Guys registration was at 0830 and I found it quite crazy -_- Normally, I have to leave my house 1 1/2 hour to reach on time lor.
The girls' registration was only after noon, we had to come down only at 1030. Glad to be a girl~ But I still ended up being late :/ Mum wanted me to eat brunch when I was about to leave home so I had to cook Maggi noodles when I hate eating in the mornings. Idk why la, I always feel nauseous after having Maggi noodles in the morning sighhhhh.
Yupz so I reached City Square at around 11+ only to find out that the guys' weren't starting in another hour -_- Guys and girls went our own separate ways in the meantime!!
Girls went to some atas place where each plate of pasta costed at least 7bucks. Daylight robbery lor -.- Heng I had my lunch at home ^^ Soon lost interest in looking at them eating so I went to fetch Jieying and waited for Gel with her! Watched some of the Novice Men climbing in the meantime.
I found the routes quite difficult lehhhhh. Like so many volumes and minimum tiles were given. Prayed that the guys will do well (and I think they did pretty well in the end ^^)
Joined the guys for their warm-up coz I was too lazy to walk to the other end of the mall to look for the girls.
K another random picture of the namelist!!
Every girl was assigned to one wall (6 walls in total) to take videos of the guys climbing. In case you are wondering why we do that, we upload these videos onto Youtube so that the climbers themselves can take a look and find out where they went wrong (:
Yupz so Jingxuan and I were free to use our own cameras to take photos! ^^ I was too lazy to save photos from JX's album on Facebook so all photos here are from my camera~
Walao you know I spent hourssss trying to edit the photos. Not the add-filter editing okay!! (The colors in the photos are quite nice themselves so I didn't filter anyway~~) I had to choose the more relevant photos, resize them, brighten those that were underexposed, join similar photos together etc. Damn tiring lor ):
But nevermindddddddd ^^ I'll do anything to make my blog reader-friendly coz I can't stand waiting for all the hundreds of photos to load whenever I read my blog too HAHA
HERE COMES THE PHOTOS FOR NOVICE MEN DETAIL 9!!!!! Btw the photos aren't arranged according to the time I took them, instead I categorized them according to the walls!!! Coz if I just anyhow piak all the photos here right, I myself will be confused x.x
Wall 1!!!! The route was kinda full of slopers and the ending tile was a spherical volume :O
And guess who finished the route!!! ;)
Wall 2!!! This route was... hard? The first move was a dyno!!!! And that tile they have to dyno for wasn't exactly a nice tile either. Being a guy is tough ): Oh wellz, BUT I MANAGED TO CATCH JOHNSON IN ACTION ^^
Hahahaha you know Haixuan claimed that coz Johnson was one of the rare few who managed to do the dyno, the people who were sitting at the tables (the emcees/crew) went like "Who's that strong idiot?". They even stood up to come forth and find out Johnson's name. HX even said that the crew were cheering for Johnson after that and stuff. ^^
Okayyyyyy next wall, Wall 3!!!! This route wasn't very manageable for our guys coz all of them didn't managed to move on to the next tile (which was a freaking yellow nose-looking volume) other than Zihao who managed to catch it for... 3 seconds? HAHA the whole route looks like Mr. Potato from Toy Story!!
Wall 4!!! This wall like 5 volumes arranged in a star!!! I got a nice photo to show you~~ Quite surprising I got this shot actually, coz I was taking close-ups most of the time!
On a side note, WALAO EH. IDK WHY MY TAB KEEPS HANGING WHEN I REACH THIS PART OF THE POST!!!! D:< So annoying. I have to save my post after every sentence I write or else I'll need to rewrite it when I reopen a new tab zzz
Anywayyyy here are photos of Keita, Kelvin/Weiyi and Zihao on wall 5!! Zihao managed to flash this route I think?? 不记得啦!!
Last but not least, wall 6!!!! This route was the easiest of all!! ^^ Most of the guys managed to flash this route!!
