Pintasan Travel Raya Hunt

It was our first treasure hunt after Raya 2008. I was a little bit rustier than the rest as the others had been able to join one of the walk hunts in One Utama. So at least their minds were a bit fresh on answering the lateral thinking, anagrams, and general knowledge etc questions. I’m on the other hand, had one of my formal replies to a question ready: “D’huh?” :-)

The day started well, we were very relaxed. I took my time to drive us over to the Padang Utara P.J.; I even had time to stop for fuel and checked my tire pressure (I was lazy to do it the night before…). We were among the first to arrive there, and the C.O.C. was already busy preparing for the start of the hunt.

A total of 22 cars/teams were involved in the hunt, where there are a lot of regular hunters around. Of course, those with the status of “Masters” are there too. Because of this, we did not expect to win, and just hoped that this will serve as a refresher and a warm-up hunt before the big hunt, i.e. Sun Hunt (!), to be held on the 2nd November this year.

The hunt went well; surprisingly we answered the first few questions with ease. We usually have problems at the start, stuttering in the beginning of the hunt. Not so this time, and we thought we might have an easy hunt. Zahrol (the C.O.C.) did warn us that there would be some easy questions, and a few hard ones, i.e. “kaw-kaw” punye. So we were waiting for the hard questions. Didn’t find it in the route questions. It hit us in the treasure questions.

Man, we were just stumped by the questions, and I must say that part of the treasure hunts were always tough on us, we usually struggled a lot on treasure questions. It cost more points, so it was a bit more pressure on us all. However, most of the time we would have some idea on what to target, but this time around, there would be no such luck. It was upsetting, and we didn’t manage to submit the treasure at Location 1@Tulip no.32 to get the extra 2 points. We decided to wait till the end, and solve the route questions first.

The treasure hunt route took us through P.J, Damansara and ended in Kota Damansara. I disliked the Kota Damansara area, because the area is almost always are jammed packed with cars, and it’s only wasting our time there, waiting for the cars to move. One of the pleasant surprises was when we were in PJ Section 14, where we bumped into my auntie and uncle going for their routine breakfast outing. I was focusing on looking for the answers through the window of the car when I realized someone was looking directly at me on the other side. Lo and behold, my auntie was pointing at me! She was as surprised to see us there looking around the shops for answers.

It was fun overall, lunch was good as well, or is it because we were hungry? :-) With the exception of the treasure questions, it would have been a good hunt for us. It was another learning experience nonetheless; "think outside the box" as they would always say. In the end, on hindsight, the answers were right there in front of us, we just didn’t realize it. Except for treasure question 5, we are still debating on that. :-)

On to the next hunt...!