My second... KL Heritage Xplorace 2013

Date: Saturday, 23 Feb 2013

Starting Point: Menara KL

Duration: 5 Hrs + 1/2 Hr penalty (-1 for every 5 minutes)

Transport: Bus, LRT, Monorail (Taxi not allowed)

Rules: You must complete 8 Stations to qualify & collect passport stamps from every challenge  station after you complete the task

Before the event.... 

Collecting the goodie bag & attended short briefing by Time Out Solution.

Goodie Bag to be collected 2 days before

On the day of event...

My second time after the 2 years back event. Not much expecting, hoping just to have fun. Just a bit dissapointed with the 1st place assignment which we need to go first before proceed with other checkpoint. My group got KTM bhd as a 1st checkpoint we need to go. At that time, I assumed that everyone will go to the same place but not actually, they have assigned a different place. Lucky lah, sapa yang dapat pergi the nearest CP from KL tower. Senang skit and save banyak masa compare to my group yang nak kena patah balik ke Muzium Telekom after completed section yg berhampiran dengan ktm berhad.

This time event, my partner was Cik Hezrin, ex-Aker collegue. Emmhhh... agak-agak nye lepas ni serik lagi ke nak join.

Breakfast provided by organizer... one 100+ and Butterscotch Delicia, 
not enough for me :-(

Yeahhh... berlepas sudah... semangat sungguh participant kali ni

12 places we need to complete but 8 already qualified...
Map also provided to guide you

The race pack also provided with information on heritage venue...
Not all but quite useful to answer the multiple choice Questions :-)

First Station: Stesen Besar KTM

Need to go here first before proceed to other stations.

My mistake sebab tak tahu public transport other than taxi apa yg paling dekat dgn KL tower nk ke KTM Bhd. Yang aku tahu shortcut thru bukit nanas forest reserve... but still jauh nak ke 1st station, almost 30min. Mula-mula tu memang berlari-lari anak tapi dah hafway pancit... hahaha. Anyway... sampai juga lah... completed the 10 heritage Questions and proceed to next nearest destination, Central Market. 

Out first heritage venue... Stesen KTM Berhad

Infos on heritage provided in the race pack not really helpful so find another way... Internet 3G, apalah guna ade smartphone kan :-)

2nd Station: Central Market

Masa kami sampai CM, nampak most of the participants kat luar jer, ohh ok... maybe still too early. But, Marshal cakap CM tak kasi masuk (maybe cos too early to open to public), so our walk hunt Question inside CM cancelled. So, we only need to answer 5Q. 

3rd Station: Taman Budaya @ Jalan Tun HS Lee

The nearest after CM. Walking almost 15 minutes jugalah. Anyway, tak pernah tahu pun pasal tempat nie luckily ade google map. Very helpful. Our task kat sini, as per photo below. Jalan atas mangkuk sambil sebelah kaki  pasangan diikat...huhuhu. Traditional way using coconut shell or tempurung kelapa. Tak habis buat sebab ade timing, tunggu Cik Erin nak balance pon amek masa... tak habis-habis ketaq... dari hiking terbawa-bawa sampai  xplorace, hehehe. 

Task at Taman Budaya

4th Station: Chin Woo Stadium @ Jalan Hang Jebat

Our next nearest station. Nak ke sini memang takde public transport rasanye other than taxi tapi tak jauh pun from Taman Budaya. Cuma yang paling tak boleh blah... kena naik bukit. Dah lah semput berlari tak habis lagi... kena mendaki pulak. Sampai-sampai je dah kena buat task memancing botol dalam swimming pool. Pun ade timing juga... within 90 seconds... pancing sebanyak mungkin.

Task at Chin Woo Stadium... memancing botol (source: Menara KL)

5th Station: Victoria Institution @ Jalan Statdium

Nak ke sini confirm lah kena berjalan sebab memang takde public transport pun nak ke sini. Tapi memang dah dekat dengan Chin Woo stadium. Our task here... tarik upih pinang, traditional malay game. For this task, Erin dah awal-awal offer nak tarik aku. OK, fine... I follow. Tapi hafway nak patah balik, dia dah surrender... aku tak sure samaada dia betul-betul tak larat or aku yang dah makin berat... emmhhh.

