Regulars category. Total points – 120

1. 114 – Liew Kok Seng, Sam Rahman, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
2. 111 – Adrian Wong, Toh Weng Ngai, Michael Pang, Florence Teng
3. 108 – Alexander Hoh, Razif Ahmad, Darmataksiah Abai, Hanna Razif
4. 106 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, Vincent Woo, Cornelius Koh
5. 105 – Toh Wei Ming, Selina Yong, Lily Loh, C.T Teoh

I only have the points and teams no. for the novices category. I’m hoping to get the team members names from the organisers soon.

Official results released by Razif.

1. Alexander Hoh, Goh Teck Koon, Claire Chin, Julie Tan
2. Margaret Sha, KK Chai, Chong Voon Kiat, Vincent Woo
3. Dato’ Ramesh Rajaratnam, Liew Kok Seng, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
4. Md Jai, Abdul Haris, Hanim Zainal, Azni Abdul Aziz
5. Yeop Kidal, Ahmad Zahrol, Keirol Nazib, Sharifah Nur Laila
6. Lim Seng Fook, Sim Pen Nee, Mok Chek Foong, Mok Chiet Shiew
7. Rozita Moksinon, Omar Shariff, Muhammad Faridzul Hakim, Muhammad Syafiq Hafiz
8. Wendy Ang, Hoh Jin Fay, Chin Chiu Hsia, Yong Pui Wei
9. Kauthaman Mahendran, Jeegan, Thangamani S, Jayathi P

Full points – 130

1. 127 – Liew Kok Seng, Dato’ Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong, Gary Guna
2. 124 – Steven Arokiaraj, Sanjay, Rahmah Othman, Sumita
3. 121 – Venka, Sakthival, Buavnes, Eeswaran
4. 116 – Jack Swallow and team

Royal Selangor Flying Club is celebrating their 75th Anniversary this year and  last weekend I did a treasure hunt for members of the club as part of a one day carnival.  Besides the hunt , there were display of aircrafts and air shows.

Q: Sounds like shelters for housing or repairing aircraft

Q: Hotel…

Q: I can make the movement of an airplane under its own power on the surface of an airport secure

With every different hunt, I learned a little bit more about the organiser’s  industry, world, lingos, etc. For example, I have always referred the airport in Sungai Besi as either TUDM airport or Sungai Besi airport. I didn’t know its official name is Simpang Airport.

It was also my last hunt for this very exciting year.

I have seen many newer hunters looking for answers at wrong places i.e signboards that are clearly out of sector. In those days, CoC especailly TAB used to take the trouble to explain this concept of in sector and what is out of sector.  Somehow COC has stop explaining this in their briefing these days. Perhaps they think that the concept of  “answers must been visually AND physically within sector” is a common knowledge to all hunters.

          The above illustration done by “blogce5nt”

Well it’s not.  I remember one hunt which I took part in last year or early this year where the answer was clearly “out of sector”  The question was not particularly tough but we wasted a lot of time there. Eventually we got the answer and later when I indicated the out of sector issue to the CoC, he seem to think that there was nothing wrong with it.

“blogce5nt” who was affected by this recently, wrote a very detailed explanation on this subject.  Please take some time to read it here

Update: Teh tarik corner

Update: This guy thinks the questions were not up to the usual Mensa Hunt standard.

