Hunterthon - more of the rush hour

July 12th, 2007Outings

Last year I was supposed to join my colleagues in a hunt but I gave it up due to some other reasons which I ended up no idea what are they about. This year, with an opening in the team I participated for the Hunterthon Adventure Cruise.

It was in conjunction with Pendrive 5th year anniversary during the IT & Sports Carnival 2007, PJ Digital Mall and the prizes are not that attractive but good enough for a whole new experience in it. We got wristband, Pendrive skin, a 256 SD card and much more from that event itself.

In the wee hours of the Sunday morning, I had not given any thought of the event that will stirs so many crowd but looking at the queue that morning was a long queue from the patrons wanted to get 1GB Pendrive for the price of RM15 (correct me if I’m wrong). Wow, didn’t realise that it was a huge motivation for those young to get up early on Sunday morning.

The event begins with the first location - Pendrive’s HQ located at Merchant Square, Tropicana. Ended up passing by the place for twice times but failed to recognized it. We were the first passing by but ended being 23rd at the first check point. The next clue lead us to the Batu Caves whereby my driver speeding like there’s no tomorrow. From Batu Caves, we headed to Eye on Malaysia. We managed to climb on to the ranking with only completing 1 rounds of the entire 4 rounds.

The hunt was so intense as it is just the speed that matters. We raced to Low Yat HP Store to complete a task. It was a totally screwed task where we have to reboot the computer just because the Microsoft Vista unable to detect the SD card. The next destination bring us to the Fitness First in Menara Axis and Putrajaya. The final checkpoint was at the IOI Mall where the song by John Denver - take me home positioned us at the 4th team.

Knowing that to no avail to grab the first 3 prizes, we took our own sweet time back to the Mall. By the time we reached there, we need to print out some photos. Being that, we were the 13th team to complete the task. It was not as “fun” as I expected tho’