{"id":2762,"date":"2010-10-25T08:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2010-10-25T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:33:51","slug":"sds-2-16-falling-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/sds-2-16-falling-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"SDS 2.16 &#8211; Falling for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thewall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2765\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/sds-2-16-falling-for-you\/thewall\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thewall.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"413,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The wall&amp;#8230; ONCE MORE!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thewall.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2765\" title=\"The wall... ONCE MORE!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thewall-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thewall-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thewall.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we face the wall once more! The first time we came here was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/sds-1-2-stairway-to-heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\">season 1&#8217;s episode two<\/a> in which we climbed the Via Ferrata! This time <a href=\"http:\/\/borderx.com.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Border X<\/a> at Orchard Central has abseiling available! If you topped up $10 more, you could have climbed the wall <em>and<\/em> abseiled down. However, we were there to just abseil since it wasn&#8217;t available when the place was just starting out.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, before I told that this was an actual rock wall and of my adventures there, other people thought it was some artistic sculpture that was like the ones hanging around the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>Well now you guys know it <em>is<\/em> a rock wall that you can climb on!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2764\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/sds-2-16-falling-for-you\/jump\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jump.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dangling awaaay&amp;#8230;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jump.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2764\" title=\"Dangling awaaay...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jump-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jump-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jump.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple enough, you get briefed on what to do and then you just&#8230; Get down by letting go!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/goingdown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2763\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/sds-2-16-falling-for-you\/goingdown\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/goingdown.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"413,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"To see it all in perspective.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/goingdown.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2763\" title=\"To see it all in perspective.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/goingdown-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/goingdown-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/goingdown.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Letting go for 8 floors high&#8230; You can control your descent so you could say hello to the people at the Japanese restaurant too since they always look up to see people climbing\/abseiling there. Plus, random people below will also take pictures since they don&#8217;t know you <em>could<\/em> go up and down the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Border X is on the 4th floor, past Gelare and the one with the Prana store. It&#8217;s the store with the yoga and climbing gear. On a different note, it is also the floor with the heated and electronic Japanese styled toilets!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ebdGa5MA-sU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So thus, you do it like so. It&#8217;s not really scary compared to going <em>up<\/em> the Via Ferrata! Still, you might freak out when you&#8217;re just at the ledge and wonder what and why are you even doing this. Once you get past the ledge, you&#8217;re smooth sailing all the way!<\/p>\n<p>This was one of the least strenuous adventures since we didn&#8217;t climb up and instead took the lift via a secret access way to get down via a rope. Wooooo! Ok, next time I want to do Via Ferrata plus abseiling in a combo. We didn&#8217;t have that much time that weekend to do both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we face the wall once more! The first time we came here was in season 1&#8217;s episode two in which we climbed the Via Ferrata! This time Border X at Orchard Central has abseiling available! If you topped up $10 more, you could have climbed the wall and abseiled down. However, we were there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/sds-2-16-falling-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SDS 2.16 &#8211; Falling for You<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[166],"tags":[191,142,36],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarah-does-singapore","tag-adcrew","tag-adventure","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-Iy","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}