Swordie Bloggie

Yesterday, the Finance Ministry sports carnival for table tennis or ping pong event was held at the Foo Chow Hall at Luyang. I went there to support my department and to capture some moments… our department manage to get the 2nd placing

The hall is quite pack in the morning and it was getting warmer and hotter towards noon… can’t use the fan around the hall coz it will blow the table tennis balls. I was sweating so much… and luckily there is a canteen at the back of the hall… I bought drinks and ate fried noodles there

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OK, tomorrow is the second leg of the Sabah Paintball League 2010. It’s going to run from Saturday to Sunday… 3rd July to 4th July 2010. It’s going to be held at the same place as the first leg… KK Paintball Field at Likas Sports Complex… located between the swimming pool and the golf driving range… you should be able to see the red bunkers on the field from the road or round-about near the Likas Golf Driving Range entrance.

Sabah Paintball League or SPL is the first big paintball tournament held in Sabah… hopefully it will become bigger every year… Me and two more photographers will be covering the two days event. In the first leg, there are quite a number of teams participated… and this time there are more than 20 teams… and on Sunday, there will be a special event… One On One.. for those who want to try and eager to shoot legally and safely, you should try this… just drop by… and don’t worry about jersey or what to wear… you can wear anything… even hip hop clothes… or better still wear your favorite World Cup team… but just make sure you wear shoes… sandals, sleepers or crocs are not allowed… I love crocs… You can use sneakers, shoe with studs… as long as it is shoes, that’s fine… OK see you all there tomorrow

The coming Borneo International Marathon 2010 is on 2 May 2010.

During last year event, I manage to snap some photos… it was not planned… me and another two friends just decided to go for it… I think one or two days before the events… but this time, I already informed them about this coming event… hopefully this time we can get better location and photos… if we go for it.

Last year, the international category winners was monopolize by African runners… probably they are taking hgh supplements… or  maybe it’s in  their blood… great runners…

We see how the event goes this time… hopefully more international participants… If you are around Kota Kinabalu on 2nd May, don’t forget to drop by and watch the event…

After gym the other day, I stopped by at one of the big shoe shops at City Mall… to look for outdoor shoe… coz I have been using my Adidas Mega Bounce 09 for gym and outdoor thingy. I came here before and saw a nice outdoor shoe… it’s a sports shoe which can turn into sandals… just nice to wear for outdoor stuff especially photography…

I took photo of it in the previous visit and did some research about the shoe… First I thought the shoe name is Adidas Step Down… but when I Google Adidas Step Down, I can’t find anything about it… After doing more search, it turn out the correct name is Hydroterra Shandal…

This shoe is great coz it really looks just like a normal sports shoe… sneakers… but what makes it special is the ankle area… you can just step on it… it is constructed to be stepped-on… well, we do step on our shoe just like that but usually it will spoil the shoe… but for this Hydroterra Shandal, it is constructed for that… and it will take the stepping punishment like a man…

Anyway, while inside the shop… well it was quite late already about 9.30pm… without any warning, the shops assistants started shutting the shop’s roller shades?… roller shutters? I have to rush out before they shut all the roller shutters… and too bad, the Hydroterra Shandal  shoe is no longer there… have to go to 1Borneo Adidas to shop for it I guess…

If you are coming to play or watch the Sabah Paintball League Cup but not sure where it’s gonna be, here are some more info about it…

The game will start at 8.00am for two days… 6 & 7 March 2010

And the location is (click image for full size)…

BAH… last call for Sabah’s paintball players out there…

This is your chance to play paintball league cup… there will be three legs in this league.

For this first leg, it will be held from 6th to 7th March 2010 at the new paintball fields at Likas Stadium.

There are two categories, rookie and open.

For rookie category, it’s going to be 3 men + 3 reserve. Entrance fee is RM300 and inclusive of paintball pallets. Newbie & students are highly encourage to participate.

For open category, it’s going to be 5 men + 2 reserve. Entrance fee is RM300. You can use electrical or mechanical marker…

USPL rules will be used in this tournament.

For further information, contact:
KK Paintball Centre – 088 727445
Zachary – 016 8146301
Sammy – 016 8472592
Gabrielle – 016 8459991
Tracy – 016 8459903
Miguel – 016 8350053
Email – info@kkpaintbalcentre.com

And as what to expect from this league… here are photos of Pre-WCA games last year… expect to have the same or better excitements…

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On the fist day of November, which happens to be All Saints Day, I had a bad self accident during a paintball game. There are about 20 over of us from the MCSE class playing.

I fall down while trying to shift from one bunker to the other. It was the last match… it is actually an additional match after most of the other went back… only about 9 of us left and we decided to play 3 on 3.

