4th Leg of My-NPL @ Dataran Pahlawan, Melaka.

It was a bright and sunny Saturday morning when we went to the venue of the event. A day which we will never forget, young and brave 6 men prepare to show their guts on the field. Though, we lose (haha, spoiler). Ok, here is what so great on that day. We reach late, a bit but we are on the next game when we started to settle down our stuffs and equipments. Boy, that was quick. We hurried ourselves to the field and prepare for the game. As one of our frontman MIA, Atook, I took his place instead. It was easy, frontman, just rush thru a few front bunkers and slide into the snake side of the field. Never judge what they say deemed easy when you really get a taste of it. It was tremendously fun. I sprint thru a bunker and superman-slide down the snake side of the field. I was hit on the first game. Lucky me, it hit on my google(face-mask), near my skull. Phew. Second game, I was lucky to see thru the pellets that were coming to me and finally, i managed to slide into one of the front-snake bunkers safely. Played a few shots, got hit, out I go. Well the rest of the game came on right. On the third game, we try a few link-up sides. We swap our center with one of the backman. It went out an awesome fight. Acap was out first thing the game start. I was out later on, after I successfully secured my safety in the front bunker. We got that game into our hands. It was pretty awesome.




Now, something went awfully wrong to me on the 4th game. Suck big time. I sprint and reach the front bunker safely and toyed around with my mirror(means the backman in front of me). I was so calmed and focused to shoot around and make them shoot me, its like i'm the kambing(goat) here. Everything were so nice until most of my mates were out when i tried to look around for more options. I was darned late, someone shot me from behind while i was lying down. Marshal called me out but suddenly, the guy in front of me came in and bunker me while I was taking my hand up to my head to show that I'm dead. WTF, I was blantly shot at almost point-blank range, with an e-marker. Shit that was a pain in the ass...err, I mean hand. Fuck you bastard! The marshal even came on close to put him away. I was already counted out but that fucking bastard still shot me with the marshall caliing me out that time. My left hand were up my head to show I'm dead. He shot directly to my head, which I luckily covered with my left hand. You fucking bastard, aiming for the head will do you good? I was lucky and not angered at the moment because of my numb hand. I forgot to bring my golves, which was really 'suey'(chinese words meaning bad luck). My hand bleed and after I took off my jersey, I found out he shoot twice into my hand.


I didn't take any pics after the shot, which is bleeding that time. No think. My bad but those who were at the scene saw that, it was awesome I tell ya'. With becoming the frontman for the event, not even used to it yet, my whole body were in pieces. Pain. Nothing to complain for that.
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That night itself also, something happen. I don't know why, but, I'm determined to help my housemate. Me, my housemates and some friends went out for dinner around 9pm. After that dinner and on the way back, one of my housemate's hp rang up. And here is the problem, one of his friend is in the middle of somewhere in Klang because she ran out of the house after breaking-up with her boyfriend. Apparently, she called my housemate, Ryan, for help. From what I heard from Ryan earlier, the girl is crying when she called him. It was a sad case. It was 10.45pm at that moment and it struck something to my head that, a girl, alone in Klang area, it is night time and that place is not safe for a girl alone in the dark. Ryan was searching for friend's car to borrow to go and pick her up at Klang. "It will be late then", I told Ryan. I pity him and the condition now and straight offered help.

Firstly, I knew that anything could happen to a girl alone out there, especially Klang area. So, I called up Alan, whom knew some Klang friends over there and ask for his help. After explaining everything to him, he was shock and quickly called up his friend in Klang. Alan's friend, Alex, from Klang, listen to the problem and quickly went out searching for her, given her phone number to him. I was preparing on my way up to Subang to fetch her. The plan was like this, I planned this out with Alan. Alan will go fetch her back to Subang, once Alex found her and I was to go to Subang with Ryan and another housemate, Louis, to fetch her back to Malacca. (Louis was only accompanying us)

Within 1 hour from the call, Alex found her and she is safely with someone. She smsed Ryan and told him that she is inside our friends car. We give a huge sigh and I drive to Subang all the way, speeding. When I entered the KLIA highway, Alan gave a call to me and said there are in Subang already. It was a relief when we knew that she is safe. Alan told me something but I just drag it until we meet on later. We reach Subang at around 1am. Ryan went in to get the girl out and I was chatting with Alan. Alan told that the girl is quite tough. Her face's expression was dark and emo. When she came out, she just muttered some words and say hi. Well, at least she is safe, I thought.

