Sun Hunt 2009

Just a little jot on the biggest hunt event of the year as I take a break from doing my appraisals today.

Just would like to say congratulations to our Macam2 Adaaaa team for a good job this year. We finished at 22nd place, winning ourselves a Samsung MP4 player worth RM299 each....Ok la, berbaloi gak...although we did miss out on our target: the flat screen tv...the mp4 also has a flat screen to watch videos, albeit on a much much smaller scale...hahahaha...

Overall, we had fun in the hunt...and that's what we aimed for in every hunt. No use going to lots of treasure hunts but did not enjoy ourselves, right? And this is the biggest event of the year...rugi kalau x enjoy.

A lil bit on the hunt itself: I think TOS made a marked improvement this year in terms of dispersing the teams throughout the hunt sectors. There were 270 plus teams (?) in the open category, so it was quite a challenge to handle all of us. But they did good, where they break us off into 2 sectors in leg 1 at the beginning of the hunt itself. We improved a little bit on time management, but still lost out some time due to a couple of wrong turns and the traffic. Oh, and don't forget the famous M2A4 moment at the beginning of each hunt: D'uh...? What was question 1 again? hehehe...took awhile for us to start our brains in the hunt...

Hope we will do better next year, and the hunts to come. There's a lot of encouragements from the regular hunters and some of the masters out there, we would like to express our thanks for them for believing in us. We are steadily (but slowly) improving ourselves in each hunt.

In 2007, we finished 88th; in 2008, we finished 42nd and this year we finished 22nd place...what does 2010 holds for us, I wonder? *winks*

For the full results of the hunt, check Michael Pang's blog here. Congratulations to all the winners!

Oh, and if the F1 1Malaysia team is still looking for a driver for their team, drop me an email and I'll give you the contact details for Aini Fazlin (this woman can drive fast!)...the car seat still has marks of Farid's fingers from him gripping the seats so hard(!)...hahahaha...

On to the next hunt!

Top Gear Treasure Hunt

It was the first time that we are going for our “new configuration”, as DQ and I switch roles with her being the driver and me being the lookout together with Farid. My wifey remains as the navigator, as let's face it - she's the best multitasker among us. The starting point was at APD, Subang Jaya and it was a long hunt, 9.5 hours for us to reach Awana Kijal.

The most time consuming sector was the Bentong stretch where there were too many cars and lorries to count; I had a few close encounters with some lorries as I was looking for answers. No fault on their side or mine, I did stand out of the way from traffic, but the lorries just needed to “eat” into that space to avoid other vehicles strewn all along the road. And in that sector, we just lost track of time – big mistake. And to add injury to insult, we managed to overlook the answers to the questions…Billy the goat came to mind and being bad means literally bad…

Overall, though I would say that it was a good hunt, I managed to crack one of the “masters” questions virtually on my own, although this is after much prodding from my team mates: why? why? why? is always the correct question to ask when you’re cracking a question in a treasure hunt, and having a very inquisitive person as a team member (and wife) helps as well. I was a bit disappointed not to have cracked another similar question that requires the same technique, so it was a mixed feeling overall in retrospect. Must brush up more on that.

In the end, we ended up in 12th placing, the same position we did last year, albeit this year with no masters team around. Yes, there are a few master hunters in this hunt just “hiding” within the regulars, but still I thought we can do better.

Now on to the next hunt!

p/s: hope to post some pictures of our hunt later on...

The return to Treasure Hunts - Lexis Nexis

It's been few and far between for my treasure hunt activities this year. As a team, we have been unable to be regularly involved in the hunting season this year, and I personally am going through a very hard time this year.

But as human, life goes on and we soldier on, and to get back on track (in treasure hunting sense), the Macam2 Adaaaa team will be joining the Lexis Nexis Treasure Hunt this Sunday. Yeay to us! Err...actually, the team did join an earlier hunt (KL Walk Hunt) but due to time limitation, I wasn't able to join in the fun (sorry, Mike!).

Anyways, today we went for the briefing for the Lexis Nexis hunt. And we did make the right choice to choose the LRT as the mode of transportation as it rained this evening. And when it rains, you know what happens to KL. Some of the teams got stuck in the traffic jam, and I saw Mike on our way out and according to him, he was stuck for an hour just to get to the place.

But for us we were happy we chose the LRT and add to that, we found out that Wisma Kraftangan was right beside the Masjid Jamek station, nuff said.

Here's what the t-shirt looks like:


Disclaimer: that's a XXL U.S. sized t-shirt, and yes...my wife is a bit on the small size side... ahaks, *winks*

As usual, tons of goodies were given with the briefing notes and hunting gear for each team, that's why I love TOS and the Lexis Nexis hunt...so many freebies...

The only thing left to do is to actually wake up for the hunt on Sunday, and hopefully we can answer the questions given.

Fingers crossed!