Task at Victoria School... Tarik Upih, Of cos lah Erin yang akan tarik aku

6th Station: Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka @ Jalan Wisma Putra

The nearest after Victoria Institution. Tapi agak bahaya juga sebab kena lintas jalan besar. Kat sini kami cuma perlu complete kan another 10 heritage MCQ. Actually, this questions already in the race pack and can be completed before arrived at this checkpoint. Save your time cause there's no answers at DBP.

After task at DBP, we straight away took the nearest LRT to Muzium Telekom & return back to LRT to Dang wangi Station for our next venue

 
7th Station: Muzium Telekom

After DBP, kami terus cari the nearest LRT station... Hang Tuah. Tak larat dah but still we had to walk to the LRT station. After this, task kami semua yang berhampiran dengan LRT. Nak ke Muzium Telekom ni pun makan masa juga... menapak lagi. Kalau lah aku dapat 1st Check point kat sini tadi confirm save banyak masa nak ke tempat lain... kann.

Task at Muzium Telekom... Baling Selipar, my favorite childhood game

8th Station: Dang Wangi LRT station

Task ni memang confirm lah kena naik LRT sebab takde makne nye nak menapak ke sini dari Muzium Telekom. And task ni pun dah semestinye kena naik LRT sebab as per instruction in the race pack. Task at this station... you need to prepare Tradiotional Iban Costume, then, wear it and finally, kena dancing lah lepas tu. We were given a set of newspapers, masking tape & lipstick to complete the task. So, use your creativity.

Preparing the Traditional Iban costume (source: Menara KL)

Agak-agak dah boleh follow step on the video... apa lagi tunjuk kan lah bakat yang terpendam tu kat depan para juri, mana lah tahu kan sangkut pulak masuk TV
(source: Menara KL)

Huru hara dah costume aku... after the dancing done

9th Station: Maxis KLCC @ Jalan Ampang

The last station before we ended up the race. The task was you need to answer 10 MCQ about Maxis. We were given brochures all about maxis... Smartphone package, Broadband, Internet fiber dan yang sewaktu dengan nye, to help us answering the MCQ. Dah tak macam heritage xplorace dah aku rase... tanye lah soalan yang berkaitan heritage ke, tak pun Malaysia History... adelah kaitan juga kan. Opppss lupa plak.... sponsor.

Task at menara maxis... answering MCQ provided with Maxis Brochures
(source: Menara KL)

Other stations...
 
Memandangkan task kat maxis habis pukul 12.30pm... so, aku rase memang dah tak sempat dah nak ke 3 stations lagi. Almost penalty time. Kalau lambat 5 minutes, deduct 1 mark. Half an hour after 1pm... terus disqualified. So, I choose to end the race without thinking of proceed to another stations. Muktamad.

Tasik Titiwangsa
 

Ade two stations you need to go at Tasik Titiwangsa. And two different tasks you need to perform.

One of the task at Tasek Titiwangsa (source: Menara KL)

Matic (Malaysia Tourist Centre) @ Jalan Ampang

Sempat passed by jelah tak sempat nak singgah.

Task at Matic... we skipped this venue since not much time left... passed by jelah cos almost penalty time (source: Menara KL)

Finally...
 

We arrived at the finishing point at 1.12pm...penalty time,12 minutes meaning deduct 3 marks. Agak-agak nye kalau aku buat task kat Matic tu terus disqualified... hehehe.

Tak complete 3 venues

Lunch also provided

Closing ceremony berlansung dalam pukul 3 macam tu, aku tunggu jugalah announcement for top 10. Lepas tu, terus blah... sebab dah penat sangat and tahu confirm tak menang. Lari marathon 10KM non-stop pun tak sepenat ini. Maybe sebab cuaca yang sangat panas dah killed my stamina on that day. Anyway, congrats to all the winners on that day... you deserve to win.