We went for a drink where in the end Ryan treat us all for the drink.Ryan tried to open her up to chat with us but she is not that friendly. On the way back, my whole body was aching, because ealier this morning I'm playing paintball. Not enough sleep too. I was deeply exhausted on the way back to Malacca. The girl slept all the way from Subang till Malacca. When we reached back to Malacca, we were really tired out from the long distance and wound up at night looking at the highway and street lights. She came down from the car and went straight back to her place. Wow, now that is amazing. Not a word of thanks or even a bye from her. She just woke up and there she goes. I'm not sarcastic or what but, at least a thanks or bye will be alright for all the people that help you out. I was a bit down and not so happy with her attitude. Ryan and Louis were also shocked with her attitude. Well, what to do, she is so down and emo now. Don't care about her much, at least she is safe now.

One thing cross my mind that eventhough she didn't thanked us, including Alan and Alex too, we saved a human being from danger. Thats what friends are for. Now that she is safe, we don't care much about it. We've done a good deed. We're ok.

On behalf of Ryan, to Alan and Alex, thank you for your help. Wait, what about Jesmond.....?


It was a hell of a experience and I'd tell ya', its gotta be legen......wait for it......dary!
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The next day morning, I could make it to my team's game. I was so sorry to my manager and team leader and also the rest of the teammates. I'm sorry. But, what I heard from them that I already miss something great. They fought against Ronin Lunacy. Our best friends in paintball. It was a great game they said, eventhough Ronin Lunacy won the game. Congratulations to Ronin Lunacy for getting 2nd place in Div3 @ Malacca event!

Best shot ever...on that day.

Here, i selected 3 nicely taken pics during the game of my teammates in the field.

its me on the far left. no doubt. i forgot to bring my scarf to cover my head and hair. here you can see that we're on a standby position. the marker must touch the banner.

my mates in field. all are preparing for the go.

Game on! look at the 2 forwards, the red mask and the one running to reach the bunker. look as 3 persons which includes 2 backman and the centerman making line of fire at the start of the game.

First time in D3

me in and ion type marker. cool eh?

My current and newest team Outrecs Jr. was created on a number of 7 members including me. All were active players in the rooster. Our team was extablished this year and we registered for Division 3 in Malaysian National Paintball League [MY-NPL]. Our first event for the year in MY-NPL is at MAPAAC, Petaling Jaya, Selangor on 23th-24th February 2008. In this event there are already 4 of our players using e-markers. We must field a total of 5 players in our rooster for each game. For D3, we are playing 8 preliminarie games before commencing to quater-finals. Only top 16 teams will make it to quater-finals. In this event, our team couldn't make it, we only won 3 out of 8. Although we didn't reach quaters, we still had a great time enjoying the game and all the fun in shooting paintballs during in game.

taken during the members having a rest after 4 games. yeap, the one with pimples is me. no doubt. confirmed. the only chinese.

after 8 games. head started to spin and felt dizzy because of the hot weather. the players sitting were the ones holding e-markers. the ones standing doesn't have one.

action pose for the team. gladly to introduce, from left standing, Syafiq aka deX, Sajiv aka G|aster, Jesmond aka Jes. from left sitting, Alip aka tapai, Zaki aka Key, Acap aka Cap and finally i just called him Atook.

Our team ranked 17th in the league table collecting 6 points. Our manager says that we are going for the next event.

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Acap was our manager for the team and the rest were active players including the manager himself. There are 3 positions in this game of speedball which is also known as paintball. Our frontman, Atook, Zaki and Syafiq. Centerman, Acap. Backman, Sajiv, Alip, Syafiq and me. Our placing in the field may change. Their roles are nicely written down here -->

---Speedball centerman---

Mid players are adaptable, versatile, and patient. They perform whatever function is necessary for the team to advance through the game. If a front player is eliminated at the beginning of a game, center player will try to take that place. When a back player is eliminated and leaves a blind spot on the field, a mid can fall back, if necessary, and take up that command position, or command from the bunker they currently occupy. Mid players also perform the vital function of a relay system late in the game. A front player who has progressed far down the field cannot hear his back. Mids will relay information between the two, so that the front player is not effectively blind. A mid player may also shut down a lane from a position farther down the field, where a back player does not have the correct angle. Alternatively, mid players can also accompany a front player to a critical position, to up the odds of it being held successfully.

