I apologise for not blogging for so long. Assignments have been a chore and finally its all over. i have 4 subjects this term and in the 2 weeks i had assignments for all 4. You may be wondering why i care.. thats because they all carry a high weight percentage in the overall mark. Really, mel uni can really suck you dry sometimes.
I pray the Lord will take care of that since i have already finished my part.
Anyway, today began at like 3 am when i woke up as matt was picking me up to go get the cars we rented from the airport. You may be wondering why all the way there??? The answer is cost... we only needed it for a day and the airport was the only one that could provide that and also we had to send celeste to the airport to catch her crazy early in the morning flight.
So matt, joel and i were at the airport at like 445am... which i still think is just not right. And we got the cars. They were 2 camrys. I have to say that a camry is a really nice smooth ride with an ok amount of power... So, anyway, it was my first time driving an auto car believe it or not. haha... seriously.. it was..
Rushed from the airport back to ICT building were we were supposed to rally with the rest and Anis did not show. Till now, i have received no word and am wondering whether he had any intention to come at all.
Lead car we were and off we went on the beginning of the road trip. It was a total of 6 cars and damn was it hard to keep in a line. It was hectic at first, having to stop and wait for those caught in the traffic lights, the slow ones and all. but in the end, we figured it out and yeah. I took turns to drive with matt on the way up and man was the scenery good. I wish i had taken photos and i will be bringing my camera around once koba returns it.
The drive was about 2.5-3 hours. It was nice. I was kinda tired but it looked so nice and we were all talking and all was good. Reached the paintball place after looking around a little and it was in a dirt gravel road thing(will explain importance later).
Paintball is a great game. You pay as hell and you get to hurt your friends and they really cant say anything against you coz all is fair in love, war and paintball. It was like AU$22 for a 100 pellet and its mad... I bought 200 at first and later on spent on another 150... sigh.... So expensive.
Overall, it was great fun. If i was not on a budget i would not have scrimmed and saved on them. I have to say thati was pretty good. I had like 20 kills and about 5 deaths. Seeing the anguish on your friends faces is wow! Anyway, i hit brandon, gen, ben, matt, weihong. Those were 5 of my most liked kills.
My first death took me really hard. And yes it has left a lasting impression on my back. It is actually quite bad. To those whom have not played paintball, it hurts like !@#$. Get shot and you will know. Am begining to wonder whether i wanna let cheryl play coz when the girls in the group got hit, they were like really down and the pain was killing them. Not too sure if they enjoyed it. I think i will be her human sheild if we ever go play it. Dun want her getting awful marks on her body. Anyway, that shot that hit me in the back was definitely from close range coz the bruise proves it and it shocked my entire left side of my body when i was hit. If i knew who it was, i would hunt them down. Will try to see if i can get pictures to show you what i mean.
Some continued in the afternoon after the provided lunch but i was not one of them as i am on a budget and i wanted to respect that.
So.. that was paintball... but the day did not end here. We rallied the cars, now only 5 coz one left earlier and headed for the road home. The dirt gravel road rem? Well, i was in the 2nd car. The 1st car went off fine and so did the second. but the third could not see the break lights of the 2nd and hit the breaks and the 4th car couldn see the 3rd'sbreak lights either and neither did the fifth. 3rd car though hitting the breaks went skidding and so did the rest of them. The 4th hit the 3rd car but it was only slightly but the 5th car took out the corner and the exhaust part even though trying to swing out of the way. the last car took the greatest damaged. Its front was crushed in but amazingly the engine could still start. After contact, it skidded to a stop on the highway but to God be the glory there were no cars there at the time and he managed to reverse back. We were there for about 2 hours figuring out what to do and calling here and there and finally, we sent 3 of the 5th cars people to take a bus and the other 2 remained behind for the tow truck. I really pity them. The main thing i did not say is that they did not purchase insurance. Its going to cost them about 4k for the damaged at least.
Anyway, another car left. To me, there was no good reason for that but i am not their father so they left and we were left with 2 good cars, movable one and another to be towed one. This was tragic and we decided to head back with the 'injured' car in the center so that the other 2 could protect it.
To cut the long story short, we took a damn long time to get home but here i am. We estimated to be home by 7 but its now 2am the next day. Crazy dun you think.
At the end of the day before i go to bed, i thank God for taking care of each individual out in our group today. We have all learnt a valuable lesson about dirt roads and insurance which all influence the entire group, or at least so i hope. Thank you Lord for keeping us all safe. I pray you be with paul and that other guy whom i cant rem his name, that they will be back safe and sound tmr. Thank you for finding the towers in time and granting us journey mercy as the rest of us proceeded back to mel city. In your precious name. Amen.