Its been long enough

Its been since March that I published any posts. Sorry to dear readers that I couldn't update my blog much enough to satisfy blog-readers. In such, I do had some very good excuses for this. For this month, last semester, 1st year degree, my hands are well stuffed with tutorials, assignments and classes to attend to. Not to forget, activities and back-to-hometown-trip, these are all well managed under my brain for the month. Hey look. I need sometime to chill out, ok?
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I'm so fucked up that I couldn't get the pictures from the Nescafe Kickstart Paintball Challenge. Damn good I learned myself a lesson. But anyways, I'm still chasing the series upfront.

Oh well, at least I showed some proof.
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And then this beautiful April comes in with most of us forgetting that April Fool's day is a very enjoying day for all of us. I still remember, one of my coursemate, Ivan, wuahahahaha. Sorry for the laugh but its really funny that your coursemate try to trick someone for that day and some eventually really fall for it. Some didn't, me of course.
I remembered that I trick him for the last class of the day. It was 5pm and we're heading to the class. Ivan still playing around with his not so funny jokes. Its ok. I laughed my ass out for some of 'em. When we're getting our seats at the back, I sit behind Ivan. Ivan puts his bag and chat a little with some other girls in class, and when he wants to sit down, I said in such a quick and serious manner, "Hey wait. There's something.". He quickly turned around because afraid that his ass hit on something on the chair. When he looked at the chair, I said normally, "April Fool. Haha, gotcha'.". He muttered some bad words to me which I heard but not other girls. What a day. I need only one shot. Since he 'tried' to trick me a few times. Even our other friends gave a huge laugh. A very good last laugh. [Sorry Ivan if I really pissed you off in here. I know you can beat me in other things. Maybe someday, not today, someday.]

Nescafe Kickstart Paintball Challenge

Shit. Thats the first word i muttered when i get prepared for my first game on Sunday, 17th. I forgot to bring my camera. Damn. What a waste. No pictures for now during the game. Have to get it from one of the guys who took out team's pictures during in game. Have to wait for it. Anyway, part of us are glad that the camera is filming us. Yes. Its Nescafe Kickstart from TV3. Wow. What a chance. Since there is no pictures of it now, i would suggest you guys to watch TV3 every Sunday, 11am. It would show any events that they have filmed. Don't know when it will be out but i'll be watching it every damn Sunday.

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Outrecs Jr. joined this event in the support for our senior team Outrecs. The manager for Outrecs is Laloque which is also one of the semi-finalists who will get their dreams come true. Laloque is alsp my senior who introduce me into this extreme sport, paintball. I'm proud to be one of the Outrecs paintball family. His dream is to build an indoor paintball field in Malaysia where paintballers can play painbtall no matter day or night, shine or rain. We from Outrecs Jr. wish that he will win this and make his dream come true!

Outrecs Jr. didn't make the cut to enter semi-finals in this event. We faced team Raptors which is also quite an experienced team from Cyberjaya. We all did our best and congratulations to team Raptor as the 1st Runner-up for this event. Our team must improve loads more from now on. At least we finished in top 8.

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.