Paintball

Went to play Paintball (a game where you shoot the opponent with a gun loaded with bullets that have paint in them) with my colleagues yesterday!! There were 33 of us in total, organised by the bank's Rec club!!! The interesting thing is.. of the 33 people, there were a couple of people from outside the Bank and a couple of people who are actually not part of the Rec club... but anyway, we met at Tanjong Pagar MRT at noon and took a coach to Orchid Country Club! Seemed really far to me.. but anyhow we reached in about half an hour I reckon. It was the first time for many of us so it was a trip to the unknown...

This game, I found out, is actually quite a violent one... you go into a "battlefield", hide behind obstacles, try to aim and shoot at your opponent (if he gets hit, he has to go back to homebase before he can continue doing anything else) and prevent them from reaching their treasure box and bringing it back to their "home", while you try to also avoid their attacks and bring your treasure box "home". Whoever finishes first wins obviously. There were a lot of tactics, crossfires, and of course... shots of bullets filled in paint.

The bullets, actually hurt. And the impact is so great that it can actually go through denim jeans!! Note that these bullets are shot at distances of around 30 metres on average!!! No joke!! Here are some of the after effects...

But well, after all the pain, the abrasions, the cuts, the blue blacks, it was great fun. Though I would call this Paint & Pain Ball.