A centerman's attitude on the field should be cool, confident, and calculating. In his position he can see more of the field (and thus the enemy) than any other position on the field. This also means that more of the enemy can see him. He needs to stay focused and relay positions to teammates while watching for opportunities to take.

---also as center back---

The back player who takes the centermost position on the field is akin to a chess player or football coach who is stuck in the middle of the game. The back player filters information between left and right, and has a direct line of sight to both sides of the field. This player will let everyone know who is supposed to be doing what, setting up objectives for the other back players, and by association, the front players those back players are tending, as well as firing large amounts of paint across the field.

---Speedball frontman---

A front player's task is to perform the major movements and eliminations on the field during a speedball game. As the name suggests, this places the front man far forward on the speedball field, compared to the other positions. Front players stay low, firing comparatively little and making heavy use of snap shooting. Because of this, they rely very heavily on the rest of the team to provide them with developments across the field. Front players and back players are very closely related, and in some cases, a back player will be assigned to communicate with and cover a front player when the latter is in a critical position or attempting to maneuver. Front players should know how to slide flawlessly to lower their center of gravity and keep a low profile.

---Speedball backman---

Back players are the eyes and support fire of the team. At the rear of the field, they are afforded a fairly unobstructed view of the action, and constantly communicate with the rest of the team. It is the back player's job to coordinate and move the front players down the field while denying the opposing front player's movement. These different goals cause rear players to use their markers in a dramatically different way than a front player, utilizing a near constant stream of paint to shut down movement paths, called lanes, for opposing front players. This same tactic is used against specific bunkers to force a player to tuck in, allowing a front player to move.

[[ the infos were taken from wikipedia ]]

Well, my role as backman mostly suit me the best. The one who is shouting pin-points and enemy whereabouts. Spamming the most paints all the time linning or keeping the enemy in its bunker. I liked it. We don't have a lot of photos that are taken during game but i'll try to upload some in next post.

My paintball team's jersey

Dye jersey ---> 'kaching' RM100 [including fee for my friend bringing it to me...swt]

This jersey cost me RM80...now that is expensive. How would you know that this paintball jersey to be this expensive? Damn good that i should be playing more seriously from now on.

Paintballz gigs

For my sudden love of this sport, i spend for my life.

V-Force Profiler

'kachang'---> RM300

Why is it called a face mask? Because this thing only covers your face, not the whole head. For the safety purposes of the game [paintball] a face mask is needed. This protects your face from being shot at. I heard that, if the pellet hits any part of your face, fatal or blind in the eye. The force of pellets that are shot out are incredibly fast and dangerous. Of course, if it hits any part of out body, its still ok because out body can withstand that force. So, a simple advice to anyone who wants to start playing this game, play it safe!

Paintballz

One of my interest lately. Paintball. One word describes all. Seems like familiar to you? Its very exciting and adrenaline rush game. Some sort of like extreme games. Can go into extend of getting bruises and paintball's mark on your body. First join in one of the competition organize by MY-NPL which you can know more about it from http://www.my-npl.org/. Its the 3rd leg which is held at Padang Pahlawan, Malacca. We join in as Division 4, which is the lowest rank of players among 4 divisions, where Division 1 is the highest one. It is a 5 vs 5 match, overall score of 4 match played accumulated. Which if among the teams that entered the team gained a placing either above 16 or 8 (depends on number of team), will get to advance for the next game for quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. Well my team was unable to get into quarter-finals, despite that, we are still glad that we had found a new game which we could really enjoy. Another game was held at Cyberjaya and we entered. We wanted to play so much, that we played seriously this time. We managed to get into the quarter-finals but lose after that. Its ok. We're all happy that we improve a lot from last time. Next was the 4th and last leg of MY-NPL which is held at Padang Astaka, Petaling Jaya. We managed to get into quarter-finals and the semi-finals. Lose during semi-finals. We are really happy that we made even this far this time. We really did improve a lot. There is one game which is held at my campus, MMU. During this time I couldn't make the cut because need to go back to my hometown. My team including my manager in total of 6 persons, played for the team. I was shock to know that our team got 3rd placing. I'm so happy that they played so well and won (even 3rd would make the cut) in the tournament. It was great.