It is three days till I leave for my end-of-year expedition with ODAC24 to Nepal, and all the hype about it, with all the various types of gear we have to purchase, the fuss about the food over there, and the need to acclimatise quickly, is steadily making me feel that this task can actually be daunting.
In my head, it's always been: "Ah go to Nepal, take 7 days to climb and descend a mountain. One whole week, should be quite slack la."
Mood: HOLIDAY WOOOOO!
But recently, it is definitely starting to get more scary, with all the talk about the inevitable acute mountain sickness (AMS) that everyone will get when they go above 3000m. FYI, the mountain we are climbing is around 4200m, so there's not much room to avoid that AMS shizzle. The thought of possibly being the person to pull the batch down is something that can be quite scary, because it is not a role that I am used to being in. Symptoms of AMS include: headaches, appetite loss, restlessness etc. Just the thought of it can really dampen my mood, because trekking becomes very boring when faced with such symptoms. With all the talk about it from everyone I hear, I guess its a reality that I have to face, and because of that:
Mood: AHHHH AMS OMG SHIT DIE OMGOMG
I read some websites and they said that you should not be progressing more than 300m a day in order to acclimatise properly, and from our schedule, we are going up more than 800m a day, and with only a night's rest to acclimatise on each day. How we are to handle this, I HAVE NO IDEA. Screw Singaporean's rushed itineraries, later everyone get AMS we are screwed :(
How am I preparing for expedition? Currently, I'm doing everything which I should not be doing: sleeping late (at an average of 3 am), not eating vitamin supplements, gaming all day and not doing any kind of cardiovascular exercises, eating fried and oily food (increasing my chances of falling sick), and the list continues.
Let's see whether my luck holds out lol.
Oh, and $27 trekking shoe pwns you. Buy from random market shop FTW (Y) Ultra budget possible feet destroyer. Again, I depend on my luck :)
I shall start packing... in about 1-2 days time.
P.S. My luck has NEVER been good. Shit.
ivan fed the world.
While browsing through the My Documents folder in my computer the other day, I realised that I had loads of pictures which I found funny stored up in my computer, and therefore I wanted to share the results of my collection over the years.
[rant]The WHOLE FREAKING 5 YEARS I HAVE BEEN USING THIS COMPUTER, AND HAVE TO USE FOR ANOTHER 3 MORE YEARS. WHO USES A COMPUTER FOR 8 YEARS? DAMMIT WTF.[/rant]
Anyway have a good laugh:
Hehe.
ivan fed the world.