Congratulations to the winner... cayalah (source)

For top 30 results... you may refer to Menara KL FB

KL Heritage Xplorace

saturday, 26th February
KL Tower

Last week event, I joined with my ex-collegue, Geng Gunung fren Kay n Huzz. Since the rest of Geng Gunung seemed not interested, so, only three of us. Anyway, it was really fun to have my first time to join KL Heritage xplorace... ala-ala kat TV tu lah but the differences only, no cameras following you and no air tickets :D. The event started sharp at 10 a.m. and we need to complete all the task given within 5 hours.

Me

Geng Gunung yg setia

1st Task

You have to answer 10 simple questions

Q1-Q4: A simple maths calculation (even kindergarten school children can answer this)
Q5: What is the height of KL Tower?
Q6: How many levels of Tower Head available at KL Tower?
Q7: At what level Restoran berputar KL Tower?
Q8: What is the oldest tree and how old is the tree which available at KL Tower?
Q9: In what year KL Tower was officially launched?
Q10: How many state houses are available at KL Tower 1 Malaysia Cultural Village ?
Q11: What is the wedding package between KL tower in association with Felda D'saji?
Q12: Where is Dewan Perdana Felda is located?

Isn't that simple? Hahaha...answers just around the KL Tower.

2nd Task

You need to go to the Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve or known as taman Eko Rimba KL to find the next clue. But before that, u need to answer 5 types of trees you may found at this Eko Rimba. Actually, me n my partner did not read the insruction properly... we answered all the questions. We're supposed to answer one part only....hahaha. Takpelah, tak susah pun... the answers are already available at the trees and herbs information board. It is just that we already wasting our 5 minutes there.

Not yet finished... we need to go to the Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve field to find the next clue. The task is you need to find a treasure with the help of compass and bearing given. We skipped this task since I couldn't stand to see people destroyed the soil. Kata forest reserve tapi kasi task macam nak hancurkan nyer plak... emmhhh.

3rd task

After that we proceed to Museum Telecom for our next clue.

From KL tower we took a shortcut thru Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve to Telekom Museum... 15minutes juga lah berlari. But this time I still full of energy... so memang layan lah. I think this my first time been here. Usually I only knew it... as I passed by the Museum but never thought of visiting it. But today, just for the sake of the KL Heriatge Xplorace... I had to.

Our first task here was to answer 5 simples questions and all about the History of Telecom. The anwers are just inside the Museum.... all u need was to run and find the right answers.

This time we need to answer 5 questions about History of Telecommunications.

Q1: In what year was the first telegraph submarine cable linking Malaysia and Indonesia built?

Q2: Who and what year was the telephone invented?

Q3: In what yeara was the first telephone excahge installed in Kuala Lumpur?

Q4: Who and what year was the radio invented?

Q5: In what year was the first Royal Malaysia Radio that linked Pulau Ketam to Port Klang made?

After we succefully finished answering the 5 questions, next, we need to go down and complete the next task for our next clue. Task nyer... with the help of tradiotional sumpit, you need to shoot one of the 5 ballons about 3 meters just in front of you. Alhamdulillah, I managed to hit the target on the 2nd trial. Got 10 marks and proceed with the next clue.

4th Task

Proceed to the "The Big Ben of Malaysia"... located at Sultan Abdul Samad Building. The task is we need to do Chinese Traditional Dragon Dance to get to the next clue. Apa lagi kena menari lah...luckily aku tukang kipas jer... orang lain kena jadi Naga yea... hihihi. Tak kisah lah sape2 pun...yang penting kerjasama. My first time to do these kind of dance... anyway it was fun.

Dragon Dance

5th Task

We need to go to Dayabumi or previously known as Petronas Headquaters. The task was simple where you need to complete a jigsaw puzzle within 2 minutes. Yes, we did within the 2 minutes but the time keeper said that we already exceeding it. I think he started counting when we're still not ready yet. He supposed to shout 1,2,3 next time... eergghhh. We still got the next clue but not full marks for our task. Whatever.

6th task

The next clue… we need to go to the field where the Union flag was lowered and Malaysia Flag was hoisted for the first time at the Midnight of 31st August 1957. Dataran Merdeka lah. The task for this….bowling padang. You need to aim 5 bottles with 5 old coconuts. You will get 2 marks for each drop. We dropped only four…so 8 marks only. Ok lah tu.

