Recently Bonus & Fuminari organized a paintball event and there were lots of participants. During the rendezvous, one by one started to join us and it took a full 40 minutes before the whole convoy of 9 cars is ready for the journey.

First off, the event took a turn during the journey when we offshoot from the original direction and we’ve landed near the Bukit Kayu Hitam border. Realizing we’ve already made a mistake, we took a U-turn and headed back to the Bukit-Kayu-Hitam/Kuala Perlis highway. However, halfway the highway, the JPJ¹ decided it’s fun to have a roadblock and one of the cars was detained with a ticket.


The morning journey


We got lost


JPJ* decided to have some fun giving tickets to offenders...


The gang stretches their legs when we're waiting for the one car...


Same goes here


And here...


The Zoom lense of the Minolta Z1 does come in handy for snapping lengluis²...

When we continue to our journey, we got lost in the middle of Kangar (the state capital of Perlis) and we’re forced to do a detour. After moving for like another 40 minutes (with lots of stopping, asking for direction & more U-turns), finally we arrived at the paintball arena. The arena was surprisinly simple for a paintball battle ground. We've expected something more grand but after a little survey, we found that there is only one ground for the main match while others are still being upgraded for future usage.


Caught this when we got stuck in Kangar...


Asking for direction...


Updating the convoy...

Upon arriving, we’re taken into short introduction of the paintball. The instructor placed very heavy emphasis on safety and our pronunciation in the game, especially on the weapons. For example, the gun should be called marker while the bullets should be called pellets. This is to avoid confusion and in some way, to avoid the law for the matter. With extreme patience, the instructor showed us how to use the marker and the way to reload the pellets. There was a little Q & A at the end but most of us are just too eager to get down and start shooting!


Paintball plaque


Some full suit bad ass model...


Miniaturized model of the compound


"Would you believe if I did poke this up to someone's ass?"


The instructor giving safety precautions


Gettin' very attentive, aren't we?


Bla bla bla, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO START SHOOTING?


Hell, even the mask looks like a rip-off from Halo!

After sometime with the classroom, we were then taken to the battle ground. There’s a large court with empty barrels & old tyres to serve as cover. The ground was covered with a large net to prevent the pellet leaving the court if a player accidentally took an aim the outside. The ground were covered with pebble stones, that allows player to skid sliding into safety. After more briefing, both team Cobra & SWAT took their equipments and was eager to get into the battle. Watching it from outside was fun as some of them were shot in the head, body, torso, etc. I can tell that these guys are really having serious fun.


"Once I get you, you'll wish you never been born!"


"ARGH! Need backup! Need backup!"


"Where's my god damned cover?"


The instructor shows some hints & tips


"Who said anything about shooting your own teammates?"


The guardian referee...

After the first match is over, it’s my team (Terminator) against another, named "Too Fast Too Furious". However we realized we’re short of manpower and therefore recruited the help of Fuminari and other abled hands. Surprisingly, the match ended quickly with a victory to my team. I was shot twice and survived but I ran out of bullets real quick because each of us were given only 50 pellets. This is a learning experience as next time, most probably we'll get more pellets for a game.


The aftermath...


Still in the shooting mood, even when we're heading home!

Basically after we’ve finished, we let other team slug it out while we head to the bathroom. We’re chatting away on the lounge in the office and then we’ve been shown some clippings of an international paintball event. The convoy was split into two, 3 of the cars heading back while some other stayed behind to go for another round.

¹ JPJ - Jabatang Pengangkutan Jalan = Road Transport Ministry, responsible for issuing a summon if you offended some road law
² Lenglui = pretty lady

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