Nutrilite Double X Challenge

this is a little outdated.


last week, i competed in the finals of the nutrilite double x challenge.

here is sandra's post of the event, and here is my previous post from the preliminaries.

this competition comprised of 4 main challenges, with an additional 3-6 mini challenges within each main challenge.

this was no easy task. i would elaborate more on what was in each challenge, but i seem to be too addicted to watching the history channel about rome. it is really cool to watch. they had documentaries of the great architectural structures of rome, and who built them. you guys should watch it some time, its really good to know.

anyway back to the challenges. what i will tell you is that the challenges involved a lot of running, pulling, team work and brains. the last challenge was an obstacle course.

so we headed over to the saujana, for our 2 night complimentary stay. when we arrived at the hotel, there was this banner to greet us.

after settling in, we sat in for the briefing of the challenges that we were about to undertake the next day. it was real long, full of questions and quite boring actually, because everyone wanted to be absolutely sure about what was supposed to happen. if the main prize wasn't 20k, i probably would have just nodded off.

next up was some welcome dinner. as there were people from all around malaysia, namely KL, kuantan, penang, johor, and miri, they had to make us all feel comfortable. so there were loads of food, games and lucky draws.

one this irritating about the dinner, was that the MC was this real emo lady. i mean i wouldn't really mind if she was hot, but she was quite fat and shitty looking. the jokes she came up with were also really dumb and lame.

one example of a really emo moment was when they had this game, which each table competes with another. the challenge was to blow up a balloon until it bursts. once all the balloons on the table bursts, the table wins. thing is, she said that we have to use team work! so what we did was we blew it a little and just used our hands to burst the balloons. when we did this, she got so red like a tomato and really emo. so our table got disqualified for doing that. but i mean WTH?! she said use team work. how can it be team work if everyone blows their own balloon?

after all that drama, had some lucky draws and i won a bum watch which i gave to my brother. next we drew lots to see which team would go first etc. our team was number 9. so out of 10 teams, we were the last group to compete. the 10th team was the other team from KL. good for us, as we can watch other teams perform the tasks.

so anyway, after dinner we went back, planned our strategy. on our way back, we stumbled upon this huge poster in the next room.

i find it really cool, cuase its actually a 60th birthday party poster from this family to their dad. seems that their dad used to be a pilot. its all in those little pictures around that big picture. its like a big poster that tells the life story of the birthday boy.

after all that, we planned out strategy and went to bed as we would need our strength.

so anyway, our team name was elite 4, and the team comprised of me, dhayang, jonathan, and primo.

the next day we were transported to padang timur, which was the field opposite amcorp mall, by bus. there, we were joined by our supporters megan, sandra, sheyna, kristy, shery mae. these girls braved the hot burning sun and stayed practically the whole day from morning till evening to support us. thanks girls. oh, chee seng was there too.

so we had to wait super long for our turn to come up, as we were the last group. in the mean time, we had some warm up session by some dance instructor lady, there were the dynamites from DJ which were there to perform and liven up the event.

here are a few pictures of the event. the camera was mostly with sandra, so there was loads of cam whoring. be warned!

a cool morning shot of the skyline at the field.

a big TV!!

sheyna and sandra

sandra and megan

mae posing. well no idea if she is actually. could be some random candid shot.

picture of the field from ground level.

picture of field on paper. F1, F2, F3, F4 represents the different areas each challenges are taking place. the whole length of the field is about 200m

all the teams lined up.

the dancing/warm up part.

primo and jonathan after we finished all the challenges.

me with my retarded hair.

me and primo. we were not so in love that we were walking around like that. i had an injured foot. more on that later.

a picture with all the participants. spot me!

the winners of the competition. i've got a retarded look here.

so here are a 2 videos of one of the challenges.






i'm kinda lazy to explain whats going on in the videos. but one thing is for certain, the girls were cheering really loudly!


so yeah, we came in second and won 12k. so thats 3k each. really depressing tho. second place is so close to first place. first place prize was 20k. that would equal to 5k a person!

now here is the story for the last challenge. in all the previous challenges, we ran and ran so much that my legs couldn't take it anymore that they started cramping up. it was so bad that i totally couldn't walk. if i straightened my legs, it would just lock up, stiff and straight. so the remedy was to use loads and loads of deep heat. i think i probably finished up like 2 whole tubes of deep heat.

so anyway, i had to push myself and actually wanted to die from the cramps. but still, had to push on man!

so on the last obstacle in the obstacle course, we had this 2 meter high vertical wall with a platform at the top. we had to get everyone on it by pushing, pulling or throwing. after we got on it, we had to swing from a trapeze and land on freaking lousy mattresses. when i swung, i didn't land properly and hurt my ankle. had to crawl to the finishing line so they could stop the timer.

