Sunday, December 9, 2012

Good outing with My kids and their primary school mates

I had been promising my eldest son Victor to bring him and his friends to the laser tag battle since middle of this year after the examnination but due to busy schedule and others, I didn't fulfil the promise not till yesterday. Even that, the laser tag booking was done through the groupon.my and it reminded me that I need to fulfil the promise although it's a little bit late. However, the kids were excited when I informed them that I had booked 8 tickets (30 minutes each with 10 minutes per game) and the venue is e@curve.
In total, there were 6 of us - Victor, Brandon and their school mates - Kelvin, Chen Hao, Kim Yip and I. All of them stayed at our home a night before Sat (8th Dec) excep Kevin only joined in at 5pm on the day itself. The whole family departed from home at 5:30 and arrived at the War Zone counter around 6:20pm. We were asked to wait for 10-15 minutes as there was another game going on. We sat in a room and watching the CCTV displayed on the battle happening inside. After much anxiety, we were called to go into the departure room and armed with the laser gun and jackets (heavy ~2-3 KG). An Malay instrutor was given us the instruction of how to using the gun and also when to press the shot hurdle and when you are shot by others, the color turn white, and 5 seconds you will be normalised. etc. The 1st game was fight against another group of Malay friends. We are Green and our opponent is Blue. We walked inside the war room (literally dark) with laser lighting and also many blades which allows you to hide behind and avoid visibility by others. We were asked to be on standby and game will start when the music play. Since, it was our first game and without much experience, we were beaten badly by our opponent although few of them are much younger than our group. We were by far in term of scoring behind them. but it was a good game. After 1st game, we want to continue with 2nd game but were told that our opponent needs to rest hence, the instructor told us that we will go with solo game fighting among ourselves. When the music started again, I was like the little chick running around without hen and shooting at each others. I scored badly among the kids when the result displayed on the LCD screen outside the glass entrance. Kevin emerged be the winner with the higher points. I prefered to war game with opponent rather than solo and we decided to take a rest as well since some of us require a break and twisty since runnin around non stop for 20 minutes. The break had given me some breathing space and allowed to re-strategise the game. I was frustrated especially in the 1st game where I was always shot by others without given a chance to re-venge. The 1st rule of thumb is that I must find a secure space to hide myself from others and at the same time, enables me to shot at others with greater impact. We went for a drink at the same floor and opted for the bubble tea kiosk. after the drink, we went back to the waiting room and wait for 10 minutes. When come to our turn, we were against the same opponent. But this time, I run toward the far corner when stepping inside the war room. I received resistent from the opponent as they also want to take the same corner. But with much resistent as I standstill as same positive and unwilling to move else where. Few of them came over and attacking me but I took my own sweet time to return armour at them and they run out of patience and give way to me and move to other places. By hiding at the corner, I had much of efficiency on shooting the opponent as they tend to forget that I was staying at far corner and not hiding away my attack on them. There were few occasions where I managed to shot few opponents at the same times. they were frustrated and revenge on me but I used the same mind game to avoid them taken our the uppper hand corner - territory. The end result turned out to be fruitful and although we still the loser but our score was much closer to the opponent especially the last game (4th) where we were just 2000 points behind. We enjoyed the game and gave ourselves and opponent a round of applause. Well done and kudo to all the kids. I can see the kids are sweating and the game was not only entertaining but also burning calories. All hard work was wasted when we go for the McD after the game with two order large big MAC and fatty foods. Not to rest our laurel, we proceed to Mine convention centre for big bad wolf book fair. we reached home after book fair at around 1am and the kids stayed up till 4am. I hope that victor and his closed friends still keep in touch as they are moving on to different secondary schools next year. It was a moment for appreciate and value their friendship for the past few years. I sincerely wise all of them success in future.