Monday, March 29, 2010

KEMBARA ALAM 1MALAYSIA - COMEDY OF ERRORS

PUTRAJAYA 20 Mar 2010: The Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta is arguably the most awaited event in the Putrajaya annual calendar. Balloon enthusiasts, families with children in tow and shutterbugs probably made up the bulk of the 150,000 visitors that congregated at the car park of the Monumen Alaf Baru at Precinct 2 in Putrajaya in its inaugural year in 2009. This year this event is held from 18-21 Mar and the turnout is expected to be even bigger than the previous year.

This event was fairly well publicised in the mainstream media. So I am not sure how the Fun Hunt People could not have known about it - their tulips brought us smack right into the heart of the event, with road diversions, heavy traffic and all. This oversight cost our team an hour of regulation time - we were struggling to find our way out of Putrajaya and into Bangi where the next question sector lied waiting (misleading instructions from the public certainly did not help our cause). Had it not been for my Garmin XT, we likely would have thrown in the towel much earlier! So what was supposed to be a 5 hour hunt was really just a 4 hour hunt for us.

Unfortunately, this (oversight) was really only the tip of the iceberg. A comedy of further errors were to follow beginning with Q23 - which would have been a fairly straight forward test of the observation skills had it not been for the four floodlights erected at Stadium Kajang.

Q23: Two towering lighting structure standing there looking majestically. Where?
Ans: Floodlights @ Stadium Kajang.

Next up was Q28 which had all the makings of a double jeopardy question, except that when read literally, household brand names sitting pretty in the sector like Panasonic, Petronas etc would be equally fitting. To the CoC's credit, in the end, he decided to cancel the question - he must have been made aware that his intended answer (an apparel brand) was only one of many many acceptable answers in that sector. More precious minutes were lost (by our team) here!

Q28: A brand.
Ans: Diesel @ Petronas

Last but not least would be a sign that was elusive to many hunters on the day. It would be wrong to say that the answer to Q32 was not visible from the question sector. It was definitely visible, only problem was that, the CoC had wanted everyone to look also within the previous sector!

Q32: Arus ulung yang pertama disusun di kawasan ini.
Ans: Surau @ Presint 8

In the end, we were very fortunate to have been only docked 2 points for coming in after the stipulated time. For us, the entire hunt had been a frantic struggle to make up for lost time. The numerous technical errors along the journey that day helped our cause none. I'd be lying through my teeth if I had suggested that we had enjoyed today's outing!



20 Mar - Kembara Alam 1Malaysia
(Maximum possible score: 150)

1st: Johan Salul, Dr Ben Lau, Aziz Abd Rahman (138)
2nd: Ramesh Rajaratnam, Liew Kok Seng, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew (138)
3rd: Garyguna Segar, Muhammad Razif, Darmahtaksiah Abai (138)
4th: Hagi Suhaimi, Mohd Asri, Haslinda Shamsuddin, Ami Akhram Abdullah (138)
5th: Chong Voon Kiat, Woo Ee Wen, Margaret Sha (136)

15 comments:

Cornelius said...

Wow! "A brand", i.e. referring to DIESEL! Like that also can ah?

Reminds me of renroc's story of the good old days when he just started hunting. I think he mentioned something like having to look for a circle, which his team eventually spotted at a bus stop.

But, renroc, were there other circles seen within that sector? (smile)

hagisuhaimi said...

There was some "monor" controversy in the Final Results too. But, I must salute Zahrol for quickly resolving this and in the process, becoming a "Gentleman" and Responsible CoC

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