Just about a week ago, I read about the Yasmin Contraceptive Hunt in KL, which was posted in Michael Pang's blog. In it, Mike raised the "need to push for hunt organisers to disclose the hunt format before the event so that we can make informed choice." This was due to the fact that in that hunt, the score from the usual hunt questions was only 44 points against the maximum score of 116 points.
In yesterday's KK City Hunt, we had a similar situation—total score from questions and treasures were 71 points; and the maximum score was 151 points. The rest of the points were from games and challenges which included serching for specific items; posing for a photo session; drinking cokes and then tossing the cans into a bin located some metres away (within 90 seconds); and putting items of numerous shapes into a container blindfolded. I can say that the games this year were not as stupid as in last year's hunt. However, there were still too many of them.
The flag-off was at the Nexus Karambunai Resort, off the Sepangar Bay, at around 7:30am. Hunters were then dispersed to several locations searching for specific items and relevant stamps by the Monsopiad Cultural Village; and the Tourism Station in Terminal 2, KKIA. That was Leg 1 of the hunt.
After Leg 1, hunters proceeded on to Leg 2, starting with a challenge, which was the coke-drinking session as mentioned above. After that was the walk hunt at Gaya Street (5 questions). Then later on, hunters had to drive to Jesselton Point for 3 more walk-hunt questions. After completing those 8 questions, hunters proceeded on to Wawasan Plaza for the submission and another challenge, which was to spot 10 words from a grid containing letters.
Then came Leg 3 of the hunt. Again the hunters had to search for some items and then drive to a monument in Sembulan to pose for a photo session. The score for Leg 3 was 30 points. It was while my team members were discussing about our "creative" pose that Kok Seng's team arrived at the parking lot. And then my jaw dropped to the ground when I saw Dato' Ramesh appearing in his underwear—I mean literally underwear, like no other clothes on him! The reason he did this was in order to look like one of the ethnic people of Sabah. He had a blowpipe in his hand. But when it was his turn to pose, he used that blowpipe as a spear instead. It was a case of our native head hunter who was unable to tell the difference between a blowpipe and a spear. I told him that it was too bad I'm married. Otherwise I would have been tempted with his sexy body.
Finally, we came to Leg 4, which was the actual motorised treasure hunt as we know it. Only 20 questions to solve. The finish station was all the way back at Nexus Karambunai. After the final submission of answers and treasures, there was yet another challenge.
Well, 7 hours total "hunting" time and covering over 110 km in driving distance. Overall, it was a good hunt, but for the number of challenges and games. Of course if we have more hunts in KK, then I would not join KK City Hunt. But, you know, for the lack of hunts, we KK hunters can't afford to be choosy.
4 comments:
Who says a blowpipe cannot be used as a piercing weapon aka spear.....there's more than one way to skin a cat yes ? The spear pose was to drive home the ferocity point.....and it did appear to work ? :)
I suppose you have a point there about the blowpipe/spear. But, my dear Dato', I think it's the near-nudity that did the trick rather than the spear? The spear pose was relatively easy to mimic; not the near-nudity!... hehehe
drinking coke in the morning with an empty stomach is horrendous! i would prefer a soya bean instead
Ah, tomato, there is a phrase for that—it is called wishful thinking.
If it was soya bean milk that was the challenge that morning, I would have offered to drink 2 cans myself! But that's not the idea of the challenge, was it?
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