bear in mind, that i did the obstacle course while i had real bad cramps. that means i could hardly walk at all. thanks to the team, i made it through.


all in all it was not bad. we only paid 20 ringgit and we got repaid back like 2000 X more that what we paid. the 20 ringgit paid for all the free buffet food in the hotel, 2 night stay in a 5 star hotel, transportation costs, and some other stuff which i can't remember.

ok this post is getting too long.

over and out.

double x challenge!

alright. this week end is the finals for the double x challenge.




its going to be in the padang timur starting at 8am till around 1pm. for those of you who don't know where the padang timur is, its the field right opposite amcorp mall. and for those of you who doesn't know where amcorp mall is, then go look at the map.

so anyway, its 20 freaking K if we win.

well, i'm already late now. have to pick up the rest and head over to the hotel. come support us! if you do, and we win, i'll buy you ice cream!

look, its a video!

this is a video of the nutrilite double x challenge that i competed in about a month ago. try and spot me!

the polo field

well i am back from the polo field!

after a whole day!

want to know the results?

well im going to tell you the results tomorrow when i get the pics into the comp.

btw, don't forget to check out the news papers.

off to the polo field!

well today i went for the nutrilite double X chellenge.

its some competition which has a grand prize of 20k!


so they are conducting regional competitions around malaysia. all together there are 5 places including KL. from each region, only 2 teams will be chosen to compete in the finals.

today i woke up at 530am to get to bukit kiara equestrian's polo field. in the regeonal competitions, there are 2 rounds, first round to narrow down the top 10, then finally the top 2.

guess how many teams joined the KL competition.





one hundred and fifty teams!


and in each team there are 4 participants.

that makes it 600 freaking participants!


but know what, my team is getting to the top 2.

my team comprises of me, dhayang, jonathan b. , and primo.

its lunch time and we are waiting for them to announce the top 10 teams.


more on these when i have won the competition.

crazy routes!

so the comp yesterday didn't turn out as well as i expected it to be.

the day started with caroline sending me an sms at 7:30 am.

here was whats in the sms.

good morning noel, are you awake yet?

and i replied

sorry, im still asleep. Zzzzzzz

she replied again

haha, good one. see you at 8am


well then i, being be, had to stay in bed for another 30 more minutes before waking up.

when i finally opened my eyes, i looked at the time.

and i jumped straight out of bed to get washed up and stuff.

luckily caroline was late too :D

she arrived at about 8:10-ish and i had to make her wait another 5 more minutes before i got into the car. when i got in the car, guess who was in the front seat? WILLIAM, caroline's little but not so little brother.

so anyways, we headed over to gifford's to pick him up and later off we went to the sports complex (rakan muda) place.

apparently it that day was suppose to be the phase 2 launch of rakan muda.

what does it mean?

well it means that rakan muda was having a relaunch of their brand or something like that. they were probally going to die out or something. but anyways, it was quite a big launch. loads of people and stuff. more on this at the end of the entry.

so anyways, we met up with shahpur who took a cab there and was wondering around aimlessly.

after locating shampoo(shahpur), we headed over to register.

i joined in both lead and the speed competitions, and so did caroline. gifford joined the lead, and shampoo, was too freaked to join lead that he only signed up for speed.

i was surprised to see some really good climbers who have represented the country in competitions before. cuase as i was told, there was not going to be any national climbers in the comp. after asking around, it turned out that it was only not opened to those climbers who represented the country in the Asian X Games which was held in Shanghai. so much for being able to win something in this competition.

so anyways we waited and waited and waited for the isolation period to start.

when the isolation finally started, we quickly gathered under the little tent which was set up away from the view of the walls. luckily it wasn't such a long wait. but never the less it we had to wait about 20 minutes. after the wait, we were all called out for the 5 minute observation period.


observation period, note all of the hands flying everywhere as if they were climbing an invisible wall.






*observation period - when we get to look at the route for the first time and plan our route.

the mens route wasn't so bad. was about a 6b route. according to caroline, the womens route was also kinda easy.

anyways, once the whistle blew, marking the end of the observation period, all we climbers were herded back to the tent like sheep.

guess what, there was MORE waiting back at the tent. we had to wait for the preparation and also for our turn to be up.

everyone was getting all psyched up and was stretching and stuff.

there were people who were sitting around after stretching















sleeping,




giffy pretending to be asleep for the camera.











and yes, some had to make funny faces in front of the camera.



shahpur making faces at the camera.










so yeah, finally our turns were up and me, and caroline actually did quite well for the first round. i managed to finnish like 3 quaters of the first route.

well not to boast to much, but i could have actually finnish it. reason why i didnt, didnt get to warm up. so i got a flash pump.