My left trigger finger… index finger… was badly torn… coz I fall down and the trigger finger was absorbing my fall… holding my 95kg body weight!!! But lucky it did not brake to the opposite but instead get torn…

Went to clinic at Donggongon and had 5 stitches on it. Supposed to remove the stitches on 10th day, but I was away in KL for the Hacker Halted 2009… at the end I only manage to remove it on the 14th November at Medicare Clinic in Mid Valley, KL.

Then had it x-ray on Monday, 16th November, at the same clinic coz I was worried something might be broken inside… yea, should have x-ray it before it get stiched…

But anyway, I’m lucky nothing broken inside… except it is still swollen till now and still cant bend it completely.

Next, I need to do insurance quotes… errr.. insurance claim… I must get my insurance to refund me all the medical bills… and plus 2 weeks of allowance… probably RM150 per week…

Thanks to Donny who send me to the clinic and helping to take the photos inside the clinic…

The torn trigger finger

Not crying… just giving pressure to the arm to reduce pain while getting clean…

Stiching…

and stiching…

Stiched…

Getting anti-tetanus jab.

OK, I have been missing for almost 4 weeks from this blog…

Well, there are many things went by for the past 24 days…

Let me just summarize what happen for the past 24 days… and later I will talk more about it in the next postings…

Fist day of November, I injured myself during in a friendly paintball game… other than face mask, I did not use any other protective gear… not even breeches… lol.. only use my standard clothing… t-shirt with short pants… I played 3 matches… but on the third match I use a vest… and that is the time I injured my finger and end up with 5 stitches!!!

On the second week of November, I was away in KL for Hackers Halted 2009… it was fun but the rainy days with dry air in KL made my lips cracked. I’m glad to be back home and enjoy the cool breeze here.

Third week, I was waiting for my paintball team in KL for the World Cup Asia 2009 – Paintball Asia Series (PALS) which runs from 19 to 22 November 2009. My team, Predator Sabah, played in Division 4. Another team, Kinabalu Legion played in Division 3.

Forth week, feeling exhausted and back to work…

About 4 weeks ago, I followed a friend to a gym. I have not entered any gym for the past 15 years… I think…

I wanted to beef-up my muscle a bit… and build my stamina… coz next year if everything go smooth, we have a big plan to climb Mount Kinabalu…

I’m not planning to get slim or get skinny… and I don’t want to get six packs or massive muscles… I just want to get healthy and fit to do our expedition… Each of us probably need to carry 20kg or more of gears to climb Mount Kinabalu which stand at 4,095 meters high.

Then two weeks ago, I signed-up with the gym for 1 year membership… the gym is not Solo Slim Gym… but Core Fitness… yes it is without the gym at its name… yea, it sound weird without the gym at the back… probably the word gym is no longer suitable today… by just using the word fitness is good enough I guess… more grand probably…

Anyway, Core Fitness is located at City Mall along the Lintas Road. Their equipments are great… the main reason I join them. An tonight, I brought two friends to the fitness center and each of them signed-up for 3 months membership…

If they sign-up for 1 year membership… as a referrer I will be given extra two months free membership… but unfortunately they did not take the 1 year membership. And for my 1 year membership that I signed-up for, I was given a free water bottle…

Woke up around 5.45am this morning (Sunday, 18th October)… had planed to join the World Cup Asia 2009 paintball teams training at Kinarut Paintball next to the Papar Road since early this week.

My colleagues who are in two teams are going to play for the Word Cup Asia 2009 paintball tournament in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur on 19th to 22nd November 2009… one in Division 3 and one in Division 4.

In the beginning, I was only planning to join them to take photos during their training and during the competition in Bukit Jalil… but at the end, I will be playing for the Division 4 team since they are short of one player… so I will be their reserve player… But I don’t think I will be playing during the competition…

My earlier plan for the competition is to get a Pit Crew Pass so that I can enter the players’ area to photograph them… but since I will be one of the players… I will get a Player Pass instead… Hopefully everything goes well with the new plan…

It feel so different waking up so early in morning… the air is so fresh… … feels very healthy… then join the teams to warm-up… well, I did not join them stretching but more on following them around and photographing… but it’s quite tiring… with the morning sunshine… this is a great way on how to burn fat

Then I join them playing in three games… it was fun except for the marker… the gun… problem… it gets jammed… no pallets coming out… it really pissed me off… on the first game where I got hit on my leg, my marker gets jammed but not as bad as on the third game where I only manage to shoot less than 20 pellets I guess… before I received a head shot!!!

The second match was the best… I become the last man standing for my team before I was hit with two close range shots from behind… I was the defender… so I only stayed in one place…

Here are some of the photos… will publish the rest later…