Darren van der Waals is the new Sean Kingston

This time last year, I was soaking myself in the beautiful beach of Langkawi, together with 10 other companions. We went hiking up the hill, trekking down the jungle, hopping round the islands, we just explored the island. Browsing through the photographs that we took during the journey, it was discovered that Darren’s hair were still growing, so I made this:

They are like brothers, aren’t they? And Darren can sing too! This ain’t coexistent. Absurd, nonsensical, wacky are the exclusive adjectives for him. He certainly brings joy to every one who knows him! Erhmm to the new Sean Kingston – Darren van der Waals!

On another note, we stunned Chun Fei and Luke totally with our unique way of birthday celebration. It was crazy. So crazy that it prompts me to think twice that we might had as well stun the whole of McDonald’s. It was just another hard-to-delete memories. Happy birthday to both of you!

In the afternoon, I went to Deco’s place to help him out on his computer. The computer’s performance dragged our time dearly. Deco was so actively encouraging by giving me and Darren treats continuously. I just can’t thank him enough for all the treats.

Painball

We had our first paintball game today. Desmond suggested to play this game earlier and managed to locate the arena. The arena is located at Sungai Buloh suburb. NoPainNoGain(NPNG) Sports Centre is the name of the arena and it was my first visit. At first I wasn’t a big fan of this game, mainly because of its bombing price. After some heated discussions with the operator, we came to a deal at RM80 per person, bagging along extra 2000 ammos. We had a short but crazy briefing and we’re off to our first paintball game. We chose to play the outdoor arena first and we were divided into 2 teams. Adrian, Revan, Gary, Hong Yau, Wallace and me against Luke, JC, CF, Choobs, Ray, Fred and Desmond. They outnumbered us because Darren pulled out last minutes, refusing to come like a man. Forget about the chicken.

Godness gracious! I drastically turned my feeling 180 degrees as the game get going. All the feeling I had before the game were calm, just calm. When the game started, all sort of burning feelings came into my mind. The first thing I did was to take cover. During the time I was taking cover, I had a thought on how brave it is to be a soldier. When I saw the explosion of paintballs, when I heard the gunshots, when my movements was restricted, when I was trying so hard just to take cover, not to mention it’s so damn difficult to show up to fire, as the bullets will come from anywhere, enemies will lock down at me, it’s no lie that courage is all a person needed! Without it, a person won’t make it. Death is awaits if you don’t step up like a man. It just feels like in a real battlefield. I played so much of Counter Strike, now I finally got the taste of how it is like to be in a cross-fire scenario. I can’t do anything stupid. It’s also very hard to communicate with teammates. Desmond was the first man down, and it signaled the start of his real bad day.

1st round summary: <Capture the Flag scenario @ OUTDOOR> Hong Yau captured the flag thus we won the first game. I fall down when rushing to take cover. Haha. I got shot in the head! Chun Fei’s arm can be seen bruised so seriously, and it really freaked us out! Overall, first round was a bit of flat and slow-paced, mainly because of it was our first try. But every one were starting to get into the game I guess.

2nd round summary: <Capture the Flag scenario @ OUTDOOR> Luke captured the flag thus opposition won the second game. My machine got malfunction when the game just got going! I managed to fix it and carry on. I got shot in the head again this time! Damn! And the explosion of paintball left my wrist bruised, but it wasn’t that painful this time.

3rd round summary: <Last Man Standing scenario @ INDOOR> We moved into the indoor this time and changed the game scene as well. The team who managed to eliminate the other team win it. We won it this time. Desmond suffered the most wounds of the day in this round. Desmond was the last one of the rival team, already down shot by someone, somehow some of the fellas failed to control their fire and kept shooting at him, leaving 4 bruises on his thigh. Desmond lay on the ground suffering in agony and the game ended all of us wonder what had happened to him. When we looked at his wounds, it was really OMG!

4th round summary: <Last Man Standing scenario @ INDOOR> The marshal joined us to break even of the numbers of players in each teams. WOW! This game ended in the blinking of an eyes. As soon as the game started we advanced so deep up front and all of us keep firing at rivals. It was full of offensive and IT WAS SO EXCITING! One by one opponents down and down, and the game was over! Zizizizi. There was a moment when the marshal mistook Adrian as rival and was about to shoot him. Quickly, Adrian shouted “Kaki nang kaki nang!!! Jangan tembak!” which made every body LOL.

