Jack In and Enjoy: December 2004

Monday, December 27, 2004

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone! May the joy will fill you and people that close to you. Let we all rejoice for unto us a Son is given. Unto us, a Savior is born. The Almighty Jesus Christ. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, it's not about the gifts, it's not about the new clothes, it's not about the new jewelries, or new kick-ass gadgets, etc. But it's about the reflection of the true meaning of Christmas itself. About realizing of who we are in this small planet. And thanking Him for sending His only Son to save us from the evil. Once again, Merry Christmas, may it be jolly hehehe..

Monday, December 06, 2004

Officer down! Medic! (Paintball 2004)

About a week ago I got an invitation from Mr. Z to play paintball. So yesterday, Sunday 5th December, we went to the designated meeting place. We arrived there about 0845, and waited for the others, at 0920 everyone was there, 28 people showed up. Not bad huh, the bigger the merrier hehehe..

So the organizer guy showed up and took us to the 'killing field'. We got a short briefing about safety and rules to play the game. Then everyone started to get their gears. Basically they gave us an overall suit to protect our clothes from paint and dirt, mask to cover the vital area of our face, and some other guys they bring their own gloves.

Then we were devided into two groups, odd numbers and even numbers. We started playing about 0945 I guess. I lost count how many games we did yesterday. I only remember some scenarios such as Capture the fag Flag, General, Satellite Disk, etc, etc. It was very fun tho, because at first I felt a bit uncomfortable as I only know two people hehehe.. but it turned up very well. I made some frags in every round. 4 frags is the most I could make from one round hehehe..

The sh_t thing was that the guns have crappy aiming. No matter how steady I tried to aim it, the paint bullets keep running everywhere. It's too low sometimes, and sometimes it runs too high, etc. But that what makes the game fun anyway. We got a lunch break aroun 1330, mainly just hotdogs anyway. But all of us just need rest and drink. Forcing yourself to run, hop, crawl, squat, etc in four straight hours is just wrong hehehe.. I don't do sports anymore so my body is not familiar with all of these sudden rush. I was breathing like a freaking horse that just finished one long day of orgasm hehehehe.. We all were sweating because the weather was getting warmer and we had to keep our overall and mask on while we were on the field. Some poor guys forgot about this and they had to stand in front of the firing squad. Five players were allowed to shoot him from 10-steps distance kekekeke... it's just nasty, trust me.

Anyway, during the in-game time, I got a chance to check if I got some wounds hehehe.. I had so many bruises now about 8 of them. Only one that is... ermm.. fatal :P The first hit that hurt me was on my fingers. I was taken out by our enemy and I was about to get out from the field when someone from my group was shooting at the enemy but silly me, I walked into his firing line. It hit my fingers so hard, it bleeds for a while and I couldn't use my right hand. It was shaking and I felt so weak lol.

But that's not all, here is the best 'wound' I got so far. Caution, some of the user might find this pictures disturbing :P

D-Day:

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D-Day, after shower:

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D-Day plus 1:

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Kekekeke it is a bad bruise and pretty swollen. I got it from two shots in two different games but weird it hits at the same spot. Whoa someone has a really good markmanship. Some other minor bruises are on my elbow, chest, hips and left arms. The other players were shocked when they saw it hehehe.. Oh well, that was my first time playing Paintball and it was worth to play and get some little wounds tho hehehe.. Definitely won't be my last time I play it.

Quote of the day:
Paintball marker rent: $25
700 round paintball bullets: $110
Extra round bullets: $15
Getting two shots in two different games but hit at one same spot: Priceless

LOL! That's all folks!

UO memorabilia

As you all know, I'm addicted to an online game called Ultima Online. The game itself has reached its seventh years of running. We've got so many expansions, seven of them so far that enhanced the game content. Back to the first year of UO, any player who bought the CD would get a map. Map of the entire land, that is called Britain Britannia. It was made from cloth. I only started to play UO since two years ago and of course the cloth map is not produced anymore, but I wanted it. So I was hunting for it on the net, trying to find someone who wants to sell their map. It was hard as in seven years people might loose it, even some still have it but they keep it as collection.

It is a momentum for computer online game that makes UO still has many players, and more people try to collect anything that relates to UO. But I was lucky to find the map for sale in eBay. There were two sellers actually, I bid the first seller but the auction was getting higher price because other people bid it. Then I found the second one who sell the same item PLUS UO pin. Whoa it's even better. So I let my first bid to be outbid by the others. Anyway, I won the auction, paid the transaction with shipment fee.

I got it last week and now I wear the pin when I'm going out in a nice outfit (no, I don't wear any mage robe or knight plate armors hehehe) I got a chance to make snapshot of them:


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I'm happy coz some of my friends were looking for the map too. Indeed it is a rare item. Even some old software of UO were priced about $99, people want it to be a collectible so no wonder if one day you might find an old CD in a high price.

Breaking news: my girl is having holiday back to our home country, so here I am, alone and lonely again hehehe... She'll go to Beijing, China to visit her young sister who is studying there. My girl will spend about two weeks and celebrating New Year's Eve in Beijing. I heard that it is snowy and chill up there. Well, lucky them, in here the weather is getting warmer. No White Christmas in here :P

Before she left, she tried to leave some cooking recipes. So she explained some in under three minutes time, from soup to rendang hahaha.. just hope I won't do some mix-up recipes hehehehe..

Happy holiday everyone, enjoy before it's over..

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese