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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