Fast Forward Task

If you performed this task, you can skip one task and jump to the next one. Not only that… you will save your time a lot. We did try but of course not me, my partner. Thanks for giving a try. Can u imagine… standing underneath the sun just waiting for fast forward task… raising the flag by using either your forehead or shoulder. We stand for about half an hour just for our turn. We almost done but still failed when my partner almost reaching the finishing line. He really worked hard for that but maybe not our luck, so, we had to proceed to the next clue.

This is the Fast Forward Task

Long Queue just to try your luck in fast Forward

7th Task

Proceed to DBKL for our next task and clue. Actually if we did the Fast Forward task we can skip this task. This time the task was only to answer 5 questions related to DBKL.

Q1: Who’s launching the DBKL Building?
Q2: When it was launched?
Q3: Who’s the first Mayor?
Q4: What is the slogan for DBKL?
Q5: How many “Keris” in DBKL Logo?

All the anwers you can get by asking at the receptionist or you can find at the entrance of the building.

8th Task
The next clue… we need to go to Chandran Florist stall selling Bunga Malai which is located at Jalan Masjid India. I knew this place. The task is you need to do Kalung Bunga Malai as displayed… not a big one just a small one. My mistake… I didn’t see properly how they tie-in the flower to the rope, so, we didn’t get full mark.

9th Task

After finished the task, we need to go to another place while briging the Bunga Malai together to complete the task. The place was just outside the Traditional Malay costume shop along masjid India. What u need to do is… you need to wear Complete Malay costume “Baju Melayu”. Guess what??? I was the one who wearing the costume not my partner. The reason, cepat skit kalau pompuan yg pakai. Since we’re running out of time, I’ll just wear it with the help of my partner and the result… macam orang tak cukup umur pakai baju Melayu… besar gedabak… hahaha. Never mind… just to get the clue for the next task.

1oth Task
Our next task… we need to go to Pre-war buildings just nearby Sheraton Imperial Hotel. It takes us 20 minutes to get there and we had to walk very fast since we only have 1 hour left to finish the race. We arrived there and we need to complete a simple task to get the next clue. The task is you need to move 50 peanuts with the help of chopstick into another pot within 2 minutes. Of course it will time consuming if we take one by one but what we did was… every time we moved the peanuts we carry about 5 to 6 and even more in one time. And we managed to complete it within 40 seconds only, bravo.

11th Task

Next clue we need to go to Dewan Tuanku Abdul Rahman which is the building where Malayan Parliament Conference was first held. But, it was long time ago but now this buiding serves as the tourism information center. We need to register in the guest book and just then we got our next task. The task is... Dancing.

I luv this task. My first time to dance the Sarawak Heritage… Ngajat Dance. After almost 10 years I left my traditional scholl dance… now I’m back. It was really enjoyable and wonderful experience dance Ngajat along with Ngajat song by Noraniza Idris. Although it was only for 2 minutes but it was fun. After that we need to go to the field just outside the building the find the next clue but before that we need to answer 5 questions related to MaTIC. All the answers are just around that area and you need to figure out yourself.

Kelakar pulak bila playback video part nie :D

Last Task
The last one... we need to get back to KL Tower to finish the last task. During this time, each of us already tired and we just walk all the way to the KL Tower. As we reached there, we still had 15 minutes left before the race end. So, we decided to report first before perform absailing to get an xtra points and get the last stamp.

All pass

After that we proceed to one side at KL Tower to perform absailing for extra 10 points. I was the one who did for my team n also Huzz. Kay kata nyer sakit kaki. It was fun although it was only 5 meters height. My first time too. After this, I want to try the more challenging one.

Absailing, extra 10 points

Last one is the price giving ceremony. Although we knew that we will not get any chance to win but still we came to give support to our new friends, reporters and our Malaysian artist. The winner goes to Iron Man. Congrats.

The winner goes to... Iron Man

Although we managed to complete all the tasks given within the given time but still we did not win the race. Too many contestants and I could see everyone is working hard for the race. It was like everyone is aimed for the champion. I really proud of myself for giving a try and pushing my partner until the end of the race.