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Paintball Madness Strucks Ngee Ann Polytechnic Student
Sebastian Wong, a Ngee Ann Polytechnic student, who is quiet by
nature and shy in public, held a paintball marker in Ngee Ann
Polytechnic on 20 Nov 2008. He pulled the trigger and fired a
few dry-shots in the canteen which turned the heads of the
students having lunch, some with noodles swaying half-slurped
from their mouths. Backed by 4 other Ngee Ann Polytechnic
students, they embarked on their paintball awareness campaign in
front of a paintball-equipment clattered booth which they have
set up.
Paintball and this student group’s paths crossed when they were
playing paintball at Red Dynasty Paintball Park in October 2008.
Attracted by the excitement of the sports and relentless
introduction by the instructors at Red Dynasty, they got hooked
by paintball and decided to merge studies with interest. The
Fantastic Five, Sebastian, Wei Na, Jian Bin, Shi Wei and Farhan,
to set up a paintball booth in Ngee Ann Polytechnic as part of
their module, I&E Events Management which required them to work
with an external party to do a promotional/sales project.
Into his 2nd year of studies in Diploma of Aerospace Technology,
Sebastian is part of Ngee Ann Outward Bounders and Ngee Ann
Shooting Club in which he is taking up the position of Event
Manager in the club for the coming year. He quipped, “My first
project is to introduce paintball to Ngee Ann Polytechnic
students. The paintball introduction session is set on 15 Dec
2008 (Monday) at 9.30am. Each participant only has to pay $20 to
try out paintball!”
KING was also present to lend his support to their project and
spent his day sharing paintball stories especially on World Cup
Asia which took place recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on
14-17 Nov 2008. ELLE, from the Paintball Association of
Singapore, preached about the importance of creating awareness
of the sports and a positive paintballing culture Singapore with
emphasis on sportsmanship and team-to-team camaraderie.
Throughout the campaign, Sebastian and his team passed some free
paintballs among the onlookers who were quite amused by the
little orange gelatin balls. Until one of them flung it on the
ground and splattered some paint on his friends. The ‘feud’ was
eventually settled “out-of-court” by a few cans of Coca Cola.
Nothing like a cold can of Coca Cola to sooth the nerves. It was
a full 8-hour day of standing and answering queries on paintball
before the team finally closed the booth, hopefully with an A
distinction for their module and some potential paintball
enthusiasts for their school.
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