*flash pump - this happens when you climb a hard route without having a proper good warm up.
*pump - when your musles fell all hard and tired out, due to exessive levels of lactic asid in the muscles.

well after all that climbing, it was lunch time. there was a stall there that surved rice with different kinds of other dishes which you could choose.

and guess what, they look like


shit











i kid you not. they seriously look like they came outa some rhino's ass!

well thankfully, beside that stall, there was a ramli burger stall. so yeah, back to the old high school days where i ate burgers every day.

so yeah, cuase we had like another 10 million more hours to kill before it was caroline's turn for the womens finals, we headed off to the skate park, which was right beside the climbing wall.

most of the skaters and bikers were kinda sucky. always doing stunts that they could never ever land in their lifetime. but besides that, there were a few of them who stood out.

didnt get any photos tho. but just imagine someone on skates doing a back flip, etc. well they weren't super good, but they were better than the rest.

well after a long wait at the skate park, we headed back to the wall for the womens finals.

can you imagine, the ladies could climb the exact same route for their finals and semi finals. only difference was that the finals was on lead and the semi finals was on toprope. never the less, all the ladies made it to the finals cause there was only 9 of them all together.

here is a picture of caroline falling.

hahaha... cool eh?

well she was kinda pissed when she fell, cuase alittle more higher and she could have gotten third place, i think.

well after the womens finals, it was the mens finals. they gathered us all in the tent for the isolation, while the route setters went up the wall to set up the route.

so what did i do?

well i stretched, sat down, stretched somemore and finally, i fell asleep.


yes, the isolation was freaking hell long!

had to wait for about 1 and a half freaking hours doing nothing!

well while i was sleeping, shahpur said that i was actualy grinding my teeth really loud.

yes, i do grind my teeth when i sleep. no idea why.

when my turn came, i was so freaking happy to be able to get outa the tent and out to the wall.

whats the first thing i did when i got out? well i pretended that i was climbing an invisible wall!

must really look like a dumbo, doing that infront of everyone.

yeah, so the route was real confusing and i only managed to get up 5 draws.

*draws - a.k.a quick draws, runners, clips, clippie thinggies. these are the things you clip your rope into as you get higher, it is important you clip in, as it keeps you from hitting the ground.

so yeah, i fell at the 5th draw. was so pumped that i couldnt make the move that i eventually fell from.

after all that lead climbing, it was time for the speed climbing.

*speed climbing - as the name says, this type of climbing involves people racing up the wall as fast as they can. the ones with the fastest time wins.

well i'm not one of those who can speed climb. but i decided to just join this category for the fun of it. anyway its free ain't it?

well first the ladies went, caroline only made it to 4th place. missed 3rd by 2 seconds.

when my turn came up, at first i totally forgot that it was speed. when i ran to the wall i was climbing kinda slow. it took me about 2 seconds to realise that this was a speed climbing competition. anyhow i realised that i was gonna loose and was smiling to myself as i was climbing. well thats what shahpur said i was doing.

in the end it was a cool day. very little climbing in a very long period of time. joining this kind of competitions really sucks ass.

while we were leaving, there was tons and tons of people.

yesh, seriously damn freaking allot of people there. most of them are in uniforms tho, so it wasn't so cool. feels like they were paid to be there.

anyhow, on our way out, we encountered really jakun malays. those that have never seen white people before and those that act like idiots. this are the kind of people that are really turn this country into a shithole.

as we were walking out, someone said really loudly,

person in crowd 1: eh, ada orang putih datang sini! person in crowd 2: hahaha! dia tidak faham la!

then i looked at caroline and said,

noel: why don't you turn around and just give them a f*ck you?

caroline: well i really feel like saying something to them in malay, but they are not worth my time.


later down the road, we encountered yet another group of bozos.

bozo across the road: WELCOME TO MALAYSIA!

then caroline said,

caroline: now i really feel like shouting to them that i've been here for 10 years already. pfft, welcome to malaysia...

anyway, after all that jakun sightings, we got into the car and off we went home.

but seriously man, there were so many people there. in the complex itself there could easily be about 700 or more people. whats worst, is that people outside the complex on the road, acted as if they owned the road. even as we were driving out, they just stood infront of the road as if we were not even there. caroline had to actually drive around them as she didn't want to punch the horn.

anyway, here are some snapshots of the day. click on them to enlarge.









well thats for the random pics of the day.

now before i leave.

can you guess whose hair is this?

