Paintball Royal Rumble (Dec 13,2008)

Paintball Royal Rumble

Host: Rafie a.k.a Penyu Maut
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Tanamera Paintball Park
City/Town: Sungai Buloh, Malaysia

Stressed out cuz of exams or work? Then come on down and have a paintball royal rumble... Bring ur friends and enemies (if u wanna shoot 'em till they vomit), the more the merrier... Trying to get at least 80 people so we can shoot each other like a bunch of retards... Just kiddin...

Got this invitation on Facebook a month ago. Never played paintball before so decided to seize this opportunity. Didn't think that strafing, ducking for cover, taking aim, flanking and shooting enemies is difficult (just watch Rambo, Gerak Khas, Black Hawk Down, Bad Boys and you'll know what I mean) but this game changed my perception of that and makes me appreciate more the efforts/sacrifices of our brave men in uniform (kudos to PDRM, TDM, TUDM, TLDM and the other relevant acronyms I missed out). 24 people managed to turn up that day and even though the numbers were lesss than expected, the game was still super fun. Our paintball group for the day comprised of myself, the Axon friends (Awss, PL, Tuck Loon) and the Sunway comrades (Rafie, Jimin, Cheng, Ang, Farid, Numa and others). As expected, the Sunway comrades would oversleep on that day and we only reached Tanamera at around 1100 HRS.
After all of us got our equipment, we were briefed on the rules and regulations by a big tough guy called Dogg. He is one of the marshals at Tanamera. These marshals are the guys who would monitor and regulate/referee a game. Marshals and regulars can be easily distinguished by their army clothing. They would wear camouflage suits and army boots. One guy was even wearing a ghillie suit. His brother is also a regular. Strangely, he was wearing an olive green jubah and carrying around an AK-47. The regulars call him Osama bin Laden.
First two games were played were at Lake Placid. Lake Placid is an awesome map. With a lake surrounded by lots of palm trees that can be used for cover and considering its shape as well, there can be a lot of strategies devised.
Next two games were played out at Vietcong Village. This can be a very challenging map as one team has to climb uphill to reach the opposition's HQ (i.e. truck). Mosquitoes were in abundance in tihs map. BTW, paintball is a physically demanding sport. There is a lot of jumping, crawling, strafing and running involved. It can also be painful if one gets hit by a paintball, depending on one's pain threshold and location of impact. PL had bruising on her arm from getting hit by a pellet. Unfortunately, it started to raining heavily after four games and we had to go back then. Haha, came back to Rumah Sunway and found a lot of K.I.As (Killed In Action).












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