Dominic presiding over his subjects.
No surprises, no drama. Very straight forward hunt. Everything is set for go come Sunday.
p/s Had a chat with Dom and he mentioned about a Christmas charity hunt and getting the fraternity involved.
I met Farid, the guy on the extreme left a few months ago at a banking hall. Seeing my blur face, he quickly introduced himself as part of the “Macam Macam Ada” treasure hunt team. Weeks later when I was really sick, he sms me a recipe for a concoction to relief my cough and it actually works and that night I finally had a good sleep.
This team Macam Macam Ada has been hunting since 2005 and in June this year they started blogging their adventures here. One thing that stands out is their substantial collections of treasure hunt questions and answers. If you are new to treasure hunt and looking for resources to”study” you will find their blog very useful.
I was told that the sidebar and bottom of the frontpage of this blog are not loading properly. Funnily enough they load perfectly on my machine. I don’t know what happen. Checking now.
Despite the friendly warning by the CoC, it turns out to be a rather manageable, pleasant and leisurely ride.
Total=102 points; 50 route questions + 50 treasures + 2 bonus points
The Participants List is out. 266 teams, including 20 masters.
I wonder if I signed up using only my chinese name without Michael and the rest of my team members are novices would TOS spot it? I really think TOS should comb the open category list again and also not just against their masters list but against their criteria for masters.
With the current system, the burden is on TOS to make sure they get the masters list right and to be fair they have done well but they cannot be 100% sure, can they?
So here’s a suggestion.
Why not push the burden to the hunters? Why not come out and annouce that they have done their best with regards to the masters list following what ever criteria they used. And that anyone who fits into their criteria as masters but currently not on the list must declare themselves if they want to take part in theSun hunt or risk being disqualified if found out later. This way the responsibility now falls onto the participants.
On a separate note, I’m so glad to see a few names from my closed hunts venturing to the open.
Scoop!
Date : 28 December 2008 (Sunday) at 3.00 pm
Organiser : Excel Community Services (CES)
CoC : Lawrence Hie
This event is open to the public.
More information will be available soon.
Also the Mensa Hunt is on the 14th Dec with the theme “Planet Green”
Samsung is organising a fun treasure hunt this 1st Nov as part of the introduction of their latest mobile phone to Malaysia.
About UMIC
Date: Sunday, 16/11/2008
Type: Motor Hunt
Route: Klang Valley
Entry fee: RM240 per team
CoC: Purple Antz Events
10/10/08 Update: Tay (Teoh?) Seok May inducted.
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In view of the coming theSun Hunt, TOS updated the masters list with 11 new names. 4 of them are last year’s theSun Open category winners. In an interview with them a few days after the hunt, they shared about the effort it takes to be champions.
MP: From 78th to 1st. How did that happened?
SD: We started to hunt as a proper team in Feb 2006. The Sun Hunt 2006 was only our 5th hunt as a team. Since then, we have participated in more than 40 hunts, winning some and losing more. We have taken it all in our stride and all the practice, hard work and determination over the past 1.5 years have been fruitful.
Read the full interview in the old blog here
Others making it to the list are 2 hunters from Sabah and the rest are CoCs including this guy who now owes me a coke 
Any other hunters whom should be on that list but are not? Last year fellow hunters spotted a few and TOS swiftly updated the list accordingly.
