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Name: Adrian
Country: Singapore
Metro: Singapore
Birthday: 3/11/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: You suggest it and i tell you whether i like it.
Expertise: Hanging off ropes, guiding lil brats....
Occupation: Full-Time Student, Part-Time C
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1/31/2005
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| Caught "This is it" - the MJ documentary today and i think i will have to agree with the critics that This is Not it for Micheal. I guess somethings should just be left to die off naturally and not revoked to remind us of the unpleasantness. Watching it was like munching on an old soggy biscuit...way past it's prime leaving a distinctive memorable taste in your mouth but yet not to your liking anymore. I would rather remember Michael in his prime when he was energetically grooving to the sounds and beats, and not remember my last celluloid moment of him as a has been prancing around on stage trying to keep up with the beat, a shadow of his former self. In a way i'm glad he didn't perform the 50 concert, coz that would really have completely buried his name as the King of Pop. R.I.P. Micheal, whatever it was, you've touched our lives in one way or the other.
Completely unrelated entry, just something i thot of blogging while trudging back thru the light rain after work tonite.
Tueday night saw the Trekkers gang (or more specifically whoever could make it from the gang) meeting up at Wala's for Boba's attempt to make this a weekly session. This time we avoided the pretty singer at the top floor so that the chimneys could smoke and we could all talk without having to shout above pretty singer's voice. I had to ask K once i saw my lovable Indian buddy whose skinny black ass i haven't seen in awhile...
Me : WTF, it's Tuesday only and you're getting drunk already ahh? Indians don't work on Weds ah?
K : Let me explain to you my little Chinese friend :
On Monday we should drink coz we're trying to get over the start of a new work week.
On Tuesday we should drink coz to get over our Monday blues.
Wednesday we drink coz we have reached mid week already and we need that little bit of encouragement.
On Thursdays we should drink because we are almost reaching Friday.
On Friday we drink coz we need to celebrate getting through the week.
Saturday is just all night partying...
Sunday we need to drink to prepare ourselves for a new work week tml.
Me : ....
With logic like that, who can fault my Indian Bruther and i ended up toasting him with my newly opened ice cold Stella. Ewok on the other hand was trying to down her lukewarm Carlsberg with her vinegar mushroom salad. Boba had a Stella too which M was occasionally pinching. N was strangely subdued with a coke and a coffee (yes Wala serves coffee too... we also got N a skirt with it...) J came after awhile to enjoy his Asahi whilst HJ came along to round up the group just before Happy Hr closed in time to order her Irish Cider. And so we sat around those two tables reminiscing about the past, talking about nothing and yet everything. Abt diving and trekking and camps and marriage and breakups and so much more.
Bottomline is, i don't care what day it is. I'll gladly have a beer with anyone of you any day. Who's buying?
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Sue on the ridiculously big boulder ball!
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| Conducting a level 1 class for RVHS today brought me back in touch with my alma matter and my childhood again. But what really caught my attention was not the familiar R-Tick logo's or the mandarin speaking students, it was the same pressures i felt as a student. A conversation with some of the kids today at the gym :
RV Kid : "$18 is too expensive for a climb. I don't think we can afford it."
Me : "Well i was a student like you once as well and i know what you mean. But if you really like something, you would do all you can to save that $18 just to go climbing. So it's your choice. How much do you like to climb?"
