Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Paintball
Hello.. summer break is finally one month away. I hear singapore calling my name...
Just came back from paintball with the boarding house people. The teachers brought 50 of us boarders to fight it out in a paintball arena somewhere in tswassen. It was quite an experience. Situated in a section of a forest, we were split into 2 groups and were handed a gun, 100 bullets and a helmet.
A Paintball. It's basicly a plastic ball filled with paint. The plastic is hard, hard i tell you!
Then it was pretty much team deathmatch. We shot at each other until everyone in a team was "dead". I guess i did pretty well, all in all killing 5 ppl and dying 4 times. The killing part was pretty fun, but getting shot was just painful. You see, you dont' get any armor whatsoever. All u get is this pair of overalls u wear over your clothes to prevent the paint from staining your clothes. I was shot 6 times in total(counting my bruises). Some weren't too bad, but there was one time i was crouching behind a tree, taking careful aim at my unsuspecting prey, and then BAM, i'm lying on the ground, thrown back by the impact of the paintball slamming into the side of my unprotected skull. After that, not only did i have to deal with the throbbing pain and the swelling, but also the yellow paint in my hair... Man and to think i shot someone right smack in the center of his forehead...
My bruises. I was shot 3 times on my right arm, once in my chest, once on my foot and once on my head.
Yesterday, i slept at 0230. I slept that late because Ivan, David Kim and I had a prayer meeting and bible study in Ivan's room! It was kinda impromptu. It actually started when i was teaching them how to play some hillsong songs on the guitar, then the idea popped up. It was... powerful. Honestly, i haven't felt God's presence that tangibly in quite a while... actually, too long. It was quite a relief honestly. All this time i've been busy with other things, but not busy with the most important thing in the whole universe. It's quite frustrating to know about Him but not know Him and feel His Presence and not do anythign about it and know that it is wrong. You know what i mean? Haha... Maybe God's purposely keeping quiet. A test? Hope so..
