Some parts are not done. Still a little messy here and there. Really need  to get some sleep right now.

Update: 11.45pm:

It’s only about an hour plus after the results announcement and I have already received the official results from Ricky Koo of Take-A-Break via email!

I had a closed hunt in the morning and could not join the hunt. I must thanks Ricky for allowing and facilitating  my attendance at the function tonight.

Results

1. 160 – Liew Kok Seng, Dato’ Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
2. 160 – Wong, Claire Chin, Goh Teck Koon, Julie Tan
3. 155 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, Chong Voon Kiat
4. 155 – Lim Kim Ming, Viki Lim, Jefferey Wong, Richard Tan
5. 155 – Mohd. Razif, Darmataksiah Abai, Gary Guna
6. 150 – Tan Eng Siang, Kong Siau Ching, Wong Sie Lynn, Jasmine Hoi
7. 145 – Song Wee Kiat, Fong Choon Kit, Peter Tan, Ng Saw Leng
8. 145 – Lim Seng Fook, Mok Chiet Shiew, Mok Chek Foong, Lee Al Ling
9. 145 – Steven Arockiaraj, Sanjay Abdullah, Rahmah Othman, Sumita Devadas
10. 140 -Pava, Shandra, C.K. Low, Tommy Ng

For a charity hunt, I thought the food at dinner was very good.

Now, I know that for a charity hunt, the organiser can’t be chooser when it comes to prize sponsorships. You just take whatever that is given to you. But organiser must all be careful with items that may not be suitable and perhaps use those items for other usage. Tonight we saw the 5th placed team getting 3 or 4 cartons of beers.

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Ok, it’s all set. 7pm tonight. Meanwhile read the reader information on how this works for you.

For Hospice Klang Hunt on Sunday I’m planning (Maxis broadband willing) to provide minute by minute updates during the dinner and prize presentation via this fantastic piece of live blogging tool. Below a test live covarge where  I tried out all the features.

1. The good thing about this tool is that you hunters following the live coverage in the comfort of your home can ask questions or provide comments live.
2. And unlike blog and twitter updates you don’t have to keep refreshing the page to see new updates. It’s live. (a bit like your instant messaging (IM)

On top of this, you can also follow what’s happening at the event via twitter

Last year’s Kiwanis was his swansong and he has also found new people to carry on the tradition of the CNY hunts. Chong Foo Seong (kroll, dia ini baru betul “sifu”) the doyen of our treasure hunt scene had on many occasions declared his retirement from clerking hunts.

The good news is he is back. Here’s his proposal

ECONOMY MOTOR TREASURE HUNT(S)

I have loads of questions I have stored up which I could not use them in the recent hunts that I have set because they were theme hunts, i.e. Chinese New Year and Kiwanis.

Because of this, I am considering setting a hunt (maybe more) to use up these questions. This hunt is to be a normal hunt as opposed to the no-holds barred Chinese New Year hunts  – it will contain questions that are mostly simple/moderate, with a sprinkling of toughies.

The idea is to make the event reasonably cheap and self-funding – thus an economy motor/drive hunt.  I am thinking of setting the entry fee at RM140 -150 per team. As hunters are more concerned about hunting  than food, I propose that out of the entry fee, RM40-50 is to go towards the  prize presentation dinner, which will consist of KFC and soft drinks. This should be  palatable to all. The balance of the entry fee will go into a pool from which the  prizes are to be awarded. As an idea, I have thought that the pool be divided  by the champ getting ½ of the pool, the runner up 2/6th and the 3rd placing
getting 1/6th. As an example, on the basis of just 9 teams taking part, from the pool the winner will get RM450, the runner up RM300 and the 3rd placing 150.00. The prize money may not be much, but it at least will give some incentive towards doing well in the hunt. As this is a labour of love, please note that I will bear all costs for setting the route.

