Team comprising of Alexander Hoh, Andre Teh, Mohd. Razif and Darmataksiah Abai won the 26th Kiwanis Treasure Hunt. With this, the team (with various different members) now has 6 Kiwanis hunt champion titles under their belt.
My heartfelt condolences to Wan Kamal whose mother passed away this evening. Kamal is a friend and fellow hunter who is part of the Macam Macam Adaaaa team.
I understand from a few hunters, it was a challenging hunt, all held within Jaya 33.
Results:
1. Team 18 - Sam Rahman, Teh Book Kai, CK Loh, Hj Suhaimi
2. Team 20 - Khairul Nizab, Haslinda Shamsuddin, Ami Akhram bin Abdullah
3. Team 22 - Liew Kok Seng, Dato’ Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
4. Team 15 - Foong Chun Kit, Peter Tan, Sallehuddin, Angue Ng
5. Team 02 - Eugene, Adeline, Christy, Yeong Kig Siew
6. Team 19 - Md Razif, Darma, Zahrol and Sharifah
7. Team 07 - Claire Chin, Julie Tan, Goh Teck Khoon, Margaret Sha
8. Team 23 - Linda, Cheng Soong Fah and friends
9. Team 08 - Lily Loh, Loh Siew Fang, Teoh CT and Johan Salul
10. Team 06 - Ruben Enbasegaram, Raul, Lim and Mok
This year’s edition of the Yayasan Kebajikan Negara (YKN) treasure hunt will be held on Saturday, 18th July 2009. Kuala Lumpur to Melaka.
Entry fee is RM160 per adult, and RM80 per child. Cash prizes for the top three placings (RM3,000, RM2,000 and RM1,000)
3 categories : Open, Family and Orang Kurang Upaya (OKU) categories.
CoC : Sam Rahman
Ok, the organiser of this hunt remains a little mystery to me. Maybe “VOG” is suppose to be a so popular that it doesn’t need any introduction. Google search returns this
Anyway the details of the hunt
Date: 12/06/2009, Sunday
Type: Half Day Motor Hunt
Route: Klang Valley
Entry Fee: RM240 per team
Theme: Charity Fund Hunt
Organiser: VOG
CoC: Purple Antz
More than RM5,000.00 worth of cash and prizes to be won!!
Saturday, 4th July. In aid of the school building funds.
Entry fee is RM75/pax.
Prizes: 1st - RM1 , 2nd RM700, 3rd - RM500
CoC : TOS
KL to Homestay Kampung Batu Kikir, Kuala Pilah
25th -26th July.
Fee - RM180 for overnight stay or RM100 for non stay
CoC: YS Khong
Update: 1.10pm 18/6
Correction: Upon checking, the points for First Fruits Sdn Bhd was indeed awarded.
My sincere apologies to Uncle Chong.
Update: 5pm 17/6
Update: 3.30am 17/6
It has been a crazy 2 days and only now I’ve some time to myself.
As you can see from the comments from hunters here, it was a very good hunt. Offline I have also heard the same positive comments about the hunt. The non-regular hunters like my wife Florence and team had a good time even though they didn’t get any of the top 15 placings.
The fact that Uncle Chong’s hunt was a great success and of high quality is not surprising considering Uncle Chong’s many years of clerking experience for Kiwanis and also as a hunter.
Overall most of questions were well crafted and tight. There were gems like
Q: Bond or go through.
A: Kafe Secret Recipe
Managing expectation: When Uncle Chong announced his proposed hunt in a long letter to hunters, one of the reasons stated was that he had loads of unused questions stored up. That premise sort of set the stage and my expectation of the hunt.
Going into this hunt, I was looking forward to the few questions that Uncle Chong has kept for so long, which he was going to use for this hunt. I had imagine these few questions to be ground breaking, sensational, talk about for years to come and very clever. Probably something that most of us would have kicked ourselves after the hunt for not getting it. I mean, imagine you have a 10 years old secret, and you gather all your families and friends to finally reveal the secret, it better be a damn big secret.
When you have expectation be prepared to get disappointed: It’s was like watching Angels & Demons the movie when you have read the book. You go and watch it with your own high expectation that it will be as good as the book, but as we all know book to film adaptations rarely are. So you get disappointed with the movie. But on its own not comparing it to your expectation, it’s probably okay.
I don’t know which questions were new and which were the ones he has kept for many years. The one which he said was kept for 10 years as mentioned during the presentation came out as just another very tough question. Hardly a vintage.
Q. A stirring end for man returning with something to eat wife partly stored inside.
A: Mitsubishi Electric
Something kutuKing calls “reserved for CoC” a multiple layered, needle in the haystack, never meant to be answered type of question.
Bad calls: I thought the decision not to award the points for “La’ Sis Collection” (without butik) was harsh. Okay, rules are rules so I can still stomach this decision.
But insisting on FirstFruits@FirstFruits Sdn Bhd and not accepting FirstFruits Sdn Bhd is a bad and misguided call.
We need to be sensible about this “write in full” business. Where do we draw the line? If for example the owner of First Fruits had listed the fruits he sells just below First Fruits, should we put those in too? And since we must write what we see in full, one of my cheekier team member wondered aloud if the CoC counted the exact number of dots after the tagline “sense of adventure….” in every answer script?
CoCs should to be mindful of the nature and spirit why and how the rule of “write in full” comes about. It’s simply to check and confirm that hunters have spotted the signage.
Big picture: I have always said this to hunters. We need to see a hunt in totality. And in totality this has been a quality hunt and a great experience for all hunters across the field.
Uncle Chong has always been involved in long running hunt series like Kiwanis and the unofficial no-holds barred CNY hunt which he initiated. I’m very sure that this Economy hunt will be the start of a long and successul hunt series. As I was leaving Kiwanis Hall on Sunday, I heard Uncle Chong saying that the questions used this time around were only a small part of his large collection of questions. So you can bet we will have 2nd Uncle Chong hunt soon, even as early as the end of this year.
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First the result, will try and write a little bit more about the hunt later.
Full points -110. (Q-90 , T-20)
