Whisper of the heart: KL-Cherating Treasure Hunt Part 2

So back to the highway. After coming to a particular point, we had to exit the highway and play spot the shop names. Mind you, it isn’t as easy as it sounds. We had to find about 15 shops before entering the highway again and make a pit stop at the Lancang rest area, I think to gather another 10 points. We had fun spotting the shop names, coz the clues given were a bit tricky.

I can’t type all the 30 questions. Here’s a few:-

Clue: A rat traveling back for a cuppa here?
Answer: Tara Coffee House
Why? Tara spelt backwards is arat, a rat ;-)

Clue: Sounds like it could mean spot a pan.
Answer: C’Wok café
Why? Come on, it’s obvious.

Clue: You have a ghost of a chance to surf here.
Answer: casper.net.cafe
Why? Hmph!

Clue: Half the figure tree?
Answer: FIG repair and servicing.
Why? Too technical for me to explain here..lol

My favourite:

Clue: What a paradox? Their name sounds like rotting but they claim to sell the opposite.

Answer: D’KAY FRESH MART.

I wonder what the owner was thinking when he named his shop.

So we were quite late since we went over each question twice. Halfway, the other team got lost and sped off to the pitstop to collect their 10 points. We were losing hope on reaching the rest area on time as we were told that they would leave after the allocated time period is over but the organizers were still there when we reached so next task...

By the way, the damn cekap Wira driver, Sham (Never let the fire die) from the team which got lost ;-) managed to bring the whole load in time...with the wira reaching max speed of more than 160km/hr. =P

The task, gulp down a can of Coke, crush the tin and toss it into a pail and collect 10 points.
We were asked to buy 2 cans of coke earlier so the coke junkies in our team, me and Nisha joined in. We managed to gulp the drink but couldn’t toss it right. Some were seen vomiting and burping at the side. Lol! Might as well have a burping party there ;-)

We collected only 5 points here.

Then off to the highway to spot another 15 shop names.

My favourites in this set:

Clue: Sounds like not a smart vehicle to drive.
Answer: SILICA MOTORS WAKIL INSURANS

Clue: The final clue to this car business and it is done, finished, ended, completed.
Answer: OverMoto

Finally, we reached Cherating. Checked in the hotel about 4pm I guess, about 1 and a half hour earlier than the maximum time given. We gave all the ‘treasures’ we bought plus the answer sheet to the organizers and hung out at the lounge for our final task. For our final task, we were taken into a room and asked to solve a jigsaw puzzle in two minutes, like Survivor lah ;-) Damn hard, ok ? =P We managed to solve this.

Treasure hunt finally over...

Next agenda, DINNER..

While waiting, we checked into the hotel and dipped in the sea, where yours truly lost her glasses, AGAIN! I feel like kicking myself but ah well…there goes rm 350, flushed down the sea…:-(

Bath. 8 sharing two bathrooms..Imagine the queue...

Dinner was okay. Then we were shown the video of the treasure hunt, it was fun seeing our tired but excited faces, seriously. Then a presentation of the pictures taken.

Next, answer time. I’ll just give out the answers for the treasures we couldn’t figure out earlier. We bought the treasures anyway coz we saw other teams buying the items earlier, wink wink.

For the numbers, just type the code in your handphone sms dictionary and it will return the following message, Bring me a can of Malta

For the Larry King question, it was a pack of cards. King, Queen, Jack, Ace, get it?

We didn’t win anything except Nava who got the lucky draw but it was really a super duper experience. Slept early, by 11.30pm coz we were damn tired. The hotel rooms were good, we had two adjoining rooms for four. The other four slept in a different hotel as this one was full.

The next day was shopping day. Woke up at around 9 am. Rushed for breakfast. We are such lazy slobs...

Looked around for T-shirts and souvenirs.

Had lunch in one Malay shop. For the first time, I actually enjoyed eating fish. But their “sotong goreng”(fried squid) was yucky. Even the stray cat at the shop refused to eat it.

Time to get back to the city. Reached KL around 10pm.

It was a good trip. I truly enjoyed myself.

I’m not posting all pics since I want to remain anonymous on the net and I’m not sure how my friends feel about seeing their photos plastered in blogs. So here’s a few from one camera without any tired faces on it, he he! There’s more in other cameras, I’m still waiting for the pics!