YES!!!! Today is paintball day organized jointly by GDO and Learning and Development (L&D) Department. I was and still am so excited because I’ve never played paintball before. So does Kha Loon. He can be seen practicing with some shooting game on his pc the day before which proved to be quite useful (you’ll know why later).

The dawn breaking this morning. It’s going to be a sunny day. Great as long as it won’t rain

We took the LRT from Taman Melati Station to Asia Jaya station and from there both of us walked to Malaysia Paintball Academy (MAPAAC) which only took us about 5 minutes. Pretty convenient.

When we arrived about 9.30 am the sun is already shining brightly. Most of the GDO and L&D guys were already there. We proceeded to take breakfast first – also prepared by them.

The MAPAAC entrance

After filling my stomach with tune sandwiches, a fried chicken and some bihun, I looked around and took some pictures. The toilet was inconveniently located quite far but other than that, I have no other complaint as the place looked welcoming, professional, and makes you really wanna grab a gun and start shooting people like a terrorist; especially those who were eating breakfast.. hahaha..imagine that.

The is the gathering area where we had our breakfast, briefing, and prize giving later on.

This is how the ‘war zone’ looks like. Our setting today was a little bit different. This picture is taken from other site as we cannot enter this area without a mask and take pictures. The inflated pylons to me are also as known cans, bumpers, currypuffs, and nasi lemak . The field measures 100 yards x 50 yards that’s about 90m by 45m

We had our first briefing after the welcoming speeches.

In case you can’t hear (I may exaggerate a bit)

Akmar: Will it be very painful?

Wei: As long as you’re wearing long sleeve, there wouldn’t be any problem. (oh man…I’m wearing short sleeve!)

Akmar: Guarantee?

*** I can’t make out what Wei said after that and yes… that was my laughter..kekeke ***

After the briefing we were all ready to go for war! There were total of 5 teams namely, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, GDO team and L&D team.

I’m in the ALPHA team!

This is my war gear. Armed with a gun aka marker with 50 shots of paint balls, protective mask (no problem for those wearing spectacles), EDX 15 shirt (as it was the thickest shirt I can find), my favourite jeans, a pair of Laurie socks, Adidas shoe, and my other organs and a brain (though I didn’t use much of it)

Only when we were inside the war zone, we were allowed to take off the barrel sock and release the safety pin. No one at any time is allowed to take of their helmet while inside the field otherwise the whole team will be disqualified. Team Alpha was the first team to go against another group. There are two objectives to accomplish. One is to eliminate as many opponents as possible and secondly is to touch the opponent’s base. Another format which was not played is capture the flag.

Alpha team after the first round. Unfortunately we lost the first round and I learned the meaning of pain. Unfair cause gals get to wear vest (apparently to protect the frontal assets). OK, Time to plan some strategy. go go go Alpha!

This is Hana from Safety Department. As safety first is their concept, she tends to hide behind a large currypuff and rarely move after that which was smart too

This is Miaw Miaw. She and another 8 graduate process engineers are going to California for 6 months soon. Hmm.. Li Yen and I will surely miss them as process department will be void of 9 fun people before we leave RWP

For the first session, each team got to play 4 rounds. After that, we had a short break. The top 4 teams were allowed to play for the second session. Having the lowest point, team Bravo was eliminated. Before second session starts, we all got some tips and strategies from the pros. Watch them if you want to be pro a little better.

Alpha team – 3rd placing (yea we had McD for lunch – also paid by company!! yea..). Charlie team which also includes Kha Loon was the champion. So for those of you who are about to go and play paint ball, make sure you practice by playing some shooting games on your pc first.

Group photo

Brother Wei and I. He’s full of energy and fun

Fade, Yaz and Shawn – the pros..they play for the Malaysia team. Man..ain’t that cool? Play paintball all the time! I also want!!!

Time to go back though I really wanted to stay and play more. Kha Loon and I reached home at 4 pm. I was kind of tired.

Proudly presenting my war scar! I half wishing they would be permanent. This is what a paint ball traveling at 250 ft/s (270 km/h) does to your body. I got shot on my left hip on my first round. Damn high oooo. Actually the bullet speed had been reduced from 300 ft/s for our game. At first that was disappointing to me but was kinda glad that was the case when I got shot. Luckily I only received one body shot for the 5 games I played. The rest were head shots. haha

By the way, all those pictures (almost all anyway) were taken with my newly bought camera!!! yea.. I finally get my own compact camera. From now onwards I will refer my dear beloved camera as JitChak.

JitChak allows me to do this! I missed Marie (Ma-Ree-Ay) Digby’s showcase in One Utama recently and so I resorted to doing this to pacify my regret

Wa..you are so sweet and pretty. But I look beyond that. I love your singing more actually…Thank you JitChak for capturing this…Dream on Teik