the one about badrul and the treasure hunt...

bunga raya, bunga kebangsaan...

it started out two weeks ago when my dad tanya i, taknak join gen2 punya treasure hunt ke? dia cakap gen2 treasure hunt is giving away 5 gen2 as a lucky draw... firstly, i memang tak interested dengan treasure hunt... not because i think it's a waste of time... bukan... tapi i memang tak pandai... tak reti... dah berapa kali dah company buat treasure hunt and orang suruh masuk, tapi i tak pernah join... tambahan pulak this gen2 treasure hunt kena bayar rm180 sorang... haiyooo... mana nak cari duit pulak kan to do something yang i tak begitu berminat... secondly, my luck dalam lucky draw memang nil... zero... yillek...

but last week, the salesperson from proton yang i beli my gen2 from called me and jemput i join... she said they are inviting me for free as a new owner of gen2... i cakaplah i tak pernah masuk, tapi dia pujuk supaya meramaikan majlis... muahahahaa... and i will get a free service.. *car service yach adik-adik*... so, i pun setujulah... since it is free for two person, i pun ajak shonny sekali... muahahahha... both yang 'buta seni' dalam treasure hunt nih...


kereta i penuh dengan sticker... wuarggah...

on the day i pergi briefing tuh, which is one day before the event, mak datuk, banyaknya yang nak kena belajar... apa itu tulip... soalan-soalan pun ada macam pelbagai jenis... ada yang 'sounds like'... ada yang english to malay and malay to english... muahahahhaaa... mula-mula i memang rancang kalau tak tahu nak buat apa-apa, we will drive straight to the finish line, which is in genting, tapi syarat-syarat untuk cabutan bertuah *alah, bukan boleh menang pun*, you have to collect the bonus question only when you turn in your answer, and the bonus answer mesti hantar kat genting nanti in order to be aligable for the lucky draw... hhhmmmm... banyak pulak lah syarat dan peraturannya... oh, by the way, the event name is 'gen2 jejak merdeka 2005', 31 august, tamat di genting highlands... bermalam one night and balik the next day...

balik dari briefing, i kena lekatkan entry number kat kereta, plus sponsors punya stickers jugak... i was almost in tears... wait, before you cakap i nih very the vain one, let me explain... muahahahahaaa... as you know, this is the first time i join treasure hunt... and my car is just three weeks old... *memang vain pun* lepas tuh nak kena lekat sticker-sticker yang banyak tuh... sampai shonny cakap kalau sticker tuh tak tanggal dia akan belikan kereta baru untuk i, baru ler i berani nak lekatkan... muahahahahaa... but wait again, i takdalah vain sampai plastik pun tak buang lagih... itu dah melampau lah kan... muahahahaa... the whole night rasa macam sentaps jer... muahahhaaaa... bangun tidur mesti pprraaappp... bangun tidur mesti prrraaappp... muahahhaaaa...


with other gen2 lining-up...

on the event day, i bangun pukul 5 pagi *wah, hari kerja pun tak bangun awal macam nih* because we have to be in proton edar usj by 7am... bersiap dan pastikan semua keperluan xe'an dan xe'qi cukup *first time tinggalkan diaorang more than 24 hours*... makanan, air, potty bersih and all, we reached usj about 6.30am... i thought awal dah tuh, tapi rupanya ramai lagih yang datang awal... apparently, some of them make a living out of treasure hunt... muhahhahaaa... i'm quite excited actually sebab nih kira first time join kan... siap berdebar-debar lagih... muahahaha... anyway, since shonny tak pergi briefing and i nih kira ada advantage sikit dengar apa yang kena buat and all, we decided that shonny akan jadi driver and i will be the co-driver to read the 'tulip' and try to solve whatever questions yang ada...

and then we were off... excited... excited... excited... read the tulip... ok shonn, turn right... ok, after 0.5km, turn right again... then 0.1km, turn right again... and errr... i think turn right again after 0.4km... muahahahaaa.... orang lain semua turn left, kita satu jer turn right... and it was only 3 minutes into the competition... dah sesat... muahahahaaaa... ok, back on track... now, time to solve the first clue... 'agency of my wira?'... aahhh, senangnya... tuh tengok tuh, proton edar cawangan usj... ok, got it! move on to the next clue... well, next 5 clues sebab semua soalan kat situh jer... 6 soalan kat situ... hah, tuh jawapan dia... tuh and tuh... kacangnya... *we ended up getting all six answers wrong! muahahahaaa* patut ler kita cepat jer habis kat situ, and orang lain masih lagih dok berlari ke sana ke sinih looking for answers...


posing pagi-pagi buta...

i wanted to take pictures, tapi sebab memang tengah excited trying to solve the clues, terus lupa... because selain daripada soalan-soalan biasa, ada jugak soalan treasure list, which we have to solve it and buy the product... and ada jugak road safety questions... tuh tak termasuk lagih soalan bonus yang nak kena selesaikan bila we turn in our answers later in the day... i think the first clue yang kita dapat betul was question number 7 'sounds, like a bridge, by some university with a mat and indentification card'... the answer was 't.t. unimatic sdn bhd'... that was actually yang betul-betul bagi semangat untuk kita cuba solve other clues... 30 soalan semuanya ok! banyak betul...

tapi dalam cuba-cuba tuh, i did 'cheat' sebab i called rostam and kudsia to ask about some of the clues... ya lah kan, kalau clue dia macam nih 'kedengaran ini mungkin perniagaan agnes gonxha bojaxhiu'... hah, apa nak kata? tercengang ler dua-dua... muahahahaaa... apa-apa pun, alhamdulillah, dari 30 soalan tuh, kita dapat 14 jawapan betul... untuk treasure list, semua betul and untuk road safety questions, semua betul jugak... total point yang kita orang dapat is 68 out of 100... kira not bad lah tuh for the first-timer macam kitaorang nih...


up in genting...

walaupun tak menang apa-apa *not even the lucky draw* we had a lot of fun... but if you ask me if i want to join another treasure hunt, i would have to think about it... muahahahaa... maybe kalau team empat orang, lagi bagus kot... that night, top ten winner tuh semua score 94 points and above... first place tuh score full 100 points lagih... muahahahaa... 68? jangan harap... muahahahaa...

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