Amazing Race? Yes, oh not the one in the TV but in Exeter! Organized but our own Malaysian Society as one of their biggest event, a success if you ask me! Starting at 1030 in Cornwall House and it took us about 4 hours to finish the course. Super tiring and very exciting! There's about 8 team with 2 to 3 members each, my team are me ( obviously!) kak Irfana and her hubby, abg Ali. What a great team too! We are the first team to leave the base, and the first checkpoint is up the hill! The clue to the next checkpoint is confusing, to me it is as i cant figure out where that place is. We are the last team to reach the 2nd checkpoint, i almost give up, thought of saying 'lets just go home, i'm hungry anyway' and a few other teams can be seen passing us to their next checkpoint, way to damper our mood but luckily we tried again and we did it. We found the 2nd checkpoint! Wonder why i cant figure out that place? Well, i never been to that area before and suddenly feel like first year again. Haha! And wonder of wonder, we speed up after that. We did all the task given at each checkpoint quickly and swiftly too! Oh, there are 10 checkpoint to finish by the way. I cant believe it myself when we manage to do it so quickly. The tasks are all funny and weird too. There's one where we were given a picture, they tell us that we need to take picture of the object in the picture given to us with precision, same angle, same spot and same everything! Know what we got? Hand dryer! Guess where we can find it? In the public toilet of course! oh how people think i'm some weird person taking picture in the toilet! But i did it, 3 try is all it takes to get the exact picture. I'm proud of myself even with those funny look directed my way. There also this one task in Gandy Street, if you dont know Diagon Alley was inspired based on that street, with the history you can guess the task there. 3 different spells from Harry Potter and we have to cast the spell so the taskmaster can film it. Embarassing!
The second last checkpoint task is questions about Exeter, it is so hard too luckily we managed to answer it as they only need the best 3 out of 10. We are the first team to finish all task and was targeted to be the winner where the final checkpoint is at the Imperial, alas we didnt make it because we are all tired and cant run all the way from the quay to impe. We managed to get 1st runner up by mere 10 seconds from the winner. Its actually a luck as Angie is no where to be found, we are the third team to reach impe by the way but Angie is very good at
hiding so none of us can find her at first. Even though we didnt won the first place and the £60 prize, we still happy and tired! What a great day!
Open house? Not anything special, i just thought of cooking something and invite almost everybody to my house. It was a busy day but fun too as everybody tend to get to know each other and share stories. The food are good too, and everyone enjoy it ( i hope so).
ai-na : thanks k irfana and her husband, we make a great team dont you think?
