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Proud to be a child of God, a faithful son (I hope lol) a trying to be hardworking student, a part-time worker, a nerf/milsim enthusiast, a crafting and music lover and an awesome friend. to you :) Hope you have an enjoyable time reading about my life, as much as I have fun living it! |
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I am a university student who loves chocolate! Coffee is my best buddy when it comes to taking on my finals. I have a tendency to want to try and do so many different things at once and as a result, I've found my hobbies to be as such!
Nerfing is one of them, but aside from that, I also love arts and craft. I have my own startup, Thumbforlego at: where I sell my works! 
I love to do all sorts of crafting, so you will see me uploading posts of my leathercrafts, thumbdrives, replica guns, nerf gun modifications and gundam models! I'm fortunate enough to be blessed by really supportive parents and given the chance to explore many, many parts of the world and try out a plethora of activities. This is also how I discovered my love for film photography, videography and piano. 
The film photo above is unedited! My family loves cold countries xD. We managed to catch the northern lights twice! 
I've also gotten the chance to experience many of nature's wonders 
And my most freezing experience to date: riding a husky ski sled into the sunset (It was -38 to -40 degrees celsius and the huskies were pretty fast.) 
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Why 36000feetabove? This is the altitude that commercial planes cruise at and I have always loved the view up in the sky, being amongst the sea of clouds. :) Personally, my favourite favourite food has got to be airplane buns! Does anyone else feel the same way?! With a slice of butter and looking out of the window, I have yet to find an experience that can beat that. 
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Saturday, April 02, 2016
Yay! Finally i get to attend a Xplorer War after what seemed like forever (2 months). Somehow, for every war, its always a chance to test something new. This item that is new can be a walkie talkie, or a new addition to the current loadout, like a new pouch, or a new vest, boots, gloves. Or it could come in the form of a newly acquired nerf blaster, or a longer barrel, different diameter, a different aiming optic. Mine for this war was a swapped out barrel for my xSkull, the GoPro skeleton housing that i previously spray painted and the wallet-bleeding BrainExploder helmet NVG mount.
The main thing for me was to test the audio recording capability of the GoPro as this time round, it is using a different casing. My conclusion? the skeleton housing works great!!! sound quality is now so much much clearer, not so muffled like when you hear noises from within a fish tank or something. Not like i've been in a fish tank before.
 And this war was quite different for me because i was the commander! So now that i know my role, i knew that i would definitely be pulling the trigger a lot lesser than other nerf wars as....
If i am pulling the trigger, it means that my enemy is close to me, which then means there would be an issue with my planning as by right, the enemy should not be able to get close to the commander as he should be shrouded behind his men.
So that was the mentality that i worked with. I must say though, my team was really good! I didnt have to pull the trigger at all and it was a fun learning experience for me in terms of allocating manpower and requesting for certain teams to move forward, etc etc. It was a 10v5 scenario as the leader of the five had the chance to pick out the best 5 that he reckons. On the other hand, you have me in the team of 10, that plays the main force of securing the flags. The 5 was playing as the terrorist side, which meant sneaking in and engaging in a more guerrilla style whereas the 10 played more as a collective force. You can imagine this as a grossly downplayed version of US versus ISIS.
At the end of the day, i didnt even get to pull the trigger once. Which meant my team did an awesome job of defending and attacking! 
I thought had everything nicely planned out, but forgot to play with the mentality that we were supposed to whack the terrorists. Instead, i distributed the men accordingly to react and ambush, of which never happened. At the end of the day, it was about my team rushing into "their" territory and picking them off 2 by 2. Which worked out really well as everybody worked in their mini teams together, communicating and relaying information back to me. Because of that, i was very aware of the situation as to where the enemies were, which areas been searched, how they are spread out. With these important information, i was able to organize a systematic flush out of the enemies so good job to my team!! they were of such great sport!
Guest starring: Phang from Malaysia! How to recognize everybody when they are fully covered up. x.x
Xplorer War 23 was really fun, we tried out using the maps which proved to be extremely useful in knowing the positions of my "fireteams", the little groups that i had within my team. Which allowed me to plan more systematically for their movements, since i dont have a knack for memory work. My arms were so sore as we reached the end of the game as my Xskull was REALLY heavy, because of the external shell and the scope. The base chassis of the XSkull is pretty light actually.
VERDICT for the test of my equipment:
1. Loving the performance of my XSkull now as i did test fire a couple of times. Shots are definitely better grouped because the previous barrel was too tight. I cant really tell if it's hitting further, doesnt really matter to me that much because it shoots far enough to begin with.
2. Actually i tried out my red wings boots with vibrant soles (like those army boots soles, not the white sole) in this war also, just to feel how it would be like and it was pretty comfortable! More of tight forming to your foot as compared to the comfy feel of the delta boots that i use. So it is not necessarily better, just different.
3. The Gopro skeleton housing works AMAZING. Sound quality is so much better, although you forego waterproofing, which is fine by me. Depending on your use, you might want to "blackout" it or camouflage it like what i did. However, i am currently considering getting a mini external mic for it, just to test the sound quality differences. Plus i can use the mic for my video recordings outside of nerf. Travel, school assignments recording, etc. plus its really small so yep.
4. The wallet-bleeding brainexploder helmet NVG mount wasn't satisfactory to me this time because of the camera angle. It recorded too high, thus missing out certain details like when i looked down to look at the maps or discuss with team members. Then again, i have a helmet cover on, so it may have affected the camera angle, Previously, i was using the metal helmet NVG mount with the Gopro sticking out, along with an external battery pack attached to the gopro. However because of the whole big casing, whenever it was adjusted to touch my helmet, the recordings were pretty accurate regarding my field of vision, despite the video making it seem a little as though you have eyes higher up.
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