Anyway, Zihao was the 40+th, the highest in the team ^^ Followed by Johnson and the rest, which I can't remember -_- Omg I tried looking for the NM results on google and guess what I found!!!!!!!! No, I didn't find the NM results. Instead, I found Judith's blog!!! :O
She's some super zai Open Women climber who apparently clinched Pumpfest 2013 OW Championship! :O Super pretty and skinny too!!! Jelly sia. HAHA you can go click the link at my twitter if you are boredddd. Aiya I'll talk more about OW later!!
So after the NM ended, we all went our separate way again -.- Us girls went to walk around the shopping mall and ended up in Daiso :O
Tell you ah, City Square's Daiso is damn cool!! The Daiso we normally see is usually a pink and white entrance/ signboard right!! But this Daiso is freaking electric blue, making it seem so much like a spaceship HAHA it has a tunnel which looks like one which leads you to a whole new modern world in the 50th century!!! 我有照片!!!!
We then went to a super high-class shop which sells expensive art stuff. I think everything there is damn damn damn expensive lor. K la, I have to admit the things they sell are very nice so it's not exactly overpriced I guess? But 我没有钱买, so sad lor ):
Just walking around in Daiso and the art shop alone took us over an hour and soon it was time for the girls to register!!! Hehe I ate my meepok while waiting for them to register. Watched the U17-W climb in the meantime!!!!
The meepok was quite yummy leh!!! The fishball and fishcake all very piong-piong one ^^
Johnson then took my camera to take random photosssssss.
After that, the team went to Level 1 to watch the comp from above and/or slack!!
After the sleeping/slacking/watching the comp, it was finally the girls' turn at 5plus!!! ^^ Hahaha the girls were mostly quite scared for various reasons so I just went like "It's okay. Doesn't matter if you do well or not. Just make sure you are looking glam for the photos ^^"
They were gathered at the waiting area for what seemed like an eternity and hohoho I took close-ups of them ;)
Okay shall cut the crap and move on the girls' comp!!!
Wall One one one ^^ This route was relatively manageable for everyone coz they all flashed this route~ But I doubt I can start on it if I was there coz the switching of feet requires cutting of the feet, which I suck at. OH WELLZZZZ
Wall two two two!!! HAHA this crazy route. Nobody from the team could reach the bonus tile coz... it was too hard? Plus the footholds on the left were barely visible so maybe they could have missed them out.
Next wall, Wall three three three!!! This route had a mixture of successes and failures leh, so I don't know whether it was easy or hard :/ Like Fangyi was the first girl in the detail to go on this route and she flashed it in say, less than a minute? Same for Xinmin, but the other senior girls struggled with it :/ 我也不知道怎么讲啦!!!
I'm pretty sure the girls tried Wall 5 but I just happen to miss all of them in action I guess :/ Either that or they fell off right from the start HAHA 我真的不记得!!!
The 19 minutes was soon up and the girls ended!! ^^
All of them did generally well yayz. Fangyi got 9th with her 3 flashes and missed by a teeny tiny bit to finals. Huge accomplishment leh lolololol. Like no one from our team has done this well before, plus it's her first comp :O As for the seniors girls, I can't really remember their position but it was above average la, so yayyyy ^^ Maybe I'll add the link to the results when the organisers put the results up online kkkk.
So... with that, it officially puts Pumpfest to an end for us. But NO!!!! 还有莫莫人还没比完!! Hehehe guess who!!!!! I'll tell you later ;)
So after all the excitement died down, we took team photos ^^
Heng the error message didn't appear during the comp itself lor. If not I'll have missed out a great number of shots lolololol. Yup so after I reached home that night, Jingxuan found me a link to Canon's page about the error. It had something to do with my shutter and guess what I thought then...
"What the shit is a shutter???"
HAHAHA embarrassing much? So I went to google for the meaning and I still don't know what is it till now -.-
So anyway, I went to google it and to my shitty horror, people on the net were all saying there was no way of self-repairing unless I was daring enough to disassemble the DSLR body and fix the problem. And the chances of getting it fixed was not very high la. So... there wasn't any other choices than to send it for repair. Imagine how scared/pekcek/pissed I was that night ):
And to my another shitty horror, I found out that my warranty was ending on the 10th and it was already the 7th that Friday night!! My mind just went like "omg fml" coz I thought Canon center wouldn't be operating on weekends HAHAHA. Visited the Canon homepage and thank godness, the center was operating on Saturdays from 1000 to 1430.
