I don’t have the complete results of The Franchise Walk Hunt yet. I’ll wait until the CoC release the official list.
Meanwhile a few random thoughts and happenings over the weekend.
Recee
I was on the road on Saturday preparing for an up-coming closed hunt. The organizing committee had billed the hunt as a family outing for their staff and I was told to prepare a few children friendly questions. A prefect excuse to bring along my 2 boys on the trip and besides I was feeling rather guilty leaving them at home on the weekend again! I was going to a beach resort and the boys were excited. At first, they were busy challenging each other in spotting names of their favourite tv and carton characters. Not very long into the journey, they were already restless and kept asking if we were there yet? In the end, with frequent McDonald’s stops and breaking up brotherly fights at the back of the car, I didn’t get to do much work and drove straight to the beach resort. For the rest of the afternoon, we just hang out at the beach.
By the time we got home it was very late at night. I was dead tired. A hunter sms the results of the Franchise hunt but I was too tired to blog about it.
It’s a small world
What is it about Klang traffic these days? I attended a friend’s daughter birthday party and got caught in a massive jam on a Sunday! Anyway I was seated at the table with some other guests when the host introduced me to the rest and said something about me and treasure hunts. Turns out 2 of the guys there were actively hunting during the 80s and they spoke about their many treasure hunt adventures. They mentioned a Pulau Besar hunt and I assumed this must be the Kiwanis Hunt. I dropped a couple of “old-timer” names and they all seem to know each other pretty well. Small world indeed.
Our treasure hunt community is a very small world. If you hunt regularly, chances are you will be known by or know almost everyone. Maybe not intimately but at least by name, by look or by reputation. And if you choose to win by cheating, you will get recognized all for the wrong reason very quickly. Don’t think the hunters don’t know when you cheat. One example is, this morning, I was talking to a few hunters about their weekend hunt experience and all along they were talking about this particular “Pakatan” teams. I don’t know these people but the next time these teams take part in other hunts, I’m sure someone will come along and point these guys out.
I’m reminder of what Fuad said during one of his briefing. The organisers and CoCs can only do so much to prevent teams from cheating. They can implement thousands of rules & regulations. In the end, if teams want to cheat, they will find a way. Nobody can stop them from cheating because the decision to cheat is all within them. In their hearts and minds.
