{"id":420,"date":"2004-12-24T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2004-12-24T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T00:00:22","slug":"battlescarred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Battle-scarred"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any directors looking for someone to play the part of an abused wife can give me a ring. I certainly look the part now, what with all the bruises all over my body. I don’t even need any special makeup or effects! I’m blue, black and red all over.
\nThe cause of this? Paintball.
\nThis afternoon i went to play paintball<\/b><\/a> with some colleagues at the Orchid Country Club. Paintball is like a game of combat warfare which requires strategy and teamwork. There are two teams and the objective is to first shoot down two targets that are stacked on barrels. After having shot down the two targets, the team then has to try to bring this box which is in front over to their end of the field. There is a box on each side of the field but the two boxes are right in the middle of the field. There’s also hardly any cover up front. But in the midst of all these, you must avoid being shot by the opponent. The game is over when a team brings their box over to their end first.
\nEach team never crosses over to the other side. You always stay on your own side and you can hide behind barrels, or some barriers to avoid being hit and also to play sniper. If someone hits you while you’re running with the box, you have to drop the box, run to the shed, touch it and then come out again.
\nWe all have guns filled with paintballs. These are tiny balls filled with paint. If you get shot by one, you’re supposed to put your hand up (to indicate that you’re down), run to this little shed where the referee is, touch the shed, and then you can go back into the field again. These paintballs shoot out of the gun at great speeds (300 feet per minute or was it per second???) and if you get hit by one, it hurts a lot!!! Not to mention all the paint that splatters all over you upon impact!
\nAnyway, i got hit a lot today ‘cos i was the one in charge of running for the box and bringing it to the far end. I was the youngest and most nimble (supposedly) in my team hence I got tasked to do it. Everyone in the opposing team targeted me the moment I went for the box! I’m full of bruises now! It’s so bad, it’s not even funny.
\nThe game’s very tiring too as there’s lots of running involved and the gun’s quite heavy too! I didn’t bother with my gun while running for the box. It would only have slowed me down because of its weight. I abandoned my gun (something prob a good soldier should never do) and ran for the box, all the while trying to dodge bullets while my teammates tried to cover me by shooting the opposing team. The paintballs rained down on me the moment I laid hands on it. *whack* *smack* *splat*
\nI’ve got a red patch at the side of my neck and it looks like a hickey! Believe me, I’d much rather it had been one–at least the process of getting it would have been much more pleasant. Man, this hit was BAD. For one thing, the skin on the neck is pretty thin compared to the arms and legs so this bruise is pretty bad. Ouch.
\nOK, I must admit that this is, for the most part, my own doing. I had been told to wear long sleeves but I didn’t ‘cos I didn’t have any long sleeve shirts. I was told to wear long pants, but wasn’t told that it should be made of very thick material. My suggestion, to anyone who might be going in the future, is to wear really thick denim jeans, or some thick cargo pants. For the guys, you might want to consider wearing your army combat wear. I laughed at a guy who was wearing it in the team playing before us. But now, looking at myself, it was a smart move on his part! Oh yes, wrap a towel\/scarf or whatever you can find around your neck too! Getting whacked on the neck with the paintball is no joke. Anyway, I think this is as close as I’m going to get to combat and the handling of a gun.
\nIn sports, you also get to see a person’s character. Some people are more cautious, some just pure scaredy cats, afraid of getting hit by the paintballs, while others like me throw caution to the wind and just charge forward right from the very beginning! That’s what you should do in this game really. Better to charge up front early in the game when the opposing team is also moving forward, than to inch your way forward ‘cos it just gets harder later when everyone has taken their positions and starts shooting. I think I might have been a bit too garang<\/i> (a Singaporean slang for being full of bravado) and now I have the battle scars to show for it. Ouch ouch ouch!
\nI’m so tired now. But it was good fun even though I’m so badly wounded. This means no short sleeve or sleeveless tops and no shorts for me in the next two weeks or so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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