Once again, my family and I have embarked on a treasure hunt journey. This time, we joined a hunt to Tambun, Ipoh, organised by Yayasan Kebajikan Negara for a charitable cause.
Early morning 7am, all the treasure hunters, some with sleepy eyes, some with high spirits, were gathered at Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel for a final briefing. We were flagged off by YB Chew Mei Fun at 7:56 am.
The whole journey is a refresher everytime we embarked on such journey. Last year, we headed to Fraser's Hill, which was organised by Kelab Sukan Sunway. It was a "chilling" experience. This time round, it is more exciting because the questions set by the organiser,
Go For It!, were really tough. But the two setbacks for its questions were the wrong position of the tulips given, and one particular question was wrongly phrase, e.g. Earl's Partner (comic for Pickles) is actually
Opal, not Ruby as claimed.
The journey was enjoyable as we get to explore some small wonderful towns, and the lesson to learn in this exploration is: family togetherness in working as a team. It was a rat race also, as each team was given 6 hours to complete the task. Though we checked in the final pit stop, Tambun Theme Park, at 1:49 pm, we are just near seven minutes away from penalty. ~phew
Once arrived at Tambun, we were supposed to do the Tambun Task, which are hoola hoop and ping-pong ball challenges. Pathetically, we only got 2 points overall for this task. Hahaha.
At the night of prize-giving ceremony, we were urshered into Tambun Lost World, where we were seated next to the surf pool. The tables were decorated with coconut shell filled with ornamental flowers and candles. It was a lovely scene.
Unfortunately, the night's downpour was heavy as soon as everyone seemed to settle in. We had our buffet dinner at the resting hut to cover ourselves from the cold rain. After half an hour of raindrops, we were back to the water-covered tables to begin our exciting winning moment.
During the announcement of the winners, everyone was anxiously waiting. "5th prize for the family category, with score of 58 goes to ....." "3210~". Hey, it's our team! We won the 5th prize! What a pleasant surprise! We were so elated for our victory, that we don't know what's our scores in parts. We were so so so happy that we have won, finally. Thank you, thank you!
Though without any luck with the lucky draws, but we were grateful to have won the 5th prize for our effort in this treasure hunt.
Let the treasure hunting momentum rolling, since I am still in a high spirit of joining one soon. For the money, for the prize, and of course, for the experience and the fun of it!