Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Unsung Heroes

Oh god its 6am again.. and here i am writing nonense yet again but some words just cannot be kept in...

Against the better part of judgement, i was drawn into the conficlt of an ongoing thing, Something that i would not walk into but circumstances do change..

I run AKR and now side by side with another company, in 2008, i had this dream to bring paintball to the north, and i had no idea what it meant to be an organizer apart what i had learned from the master Abg Lan of isi rimba. SO i gave a call to the big taiko of paintball, both got into voice message, and after 12 hours once call came in while the other never came till today. It was this guy i met, Gung Ho and Ping Pong and together we tried to do the immpossible, bringing teams to fight for Sultan's Cup. In sugai Petani where no paintball field was there, PALS build the field on soggy ground that i personally put in my blood and tears to do. at 7pm a day prior to the opening match (mine was a small event that could be done in one day) teams came from outside of kedah and waiting on the field status, it was 7pm and i spoke to head marshall and as much as i tried, i could not get hime to budge on the saftey of the field, therefore till 6am we worked through out the night to put together the field, and finally after being satisfied of the condition of the field, the guy approved it and The fight for Sultan's Cup was on. Jun until today remains the stauch and loyal to the game of paintball till today...

In 2010, Me and my brother wanted to do Sultan;s cup again and Paul pulled in his part and made it happen, this time in the grand stadium darulaman, it was great,HM came again and rotted for the state team, it was a hard event, we were not prepared for many things, operations, funding and what not but against it all, we did to execute the event and all was good. Although paintball was banned from the stadium and we were fined pretty bad espicially after the field was on RTM for the live soccer match merely 4 days after Sultan; Cup did not help but ratherwe strived and pushed on, later the year Her Royal Highness agreed to patron World Cup Asia Langkawi and the uphill task began. Aside from upstarts event such as the asia bali cup trying to de rail us and Pro Master Pahang that managed to steal a few of our sponsors, IT was with the patron that we meet Dato Shaberry Chick and obtain acknoldegment of paintball, it was at that time that we sat stumped on how to set up 4 fields in Mahsuri hall without damaging it, Well, Nick solved it and the first of three WCA happen.

Come the second year, we had listend to the comments of the PB, toilets, field lights and all the shortcoming of the event and we strived to improve, and all in all, we staged with by breaking the Malaysia Awards of which we hold till today.

By the third year, we tried our best to improve, alas the hal had electrical problems that reduced the effectivness and Tun was hospitalized in IJN on the closing dinner.

Why did we do it? we never made money on a RM3 M cost setup but we did it and we have been trying to improve ever since, Success is never as good til you hit perfection and yet we reached out to many and worked together on media and recongnition for the sport, there were no more wars, with WCA as a platform, things start to simmer down

But things changed as WCA 2013 loomed in the picture, people tried to dissuade us from PALS and though their shop was caught in a fire, i just wonder why the support never came.

Times we tried the more people say and talk about, going personal as racist and hinting of lies of RM10k that they never did aim for and yet was given never crossed the issue, the fact that we hold the event as beneficial to the teams was never mentioned, playing against Ironmen was something rarely seen, do people remember the unsng heros?
*That part was written earlier* This part is dated 25/03/2014

The MPF elections are done and i hope the newly elected will provide the fill of the missing gap in the industry, let us not turn into a warring faction but rather work as one, first to handle the marker issue then later on a program that would reward and bring about a new change and new teams for paintball. As we strive to bring in the world series to Malaysia and do a massive WCA 2014 (in conjunction with VMY 2014) i asked for support and hope that all the efforts to make and stage this world class paintball championship is enjoyed by not only in the sport but the many spectators and new converter fans.

One a sad note, The fate of MH370 was announced yesterday by PM DSN, it is a sad day for Malaysia, Truly sad, the fact that it took us 14 days to know where the aircraft was and how we are so reliant on other countries is a sad fact, We must now do closure and work even harder to build international ties and promote our country for Tourism is a major earner, They have gone to a better place by God and its now up to us to learn from this tragedy, NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED. A goodbye today maybe the last goodbye and so never end a day with anger or animosity as you might never know what tomorrow brings, For the passagers and crew of MH370, you shall be included in my daily prayers and for the families and friends, be strong and pray. For all of us, lets us not forget of the unsung hero in the saga, from the ground staff to those that have been searching for days with no sleep and rest, to those that was covering the tragedy and all the was involved directly and in directly, remember mh370 dont let it merely be a statistic.
Peace
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Prayers

Its again 6am ...

The Nation is in mourning, we are sadden of the loss of MH370, A thousand theroy and a million opinions and yet we are not even closer to the truth of it. Three of the crew members are firends of mine, we had served togther back in the days when i was a flight steward, i cant imagine what the family is going through and i pary for the safe news of MH370 with not only Malaysia but the whole world.

Rather than spew my theory and opinions like the other thousand experts out there, let me take a stab and write about MH370.

If anything taht regrads to the flight of MH370, the one thing that we can learn is the lessons from it. LIFE IS SHORT AND UNPREDICTABLE. I now fly every week and recently i fly my son in for his classes, what would happen if it was his flight? How do you react, we humans have gone soft, gone lazy, we take things for granted, we forget of the Al-Mighty, We forget of our purpose. Before MH370 we never did take people flying seriously, family members that travel overseas, loved one going to study, parents going for Umrah or children going to study, how many of us actually gave a thought about it? Flying is now normal and like everyday thing, Everybody can fly (sorry Tony and Air Asia) but as we get more advance we start to lose focus on the important things, a father flying to Beijing for work in order to make his famliy life better thus sacrifice the time with family and going to work, thinking that the next time we see them we can tell them. We forget, We lose focus. If anything that we can learn from this tragedy is that we must take life seriously, the ones we love, would it be great if we knew but we dont. So why do we still have ego and a misgudided sense of importance? i wake every day now with heavy heart, saddness of those that lost their loved ones on MH370, i worry and i am scared, what happend if God took me, have i done the best i could, Did i make sure my loved one KNOW that i loved them? i am scared

Love is great thing says a singer (cannot remember) but for me, its love of the heart, beyond money, beyond looks. IF having a BF revolves to the fact that he has an auto export car business and that personally he has a ferrari, pandemera and etc, Does that mean going public to spike of his wife and generating pubikcity, Would she still do what ever she did if he was merely a burger stall operator? or would he give her the time of day, if she worked in Watson? Nah, wont happen, our world is goverend of money. As i was having late dinner and dicussing this very fact, I know of financial stability but yet there is a merit and limit on it, And of coveting other people money ? so many examples, where would Hang Tuah be? Gandhi? We are a poor excuse at times, So folks, lessons of the day is that after you read this, please make so efforts to chase the love lost and rebuild a bridge over stilled waters, Do it now.. for tomorrow may be to late. Anyhow, here is movie reviews of this week (300 rise is not even worth it unless its a really quiet day)

About Time
                  What would you do if at the age of 21, you discover that you can go back into time? What would you do?

The story revels it a most natrual way, making you be a part of Tim, comparing our low times in our life to the movie, The lesson is finally shown in his father teaching and the final lesson in the end

12 Years a slave

                  Truly a great movie, maybe a lot of movies have been about slave but this is so refreshing that we value the simplest liberties that we have. Watch it please

On that note, nite folks and please th goverment of Malaysia, now is not the time to worry about an oppisation leader screwing someone arse(literally) it is not the time to worry about elecations or sports but about the more important of running a country.

Peace