Ever since the Society announced the starting a Treasure Hunt league, I have waited anxiously for it. It was supposed to be held last year, but was postpone to this year.
The failure to get a full team to hunt most the time was quite frustrating. Missed out on some of the hunts that wanted to go. This league series is easier as it only requires 2 to form a team. So teaming up with Wee Kiat, we set out for the first hunt of the year.
Hunt fee was RM10 for members, which both of us are. Walk hunt, petrol cost zero. So it was just an investment or RM10. Cheap.. Cheap...
When I first started to hunt, we would stack the car with thick dictionaries of various kinds. Later Angie brought along a digital dictionary with thesaurus function. Nowadays, we simply go for hunt with a smart mobile phone - one that can access the net for wiki, dictionary, thesaurus etc. However, I still noticed for most Master teams, they still bring along thick dictionaries/thesaurus. Was this their secret to become Masters?
This first leg consists of 20 route and 2 treasure questions to be done within 3 hours in a hot and blazing afternoon sun (3pm to 6pm) at Bangsar. Towards the end (about 5.30pm), the rain started to pour. So it was shine and rain for a walk hunt. The 2 most irritating weather conditions for walk hunt.
Final results: Third place with 64 points. Drop 4 route questions and both treasures. Sob..Sob... Both treasure questions. How pathetic...
Of the 4 route questions, should be able to crack 2 of them if only we had 'opened up' the net in our small smart phone to look for synonyms of some words. But we had not taken that trouble then. Lessons learned.
The prize: RM60 for third place. Just nice to cover Hunt Fee (RM20), Banana Leaf Rice Dinner at Devi's Corner Bangsar, venue for the hunt (RM31) and parking (RM9).
We are now at joint fifth place in the league with 20 points. The winner (individual) of the league walks off with RM1000. Can't wait for the next leg.
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