YAYYYYYY. So I was able to send it for repair before my warranty ends ^^ But then another problem cropped up. I was supposed to reach City Square by 1100 the very next day on the 8th to support somebody. Ya lor, and I went like "omg fml" again.
In the end, I decided to send my camera for repair and give up the seriously rare opportunity to watch the Open Women competition ): Sigh sigh sigh. I think the amount of cursing I lashed out that night alone was much more what I've ever said in my whole life lor ): Oh wellz.
Kk back to the team photo!!! We took a seniors' team photo at the exact same spot we did for another Gravical this year ^^
After taking the team photos, the girls started doing stupid poses coz we were bored and didn't want to leave the place just yet.
CUPPING EACH OTHER'S BOOBS. Ikr, I went like "zzz" when I took that photo -.-
Errr then I think Johnson and I went home after that. HAHA I know anti-climax. Normally the team will go out to celebrate and stuff right, but we were all quite sianz by then so yeah, HOME SWEET HOME.
Shit I think I boost his ego by lots. HAHA you're welcome ;)
Then the whole horrific incident about my "error 30" and having to send it for repair happened after I reached home zzz. Sianjipuaaaaa. So I set my alarm for 0830 the next day and went to sleep, feeling all horrible ):
As usual, I overslept and woke up only at 0930 zzz. Left the house at 1000 with Daisy and took 963 to Harbourfront! YES THE CANON CENTER'S ALL THE WAY AT HARBOURFRONT. I know, crazy right. But I have no choiceeeee, I'll do anything to save my dear camera HAHA
It was my turn not long after I reached the Center which was literally empty hahahaha. The person at counter initially said that there was nothing wrong with my DSLR body but the error 30 popped out once I took over the camera so tadah then sent my DSLR body for repair ^^ The person also said that there was something wrong with my 18-55mm lens AF, which I never ever noticed. Hahahaha so off my lens went for repair too~ Will only get it back 7 working days later sianzzzzz.
During the whole time there, I was praying so damn hard that I'll be able to make it on time for the Open Women's category and yayzzzzz I did ^^ It was a good thing that Harbourfront was on the Purple Line, so I managed to reach the place in half an hour and was just in time for OW!! (: Ken, Zhiyong and Filbert were there to support too!! Hehe they are botak heads nowwwww.
Okay, time to reveal who the whole team and alumni were down to support ^^
It's none other than our all-time favourite teacher, Miss Gao!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^ I think she wants us to keep it a secret but whateverrrr HAHA. Must really praise her for her courage lor!! Ms Gao haven't been climbing intensively for a really really long time and she herself knew that she will be placed in the last position easily if she joins OW. But she still signed up for it!!!!
Really damn brave lor!! She put away her pride to join the competition just so that she can train as a team with us before Pumpfest!! You know any teacher who will sacrifice so much for her students or not??? Confirm no right. I think her actions sorta served as a motivation for the senior team to train really hard and yeah lor, I think we are really lucky to have her as our teacher-in-charge ^^
ANYWAY, back to Pumpfest. MG wasn't up until some time later coz she was the middle few. And since OW was in the isolation format, we could catch every one in action ^^ Shi Hui was up first and she flashed the route in say, 30seconds. Crazy crazy crazy.
More went up and hehe guess what observation we made after looking at all the girls!! Somehow all the OW participants all damn pretty!!!! This girl, who was sitting next to us and from NUS climb team previously, was amused by our comments on how pretty each participant soon started to engage us in a conversation with "Hahaha there's a pre-requisite for girls to join OW right. Like all must be pretty one". We happily agreed along and she started giving us insights about every participant ^^ She knew almost everyone personally and was going by first-name basis.
