Saturday, August 31, 2013

National Service - Confinement for 3 Weeks

After so many years of fighting to get my ass from into Singapore Poly.... Which actually supposedly i should have done my NS 3 years ago if i fuck up my education in the ITE.... But i did well and entered SP and deferred for 3 years till today... Im serving the NS finally...

Not that im excited or would want to served the NS like those patriotic Sg-poreans who really wanna be a leader or a chiong-swan bing... But like seriously, architecture life in the office could be really tough sometimes i seriously would rather get lesser sleep and work in a archi office then doing all this in the army. Speaking of which, the PT (Physical Training) everything there was kinda tough to me... Not sure whether im 22yo this year but maybe some part of my body is like breaking down you can really feel that your body is really to get old slowly... Not being the oldest in the Platoon or Section or Coy, but most of the people inside are around the same age as me... And one thing i learned in the army, age doesnt give a shit in there... Everyone is the same and all they care about is teamwork and communication and of cause respect... And i though i will be one of the oldest dude in the coy....

Inside this 3 weeks, the Sergeants and Lieutenants keep saying we are the "ENHANCE/LEADERSHIP" batch... Because most of us have passed our NAPFA test and Diploma holders and we landed up in this batch... Most of the time we keep getting scolded because most of the people acting very "hack-care" attitude to the army or the Sergeants.... And they keep say "You call yourself the enhance/leadership batch?"... No wait seriously since when we call ourselves that...
Since day 1, we dont even know where we being posted or the flying fuck idea we are going to inside Tekong and they named us the enhance/leadership batch ?! And they scold us saying we call ourselves that, no wait seriously recap abit and think... DO WE HAVE A CHOICE ? DID WE NAMED OURSELVES THAT OR THEM ? OR I SIGN UP FOR THIS ?

None of the above... Moving on....

Its kinda cool also cause in Poly u really make lots of friends and ended up... Im the same coy & Platoon as my long time climbing friends since we joined climbing together and climb tgt and ended up having the same interest in cycling and highwall climbing... As well as a Poly classmate which is also in the same Platoon as me... And unfortunately... a irritating friend is in the same coy of my... but thankfully not the same platoon as us but same coy and another friend who i get to know in the poly when going for the USA SF/LA Stanford University trip... which he is in another platoon.... So far in the same coy there is like 4 people i know which is kinda a good thing for me....

Right now, the important thing is finding friend staying nearby u so that u can ask him out for dinner or supper or whatsoever in the future... Not that i wanna ask him out for company or like take cab back together to share the cab bill or whatsoever... But like seriously, another friend is a better thing to have...

I must say that 3 weeks confinement is really a tough one to endure inside there... You mind if fucking with you most of the time, getting home sick, miss you love ones and friends, tiring and shag training over and over again none stop or nv ending shit keep going on. This 3 weeks confinement really can break you some point of time i just wanna cry for no reason not saying that im a pussy but like really thats how much u miss the people out there just across the sea... Cutting off social network connection for a period of time due to the conservative of battery usage inside the camp... And of cause the thing that break you down the most is seeing one of ur section mate getting injure really bad and ended up in the hospital this make u really scare and bring down ur performances in the training and not doing ur best knowing that one of their training will fuck ur body up some day or anytime....

This is the few pointers i feel that will break you down...

Beside mentally breaking down... Lots of routines to do, wake up do ur bed make ur bed sheet wash our own clothing and rushing for the toilet to bath and being a speed food eater... having one a few minutes to queue for ur food and sit down and eat it in like maybe only 15 to 10 minutes and faster fall in to march off back to coy building and do more exercise... You sure do need to do every single thing here very fast... No time must be wasted...


Some might fine my writing here is really fuck up but trust me... Once u get the hang of it... It aint really bad... Maybe not for the punishment of cause... haha... There is still lots of fuck tup people out there still being a faggot something... Haha...
Now 3 weeks down 6 more weeks to go... Pretty fast and cant wait to finish already... Till next time...



Monday, August 05, 2013

Unexpected Victory at NUS The North Face Boulderactive 2013

During the qualifying rounds was already shocking enough i could enter the Finals.... I was like how on earth i could enter the finals...

From this moment on there will be alot of climbers language that there layman will not understand. But i will try my best to make layman be able to understand as well or i will explain it along the way...

I could only say i was very lucky due to the fact that the routes of the competition is within my style and the rest of the route is hard enough i couldnt do and the rest of the 50+/- other climbers cant do as well. Ending up they have to compare the number of attempts to finish the only 2 routes everyone able to finish. What makes me in the 7th place for the qualifying rounds.

I had nv qualify nor enter finals for Novice Men category and i joined Intermediate category cause all my friends have already advance to the Inter-Cat... So they kept bugging me to self promote myself and move to Inter categories....

PS : Basically the category goes like this... Novice > Intermediate > Open .... Harder and harder category / climbs & By advancing from Novice to Inter u have to be a Finalise of the Novice Category or any higher categories which is either Open or Inter...

The 2 routes if finish was within my style of climbing which require sitting or manta(muscle-up) up a volume & lots of small crimps(really tiny hand holds).... Which took me only 1 attempt to finish that 2 routes...

Going into the finals i only finished the 1st route which is also my type of route which is also crimps... All the handholds are really small which is in my advantage... Cause i got really small hands and because of that i been training my crimping strength since i found out my advantages in climbing on this kind of hand holds... So im quite good at crimps.... as for the other 2 routes i was unable to even get the bonus tile or finished it... Same goes for the other 7 finalise... which put me at the 3rd place as i took 1 attempt to finish a route... 2nd place he took 1 attempt to finish the same route and a bonus on another route... 1st place my climbing buddy since freshies got 1 attempt on the same route and 2 bonus on the another 2 routes...

It's awesome to climb the finals with 2 of my climbing buddies since we join SP Rock Climbing Club together train hard and fight our way to the Finals together... was really unexpected that i will even enter the finals and ended up winning in 3rd place...

My friends say i was really lucky cause both qualifying and finals happen to have the type of routes of my style. He say i should go try buy TOTO 4D or Big Sweep i might tio also... Haha...

That is the end of my this long post...