Cherating

It was a short notice road trip. Four of us in my car, with other four cars following, all heading to Cherating.
There will be another paintball war in Cherating, located in Mercu Resort ( nice comfy resort by the beach with a big waste land ). So, we set up our battlefield, ensemble all our paintball equipment and waited for the participants to arrive. As usual, I'll be Reuters in the middle of the battlefield. Start off with capture the flag, with all four coloured flags in the middle of the battlefield. Next game - capture enemy flag as many as you could. Last but not least, a battle with bandits to capture all four colour flags. It was awesome!!!
The next morning woke up early as the sun rising beautifully in the East. It was a breathtaking view. A solitude moment to spare. Just me and mother nature...
The beach was clean, though the water are not as crystal in Perhentian Island. If I had brought along my wet shorts, definitely I would have jump right in, regardless of everyone. As the time pass by, me and a friend of mine decided to go to Kemaman for some shopping and dining...
Kemaman is about 30km from our place, which is much nearer than Kuantan. In less than 30 minutes, we'd reach our shopping destination. The pekan is well-developed. Nice, small little pekan of Kemaman. I bought 2 pair of Thai Silk linen that will be made into a baju kurung, and a pair of kain pelikat for my dad, for his Father's Day present. The time is limited, because according to plan we are suppose to leave for Kuala Lumpur at 2pm.
Since I did not found any nasi dagang stalls, so I wanted some of the famous Terengganu keropok to bring back home. We did stop by few stalls. My first time to eat Sata, which is much better than otak-otak. Bought some keropok lekor and keropok ikan. Finally, we start heading back to Mercu to check-out at 2pm.
Pack all our things and stuff it into the back of my car. We will be starting our 5 hours journey back to Kuala Lumpur. Thank you Mercu Resorts for it good hospitality, and bye bye Cherating Beach...
From Cherating, we head down to Kuantan and enter the Pantai Timur Expressway. This is the only road trip so far, that I haven't been doing much driving... And another success road trip to Cherating, a place I've never been before...
more pictures at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/lartz/601486986/

Paintball at Sungai Pisang

It is war! The Spartan ( soo in the 300 mood that moment ) versus the Hebat ( yeah, mmg hebat ). The environment not at any padang, not with any bunker ... in fact in the jungle with a stream of river, mud, trees and not forgetting the blood sucking creature - the Leeches.
12 of us divided into two different groups. We start off with a safety briefing and how to use 'em speeches. Then, its time for warming up. Loose those joint and firm up those muscles. Get into our safety gear, and walk to our base for some brainstorming strategy.
5 second .. 3 .. 2 .. priiiiiT!!!! And the game starts. Run across the stream, take cover behind a huge tree trunk, merangkak on the ground, and trying our best to blend with the environment. After finishing each game, there will be a 10 minutes break ( time to makan2 and minum2 ). Yeah, we did bring along our foods - there was a bihun goreng, sandwiches, ubi goreng and more kuih...
The 1st game - we need to capture a flag position in the middle of the arena.
The 2nd and 3rd game - we need to capture the flag from our enemy base.
The 4th and 5th game - collect as much pendant in 10 minutes.

Total of 5 game, with about 2 hours of extreme fun. Hebat team took control of the game with 3 victory. Pictures are taken by Lipass, since myself are having lotssa fun!
After the game, all of us jump into sungai pisang for a cool-off ...

War at Padang Merbok

Reached my buddy house, crash his house and wake him up. Bought a light breakfast at the nearby 7Eleven and speed off to Padang Merbok, Kuala Lumpur. It was Harith ideas, and two of us is just a victim of his. Anyway, if he didn't make the call I suppose me and these boys won't be seeing each other anytime sooner. Thanx dude, for such an agenda.
It is a paintball competition at Padang Merbok. Not many civilians there, compare to those sharp shooters paintball players.
I reached there early enough to stumble upon my very first senior-I-met during in MMU Melacca. Abg Wan was warming up and streching with his group. He was yelling my nickname out loud, jumping up and down! I was so surprise to see him, after 6 years.
We took a seat at the stadium-concrete-seating, and the game start off. As usual, the objective of the game is to capture the opponents flag placed at their base. Though we sat behind a net, the bullets still manage to get through and almost hit us and my lens. Later after, we are filling some forms circulated by ASTRO. They are going to make another reality show playing paintball. So, just wait if I was selected to be on one of their series, and again this is Harith ideas.
The big little boy is hungry, and off we walked from Muzium MataWang to Coliseum Cafe situated on Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, just beside Colisuem Theater ( had been declared as Heritage building in KL ). A very wonderful day to walk around KL, the traffic was minimal ( maybe because of few road being blocks for Federal Day celebration ) and there was less sun. It was indeed a very old vintage building, since 1921. The food was fantastic and it taste more delicious if it was a treat. Thanx Azzad for the treat.
Does this look weird? Knock yourself out to find where this road located...