I recalled the days back in school when $18 was indeed a huge figure to go climbing every week. I remembered saving up to buy my first pair of Boreal Matrix climbing shoes. How i would borrow an old harness from Jenny that i could hardly fit with buckles that were almost rusted off just to go climbing at Dairy Farm. I remember sharing shoes with my frens, picking up old receipts from the bin to pass off as my own just to climb at the old boulder gym at SAFRA Bt. Merah. I remember do it yourself remedies like trying to pass off an old Aqua Sock shoe from someone as a climbing shoe and using medical tape to pass off as climbing tape (i still do this...it's the same thing...just cheaper!) So when i told the kids i know what you mean, i really meant it. Prices have not changed much since i was a student, it's still an expensive sport because at the end of the day you are paying for the safety that keeps you alive in the sport. So do what you have to do to continue doing what you love, go for one lesser movie, eat one less meal a day, stop buying items that you "want" and you don't "need" and you'll find that you'll have that $18. And i can assure you that $18 you invest into your climbing exploits will give you so much more than that new iphone or that new psp can give you. I wouldn't say i had to sacrifice a lot to take up climbing, but some sacrifice you got to make for the sport that you love.
Hence when someone tells me that i was lucky to have a well to do family that could afford to let me go climbing, i just had to disagree coz my parents never gave me an extra cent to indulge in climbing. And i earned and saved every single cent to "invest" in my climbing adventures. And i was sure as hell economical in putting together my climbing gear. I bought only carabiners that were neccessary, i chose and maintained my climbing shoe well, cleaning it after every climb. I settled for a harness that was a previous season model just so that i could get it cheaply. Even my chalkbag was some S$7 imitation from Krabi, Thailand that has served me well 3yrs later. That's how i survived. So my fren, never tell me that i was born lucky. I am glad i was able to scrape together what i had and make do to pursue my passion.
And that's not just when i was a student, till today i'm still grabbling with money issues. Somehow you'll never have enough gear especially when you are an instructor and you are trying to take up trad climbing. But at the end of the day, common sensical knowledge quashes the spendthrift in me not to squader all my hard earned cash away. To show some restraint and spend within my means. Coz that few bucks saved may give me other opportunities to pursue higher challenges. I started off as a noob taking my level 1, on to level 2, continued climbing and tinkering ard with natural walls in my JC days, took a hiatus from climbing in the army, came back to start climbing again from scratch, decided to do my instructorship after i realised that i really wanted to pass this on to others, got dragged back outdoors again after a project on the climbing community in Singapore for college, and now i'm on the doorstep of trad climbing. I'm evolving as a climber and it's gonna take that few dollars saved yesterday to fulfill these dreams. However hard it might be, it's still important to pursue your dreams.
So kids, don't say it can't be done. Passion will guide you and show you that it is possible. Climb more, climb hard, climb safe and spread your wings.
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| Thursday 22nd October, 05:18 AM JST
Some comments from the Japanese struck me...
Junko Inoue, a resident of Saitama, said she found the final scene, where dozens of dolphins trapped in a hidden cove are speared by fishermen, turning the water blood red, “shocking.” But she didn’t think the hunt should be stopped entirely. “There are a lot of cultural differences in people’s eating habits,” she said.
“Westerners say it’s OK to kill and eat cows, but not dolphins,” said Hiroshi Hatajima, a 42-year-old office worker from Tokyo. “That kind of special treatment isn’t going to register with a lot of Japanese. We have to eat animals to survive. It’s a cultural clash.” The film, while well-made, “comes across as somewhat propaganda-like,” he said.
Even the director thot so too... ‘It’s very difficult to argue animal rights because every culture abuses animals, you know, by the use of animals for food, for entertainment, for apparel,’’ Psihoyos said. ‘‘It’s everyone’s human right to eat healthy food.’’ Yeah so apparently eating a cow and eating a dolphin are the same... they are all food. Thanks to culture i guess it's ok to eat dogs and cats too... Why are we not seeing Dolphin meat wholesale on the supermarket shelves? Coz it's toxic bodoh! And why must you eat dolphin meat? Just to preserve a culture. Now that is just wrong. It's not like we have lots and lots of dolphins to spare you know... No i am not becoming vegetarian anytime soon...
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| When you are feeling down and it feels like the world is crumbling all around you....Seriously, you just wished that everyone was feeling like you rite??? Dun fake...hahah!
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Misery loves company.
THanks for showing this to me dear!
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