Vertical

I know. I am small in size and I look very much like the nerd type. The type whose life is in books and thinks that outdoor activities are part of the "grand fiction". However, believe it or not, I actually enjoy sports! I have tried quite a number of sports although I was never good at any of them.

Jogging, swimming, basketball, soccer, Starcraft, volleyball, ping pong, crab football, Counter-Strike, captain's ball, badminton and even played tennis for a total of one time. And to add to the list, rock climbing.

You read that right. Rock climbing.

Twig arms like mine also can go rock climbing. So... Johnson, there's hope for you yet.

Of course, I didn't try climbing a full-scale vertical cliff la. That would be inviting death! And from the performance of the rock climbing session, I would probably be dead at least six times over.


It was an indoor rock climbing facility instead.

The walls were converted into 'rock cliffs'. Colored handholds were fixed to the walls for use in climbing. The aim is to scale a wall using only handholds of the same color. This creates multiple routes to scale the walls, each one with its own difficulty number (the higher the number, the more difficult the route).

Felicia on the Green 13

I'll admit this: rock climbing isn't easy! It takes quite a lot of strength and flexibility to scale some of the walls. Some of the handholds are sooo small that I had to hang on by just a few fingers.

Gearing up

Mark and I managed to do a Level 15 (or was it 16?) wall. And barely made it up the first few feet of a Level 17 one. Hahaha..

Bad pose. (Me)

Not looking much better (Mark) =P

Then Vee, the most experienced climber among us, tackled the wall. And he went up just like that *snap*.

Vee. Sempat posing somemore -_-"

You could almost hear the sssssshhhh sound of ego deflating.

Tips from the sifu!

For $15 entrance fee + $3 equipment fee, we get to stay in the facility as long as we like and climb as many times as we like. But after two hours or so, none of us can climb anymore. My fingers were twitching, forearms trembling and I couldn't clench my fist! Also must remember that I didn't do any warm-up stretches! Rasa terer la konon =P

And so we went to the bouldering section and camwhored instead. Excuse the less-than-mediocre quality of the photos. My camera doesn't work that well in low-light conditions.

Photographers Henry and...

...Wincy!

Mark's priceless expression. Hanging on for dear life!

Vee. Cool lagi tu.

Me!

Henry again.

Felicia. Check out the hair! Proves that we're really hanging upside down.

Henry again!

Side Order: Happy Belated Birthday Soon Eng!