What a waste..
What a real damn waste..

If only the doctor i went to consult was much better at dispensing medication, i could have been playing in the mini RD challenge. In the end. i spent 2 days (thurs, fri) still having watery stool and abdominal pain.

So i went to the doctor's again on saturday morning, this time the doctor that i wanted to consult, that i should have consulted, was on duty. the main doctor, u know the one that runs the clinic. He's my family doctor.
On wednesday night, the doctor on duty was one of those 'fill-in' docs, u know those that fills in for the main doc when the main doc takes off.
So he (main doc) just gave me two packets of pills instead of the whopping 6 packets that the previous doc gave.

And guess wat. Those 2 packets of tablets worked wonders. After i downed them, i could feel the effects of it working. And now, i'm fully recovered from diarrhoea..

But it's not this diarrhoea thing that's the main highlight here.. it's the time wasted by it..

I could have enjoyed the best of two worlds..
Attend the RD mini challenge AND go for the archery camp..
it's really disappointing to miss out on the RD mini-challenge coz it's the closest i can get to a paintball competition before i enlist. Already Leg 3 of SPNS is being held on the 18th of October which i would still be in NS first-2-weeks-confinement. I don't see it being postponed to a later date coz of the management behind it concrete on the event date.. this is really just sad.. and the forum is alive with everyone posting about wat fun they had at the minichallenge..
I bet when i get back to work on wednesday, the ppl at RD would still be talking about it..

oh well.. it's done and over.. though it is kinda sad..


and the back aches bring back memories of a sweet past.

Damn sick right now..
Having diarrhoea.. which lead to dehydration which lead to an immense high fever.. goddamn never felt so 'good' before.. ahahah..

went to the doctor.. while sitting outside the clinic. there was this teenage boy in sec school uniform who did a fake sneeze in front of my face then said that he had H1N1.. fucking could have gotten out of my seat and knock him out cold, call the police and tell them that he's a public nuisance, inciting false information.. bloody fucker.. cursed him so much.. he's probaby in trouble or in some kind of pain right now.. ahahaha.. i feel so evil..

well.. this stupid turn of events is really making things difficult for me..
no work today. no money.
no money means not enough cash to buy paint coz i really wanted to play on the 25th for Jit's team.. then there's the training camp.. how am i suppose to pass the year1s their shirts..?
hopefully by tonight. i'll be well..

Sometimes.. I just need to be reminded how much archery means to me..

Something different i did two sundays ago.. which was to ref a training match the team called seekers were conducting, just a skirmish among themselves.. really something different coz these guys are at a higher level then the customers that i usually ref.. coz u can stand like a metre from a guy who's under fire and u won't get hit by stray balls.. that's how accurate they are.. and the inflatable bunkers absorbs the impact of the balls so the balls won't ricochet and hit you.. it was also interesting coz kiko was there to give advice to everyone.. most particularly the front player.. which is good coz its the position i'm going to play..

on the following tuesday.. me, dingyi and kiko reset the speedball field.. and since we had some freetime.. fuzz and kiko taught some fundamentals of the game and of handling the marker, switching hands, snapshooting, etc.. afterwards, fuzz invited me to a 1-on-1 match.. which was interesting and damn fun.. the first match.. okay.. i am a lil noob on this.. so Game On.. and bloody hell i lost sight of him at the beginning.. so i shot a few bunkers in an attempt to keep see him tucked in as i figure out my next move.. and i saw him.. so i ran back to a tombstone which was abit back from where i was behind a forward tombstone.. and just as i was about to popout and do a headcheck.. he came out from my left in an attempt to bunker me.. and we traded out.. but i got him.. a few bounced off my trousers.. so first match over and he gave me a few tips and pointers on how to improve my game.. he said i was playing abit too reserved.. not good for a front player.. so next match.. i ran forward to a bunker.. and bloodyhell i lost sight of him again.. so i went up to the centre temple and did a headcheck to my left.. and wad do u know.. fuzz was also doing a headcheck but he was first to react and shot me in the head - twice.. Ouch..
Game review.. it was just a case of fastest fingers as i did everything right in the game..
Later on in the day, i watched fuzz and kiko go on a 1-on-1.. which of coz kiko won.. very very aggro player.. of coz, he's like the world cup asian champions twice in a row and current defending champ.. take it from the master..

