)
makes me love leading more than ever.
with regards to all this national hooha, i guess im moving on to the next phase of my life anyways: working. haha. :p
dun know how much longer i can hold on to this either.
someone once said on facebook: "Don’t exchange what you want the most for what you want at the moment".
in this case, it seems like i somehow did exchange what i wanted more (nationals) for what i wanted at the moment (krabi).
but was it worth it? i feel sort of alright with it at the moment. haha. what do u think?

rule #32: Enjoy the little things