Haixuan was being all fangirl-ish and was cheering for everyone in the "GO WALL __" way which was damn funny. Hehe, soon this super pretty girl joined the rest on the walls and she's damn damn damn pretty!!!! Hehe I even found a photo of her from her blog ^^
Yeah, she emerged 3rd for OW Qualifiers and eventually clinched the overall Championship. So happy for her hehe. Also, there was a few another climbers who caught out eyes too ;) The super graceful Liting and mummy Beatrix!! HAHA I found their achievements for the previous few years!!! HEREEE!!!
My eyes are going X.X from looking at their achievements!! Hahahaha days before Pumpfest, we saw Beatrix at CA in a purple tank. And her body was seriously damn toned!! Her skin had such a nice shade of gold and we were watching her doing typewriter, going "waaaaaa" every now and then among ourselves.
Apparently she's a mum who gave birth to a child already!!! Crazy leh, mummy already still got such a nice figure ): HAHA so anyway, we heard from the NUS graduate that Beatrix used to be number one for every competition she took part in before she married/ became a mummy!! Super duper zai :O
K so MG was soon up!!! ^^ We were all cheering like mad for her. She was being super sporting and tried her best for every single route!! She did some really funny actions while waiting for her turn on the wall hehe. Managed to get some shots of her towards the end!!
Seniors and alumni went for celebratory lunch together at Saizeriya with MG after that and I went home ^^ Hehe lunch at home was yummy but I forgot what I ate HAHA. Shit my memory keeps failing on me, why oh why ):
Hehe so after my gazillion number of words and lotsa photos, this post on Pumpfest is about to end!!! Bet you are going "Yayz" and blahblahblah. MUAHAHAHA this is not the end. I'm still going to continue writing about really redundant stuff below which isn't very interesting, so you can close the window if you aren't interested :/
K, so now that Pumpfest's over. Training for seniors have also officially ended. Idk how the other seniors are feeling but honestly for me, I don't feel a tinge of sadness. Weird, I KNOW. I guess I managed to get past the sadness after the last training on Tuesday and so, I felt happy and excited for the team before/during/after Pumpfest.
Well, the only thing I feel sad over is whenever I mention about Pumpfest being the last climbing competition for seniors. Sigh, how should I phrase this. Yeah, it will come naturally to anyone that the seniors' last climbing competition is Pumpfest. But then to me, it isn't.
My last competition was Gravical at the start of this year, and I never expected it to be my last competition. I was looking forward to joining Pumpfest the whole of last year and this year since I went overseas last June never got a chance to participate in it.
Yupz, so after Gravical, my sucky grades kicked in and I was even on the verge of being forced to leave the team. That period of time was really very bad for me if I've ever talked to you about it. I'm not exactly very weak very my emotions and yet, I broke down endless time throughout that period. Yeah, everyone has their own problems and I finally understood that at that point in time. Coz it sucked really badly for me, honestly.
So the time for me being pulled out of NSSCC at the very last minute eventually came and I was only allowed to attend Friday trainings coz my mum requested for it. To make things worse, the 3/4 Fridays before the official stepping down from CCA were all taken up by Council. Which means, I haven't been to training for more than a month.
Dont't worry, I got over the fact that I have to miss the last few trainings before CTs a long time ago but it's just quite sad whenever I think that I didn't even have a chance to give my best for my last competition which was months back.
AIYA I have no idea what I'm talking about right now. I'm watching the TV (cursing at the evil girl who's being a bitch) and typing this post. Hahaha and this is making my thoughts all disoriented now.
K I think I have crapped too much. LALALA the ranting shall end here ^^
I'll be writing the next post about NVM I guess?? NVM wasn't exactly fun like the previous few CIP I participated in but yeah, I'll still briefly write about it later~
In the meantime, I doubt I'll be changing my blogskin anytime soon. Too lazy to continue editing the skin zzz. Maybe I'll just give the blogskin to my sister coz I realised that the skin is damn girly HAHA. I'm still considering whether to join the Nuffnang contest lolololol. Maybe I will start the post tonight and hopefully I'll be able to meet the deadline. If not then too bad for me ):
Hehe BYEEEEEEE ^^
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