on thursday.. no work.. but play.. yesh play paintball with my ex-colleagues from haagen dazs.. it was damn fun.. apparently i'm the common target for everyone.. maybe coz i was wearing bright red.. james and siti like bloodyhell aiming me all the time.. and to make things much more "fun"..my colleagues who were working namely ivan, jeremy and kiko took potshots at me.. Kiko shot the bunker i was in.. he purposedly aimed off of course, if he were to hit me, he would have hit me.. Ivan's potshots both missed me.. LOL..!! but jeremy got me on my mask i guess.. don't rmb coz i was shot all over by james..
after the paintball game we went out for dinner at cineleisure pastamania.. a first for me.. and that's when the "balls" thing started coz siti made a silly quote on balls.. so thruout the night.. almost everything we talked about had an element of "balls" in it.. after dinner..we went back to wisma haagendazs for a fondue treat by james.. it was nice to be back without the person that made my haagendazs stint miserable.. Jet was there and a nice surprise coz he still remembered me..

i had to work on saturday.. and i offered to go to sembawang in replace of keith.. which was fun.. coz we had a break and me and kiko and sham had a really dumb and silly conversation.. the topic shall be kept confidential..

and i only missed a weekend of archery and the whole word suddenly misses me..

BTO-ed..!! WOOT WOOT..!!

[EDIT] For the benefit of most my readers.. BTO stands for Basic Tournament Orientation. It's a short 'course' i have to take in order to become a tournament paintball player.. thanks shwajuan for the reminder of edit [END OF EDIT XD]

wasn't as difficult as i thought it would be.. finally got to meet calgar otherwise better known as small ben.. briefed on the various tournament rules and ref hand signs.. then off to practical test..

since there were 7 ppl that turned up for the BTO.. it was 3 v 4. and to think i would be in the 4.. i got drafted into the 3man team.. why..? coz i have 'experience'.. LOL.. like c'mon man.. my teammates like have their own mask and their own paintball gear.. and there's this other guy who also has his own gear and is in the seeker family.. why not the have-their-own-gear vs the don't-have-their-own-gear..? LOL.. i felt so out of place man.. lucky ben junior was kind enough to lend me his dye I3s.. so at least i would look the part..

and MAN..!! the DYE I3s are simply amazing...!! the first thing that came to my notice was the frame foam.. it was smooth & soft yet it was strong and sturdy.. waaayy much better then the house Java masks that i use.. the foam just sits onto my face so the mask just fits nicely onto my face.. the next thing that came to my notice was the lens.. ben junior had just changed to a smoke thermal lens.. and damn.. the vision provided by the mask.. u can't even see the sides of the frame.. it has a great degree of peripheral vision..

so the match started in field 3 which is better coz last i saw the BTO was held in field 1.. my teammates were damian and jit, short for jitwei.. damian went left.. jit went right.. so i went centre..
10seconds..!! and game on.. run to a bunker hide.. damian went into the snake.. got 2 guys.. jit got one.. i got one guy who got shot while he was on the run and he ran out of bounds too.. so we won the first match..

2nd match was 'interesting'.. there was some paint on my marker, it was suspicious coz i knew no one got shot on the marker.. lol.. indeed it was suspicious.. the match ended in a draw coz i played on due to that paint on my marker was deemed as a hit.. and that's a one for one penalty..

and lol.. that broken paintball was there on purpose.. small ben said that in actual tournaments.. the marshals won't give a shit.. so he's teaching us to prevent such things from happening in actual tournaments..

so on 28th june 08.. i got BTO-ed..

after that.. damn.. i dunno wat got into faz and sham.. but we, together with kiko, challenged ben, heechai, jeramine and paul to a basketball match.. goddamn man.. lol.. wat brownies team.. shit
ahahaha
damn funny lah..
we got thrashed man.. LOL.. why of course.. fuck man they have tall ppl on their team.. ahahahah
it's damn fun..

oh well..
now that i'm BTO-ed.. i have to find a team.. sham invited me to join his team if i want to.. there's also team RD boys.. LOL.. but firstly i got to get the equipment..

sadly.. SPNS leg 3 has been cancelled.. the final leg would be on 18th october if i'm no mistaken..
sad.. just when i wanted to ask someone to come watch me play since it's held at pasir ris park and it's near her place..
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ouhwell..

BTO-ed..!! Woot Woot..!!