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Woke up early in the morning, switch on my email and found that I have received an email from SINGAPORE GP. It says that I’ve been randomly selected from their database to load test their system and purchase tickets before the public release.

After enduring the “not so pleasant” squeezing and the straining to catch a little bit of action during last year F1 grand prix, I’ve decided to take this opportunity to purchase the best and cheapest grandstand seats before they are all sold out (which I’m pretty sure WOULD be the first to sold out).

Instead of $298, the early bird discount is at $248, which is very worth it considering the seats I’ve got.

The red circle is where I will be sitting.

Event    :    Bay Grandstand - 3 Days Pass
Date    :    Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:00 PM
Venue    :    Bay Grandstand
Seat    :    Dark Blue A, Row : 7, Seat(s): 5, 6,

The seats allows me to catch the two bends the mean machines would be turning, which is pretty much the best and cheapest seats for the course.

Writings F1 Grand Prix

Due to popular demand… here are the 2nd batch of photos taken by Winnie

2009 Brick Walls 4. Climb to top of Mt Kota Kinabalu

On the 26th Feb 2009, we arrived in Sabah and began our conquest of Mt Kinabalu, this is my story…

View of Sabah from airplane

Me reading newspaper in van on way to Rose Cabin

Along the way, fog sets in…

KS and Me in front of Rose Cabin where we stayed

Lunch, Tom Yam..yam yam!

The gang on way down to veg plantation, the largest export of veg in Sabah

The other half of the gang

A big melon!!

Dinner, the night before the ascent..

The day begins

Wonderful view at Rose Cabin, the fog completely covers the veg plantation

As the day brightens, there reveals Mt KK

Group photo with Mt KK behind

Now lets weigh…for your info, 1KG is 8 Riggit for the porter to bring up

Phiten ambassadors

Now lets board the bus to the starting point

All geared up, notice J’s army boots.. wow!

One more view from bottom..

The gang…still cheerful!

Me smiling.. of course… (coz haven’t climb yet)

Impressive!! Just look at the record!

Beginning of destiny

Up we go!!

1st check point for me

2nd Check point

The guide here carrying gas of tank up/down, amazing!

.. from here, I made my way up alone..hence no more pics from KS

Along the way

Getting beautiful!

Its a lonely journey

Yes!! I am the 1st climber of the day to reach the top at 3hr 15mins!

Time to enjoy!!

Noodlesss~~ YES!

J and KS reached at 4hrs

The rest of the gang minus uncle J

Pic taken with Maik our guide (notice his face is still fresh)

Uncle james finally reached!

Nice view

On way up to our living quarters

Lesson for tomorrow’s Ferrata

The gears

Me trying on the helmet!

Still smiling!! Tomorrow is gonna be fun!

Safely first okay?

KS and me…all ready!! Double thumbs up!

Joy and me. Morning 3am before submit

The gang, minus uncle james who is not feeling too well!

Lets go!!!

From this point, I pulled away and took about 2hrs to reach the top at 515am

gang arrives 45 mins later and we took the group photo.. THE TOP YES!!! WE DID IT!!!

Impressive view!!

Everyone reached, so happy!!

Yeah!! Hip Hop style!!

Now for the descent…

As the sun rises… we realised how steep the mountain is!

Nice view!

Donkey behind!

Trying to stay happy! (in fact so tired!)

Ferrata ! Now you must try it someday! World Highest Ferrata!!

Looking up….

and judging down…there’s no turning back

On to the gears…safety safety!!

Getting ready…smile!

The gang…trying to remain calm…in fact everyone is shaking..

We are going down down down!! (thumbs up!)

There’s no turning back now!

Lets go!!

Slowly!!

Look at the steepness!

Hold on tight, she’s a little bit dangerous! (roxette)

Amazing view…

Just like climbers in rock climbing magazines

With the sun on our faces..

Joy giving the Victory sign…

Still long way to go

2nd group behind us

Me giving the thumbs up!

Look no hands!!

Like a pro!

With arms folded…!

Michael Jackson style

Whooo

Come on! Almost there!

Hmmm a tree

Let’s try the 3 piece

Balancing act! From here, we rested at our cottage for a while and then made the descent at 1135am.

1st to reached base at 1325 in 1hr 50 mins, I ran all the way down!

Uncle James made it too!!

So that’s all folks!! You should try it someday! Make it your resolution!

2009 Brick Walls 4. Climb to top of Mt Kota Kinabalu

Yes! Finally I’m back! Had a great time ascending and descending Mount Kinabalu. Will post all the pictures and reviews when I finally get my hands on them. In the meantime, let me rest a while more…

2009 Brick Walls 4. Climb to top of Mt Kota Kinabalu

Finally, after months of waiting, its finally here… Tomorrow I will be leaving Singapore for Mt Kota Kinabalu. This will be my first ascent (hopefully more to come). As of now, I have yet to fully recover from fever, flu, cough and sort throat. I only pray that God will give me the strength to go on!

For items, I will be carrying only one backpack which consists of some clothing, headlamp, gloves, beanie, petroleum gel, 1 x army water bottle, and a walking stick. Should be enough.

Stay tuned for more updates, I will be posting pictures on Sunday.

2009 Brick Walls 4. Climb to top of Mt Kota Kinabalu

I realised that blogging a word from the dictionary will just clog up all my entries in the blog. Hence, I will be stopping resolution no. 14 from today onwards and focus on other resolutions.

In addition, I am also having spam problems with my blog entries, comments being posted by spam bots online. I will try some way to stop the spam without disabling the blog comments function.

2009 Brick Walls 14. Blog down a new word from the dictionary everyday

On 11/01/09, Sunday, I fulfilled one of my brick walls, which is to play in a paintball game. The game was played at Bottle Tree Park between my colleagues. In total, we played 3 games, amassing few hundred over shots. The game certainly looks enjoyable, but in reality, the painful sensation of being hit by a paintball.. I would say, much more painful than a paper bullet.

After the game, I found that that I have several bruises from the shots and it was not a pretty sight to say the least. A painful experience, but also an exciting one. And I’m glad that I’ve finally done it

That’s me in the center, and also wearing the army brown tee in several shots.

Here are some of the pictures:

2009 Brick Walls 15. Participate in a Paintball shootdown

I have added two more brick walls.

15. Participate in a Paintball shootdown
16. Rollerblading

I have never tried paintball and rollerblading. Both are something that I wished to do but never got to doing it. I guess 2009 is not a bad year to get started.

2009 Brick Walls

Race ID: 84M4834, Ultra-Marathon (84KM) - Men\’s Open , 30.05.2009

I have never done this before but I will be training for it.  This is on my No.1 list and I am not going to give up my dream of finishing this event. And yes, I have signed up for it, there is no turning back now.

2009 Brick Walls 1. Finish 84KM Sundown Challenge

I have climbed Mount Ophir when I was 14 years old. During the trip, those seasoned climbers said to me that since I have climbed Mount Ophir, the next one should probably try Mount Kinabalu. That was 15 years ago. Now, how time flies?

Step 1 is to stop dreaming and sign up. Step 2 is to just do it in 2009. Feb 26-29, 2009.

2009 Brick Walls 4. Climb to top of Mt Kota Kinabalu