Thursday, June 14, 2007

Friday's Climb (18/05/07)

Venue: Camp5
Climbers: Bing, King, Sean
Guest: Hooi Tzing

Okay, this post is definately long overdue (almost 4 weeks!), but hey, at least it's finally up! Anyway, onwards to this climbing session! We have another newcomer with us today, presenting... Hooi Tzing! Well apparently, this isn't her first time climbing in Camp5, as the last time she and 3 of her friends got here, they were all new in climbing. So they ended up having to pay for the belaying service in order to climb (no, it's not cheap if you had to ask =P).


Hooi Tzing (unintentional pose)

Well, in this run, Hooi Tzing managed to climb most of the 5A routes and some of the 5B routes we have chosen for her. Doesn't seem too hard for her until we forced her to try the harder ones, haha!

(From L) Hooi Tzing managed to reach the top of the earlier routes; She was struggling a little with one of the harder routes.

As for us, we did have some "little" incidents where we messed up our climbs, such as using the wrong ropes to climb some routes, unintentionally of course! So halfway through the climb, one of us spotted that supossedly obvious mistake, so the climber had to come down, untie ourself, and set up the actual rope to use. The thing is, we not only made the mistake once, but twice on the same day! (the first time was King climbing, Bing belaying and the second time was the other way around) That made us wonder what was wrong with us that day..

Might need to refresh the page to view this animated picture
A little animation which would probably give you people a better idea of what happened. Enjoy =P

(From L) Sean doing the trad wall, he's definately getting better at it; Bing showing Hooi Tzing how to tackle the route.

Camp 5 was really buzzing with loads of people that night. There was a corporate function going on, and we observed Camp5 organize lots of cool team building activities and games for the participants. However, this made it slightly crowded in certain sections, so we just moved elsewhere to climb when the group swarmed over to the castle wall. So, if you're looking for something different for your company employees, why not try one of Camp5's fun workshops and activities?


From left: Zerged; One of the team building activities.

We also had little Brendan (Kim's brother), who a real cheeky kid (just like his sister), and can be quite talkative at times. However, he was definitely fun to have around as we kept asking him embarrassing things about his sister so we could use it against her. Wonder what Kim did to him after he went home....


Cheeky little Brendan with Sean.

For dinner, we had it in "Choy Kee", it's a "tai chow" in Damansara Jaya. Some of us had the "yin-yoong" noodles (no idea what this is in english), others were having the "ngau yoke hor" (cantonese fried beef kuay teow noodles). What's special in this place is the "Tai Pak Choi" (Big white vegetable) dish, where it's cabbage fried together with dried shrimp, garlic, fried onions, with a little salt and pepper. It's a great dish to be had anytime, whether for dinner or even just a simple dish by itself with a drink would be good for a "yamcha" session.



We had dinner together with another friend, Timothy, who was kind enough to fetch Hooi Tzing to 1Utama, and then back home to Sunway again. He even treated us to another round of "Tai Pak Choi"!. He's a cool dude who's involved in the creative arts scene, and is really talented, however, he doesn't rock climb (hopefully that changes soon!).

Well anyway, the food at this place isn't bad at all, it's affordable (around rm5 to rm6 per dish), the portion is a little more than enough to fill us up, and of course it's really tasty. Oh and there are quite a number of KDU students there also, which gives the place a slightly more 'youthful' ambience.




(Clockwise from top left) "Yin Yoong" Noodles; "Ngau Yoke Hor"; Big White Cabbage; Timothy, Bing always happy about food, Hooi Tzing.

7 comments:

Joey said...

Aren't you supposed to be studying, brother dear? :P

Anonymous said...

Oh, he's busy studying all right. I posted this instead =P.

Finally, the animated picture works! Wow... took me awhile to figure out blogger does not handle animated .gif images properly >.<. Oh well, enjoy! =P

Joey said...

LOL I'm back in KL this Saturday. When are you guys taking me climbing?!? I haven't climbed in almost a month!

Joey said...

LOL! Just seen the animation - very funny! :D

Eu Bing said...

haha i had to load the page 3 times before i could see the animation. it's great btw. And notice, i'm the one wearing the red shirt hehe. So it's king's fault!

Joey said...

LOL You should BOTH have spotted it! See you in a couple of days, bro. You're still picking me up, right?!?

Anonymous said...

i found mushrooms growing on my belay harness... i think it's time to climb... haha...