Summit ROXX '07 climbing competition.

yesterday was a really fun filled day. it all started with me waking up at 6:30 in the morning so that i could go for service at st. ignatius church.

after that i dropped by home to get my gear and about 5 minutes of sleep then i was off to summit.















the competition was fun. there was all together 6 categories.

• mens top rope
• womens top rope
• mens bouldering
• womens bouldering
• mens combined (top rope & bouldering) [i joined this category]
  
• womens combined (top rope & bouldering)

it started with the top rope, and later bouldering after lunch.

the top rope routes were all set in the gym. the routes were actually not so bad. but the only thing i hated about the top rope session was that the lines were too freaking long! there was not enough time to climb. what happens is that you spend 90% of your time hanging around waiting for your turn.

for the bouldering session, it was actually much better and fast paced. the routes were in the gym itself, and also in the main concourse. the session was launched in the concourse. it was real good cause this time we didn't have to wait that long. longest wait was about 3-5 minutes. i was doing all the do-able routes on the boulder in the concourse and later once that was all done i went up to the gym to do the routes there. the funny thing is that the routes in the gym was actually harder(points wise) than the routes in the concourse. but never the less, it was fun.

after the bouldering session was done, they had the dyno competition.

*dyno - a point when a climber jumps off the wall, using dynamic movement, towards another hold that is beyond reach. what it means is that the climber basically jumps from one place to another.

the dyno routes that were given were really fun to watch.

after the dyno competition, it was the prize giving ceremony.

here are the results for the comps.

Men's Top Rope - Top 5

#	Name	Points
1	Mohd Redha Roslan	6,450
2	Low Hong Jie	4,800
3	Wong Kar Fai	4,550
4	Yong Fong Shang	4,200
5	Syafiq bin Bahri	3,650

Women's Top Rope - Top 5

#	Name	Points
1	Ooi Ee Mei	3,500
2	Lum Yuet Mei (Super Mei)	3,250
3	Jane Wong	3,000
4	Zafirah Sulaiman	2,700
5	Wan Kamilia Wan Kamaruzaman	2,300

Men's Bouldering - Top 5

#	Name	Points
1	Francis Low	10,700
2	Muhammed Hafiz b Akhirrudin	7,350
3	Teng Bang Qin	7,150
4	Andrew Ang Yuan Hann	5,800
5	Nizam b Abdullah	5,750

Women's Bouldering - Top 5

#	Name	Points
1	Canness Leong	4,300
2	Kimberley Gayle	3,500
3	Sharifa Intan Suliana bt Haron	2,150
4	Nuridah bt Muhammed	700
5	Fedelia Yunos	700

Men's Combined Results - Top 5

#	Name	Top Rope + Bouldering
1	Hafzanizam bin Bakhori	16,550
2	Zul Fadzli Shafiee	15,200
3	Khairul Hafiz Abu Hassan	12,900
4	Muhamad Helmy	8,900
5	Muhammad Akmal b Mohd Noor	8,300

yes, this are the results. my name isn't in the list you say?

well let me reveal to you the full results for the mens combined.

Combined Men Results
Placing		Name	Top Rope	Bouldering	Grand Total
1		Hafzanizam bin Bakhori	5850	10700	16550
2		Zul Fadzli Shafiee	5250	9950	15200
3		Khairul Hafiz Abu Hassan	5550	7350	12900
4		Muhamad Helmy	3800	5100	8900
5		Muhammad Akmal b Mohd Noor	3950	4350	8300
6		Noel Emmanuel Yung	3500	4750	8250
7		Ab Rajab Lakasa	3050	3900	6950
8		Jon Kenn Michael	1300	3550	4850
9		Andri Iskandar	2150	1800	3950
10		Ahmad Nasirron Shah b Rusdi	1650	1250	2900
11		ISKL- Michael Woolman	800	750	1550

yes thats right, i missed the list by 50 freaking points!!!! Argh! can you believe that?

well it had to be either akmal or me anyway.

here are the pics from the event.


this is andrew, climbing a route way to easy for him.














ed and sho. full of energy and ever happy to climb.














bradley, always wanting to climb, but seems to be always killing his tendons.













kimberly, the little girl who would grow up to be an awesome climber.












noel, the one whose name is christmas and seems to love jumping around the boulder cave in camp5













sho on the roof













meet photographer man, a.k.a. jason highway














malaysia's top climber. hafzanizam! he is freaking strong for his size.













all in all, this was the largest congregation of climbers that i have ever seen.. probably about 200 or so.

well this is all... well i might post up the videos when im more free...

the end...