Dear TomHa,
Sunday
Well, I just love freelance work. Was asked to head down to climb adventure today to supervise a level 1 course for budding climbers. Must say that the fact that they looked fitter than me certainly gives me all the shudders. However, all I can say that it is easy money, earning $100 in like 4 hours when all you do is stand there and wait for the instructor to finish giving his instructions and you go up to the students and check up their knots and belaying tachniques and blah blah blah. Must comment that not all that were taught would be very relevant in climbing. Theory says it does anyway. Think it is something like what you learn in BMT, pretty pointless especially as you step into a unit, or so, as all my friends told me.

Next Sunday
It is the 2nd of Oct!! Yeah! I will be turning 20 on this day next week. Although I must say that I am actually feeling rather sad about shedding down the heavy responsibility of being a teen but well, it is a path that everyone has to take. Sigh. Guess that I will be hating the idea of turning into an adult next year even more ba. Below is a list of obnoxious things that I would want for my birthday. Take you pick and if you have spare cash to ermm spare, buy one for me? I wouldn't mind double of triple of anything in the list. Hehe.
1) Bike Helmet (Haven't bought a new one since the last one broke into 2, courtesy of my brother..)
2) Bike Shoes (Mine is too old to be seen on the road.)
3) A sling bag, a crumpler would be nice.. hehe.. (Or rather those kind of imitation ones also can.)
4) A casio g-shock with all those kind of metal straps.
5) Climbing Shoes
6) A trek pole
7) Climbing Ax, rated T, straight
8) Carribenas, lots of them, screw gates, aircraft grade aluminium
9) Juma Ascender (not sure of spelling)
10) The obnoxious of all, Snow Goggles!!
Haha, I wonder which one I would get.. So exciting.

Nature
So there was Rita, engulfing the Gulf Coast of America. They say that the damage that it had inflicted on it is not as great as those that were inflicted by Katrina. During my Geography days, I was always fascinated by the power that Nature is able to unleash on us, and that no matter how smart or how able humans are, there seems no power to overcome this force of nature. Either you survive it or you die. No two ways about it. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, floods... natural disasters that makes you think twice about the power of the atmoic bomb and how small we are when we are placed to endure the wrath of nature. I guess Katrina gave the American Federal Government a suitable wake-up call and despite the deaths and all that, I think I will be bold and say that it is not all-bad. At least Mr Bush et al has come to realise how feeble they are and that in the end, America is not going to be the infallible fortress that they had built.

Music
Yesterday's band practice was terrible. We were playing the Incredibles and gosh, from the first day since I played around with music, I had never hated any timings that were normal. I mean, I always hated 6-8, 7-8, 3-2 all those funny funny timings, never 4-4s, 5-4s, but yesterday I cuoldn't count 5-4 properly at all! Argh! In the end I had to depend on the basses' rhythm to play my stuff properly. Another thing, guess I forgot to teach my juniors how to cao-geng sight reading in sec sch days. It was one of those never-wrong skills that my seniors taught us. But of course, it only works for desperate situations as should the conductor wants to test the section only, then you are in for deep trouble. Haha..

Uselessness
Am feeling so useless in front of thermodynamics and sensors and actuators. Alamak. Maybe I should really start getting serious about this semester. Adios!