The proposed finish venue is at my house in SS2 or any other venue that can be obtained free of  charge and KFC can be served. The date of the hunt is not set, but it will be much like that for the Chinese New Year hunt, on a Saturday to start at about 2 p.m. Preferably, the date of the hunt should be on a Saturday, the eve of a major hunt in KL e.g. Sun Hunt, so that outstation hunters can kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

I am putting this proposal forward to see the preliminary response from hunters out there. My e-mail is cfs6872@gmail.com If you are in favour of the proposal or have suggestions to make, please drop me a line. I have a basic hunt set but I will only proceed to finalise the route once I have received sufficient positive response.

Yours in treasure hunting
Chong Foo Seong

Kheirul Nazib @ Kroll has been around the hunting scene for a while and recently this self categorized “regular non master” clerked his first hunt.  Judging from his brand new blog I think we will be seeing Kroll actively clerking hunts for public in the near future.

Here’s my wish list for new CoC:

1.  The first hunt is very important. Lots of hunters out there are very selective, once they are not impressed with the first hunt, it  will be an up hill battle to get them back. Keep the first hunt as mainstream as possible. Keep all the innovations and creative stuffs for later hunts. Crawl, walk, then only run.

2. Pay great attention to the questions BUT don’t forget that the whole set-up and environment is equally important.

3. Be on time for everything.

Anything to add? What’s your wish list?

The Lions Club of Pj City is organising this hunt to raise funds for National Kidney Foundation and their club’s other community projects and activities. It’s a day hunt from Petaling Jaya to Malacca.

CoC: Michael Pang   Entry Form

Details:

1. No frills.
2. Date: Saturday, 16th May 2009
3. Start control open at 6.30am
4. Briefing at 7.00am
5. Flag-off: 7.30am
6. Flag-off venue: Jaya One, Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya 
7. Hunting duration: 7 hours 30 minutes
8. Penalty time ; 30 minutes. 2 points deducted for every 5 minutes late.
9. Hunt ends at 3.00pm
10. Answer presentation at 5.00pm
11. Format : 40 route questions x 2points each.
12. Format : 5 treasure questions x 4 points each.
13. Total points – 100.

Fees: RM 320.00 per car

Mode of payment:-

1) Cheque/PO/MO made payable to: LIONS CLUB OF PETALING JAYA CITY

2) Direct bank-in (must have bank-in-slip as proof of payment) Maybank A/C: 5641 9102 0965

Submission of Entry Forms & Fees Entries on the official Entry Forms and fees are to be submitted to:

LIONS CLUB OF PETALING JAYA CITY

No. 6-3A, Jalan PJU 1/3B, Sunwaymas Commercial Centre,

47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

or fax your entry form together with bank-in-slip (write team name & contact no.) to: Fax: 03-7806 4480

All cash payments are to be submitted personally to the Secretariat.

For enquiries, please contact:

Chua I-Lin 012-3322802

Kievan Yip 016-6129694

Darren Chong 012-2978010

In conjunction with the today’s launching of Lay’s Food new “durian” flavoured potato chips, they are organizing a walk treasure hunt on Sunday, 25th April 2009. It’s a half day walk hunt starting at Pusat Rekreasi Institute Lay’s at their Bangi factory.

Open to the first 100 teams to register. You can only register using the Original Form which comes in every pack of the new Lay’s Durian flavoured potato chips.  Entry “fee” is 4 empty Lay’s Durian flavoured potato chips wrappers.  Currently only very selected 7-Eleven stores in Klang Valley are carrying the item.

Prizes:-

1st – RM2,000 and 24 cartons of Lay’s Durian Flavoured Potato Chips.

2nd – RM1,500 and 12 cartons of Lay’s Durian Flavoured Potato Chips.

3rd – RM1,000 and 6 cartons of Lay’s Durian Flavoured Potato Chips

CoC : Not Available

With so much walking to do;  to look for the entry form and also the half day walk hunt itself, I hope you won’t get a pulled leg muscle.