Are you dreaming big enough?
(Picture: Our team of helpful and caring sherpas (at base camp)) Many people may be afraid to dream big. They are reluctant to hope for too much because they do [...]
October 2007
I am upset!!!
I am upset. I recently became a member of facebook and then i started adding photos into my profile. Then because it was so easy to add photos in [...]
conversations that should never have happened
[upon entering the spinning studio, i was amazed to see people in action already] es: “gee… hey what time did this class start?” guy on bike, spinning and puffing: [...]
hear the ultrasound
i decided to be kiasu about my ankle and promptly went to see both a GP and a physio yesterday. here’re the different diagnoses: GP says… – go for [...]
I wonder
‘His platelet count was 16.’ my mother recounted in tears of how my father nearly died from dengue fever while I was away.. That day, when my father sang [...]
Post Mortem
It was painful to turn back when you could see the end…just when I thought that I had cleared the difficult sections of climbing, the yellow band, rock band, [...]
September 2007
Summit bid tomorrow!
we’re finally going for our summit cycle tomorrow! weather permitting, we’ll reach the summit on the 23rd and be back at advanced base on the 24th with a couple [...]
Summit push tomorrow!
We will be leaving ABC for our summit push tommorow morning. If all goes well (weather, body, mind and spirit) we will stay at Camp 1 on 20th night, [...]
Patience on Cho Oyu…
(Picture: Team at C2 with Xixabangma in the background (centre)) Climbing big mountains like Cho Oyu has to have patience. I like the way how Phei Sunn described climbing Mustagh, [...]
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If my morale can be measured like a thermometer, it will hover around where it all began; the mercury bulb… I had missed out on the final acclimitisation cycle [...]