Walking Contradiction..

The second treasure hunt of the year... This was probably one of the better value hunts I've done.. For a RM70 registration fee, we got a nice orange shirt, cap, towel, cloth bag, a very decent breakfast (meehon, mee, curry, breads, coffee and tea), and even better lunch (appetizers, beers, wine, awesome spread of dishes and even a roast!)

The day started out with Pamela and Vanessa Chong from Amazing Race Asia 2 flagging us off. The entire concept of this race was not really something I would have done had I known there were more challenges than actual questions. (Actually, now when I think back to the title of this, it actually says Hunteroos Race, and not treasure hunt so it might have even been my own fault). The entire race was VERY Australian centric.

First challenge? Posing a creative pose with props of an Australian landmark. We chose to do the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Nevertheless we were not very convincing with our bendable twig, and water bottle and man made boat...

Next challenge was my favourite, FLYING FOX. This is where i really saw the value of this race. ALL team members did the Flying Fox in KL Tower which was great. It was the questions after that which I didnt enjoy. It involved Sight and Slang. Sight meaning identifying pictures of Australian items, and Slang is translating Aussie slang into normal English.

Gripes:
To Timeout Solutions, please note that KIWI is NOT Australian and is from NEW Zealand, do a bit of research before setting this a SIGHT question, will you?


My next gripe has got to be the fact that this was labelled as a WALK/LRT hunt but all the venues

were TOO far from each other to walk and not even
LRT friendly. From 3 Kia Peng Apartments, we went to Public Bank intersection in KLCC, then to KL Tower then to Petaling Street then to Brickfields and back to 3 Kia Peng Apartments.

Mid way through, we noticed some teams were using cab, and we called the organisers to confirm that using cab was allowed. WHAT DA???? This was NEVER stated during the briefing, and you dare call this a Walk/LRT hunt and we gotta use CAB? It's OK to state it as part of the rules but say solar.. Apalar..

Gripe 3 - One of the challenges was Aussie slang, and the rule was no CALLS or reference of that kind. The marshall at that station, c'monlar, u wanna set this kind of rule, be a bit more diligent in making sure ppl dont cheat. We only got 3/10 right in this section but saw a handful of ppl EVEN though not making calls, surfing net with GPRS.


Another one of the challenges was in Hotel Malaya to taste some Aussie food and identify it. We completely missed this and overshot to Brickfields not knowing we had to do this. Here is where Gripe number 4 comes... If you dont wanna explain where and when all challenges need to be done in the briefing, then be VERY clear on the instructions. In the second station, we were given 2 pieces of paper, one said go to Petaling Street, and another was a question sheet. So we did the questions in Petaling Street and went on to the next section of the question sheet which was in Brickfields... If we were not supposed to go there direct, DONT put the questions for Brickfields first!!! Give it to us AFTER the Hotel Malaya challenge...

The final challenge was do play the didgeridoo, do a Aussie Rule handball, and throw a boomerang.. This was a pure luck challenge, which is quite high-school-telematch ridiculous. Throughout the race, we also had to look for a missing 'Roo' where we could double our points. Nevertheless, we didnt see it, and it was some guy wearing a shirt in the Flying Fox venue and Hotel Malaya.

The winners were seasoned hunters, which I am very impressed as the format of this game was completely extraordinary, in exception to 10 normal question which did not contribute to alot of points. After checking with organisers, we got about 10-11 place. Could have been a more satisfying hunt for me, but one thing is that it was FUN and I think that was the intent of the organisers when doing this. At the end of the day, luckily I'm a pure Malaysian and I was swayed by all the good food....:P