Official results released by COC Lawrence. Total score -140

1. 140 -Adrian Wong, Lim Soo Khian, Toh Weng Ngai, Michael Pang
2. 137 – Jayaram Menon, Chin Kar Ping, Shankar Kailainathan, Liang Chian Min
3. 137 – Alexander Hoh, Andre Teh, Rosemawarni, Razif Ahmad
4. 136 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, Vincent Woo, Choong Voon Kiat
5. 133 – Sam Rahman, Teh Boon Kai, Teh Sook Mei,Yow Hui Hui
6. 131 – Mohan Campos, Raj Kumar, Ruban Chelliah, Angeline Chelliah
7. 130 – Goh Teck Koon, Claire Chin, Wong Chiang Chuen, Cornelius Koh
8. 129 – Teoh Cheow Teong, Lily Loh, Selina Yong, Toh Wei Ming
9. 127 -  Tan Eng Siang, Kong Siau Ching, Ong Kheng Heng, Diana Fong
10. 126 – Dato’ Ramesh Rajaratnam, Pavananthan, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
11. 126 – Audrey Wong, Jonie Lim, Edwina Lim, Melinda Chin
12. 125 – Yeap Heng Boon, Shandra Dass, Janet Tan, Ho Mun Yee
13. 122 – Lim Kim Meng, Viki Lim, Richard Tan, Jeffrey Wong
14. 119 – Azhanawati, Wan Kamalazlan, MohdFarid, Aini Fazlin
15. 118 – Teng Wei Chiat, Yoeh Ban Lye, Yew SiewKheng, Goh Leep Sean
16. 116 – Zahrol Abdul Kadir, Sharifah Nur Laila, Salehuddin Yusof, Fong Choon Kit
17. 115 – Anwar Jeffrey, Lim Say Chye, Loh Chee Kwan, Chan Kah Sing
18. 113 – Ozairi Othman, Farhaini Fasri, Raja Noor Kamaria, Iskandar Azaman
19. 113 – Steven Arokiaraj, Sanjay, Rahman Othman, Sumita
20. 110 – Lim Seng Fook, Mok Chiet Shiew, Mok Chek Foong, Loh Chia Hur
21. 109 – Ivan Tan, Cheng Joo Seng, Jeffrey Yeo, Teh Wei Seong
22. 108 – Joehari, Getha Kanny, Phillip Karuppiah, Raj Kumar
23. 105 – Nicholas Tung, Low Chin Geh, Joyce Shia, Kwok Wai Yee
24. 105 – Ami Akhram Abdullah, Haslinda Mohd Shamsuddin, Siti Halina Ali, Kheirul Nazie Mahmud
25. 105 – AhmadFairuz, Aeni Haryati Hashim,Sabirah Ariffin, Kadzim Kassim

Lawrence (Mr. Anagram & can be very geeky !!!) has also provided the Q&A.

Route Q&A

Treasures

Puzzle

I had to leave immediately after the hunt to catch a wedding dinner in Penang. Flo dropped the bridegroom into a drain some 30 over years ago and it’s time to come clean !!!

1. 170 – Margaret Sha, Lily Loh, Chong Voon Kiat, Vincent Woo
2. 161- Aravindan Nair, Danial Aliff Chan, Aznita Mohd, S Kumaresan
3. 158 – Chin Kar Ping, Jayaram Menon, Lion Chian Min, Sam Rahman
4. 158 – Julie Tan, Lim Sha Lin, Claire Chin, Goh Teck Koon
5. 155 – Cheok Wye Leong, Elaine Cheon, Khor Pee Lynn, Sin Yoong Leong
6. 152 – Chong Lai Kuan, Julian & team
7. 151 -Audrey & team
8. 151 – Goh Leep Sean, Stephen Chin, Edward Yeap, Subashini
9. 150 – Tan Kok Cheeng, Anwar Jeffry, Chan Kah Sing, Rudy
10. 148 – Shankar & team

Results taken from here

Usually towards the end of the year, we look forward to the annual Maritime hunt by Razif but it’s very sad to hear that there would not be one this year.

This time around Razif is helping some friends to promote their new venture in Malacca. The hunt is called the Cafe Botanikal Hunt in conjunction with the opening of the Cafe earlier this month. It will be a local day hunt, in Malacca to be held on Sunday, 21 December 2008. Starting and ending at the Cafe which is located in Ayer Keroh (next to Taman Buaya) which is only a few minutes drive from the Ayer Keroh toll.

Entry fee is RM250/car.  Cash prizes – 1st – RM1.5K , 2nd- 1K,  3rd – RM700

Entry form

Briefing notes

Rules & Regulations

Ok, pack some M&Ms and lets go Malacca.

If you’re not going for Mensa Hunt this would be something you might be interested in. Organised by Berjaya Times Square, KL the prizes are very attractive. 2 per team and entry fee is only RM50. Check out the prizes and  entry form here

CoC : Take A Break

Last weekend, I did a hunt for Business Networking International. This is my 3rd time doing hunt for this group of business owners and their families.

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It was an interesting mix of experience hunters from the 2 previous hunts and also new members.

Q. Perhaps BNI recruited a company here.

One of the obvious thing about BNI members is their respect for time. These guys are super punctual. They cultivate this from their weekly meetings which starts on time at 7am. Their agenda for the meeting is by the minute. And they get “love letter” from their leaders if they are late for meetings. So when I announced at briefing the 7am flag-off time there were no disapproved murmurs. And on hunt day all of them were there by 7am.

Q. Brave when surrounded by BNI.

Business Networking International (BNI) is the world’s largest business networking and referral organisation. In Malaysia they have about 1000 plus members  in 30 over chapters mainly in Klang Valley. If you are a small and medium size business owner, the BNI platform may be something that you might want to explore.  Read more here.  Go visit one of their meeting and experience it yourself.