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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Went climbing with like 6 ppl todae. Miss Chow BY, Mr Steven Quay and Miss Kwok Lilian together with 3 of her colleagues. Woke up at 7 plus with a runny nose, but felt quite okay cos i was gg to climb later. Reached safra at 9.30 am(the time that we were supposed to meet). Went 7-eleven to buy some titbits and found out my voice was crappy and my eyes were half open or half close. Either one lah. Then i went to sit at the carpark after strolling around the whole safra. Looked into every car and mr quay smsed me saying they will be late for 15 mins. Xian. The got this small black car came in. It had those kind of starhub window sheild at the side. Wanted to look in but felt that Mr Quay could not have drove that car. Feeling slightly impatient, i called mr quay and he told me he just drove into the carpark. To my uptmost surprise, the black car was his... God...
We then walked together up to the rock walls. There was this army reservist lunch or smth like that happening at Yishun Safra todae. So lots of cars that came in had many middle-aged men wearing their no.4 uniform. i told the teachers that i did not notice them coming in cos i could not see inside the car. then Miss Chow and Miss Kwok said that as long as u see ultraman stuff at the dashboard, its Mr Quay's car. Diao -_-''
We then signed the idenmity(however u spell it) form and generous Mr Quay was the gentleman and paid for all of us... I set up the wall while the teachers changed into their climbing gear. We then started climbing. Miss Chow was very sleepy and lethargic at first but Miss Kwok encouraged her to climb. I was extremely elated and excited to climb cos the last time i touched a wall was like 1 month ago and my muscles are like softening. Haha=) Miss Kwok climbed first followed by me. Climbed pretty first and toerd out even faster. My first climb always like that one. Whole body not used to it yet. It was an 18-meter wall that i climbed. Just a warm up climb. Then Miss Chow climbed and then followed by Mr Quay. Miss Kwok's colleagues came a short while later.
I continued and started the 25-metre wall climb. It was a wall to train ur endurance. very fun wall in fact. Everyone then took turns to belay and climb. I did not belay cos of my previous experience of belaying my primary sch teacher, Mr Rizal who intoduced this sport to me. He was more than 2 times my weight and i have belayed him with no problem b4.
That day about 6 months ago, we were here at the 18-metre wall. I was belaying him. I always hated the part when he was coming down cos the presure on my hand was tremendous. On the very day, it was very hot and my palms were sweating. i slipeed him down at 1 moment and my hand almost went into the belay device. If it did, i wondered what will happen. Almost reaching the ground, about 5 metres above ground level, the worse came. my slippery palms gave way and the rope slipped through my hands. I wanted to grip the rope but the next time i knew, i heard a loud Bang and he was on the floor on his back and the chalk from his chalk bag was flying around. i was stunned and stood rooted to the ground for a few moments. His back injury was nothing compared to the minor rope burn on my palms. i remove the anchor behind me and ran to him, asking whether he was okay. The next thing i knew, ppl were running to him. Safra Adventure leaders, other climbers and some passer-bys. i moved back. They helped him turn around and lie on his chest, with him groaning in pain. 1 of the Safra personel told ppl to back off and give the injured man some air. He then asked around for the belayer which was me. I was still in the state of shock. The scene when Mr Rizal dropped remained vividly and repeated in my mind like a disc player.
More Safra personels came 2 of them questioned me. They asked things like how he was related to me and where he dropped from. I stuttered when answering. It was so happened some army fair was gg on and there was an army medic around there. He rushed to Mr Rizal but he could not do anyhting as he did not have the necessary equipment. The Safra personels then called for an ambulance and within minutes, paramedics came and they put Mr Rizalon this metal board so his back wont bend or smth like that. 1 paramedic said that falling on the back his quite tricky cos maybe the spine haven break but if u move him around, that small focal point which haven break yet may break anytime. The paramedcs also use a pen to see which part of his body felt numb to check whether his spinal cord was broken. Thank god, nth serious happened. I remembered Mr Rizal once told me that he had a former back injury so i was very afarid smth would happen this time. The paramedics brought him to Tan Tock Seng Hospital and told me to go home. while a Safra personel would follow and bring his stuff to the hospital. Everything then went back to normal.
Since then, i was scared of belaying anyone much older or heavier then me. i will conquer this phycological barrier and i MUST!!! Even though it happened 6 months ago, the scene remains vivid in my mind. Back to todae, we rested a bit and i clmed the chimney after mr quay. This was his 2nd time. He told me that he did not make it to the top at his first time but this time he did. Miss kwok also said she tore her pants a little after smearing her way up bit by bit using her bum the last time. I have seen the chimney lots of time but have not tried it. So i decided to try it for the 1st time. At my 1st attempt, my way of getting up was unsuccesflu but on the 2nd attempt on the another way was succesful. I climbed my way up using the cracks and a few hand holds. Then at the last part, i smeared my way up. I have reahced the top. It was tiring and very pain for my tops from all the smearing. But it was very fun and exciting and had a great sense of achievement after reaching the top on my 1st try. This is a pic of the chimney.

cool right? jkjk lah its not this. Its this one at the bottom

cool right? damm fun.

my last climb was the 25m again on another route. I then took a bath and mr auy fetched me to bishan and i went hime after buying lunch.

P.S. i am sick with a slight fever and a runny nose.

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