5th round summary: <Last Man Standing scenario @ OUTDOOR> This time, we went up to a hill slope. Wow. This place is a hell! I can imagine how the communists had war up on a slope. Without enough caution, I can easily fall down and crash on the rocks, cracked glasses and trunks. We had a round here and the opponents won it. GOSH! I got shot on my backbone and it was OLALA. So painful! Luke suffered the most severe injury of the day during this round. Gary shot at close range result in Luke’s ankle burst into a wound like a volcano hole! That really freaked every body else out!

6th round summary: <Last Man Standing scenario @ OUTDOOR> Enough of dungeon experience, we went back to our first playgound. This time JC got it all wrong when he rushed up to the flag station but it turned out the game was not a Capture the Flag game! He joked that he search deep into the sand to find the flag! We won this game.

Last round summary: <Last Man Standing scenario @ OUTDOOR> With our ammos nearly out of supplies, it was the last game which we won it again. We worked out so well and that’s the reason we won it. When I was about to fire the remaining bullets, my machine turned into the automatic mode, it fired for a decent times automatically. Somewhat thanks to God as the bullets didn’t unleashed from the weapon. I was surprised and every one were shocked. I immediately lock the safety pin to prevent it from firing again. Realizing there were still remaining bullets in my weapon, I couldn’t possibly imagine the outcome if the bullets were to unleashed from my weapon as it will surely give my mates a hard time.

End of the day, there are too many casualties, with Luke and Desmond grabbed away the Most Severe Wound award and the For the Love of Paintball Marks award respectively. I don’t know I should come back for this game or not. But for one thing I really enjoyed it!

some says I looks like Kevin Cheng in his upcoming TVB series, Forensic Heroes II

CNY don’t be late

Everybody in the class seems so gloomy and cheerless. Everybody was sitting, waiting, wishing, please will the bell ring earlier? I wish to get out from these awkward situation now! These days school hours have been extended 10 minutes. Until the teacher started to poke fun of us by questioning the silence in the class. Finally there is some heated arguments among the students and the teacher. The class is live again! All of us started to gel together, even if it’s a teacher. Suddenly, I realized so much that the school has so many DDDs to offer to my eyes! Wow. It was quite amusing for geeks like us to sit in the canteen after school, keep signaling each other 3 o’clock, 7 o’clock, 12 o’clock, etc. turning around our neck to spot the DDDs. There was one moment, something’s wrong with Deco as he shouted 9 o’clock so loudly and as we turned our way to 9 o’clock, the DDDs also alerted by the shout of Deco and turned their attention to us. Quickly we remove our sights from them and can’t pause laughing, feeling embarrassed. Godness gracious! That was classic! Oh DDD!!! Earlier, we were all informed about the suspension from school due to past truanting records. Wow. I get a 4 days off! Luke and Darren both get 5 days off! If the execution starts before CNY or after CNY, I can get extra 4 days free from school and I’m off to enjoy my CNY holidays! I’m already getting the feel of CNY this instance, CNY tops my festivals list without a doubt! In Spain there is a festival called Tomato Festival where people enjoy throwing tomatoes to each other. So this year if possible I want to cast oranges into the lake on the Yuan Xiao CNY really means lots to me. Television shows are packed with myriad festival programmes, everybody’s started to be nice wishing each other, stalls selling dried meat and mandarin oranges are set up along the roadside, streets are well-decorated with red lanterns, shopping complexes crowded with people who are rushing to buy CNY stuff last minutes, and so much more. You gotta feel it yourself. One year one time I’ll make sure I won’t miss it! Apart from getting angpau and new clothes, I get to reunite with mates and relatives. It has been 3 years since my last home-going to Kedah. I really miss it! But the people at Kedah communicate in Teo Chew and to tell the truth I’m not well-versed in it meaning to say even if I go back I won’t communicate much with the elders. Anyway it won’t drive down my passion as I feel it’s well worth already even if it’s just to get a taste of the CNY at there. The only drawback of CNY is that, grandma is aging causing the culture of gathering among the relatives here at KL has already long gone =( Those were the time when I was still a kid and I really miss it! CNY creates so much of moments, simply amazing! I LOVE CNY

I don’t want angpau I want DDD!