In the mist of all the war battle & gun fights with exams, presentations & projects let me just sit on no man's land to recap the happenings of the week so far. The CNC turning test went well on Tuesday think can score in it, my previous class DME/25 is doing CNC milling, though different topics, the test...
Well, its raining cats & dogs out now, so I guess I won't be able to make my morning swim today. With this new found time, Mmm lemme me recap the Moulmein CC X-Country yesterday (27/05/06) at MR. The run covers the 5.3 km route for men's open & the ladies open, 4.1 km. Overall the racing group is...
"Am I on belay?"
"Belay on"
"Climbing"
"Climb on"
These are the words ecthed into the heads of any climber during the rock climbing sports elective now. A very basic phase I believe, but we won't be doing any belaying so soon either as theres actually a belayer course & certification to qualify for one, too far fetched for our 2 month rock...
Though always heard so much hype about the NewPaper BigWalk this year is actually my first time officially partcipating in the event as a registered walker. & yes in case you are wondering, you can gate crash & join in the walk anytime, just that you don't get the event shirt, goodie bag & all the freebies which goes...
Training ended today with hopes of our new long distance coach coming in next week. He is a current SP lecturer in the school of MM, heard that he was quite good in athletics & events during his time. But I've never heard of or even seen him in person thought being in the same school as well. Heard...
There wasn't any official track & field training this week, but with upcoming events such as the New paper Big walk 2006, Moulmein CC X-Country, EdgeGames Adventure Race, SP Poly 50, RealRun 2006 (not to mention 21km AHM at end August). I need to maintain my stamina & fittness during this few weeks of relatively toned down track training...
âž¡ Wahha, today is the first day of our sports elective rock climbing program. Scaled the 3-4 storey flat rock wall as part of an introduction with a bit of sweat. But while doing the forward inclined rock wall... wah cannot sia, can't even go up halfway. It's my first time scaling a proper rock wall too (let be...
Training was up yesterday, ran like 10 sets of 400m round the track at no more than 90secs per round, almost peng san at the last few rounds, but managed a 82secs at the last round, (though coach actually intended 25rounds).
The running track will be closed 14th - 20th April, so training for this Friday & next Tuesday...
Today was the last cross country event for the season, being the Swift athletics association Macritchie X-Country. The run saw the standard 4.8km boys trail route though the Macritchie forest & the midway last road stretch to the finish. Generally everybody in the team did good. All got their personal PBs for the route I believe. The trail condition...
I really have to commend on how fast film photo developing is now, it only took one hour contrary to like one whole day back in the mid 90s. For an additional $3 you ccan even get all the softcopy of the images burned onto a CD-R. Call me old school if you may. Haha anyway it had been...
Holiday update (Trip photo gallery)
Ok heres quite a big update covering my weekend trip to Pulau Aur, click on the "show more" at the end of this post to read the full log of the holiday.
17th Mar Friday, the trip to Aur
The last & final part of the NAUI Scuba Diver certification is to clock in 5 open water...
I will be away this evening all the way till the coming Sunday. Would be Scuba Diving in Pulau Aur, Malaysia as part of my NAUI Scuba diver training. Should be touching down at Marsing around 12 midnight tonight, where its a 3 hour ferry ride to Aur, arriving at 3am. It will be interesting, so as the instructors...
Today's the first day of my NAUI Scuba Diving Course. I actually remembered reading it somewhere, but till then it never crossed my mind that the word SCUBA was actually a noun, later do I rediscover that its actually an acronym- Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus S.C.U.B.A. haha talking about neat acronyms. Mingled around & made quite a few...
Today is the day where we as a group from SP track & field, get to conquer the Suntec's full 43 floors of concrete at the NTU's annual National vertical marathon challenge. This is not my first vertical marathon, having conquered 73 floors at the swissotel, the stamford last year. But this 43 floors proves to be quite a...
And there we have it - the March Plans for World Domination on paper! With the exams over, time to look forward to the various activites & events lined up for the march holiday (particularly chores). Did some grocery shopping with mum today afternoon at NTUC as lunch at the rather popular hainanese Chicken Rice store in BM. As...
Taken from the NTU Union Site, particularly how to check whether your mail-in registration is successful.
All entries should be made on official registration forms or photocopies of the original form. Incomplete forms will not be entertained.
The Closing date for registration is still 3rd March 2006 (Event day 12th March 2006)
All other mail registrants can check our website...
And so there were we, or me on a very hot Saturday afternoon in Mac ritchie after lunch for the SAA National X-country championships. The rest of the team was late but I was there early around 1pm to check out on the admin stuffs & such anyway, such as the availability of safety pins.. duh. It is also...
Completed the 10000m event today in 47mins, way off my target of 40mins, maybe because its a rather mental event having to run 25 rounds round the standard 400m track. The last runner finished in +7mins & man did the whole grandstand cheered on for him Though this is a 10th position timing, its a good exposure for me...
The Singapore River Raft Race 06 held at the Singapore River this morning is an annual SP event organised by Singapore Tourism Board & SP. It's a fun event where participants get to compete with each other in rafts built solely by used or recycled materials with a budget. Other side events includes "walking on water" where competitors pit...
Miss the feeling of striking items off my wishlist. It had been sometime since I pampered myself with little luxuries too. Finally, finally brought my long awaited Asics DS-Trainer XI this morning wheee!
Brought it from Running World at Genting Lane. With that, I should take sometime to marvel over the remarkable-ness of the street directory.
I got there...