rock climbing.

yesterday, me and j went for the rock climbing course that we signed up for!

we reached SAFRA (toa payoh) rather late

because we had a sleepover, and we overslept! (:

there were 5 people in our class, including me and j.

Hogan and Raj - they are taking the course, to gain enough experience to bring rock climbing to TAF club children!

and a guy called Wei Ming who we didnt talk much to.

anyway the first part of the course was all the theory stuff.

like the different types of harness, etc.

then we went out to the rockwall to test our physical strength.

i went first! and started out on a 8 metre vertical wall.

i climbed to the 7th metre and thought to myself

"man! this is tiring! is 75 bucks worth it for one climb? maybe la hor?"

then i swung myself down.

and whee! that was the part i fell in love with!

i love coming down!

either swinging from side to side,

or jumping down the wall like gravity has no effect on me.

the bad side?

i have to climb as high as i can to experience that again!

then i belayed for j and almost got propelled into the sky when he came down.

Hogan had to grab my harness to prevent me form catapulting. (:

we climbed three more climbs before we stopped for lunch.

(all the time i only reached the 7th metre! ): )

me and j shared a f&c, and ate with Hogan and Raj.

I think they are 39 and 49 respectively!

But they seem really fun and experienced in outdoor activities.

Me and j are going to try some of the fun stuff they mentioned!

like shooting clay pigeons, using a pistol and sniper riffle in the Singapore Gun Club.

and diving in malaysia! (:

After lunch, we resumed, but moved on to a wall with more difficulty.

this wall had a overhang - pitting us against gravity.

i felt like a monkey - a really tired one.

i didnt get to the top, but high enough for me to enjoy my swing down! (:

then, we tried another wall with two overhangs!

nobody completed that one. hur.

it then started to rain!

so we moved inside to the indoor rockwall, which seem to have more pieces missing than it has attached to it.

like that how to climb!

but we did manage to climb till almost the top. (:

that sums up the rock climbing course!

i did about 10 or more climbs.

so about 7.5 bucks a climb. (:

my fingers were incapable of opening my coke can after the whole thing.

and i couldnt msg properly either.

well, next up, we're going shooting! (: