I had told him for N times that I wish I could have chance to participate in motorcar treasure hunt. But we always missed it. Finally, I got this chance. We used to make donation to HOSPIS on regular basis, but not on fixed schedule. Thus, we missed its annual treasure hunt activity last year. Luckily, this year, we saw the event promotion when we made our donation in last month. Without hesitation, filled up the form, made the payment and wait for the event date with excitement.
As the event date is around the corner, we then realized that the treasure hunt date is fall on 28th April 2012. Well, I guess you guys know what's going on in the city on this day. Oh No! I don't want to be stuck in the jam or in the crowds, or even been caught while finding my way to search for the answers! We felt kind of relief when we knew that we're going to flag off latest 7:30am, and heading to the south as finish point would be Equatorial Hotel, Malacca. BUT, it is still a bit too early to say we're out of the jam. Why? Because there will be yellow crowd 'welcoming' us at Dataran Pahlawan (next to Equatorial Hotel). Haiz... What we can do? Just be cool and stay focus in the game + PRAY HARD...
Get ready with the team number sticker put on both side of the car. To our surprise, we're no. 7 in the queue to flag off.
Flag off point: Tesco Extra Cheras.
FOC breakfast and coffee to ensure we've energy to enjoy the game. Haha... Final briefing before departure. 'People mountain people sea' huh? There're 61 teams took part in this hunt.
A pit stop at the gold sponsor premise. See the board in front? We totally forget that we did took this photo and this cost us 10 marks as we missed the word challenge finding the hidden word in a crossword puzzle.
We decided to go straight to finish point earlier after gone through the complete route of the hunt, and gave up continue to crack our head thinking for the answers. Reason 1: there is penalty for late check in. Since we only able to answer a few questions, we don't to waste more points. Reason 2: we're only 2 in a team, we're quite exhausted, both physically and mentally after hunting non-stop on the road for 200++km in 7 hours. Reason 3: we're inexperienced in the hunt, really don't know how to crack the clues. So, we submitted our answers once the counter is opened, and take our time sit comfortably at lobby and see those hunters rushed back to hand-in theirs treasures and answers.
We had a dinner + prize awarding ceremony that night in the hotel ballroom.
We bought 5 lucky draw tickets, hoping that we can win a coffee maker. We're not greedy, we only want the coffee maker, and not the 2x4D3N Star Cruise trip. So, please make our dream come true! Well, at last, we're too generous to donate that RM50 and not ask for return.
Prizes for lucky draws and treasure hunt winners. Those on the floor, are consolation prizes for 23rd and so on. We're considered not too bad, ranked 50th as 1st time hunter. A very good and memorable experience!
